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Enchanting with touch -

A lot of witchcraft seems to be focused on visualisation as a means of imbuing things with magic, energy work seems almost entirely written to suit those who can visualise images. I am extremely tactile, I am a touchy feely person with busy hands so I decided to share how I “enchant” items.

Enchantment in my book means to take an object and make it magical, whether it be a charm, a ward, an agent of the spell itself.

Kissing things - your lips are far more sensitive than your fingers, they are also very close to your nose so you can incorporate smell into this, too. Take the item, and bring it too your lips gently, place a plush firm kiss whilst focusing on planting your into into the item.

Stroking or brushing - I have heard people try knot magic by braiding their hair, my hair is too short for this, but you could start by brushing your hair. Really smoothing it out, deeply brushing hair or even fur is a great way to transfer magic from your mind to the hands to the object, brushing is very therupeutic and could almost be a trance inducing activity. When I had hair I could sit on, it was a wonderful sensory experience to hand brush it after a wash.

You could also feel the surface of your item by smoothing it with you hands, really get to know the texture, let the magic explore the grain of the wood, the crevices in the stone or the cool touch of the metal.

Crumbling something - You could do this with breadcrumbs for kitchen magic or a bath bomb for bath magic (I wouldn’t crumble a bath bomb imo but I have heard some people prefer to do that.) Guide your intent to your hands and let it over whelm the object in your palms.

Stepping on something - This could be very destructive and great for curses.

Walking around it - Walking around an object features a lot in folk lore, perhaps you could use it to slowly build up intent and magical energy within you?

Throwing or juggling - Juggling is a great skill to learn and I can well and truly say kinetic energy is magical very powerful, throwing and catching something in the air until your satisfied is a fantastic way of enchantment, the weight as you catch it in your hand and watching it fly in the air is just fantastic.

Rubbing it to give it body heat - This is very physical, you can feel the warmth you’ve transferred to this object and its very responsive as well.

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Don’t be shocked when life starts to get good. You deserve that.

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I will have peace in my life and I will heal.

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👏🏾Education 👏🏾is 👏🏾a 👏🏾right,👏🏾 not👏🏾 a👏🏾 service 👏🏾

Pass along and use the shit out of them

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Sneak Preview - The Ferryman’s Curse

Vassili went on further till he reached the ferry, where the old man asked: ‘Did you think of me?’

‘Yes, and as soon as you have ferried me across I will tell you what you want to know.’

When they had crossed over, Vassili said: ‘Let the next man who comes stay in the boat, but do you step on shore, push the boat off, and you will be free, and the other man must take your place.

- The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars (The Violet Fairy Book)

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Intent: To curse another with the problems that plague your own life.

Materials:

Two pennies

Previously-used jar candle

Fire source

Body of water

Ideal Timing: Dark of the Moon / New Moon / No Moon

Fair Warning: This is not a nice spell. This is not a polite spell. Baneful magic by its’ very definition is not meant to be pleasant, but there can be a difference between ill-wishing someone yourself and asking a figure from the realm of spirits to help you do it. The fact that you are entering into a minor pact to accomplish this goal creates an additional degree of difficulty and uncertainty. If you choose to perform this ritual, please proceed with caution.

In order to do this spell, you have to make a deal with the Ferryman, who carries souls across to the hereafter and may also haul away bad luck and strife if you pay him and ask nicely. You’ll need to work carefully and quickly to pull this off.

Before you begin, perform any protective steps you would normally take before doing spirit work or baneful magic. Make preparations to cleanse yourself and your home upon completion. If you don’t have anything in place, you might want to check out the Protections section of this book for ideas. (Golden Hood)

Obtain two pennies from the same year. Any year will do, so long as they match, but new and shiny is preferable. Carry the pennies in your pocket for one week to absorb your bad luck. Then, on a moonless night, go and stand on the shore of some body of water. For best results, I suggest a lake or a river too wide to be easily crossed without a boat.

Make a circle around yourself, large enough to stand in without being too close to the edges. You can use chalk, pebbles, stones, sticks, a line in the sand, whatever material works best for the location. You might also use a premade containment figure such as a hoop or a rope circle. Stand in the center, light the candle, and place it at your feet so that the light fills the circle. While you perform the next few steps, take care to stay within the circle of light. Do not look behind you during the ritual and do not let the candle go out. (I recommend using a jar candle which has burned down a little ways so that it is shielded from chance breezes.)

