Modern Folk Magic Challenge: Premade Supermarket Spells!
Let's do something fun, why not!
Grocery store correspondences are common. Salt, sugar, lemons, black pepper, beef heart? No problem! With a little creativity, most any spell ingredient you need can be found at the grocery store.
But what about all the other stuff that isn't produce, spices, or from the butcher counter?
Coconut flavored sparkling water. Double-stuffed mint Oreos. Marie Calender's Meatloaf and Gravy frozen dinners. Fat-free vanilla and honey Greek yogurt snackers.
What if we all grabbed a readily available and affordable pre-made* grocery store item in our area, and wrote a spell who's only** ingredient is that item?
I think it could be tons of fun (and inspiring) to see how people take mass-produced supermarket items and use them as the basis for spells.
The challenge is to take any grocery store item which combines two or more things into a pre-packaged or pre-mixed item.
What are the 'things'? It's up to you!
Coconut flavor + sparkling water. It's the flavoring plus the bubbles!
Chocolate cookies + mint creme filling
Vanilla flavoring + honey + Greek yogurt
Caramel flavor + powdered pudding mix
Pretend that every aspect of the object is a correspondence, and find any item which to you is a combination of two or more correspondences.
In many spellcrafting games, spell components are considered to be separate from ingredients. Maybe to you, a tea light or a threaded needle aren't spell ingredients so much as they are tools that help you cast a type of spell.
For this challenge, strive to make the supermarket object the only ingredient of the spell, whatever that means to you.
Imagine if you could say to someone, "I have a spell for that! And the only thing you need is Fruit Gushers."
Write a spell that uses your supermarket object as the only ingredient.
Not just correspondences for that item! The challenge is to write a whole spell that someone could cast.
The spell can be for any purpose you want.
Share with us your thought process! Why did you choose that object, and why did you combine it with those magical actions?
Tag your contribution as #Supermarket Spell so we can all find each other!
It doesn't have to be food!
Nor does it really have to be obtained from a grocery store. Here are the ideas that inspired me for this project:
Mass-produced items that combine two or more "correspondences"
A normal part of household groceries (not having to sneak something exotic or unusual inside)
Finding ways to do magic with pantry goods that aren't classical herbal correspondences
Here are other questions I anticipate people might ask:
Do I have to use the whole package? No!
Are things technically from the produce/spice/meat aisles okay? Yes!
Does it technically have to be a 'spell'? I think things like devotional or offering rituals, or other acts of magic which you don't feel are 'spells', are fine to contribute! I would be fascinated to see people's reasoning for why they chose certain items for non-spell acts of magic.
