Bargain Bin Sorcery

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[astra-ravana]

A Collection of Symbols

My symbology pages from one of my grimoires. I tend to do this in every book because I never fail to stumble across new sigils, symbols, and glyphs. Of course I must jot down my favorites. 🖤

[templeofthat]

Imma tell you something for nothing. Do not trust people who say they can give you "attunement" to entities for the low low price of one bazillion dollars. You can do that shit yourself. Be it by constantly invoking the spirit, or even drawing their sigil on a paper and meditating on it. You will become attuned to their particular energy, and will exhibit it. Strongest case scenario, sit down and draw that spirit's sigil on your body. Invoke them and ask them to possess you for a bit, go into it slow, do partial possession.

[blackthornwren]

Something I think is often overlooked is that spirits can behave offensively.

They're not bound by manners or etiquette and I don't just mean speaking politely. Spirits can revel in offending. And they will use any topic that makes you uncomfortable in order to do it.

This doesn't make a spirit bad or evil. In fact, it's often a technique the spirit uses to deliberately make you uncomfortable, to test how you will react to their language or vulgarity.

So the question is: Can you push past discomfort to see what the underlying message is? Can you step back and examine why you're uncomfortable? And more importantly- can you learn from it?

Spirits aren't bound by our morals or ethics, and it's important to remember that this also extends to our social codes.

[witch-hot-takes]

as someone who has had the grave of a parent disturbed for a stranger's witchcraft purposes*, it's always difficult to me when i see posts talking about taking things from graves (markers, plants, things people left for their loved ones) or burying things near, beside, at graves to charge a working or a tool.

i understand that a lot of witchcraft walks the lines between the living and the dead, but i don't think it's actually respectful to the dead or their spirits when you're disturbing graves, and it's not respectful to their living loved ones either. i think it brings up consent issues, but it also brings up issues of entitlement. i, a witch, struggle with the fact that someone else clearly felt entitled to my dead parent and their peace for a magical working.

*here's what i mean by disturbed in my particular situation because i know some people might ask what i mean : someone identifying as a necromancer and ceremonial mage was taking things from my father's grave and burying their workings there because of our surname (they associated the name with a profession and ethnicity that they felt would "charge" their working and bless it). it was all caught on camera after we got permission to set up security cameras after the grave was disturbed multiple times and things were stolen from it. the person was also keeping things taken from the grave on an altar for "charging spirit vessels" and admitted to believing they had "captured" my father's spirit and taken it home with them for magical workings. and the person eventually picked up criminal charges for the thefts, trespassing, and vandalizing graves.

Anon, this is legitimately horrifying and I am so sorry to hear that this happened to you and your family. I'm glad that person was charged - no one should be desecrating graves, no matter what their practice entails. There are definitely right and respectful ways to approach spirits in the cemetery without resorting to stealing items left behind by loved ones.

Thank you for sharing this ❤️

[astra-ravana]

Magick Oil Recipes

This is going to be another long post but here are various basic magick oil recipes based on various traditions, including hoodoo, witchcraft, ceremonial magick, and chaos magick. These oils can be used for anointing candles, tools, sigils, spells, and personal empowerment. Keep in mind these are simple recipes that reflect the necessary ingredients needed. So, do your own research, experiment, and create your own powerful recipes over time.

I do recognize some well known oils are not on my list and I plan to add more here in the future. If you have a request for an oil, just comment or DM me. 🖤

Prosperity & Money Oils💰

⛤Money Drawing Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Cinnamon (wealth & attraction)

• Bay leaf (success & prosperity)

• Basil (steady income)

• Patchouli (physical money)

• Carrier oil (olive, grapeseed, or almond)

Effects: Attracts money, business success, financial stability.

⛤Fast Luck Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Wintergreen (speed)

• Cinnamon (attraction)

• Five-finger grass (luck in all endeavors)

• Gold flakes (wealth energy)

• Carrier oil (jojoba or sunflower)

Effects: Brings rapid good fortune in gambling, business, and unexpected financial gains.

⛤Wealth & Abundance Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Frankincense (spiritual wealth)

• Myrrh (long-term prosperity)

• Bergamot (success in business)

• Bayberry (attracts material wealth)

• Carrier oil (avocado or coconut)

Effects: Ensures financial stability, long-term prosperity, and steady income.

