Day 4: What symbols/animals/plants/etc. are associated with your deity? Start out by listing the ones that you know.
A lot of Bucca's associations are largely UPG. The first symbol that springs to mind is the Rocky Valley Labyrinth, an animal would be a goat and a plant would be gorse!
Some other symbols I would include would be a stang, a ritual knife and the threefold track. Animal-wise I'd also include a ram/ewe, a Cornish adder, a chough and a hare. Maybe a seal too. Something a little unconventional that I've got no real explanation for is a badger! For plants there aren't many things aside from gorse I can immediately associate with them, maybe heather, blackthorn, yew & a sessile oak tree.
Then, do a little research to see if you can find more. In a separate list on the same post, list those ones, too. Make note of which ones you think fit and don’t fit your deity.
In research, all I could find as a fish (no specific one, but I suspect a pilchard), which makes a lot of sense to me - fish are something They quite enjoy (both the actual being and fish-shaped things).
I also found the horse and the toad. Both of these feel much more tenuous to me than a fish - toads have a general connection to Cornish folk witchcraft, which Bucca is part of, but the toad doesn't seem to be a direct link beyond that. Horses are coinnected to Them through Their wild hunt associations - again related but not symbolic. They seem like more of Jinny's/Ankow's deal.
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