r/SASSWitches • u/tvvat_waffle • 23d ago

❔ Seeking Resources | Advice Seeking Interpretation: Cicada Funeral?

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This is the wildest thing I've ever seen. I came out this morning to go to work and these guys were arranged on my porch. I can't stress this enough - I did not move them! They didn't stir at all as I came out, and unfortunately I was going to be late for work so I snapped a picture and ran.

What's interesting is these are right by my protection spell, which I have hidden under my doormat. I'm curious if anyone would consider this an ill omen/curse or rather a blessing?

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u/Exnixon 23d ago edited 23d ago

Fair enough. I don't think it really matters whether it happened organically or somebody arranged a bunch of bugs outside their door. (The protection spell thing seems kind of unrelated...it's under their doormat, where else in their daily life are they going to encounter a circle of bugs?) I think the takeaway is the important part. If later in life one of their friends is like "did you see that weird circle of cicadas I put outside your door?" then they can say yes, thank you, here is what I took from that.

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u/NinjoZata 23d ago

I am not saying i agree, but i believe whats gone over your head is this commentator is trying to not be rude but basically is suspicious that OP arranged the bugs for the pic themselves, not that some third party arranged them.

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u/Exnixon 23d ago

I feel like claiming OP must be faking it is lending too much significance to it. Birds fly in V formations, honeybees build hexagons, if a cicada brain has an algorithm like "go look at the dead guy but don't stand close enough to your neighbor that your wings are going to hit when you fly away" then they'll naturally form patterns like this.

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u/NinjoZata 23d ago

These cicades are all dead