⛤Business Success Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Bergamot (success in money matters)

• Cinnamon (financial attraction)

• Bay leaf (victory)

• Chamomile (prosperity)

• Carrier oil (grapeseed or jojoba)

Effects: Attracts customers, strengthens business growth, and enhances career opportunities.

⛤Road to Prosperity Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Abre Camino (removes financial blockages)

• Basil (wealth and abundance)

• Orange peel (good fortune)

• Ginger (fast action)

• Carrier oil (sunflower)

Effects: Clears obstacles to financial growth and opens doors for wealth opportunities.

⛤Money Magnet Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Lodestone chips (money attraction)

• Patchouli (physical cash manifestation)

• Vetiver (long-term financial stability)

• Frankincense (spiritual prosperity)

• Carrier oil (avocado or olive)

Effects: Strengthens money-drawing spells, attracts financial stability, and amplifies manifestation work.

Love & Attraction Oils🌹

⛤Love Drawing Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Rose petals (romantic love)

• Jasmine (sensual attraction)

• Vanilla (sweetening relationships)

• Patchouli (lust & passion)

• Carrier oil (sweet almond)

Effects: Attracts love, deepens romance, strengthens existing relationships.

⛤Come to Me Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Red rose (love)

• Catnip (draws lovers in)

• Cardamom (passionate encounters)

• Orange peel (joyful attraction)

• Carrier oil (grapeseed)

Effects: Draws a specific person to you in love or relationships.

⛤Passion & Lust Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Cinnamon (heat & desire)

• Ginger (sexual stimulation)

• Ylang-ylang (aphrodisiac)

• Hibiscus (erotic attraction)

• Carrier oil (sesame or coconut)

Effects: Ignites passion, strengthens sexual energy, increases attraction.

⛤Sweetening Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Honey (love and attraction)

• Vanilla bean (sensual sweetness)

• Lavender (peaceful romance)

• Orange blossom (happiness in love)

• Carrier oil (sweet almond)

Effects: Sweetens relationships, encourages loving communication, and softens tensions between partners.

⛤Commitment Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Rose petals (devotion and fidelity)

• Myrrh (sacred bonds)

• Chamomile (harmony in marriage)

• Jasmine (romantic attraction)

• Carrier oil (grapeseed or olive)

Effects: Strengthens commitment, encourages proposals, and deepens long-term love bonds.

⛤Irresistible Attraction Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Catnip (draws in lovers)

• Cinnamon (sexual energy)

• Hibiscus (lust and beauty)

• Ylang-Ylang (magnetic sensuality)

• Carrier oil (jojoba)

Effects: Enhances personal magnetism, boosts charm, and makes the wearer irresistible to others.

Protection & Banishing Oils🛡️

⛤Fiery Wall of Protection Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Dragon’s blood resin (spiritual shielding)

• Frankincense (purification)

• Black pepper (banishing)

• Rue (warding off evil)

• Carrier oil (olive or castor)

Effects: Creates a powerful barrier against negativity, psychic attacks, and curses.

⛤Banishing Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Wormwood (drives away spirits)

• Black pepper (protective force)

• Lemon peel (removes negativity)

• Cayenne pepper (fast action)

• Carrier oil (castor or olive)

Effects: Removes unwanted influences, spirits, and toxic energy.

⛤Uncrossing Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Hyssop (spiritual cleansing)

• Lemon verbena (purification)

• Eucalyptus (removes hexes)

• Camphor (clears stagnant energy)

• Carrier oil (coconut or mineral)

Effects: Breaks hexes, jinxes, and bad luck.

⛤Evil Eye Protection Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Rue (warding off negative energy)

• Black tourmaline chips (protection)

• Bay leaves (shielding)

• Frankincense (spiritual purification)

• Carrier oil (olive)

Effects: Protects against jealousy, gossip, and the evil eye.

⛤Reversal Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Black salt (repels negativity)

• Lemon (purification)

• Eucalyptus (removes curses)

• Agrimony (reverses hexes)

• Carrier oil (coconut)

Effects: Reverses curses, jinxes, and psychic attacks back to the sender.

⛤Guardian Spirit Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Angelica root (guardian energy)

• White sage (spiritual defense)

• Lavender (calm protective energy)

• Myrrh (ancestral guidance)

• Carrier oil (jojoba)

Effects: Invokes spirit guides, strengthens personal energy shields, and offers divine protection.