Remove one of the pennies from your pocket and hold it out before you towards the water. In a quiet clear voice, call to the Ferryman:

Ferryman, Ferryman Sail to the shore I’ve a penny to give you And soon will have more One day to sail outward One day to sail in Come back on the third day And you’ll have its twin

No soul do I offer No body to bury Only lighten my load Take this burden I carry Ferryman, help me My fortunes are poor Ferryman, Ferryman Come to the shore

Throw the penny into the water. Try to land it as far from the shore as you can. Carefully extinguish the candle and leave the area as quickly and safely as possible. Once you return home, you may want to salt your doors or refresh whatever protections you have in place, in case something has followed you home.

You then have until midnight on the third day (starting from dawn the day after you toss the coin), to somehow get someone else to take the other penny from you. It’s best to have a target in mind, preferably someone who really deserves that bad luck. If you start out thinking of a particular person, you can either hand the coin to them, slip it into their belongings, leave it inside their home, or bury it on their property. What matters is that by the time midnight on the third day rolls around, the coin is in their possession and not yours.

Your bad luck and misfortune should leave or lessen during this three-day stretch. If you successfully pass the penny to someone else, your bad luck will fall on them. If you do not manage to get rid of the coin, your bad luck will return and you’ll be right back where you started.

The only way to break the curse is for the person who has received the bad-luck penny to go to the same body of water and throw in the coin that you gave them.

It may be prudent to return to the body of water in the daylight after your bad luck has passed and toss in another penny to thank the Ferryman for his help, just in case he’s disgruntled over your trickery. It would also be prudent to never again show your face there after dark or on foggy days.

Note: This ritual should only ever be performed in the same location once. If you wish to do it again, you’ll need to find a different body of water. It would also be wise to let some time pass, at least a few months, or find other ways of dealing with your problems. Don’t tempt fate too often if you can avoid it.

-From the forthcoming book, The Sisters Grimmoire, Vol. II © Bree NicGarran

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Methods of Spell Work

To Banish: • Burning to ashes and sweeping away the ashes • Cast out a window, down a cliffside, etc • Bury it and spit on the spot

To Bind: • Wrap in black thread • Cover in wax or other material • Seal in jar and hide in dark spot

To Hide: • Wrap in ribbon • Place in a (painted) black jar or other container • Cover in cloth or other material and bury

To Encourage: • Plant or bury near the front door/steps • Plant or bury near a window • Place near a window

To Communicate*: • Anoint a candle • Leave out an offering • Meditate • Open the front door and/or windows

To Glamour: • Leave under the full moon • Work with its reflection

To Cleanse: • Bury in salt • Burn herbs and pass through the smoke • Let it bathe in the moonlight

To Protect: • Leave sigils/wards on doors and windows • Carry sigils/wards on every day items (keys, phone case, etc) • Enchant jewelry with protection spells

*: Communication with deities, spirit guides, etc

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Probably the most important tool in a witches arsenal is also one of the more difficult to achieve.

Knowing yourself

Where are your lines in the sand you won't cross.

On any given day opinions can change what what is your core and center.

What grounds you in you. How do you distinguish yourself from other.

So that when you are affected by "other" you dont have to ask some one else you know.

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Gonna write a witchcraft book titled “Another Book on Witchcraft: Everybody’s Doing It and I Want to Feel Included”

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this whole thing is way too good to be giffed you need to expirience it 

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What Native people say about the use of sage: you can use sage, but you cannot smudge as nothing you are doing (waving sage around) is actually smudging. Smudging is a ceremony and you are, we promise, not smudging. Please buy sage from either us, or someone who sources the sage from us. White sage may not be considered endangered by the US government but corperate sourcing is making it difficult for us to source sage for our own religious purposes. Let alone to sell it.

What white people hear: never use sage ever, don’t ever buy it, don’t own it, don’t even look at it.

Look, y’all. There’s a couple of facets to my talk today.

1) Yes! You can buy sage! You really, truly can! Buy it from either native sellers (go to a powwow! Eat our food, buy our stuff, watch some dancing!) Or buy it from a seller who sources the sage from native people. Pick one. And no, buying it from 5 Below doesn’t count.

2) you CANNOT smudge. This isn’t just you “shouldn’t”— this is a YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF SMUDGING. Waving a sage stick around your doorways IS NOT SMUDGING. It is smoke clensing. Smudging, depending on the tradition and tribe, could easily have dancing and drums involved. You, as a white person, do not have the cultural BACKGROUND to even know how it works. At all. Period.

3) please, for FUCKS SAKE, stop making posts here on tumblr where you tell other white people about cultural appropriation and what they can and cannot do. Please stop, your license has been revoked because none of you bother to get the facts right. We native people are FULLY CAPABLE OF DOING IT OURSELVES. Consider instead: a) reblogging our posts where we talk about it! We’re here! We have made posts!! b) Making a post that states what we said and then LINKS BACK TO US. Screenshot with a link if you must. Stop centering your own voices in these conversations. You are already centered in everything, stop centering yourselves in a native space.