Power, Manifestation, & Influence Oils🙌

⛤Crown of Success Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Bay leaf (triumph)

• Frankincense (spiritual mastery)

• High John root (power & influence)

• Sandalwood (leadership)

• Carrier oil (jojoba or sunflower)

Effects: Increases success in career, academics, and personal achievements.

⛤Commanding Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Licorice root (domination)

• Calamus root (persuasion)

• Bay leaf (authority)

• Ginger (forcefulness)

• Carrier oil (olive or castor)

Effects: Enhances personal power, influences others, and asserts dominance.

⛤Road Opener Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Abre Camino (removes blockages)

• Lemon (clears obstacles)

• Orange peel (brings new opportunities)

• Ginger (adds momentum)

• Carrier oil (jojoba or sweet almond)

Effects: Removes obstacles, opens paths for success, clears stagnation.

⛤Mastery Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Frankincense (spiritual elevation)

• Myrrh (wisdom and insight)

• High John the Conqueror root (mastery and control)

• Bay leaf (success)

• Carrier oil (almond)

Effects: Enhances personal power, strengthens leadership abilities, and aids in mastering skills.

⛤Psychic Domination Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Calamus root (persuasion)

• Licorice root (control and authority)

• Clove (mental influence)

• Ginger (power boost)

• Carrier oil (olive)

Effects: Strengthens mental influence, persuasion, and domination over others.

⛤Success & Victory Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Bay laurel (winning energy)

• Bergamot (luck and success)

• Frankincense (high achievement)

• Dragon’s blood (empowerment)

• Carrier oil (sunflower)

Effects: Ensures success in competitions, exams, legal matters, and career goals.

Cleansing & Spiritual Oils🔮

⛤Florida Water Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Lemon (purification)

• Lavender (calming spiritual energy)

• Orange blossom (uplifting)

• Rosemary (clearing negativity)

• Carrier oil (alcohol base or sunflower)

Effects: Used for spiritual cleansing, aura clearing, and purification.

⛤Psychic Vision Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Mugwort (enhances visions)

• Star anise (clairvoyance)

• Lavender (calms the mind)

• Wormwood (opens third eye)

• Carrier oil (grapeseed or olive)

Effects: Enhances psychic abilities, intuition, and lucid dreaming.

⛤Spirit Communication Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Myrrh (spirit world connection)

• Dittany of Crete (manifestation of spirits)

• Mugwort (enhances mediumship)

• Sandalwood (deepens trance states)

• Carrier oil (jojoba or coconut)

Effects: Aids in contacting spirits, ancestors, and guides.

⛤Divine Blessing Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Frankincense (connection to divine beings)

• Lavender (spiritual peace)

• Rose (angelic guidance)

• White sage (cleansing)

• Carrier oil (coconut or jojoba)

Effects: Invokes celestial guidance, brings blessings, and strengthens spiritual connections.

⛤Lunar Empowerment Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Jasmine (moon magic)

• Mugwort (dream work and divination)

• Sandalwood (spiritual attunement)

• Silver flakes (moon energy)

• Carrier oil (grapeseed)

Effects: Enhances lunar magick, psychic abilities, and dream work.

⛤Elemental Balancing Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Fire: Cinnamon (passion)

• Water: Blue lotus (intuition)

• Earth: Patchouli (stability)

• Air: Lavender (mental clarity)

• Carrier oil (almond)

Effects: Balances elemental energies, aligns chakras, and stabilizes emotions.

⛤Black Cat Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Patchouli (attraction)

• Black Pepper (protection)

• Mugwort (psychic insight)

• Black cat hair(supernatural power)

• Carrier oil (almond or jojoba)

Effects: Used for protection, luck, supernatural guidance, and enhancing one’s personal power.

⛤Infernal Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Dragon’s blood (spirit manifestation)

• Cinnamon (energy amplification)

• Wormwood (spirit communication)

• Sulfur powder (demonic energy)

Effects: Enhances spirit work, opens pathways to demonic entities, and strengthens the connection during rituals or meditations.

⛤Spider Oil⛤

Ingredients:

• Spider web (weaving fate)

• Mullein (spirit communication)

• Clove (psychic enhancement)

• Black walnut husk (transformation)

• Carrier oil (almond or olive)

Effects: Ideal for manifestation, divination, shadow work, and spiritual wisdom.

Ways to Use Magickal Oils

• Anoint Candles – Dress ritual candles to enhance spellwork.

• Wear on Skin – Apply to pulse points (if skin-safe) to absorb its energy.

• Anoint Tools & Talismans – Charge magical items.

• Add to Mojo Bags & Spell Jars – Boost potency of spellwork.

• Drop into Bathwater – For personal empowerment and ritual cleansing.

• Mark Doorways & Altars – To create an energetic boundary.

Baneful Oils

Additionally, here are the basic recipes for various baneful oils. Always use caution and consideration. These oils are meant for experienced practitioners who understand their consequences and ethical implications.

General Hexing & Cursing Oils☠️

⛧Black Arts Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Asafoetida (baneful energy)

• Sulfur (curse activation)

• Black pepper (powerful hexing)

• Graveyard dirt (spiritual influence)

• Carrier oil (castor or mineral)

Effects: Used for hexing, cursing, and dark workings.

⛧War Water Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Iron rust (conflict energy)

• Cayenne pepper (aggression)

• Black mustard seed (chaos)

• Spanish moss (binding)

• Carrier oil (swamp water infusion or vinegar base)

Effects: Used for enemy work, destruction magick, and revenge.

⛧Hot Foot Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Cayenne pepper (drives enemies away)

• Black pepper (banishing)

• Sulfur (removes unwanted people)

• Graveyard dirt (finality)

• Carrier oil (castor)

Effects: Forces someone to leave, drives away enemies, removes toxic individuals.

⛧Devil’s Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Sulfur (destruction)

• Black pepper (banishing)

• Graveyard dirt (spiritual energy manipulation)

• Asafoetida (intensifies dark workings)

• Carrier oil (castor)

Effects: Used in cursing, binding enemies, and increasing dark magick potency.

⛧Chaos Magick Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Uranium glass (radioactive power symbolism)

• Mugwort (visionary energy)

• Peppermint (mental stimulation)

• Dragon’s blood (amplification)

• Carrier oil (coconut or jojoba)

Effects: Strengthens chaos magick rituals, assists in reality shifting, and enhances experimental spellwork.

⛧Justice Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Devil’s claw root (punishment energy)

• Black mustard seed (confusion)

• Red pepper flakes (aggression)

• War water (conflict magic)

• Carrier oil (castor)

Effects: Ensures justice, punishes wrongdoers, and intensifies karmic spells.

⛧Black Hex Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Black mustard seed (confusion and discord)

• Asafoetida (banishment and curse amplification)

• Wormwood (spiritual torment)

• Black pepper (aggression and conflict)

• Carrier oil (castor)

Effects: Brings misfortune, causes confusion, and weakens an enemy’s defenses.

⛧Jinx Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Poppy seeds (mental fog and bad luck)

• Sulfur (destruction and decay)

• Vandal root (psychic disruption)

• Red chili flakes (suffering)

• Carrier oil (olive or grapeseed)

Effects: Weakens an enemy’s luck, creates obstacles, and disrupts personal and financial stability.

⛧Graveyard Curse Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Graveyard dirt (spirit assistance)

• Myrrh (ancestral energy)

• Hemlock (poisonous influence)

• Blackthorn/locust (cursing and dark magic)

• Carrier oil (castor or mineral oil)

Effects: Calls upon spirits of the dead to enact vengeance and haunt enemies.

Domination & Manipulation Oils✊

⛧Domination Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Licorice root (control and persuasion)

• Calamus root (mental dominance)

• Clove (commanding power)

• Dragon’s blood (intensification)

• Carrier oil (jojoba or sunflower)

Effects: Grants control over another’s thoughts, actions, and decisions.

⛧Bend Over Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Licorice root (submission)

• High John the Conqueror root (dominance)

• Tobacco (enslaving influence)

• Red pepper flakes (forceful action)

• Carrier oil (olive or mineral)

Effects: Forces someone to comply with your wishes, weakens their willpower, and makes them obedient.

⛧Puppet Master Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Poppy seed (mental control)

• Mugwort (influencing dreams and subconscious)

• Orris root (psychological persuasion)

• Solomon’s seal (binding)

• Carrier oil (grapeseed)

Effects: Manipulates people’s thoughts and decisions, making them act in your favor.

Revenge & Payback Oils💔

⛧Revenge Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Devil’s claw root (punishment energy)

• Red brick dust (protection and justified aggression)

• Black salt (banishing)

• Chili powder (intensified suffering)

• Carrier oil (castor or mineral)

Effects: Brings swift karmic retribution and inflicts suffering upon wrongdoers.