I’m tired of this nonsense, y’all.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk ™

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never beg to be loved and respected.

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Damnatio Memoriae Curse

“Damnatio Memoriae is the Latin phrase literally meaning “condemnation of memory,” meaning that a person must not be remembered. It was a form of dishonor that could be passed by the Roman Senate on traitors or others who brought discredit to the Roman State. The intent was to erase the malefactor from history.” (x)

This is a powerful curse against abusers, and people in positions of power that have lots of influence who are terrible people. It is to make them, in essentia, a living ghost, unseen by the people around them, and losing their friends, fame, and status.

Things you’ll need:

Any paper you can trace an image onto

A pencil 

An eraser

A flame-proof bowl

Clear/Black nail polish

1) Find a picture of your target and trace their picture onto the piece of paper. Be sure to do it in pencil, since you’re going to erase it later. Put all of your hatred for this person into the paper as you draw it.

2) Write their name(s), social media username(s), achievements of theirs/what theyre known for, and draw sigils of what you want to happen to them in detail on their picture. Since this curse is meant to strip one of friends, fame, and future, I’d recommend at least having sigils for those.

3) Erase their picture. This symbolizes their presence being wiped from the face of the earth, and being forgotten. Leave the sigils and achievements/information intact as a taglock.

4) Cover the paper with black or clear nail polish, black is preferred, as once more it is obscuring the target from the eyes of others, leading to them being forgotten.

5) Burn the paper, as that symbolizes their life, fame, and future going down in flames, as well as being symbolic of them never being able to rebuild or regain what they used to have, since once something is burned, you can’t unburn it. It also serves to activate the sigils you drew on the paper.

6) Flush the ashes down the toilet. Imagine their life going down the toilet with it, to fester in sewage. This can also make their health decline if you so wish.

7) Do any aftercare you deem necessary such as cleansing yourself and your space.

Thanks so much to @lostlittlestarling for helping me make this!

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“I like hexes for my exes when they scorned a second chance”

Please reuse and reblog as you see fit. Hex ‘em.

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Someone who pissed me off: “Christ, I have had the worst luck lately.”

Me, a witch who you pissed off:

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Remove negative people from your life

I don’t know whether I should call this banishment, a charm, or a spell or whatever, but here it is, its for removing old negative people from your life and removing them from your mind and not letting them effect you anymore.

Materials:

A small playdough container (can be bought at a dollar store)

Old pictures of you and said person (if you don’t have any printed you could just write their name on a piece of paper)

A lighter

A fire safe container (an old candle jar works)

Something to collect ashes

Black salt (mine was left over from a hex)

Black candle

Black string or ribbon

Reminder: Anything in this can be changed to better suit you

Steps:

First take the photos and burn just the person our of them, leave yourself and others untouched - chant: “with this flame you are burnt out of my life, you can no longer effect me, you no longer linger in my head, your negativity can no longer touch me”

Make sure nothing is still burning and that you’ve neatly collected all of your ashes. Next grab the playdough make an indent that looks like this:

*I chose black for protection and insulation of the negative energy, but you can use any color really*

Then pour the ashes into the playdough - chant:“ Once insealed in here you can no longer reach me, your negativity will be trapped”

Then grab your black salt

Sprinkle the black salt over the ashes - chant: “this salt protects me from you and your energy, you can no longer effect me”

Then light your black candle and drip wax on top of all of it to really seal it in

Once the wax is almost dry pull in the sides of the playdough until it looks like nothing’s in it

And finally put the lid on and tie it off with a ribbon - chant: “with this ribbon I tie your negative effects to this container, you are restrained, you cannot touch me”

And then you’re done! I don’t suggest barring it because I don’t like putting things into the earth that don’t belong, so I just put it in an old drawer with some old hexs that never gets opened. The less it’s messed with, the more effective it is.

*Spell written and claimed by Anthea Nara - reblog don’t repost*

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Simple Candle Curse

You will need:

Two candles

A needle

Take a candle, preferably black or red. With a needle, write the name of the person you’re cursing. Take that same needle and burn the tip of it in the flame of another candle.

Once the tip is black, imagine the person you are cursing and stab the candle with their name in it. How many times you stab the candle is up to you.

When your candle is sufficiently stabbed, light it and focus on your curse’s intention. For instance, if someone has stolen from you, your intention could be that they would experience an equal theft.

Let the candle fully melt. You don’t want to reuse this one.

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Harnessing Fire Magic (A Witch’s Guide to Elemental Magic), Viivi James