⛧Return to Sender Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Agrimony (reflects negativity)

• Devil’s shoestring (block enemy spells)

• Black tourmaline chips (spiritual protection)

• Eucalyptus (cleansing)

• Carrier oil (coconut)

Effects: Sends hexes, curses, and ill intentions back to the sender with triple force.

⛧Wrath of Spirits Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Blackthorn/Locust (spiritual attack)

• Wormwood (spirit summoning)

• Henbane (malevolent energy)

• Bloodroot (ancestral wrath)

• Carrier oil (olive)

Effects: Calls upon spirits to haunt and punish enemies with nightmares, paranoia, and bad luck.

Destruction & Chaos Oils💥

⛧Black Destruction Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Sulfur (corruption and destruction)

• Black dog hair (ill omens)

• War water (conflict magic)

• Rust (decay and ruin)

• Carrier oil (castor or mineral)

Effects: Destroys enemies’ prosperity, causes financial collapse, and weakens their social standing.

⛧Discord & Strife Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Black mustard seed (confusion and rivalry)

• Vinegar (sour relationships)

• Red pepper (arguments and discord)

• Dogwood bark (unraveling stability)

• Carrier oil (olive)

Effects: Causes arguments, breaks up relationships, and fuels chaos in personal and professional life.

⛧Separation Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Lemon peel (cutting ties)

• Black salt (banishment)

• Cayenne pepper (heated conflict)

• Rue (removes unwanted people)

• Carrier oil (grapeseed)

Effects: Breaks up relationships, friendships, or business partnerships.

Pain Infliction Oils🩹

⛧Pain & Suffering Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Thorns (piercing pain)

• Red pepper (burning affliction)

• Black salt (banishment and suffering)

• Stinging nettle (agony)

• Carrier oil (castor)

Effects: Causes physical and emotional distress, making the target feel constant hardship.

⛧Shadow Plague Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Graveyard/hospital dirt (illness energy)

• Poppy seeds (lethargy and confusion)

• Henbane (spiritual sickness)

• Asafoetida (rot and corruption)

• Carrier oil (mineral)

Effects: Weakens a target’s physical health, causing fatigue, minor ailments, and general discomfort.

⛧Blood Curse Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Dried animal blood (ancestral wrath)

• Rue (generational curse energy)

• Wormwood (spiritual decay)

• Mandrake root (dark energy infusion)

• Carrier oil (olive or mineral)

Effects: Places long-lasting and harsh curses, especially on family lines or descendants.

Binding & Entrapment Oils⛓️

⛧Shadow Binding Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Solomon’s seal root (binding power)

• Black ribbon (symbolic entrapment)

• Poppy seeds (mental stagnation)

• Mugwort (energetic suppression)

• Carrier oil (coconut or jojoba)

Effects: Restricts an enemy’s ability to move forward in life, keeping them stuck in bad situations.

⛧Eternal Chains Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Devil’s shoestring (binding and restriction)

• Ivy (trapping and immobilization)

• Licorice root (control)

• Hemlock (powerful suppression)

• Carrier oil (grapeseed)

Effects: Traps a target in their misfortune, preventing them from escaping a bad fate.

⛧Veil of Silence Oil⛧

Ingredients:

• Slippery elm (stops gossip and lies)

• Mullein (silencing and stilling)

• Knotweed (energetic restriction)

• Solomon’s seal (sealing influence)

• Carrier oil (olive)

Effects: Silences enemies, stops gossip, and prevents harmful rumors from spreading.

How to Use Baneful Oils

• Anoint Black Candles – Used in hexing and cursing rituals.

• Dress Poppets/Dolls – Infuses energy into sympathetic magic.

• Mark Enemy Belongings – Secretly place on items to affect a target.

• Add to Cursed Spell Jars – Intensifies spells for long-term suffering.

• Use in Written Curses – Apply to paper sigils or petitions for enhanced power.

[bargainbinwizard]

I think my homemade God should have a tea pet dedicated to it where I pour offerings on it. I say ''homemade God'' however it's only partially true. I always give my offerings to the Earth because I don't live alone but if *** gets an altar, I'll give it ouroboros related stuff, birds and various other things. If I have a tea pet, it feels like I'm actually feeding it.

Everybody else's deities don't really have offerings poured on their statues. Maybe I'd also ought to give *** a tea pet and an oil pet for leftover spell oils just 'cause...or they can be the same object.

The tea pet itself will not be a thoughtform,its just a ''mouth'' for my God. Insert parallels to the Golden calf idol here.

[lailoken]

Hello Lailoken! I keep noticing that older charms and stories make a point of doing things “thrice”. Stuff like knocking three times, circling three times, repeating a name three times, even when once would theoretically seem sufficient. Do you think this is just a mnemonic habit or was the number meant to actually do something?

Based on my upringing and oersonal understanding, repetition in these contexts is rarely for emphasis alone. It is a way of establishing position.

Many folk actions are not performed in an empty world but in one presumed to have depth—surface, verge, and beyond. A single act occurs only in the immediate place. A second confirms it. The third carries it across.

You can see this in formulaic speech. The first utterance addresses what is plainly present, the second reaches what is nearby but unseen, and the third fixes the matter so that it cannot easily be mistaken as accidental. After three, the action is no longer occurring; it has occurred.

This is also why the third is often the binding one. Promises sworn thrice, names called thrice, and knocks given thrice move from attempt to declaration. The number is less mystical than procedural: it converts a moment into a state.

So the practice persists not because people forgot how to count lower, but because three marks the point at which an action is understood—by both speaker and surroundings—to have taken hold.

[lailoken]

Hello Lucien, I hope you're well! About the asks on fae lineages, I understand then that you don't believe the Fair Folk to have been Ancestors of the past, remote Kings and Queens or historical figures ascended into "Godhood", but entirely separate from humans? Where do you stand in relation to that common theory that fairies are the deceased? particularly as it pertains to fairy processions and mounds being burial sites. I would personally be inclined to believe that the term "fairies" include the deceased or spectral images of the past, among them great Heroes and Royals of the distant past or forebearers of great lineages, but certainly not all fairies are deceased humans. And you?

I don’t hold to the idea that the Fair Folk are simply deified human ancestors, nor that they are wholly unrelated to humanity.

Anglo-Celtic folklore repeatedly places the Fae in an intermediate condition—not gods, not ghosts, but a people who overlap the human dead in certain states. Across Anglo-Celtic cultures, you see three consistent threads:

1) The mound is both a fairy dwelling and a grave.

Barrows, cairns, and tumuli are simultaneously síde (fairy hills) and burial places. The dead are placed into the earth, yet afterward lights move there, music is heard, and riders emerge in procession. The living do not say “a ghost came out of the grave”—they say the hill opened.

This implies not haunting but continuation. The person buried does not linger as a shade—they enter a community.

2) The "Faerie Host" often behaves like the dead in the context of mythic pattern.

Night rides, the Wild Hunt, the Sluagh, and the procession of the Good People resemble funerary retinues for a reason. They travel in companies, keep ranks, carry torches, and move along old roads and boundaries—exactly the paths of funeral passage. Encounters are often said to leave witnesses weak, drained, or “taken,” which even mirrors the old belief that the dead draw vitality from the living. Likewise, in several traditions, the newly dead may be seen riding among the Fae within a year of burial.

This similarity to human funerary practices may very well stem from human attempts to understand, mimic, and appease the otherworld, but they may also represent a vestigial continuance of human practices within ranks of fae spirits that once were, but are no longer, human.

3) “Elf” historically overlaps with “the powerful dead.”

In early English usage ælf was not a tiny glittering being, but an unseen causing spirit—responsible for illness, trance, inspiration, and beauty beyond human measure. In Norse belief, burial mounds of notable men became sites of cult, and the dead within were called elves (álfar). Offerings were given to them seasonally as one would to land spirits.

So rather than “humans become gods,” the pattern might be said to look more like this: While the ordinary dead rejoin with divinity, the restless dead become ghosts/wraiths, the settled dead become ancestral spirits, and the potent/integrated dead become elves.

In other words, some fair folk were once human, but not recently human—they have crossed a threshold of belonging to the Otherworld’s society. They are no longer tethered to their humanity, yet not primordial spirits either. They are the assimilated dead. This also explains why folklore insists both that fairies predate mankind and that humans can join them. The host is older than any one people, but continually receives members.

So I would say, the Fair Folk are not merely the deceased—but the dead are one of the ways the Fair Folk are populated. Certain humans, especially those buried in old ways, remembered ongoingly, or who were powerful in life, may enter that company. Beyond the sheer liminality of the sites, Faerie mounds being tied to burial sites is not coincidence; it is mechanism.

The Gloaming Folk are a "civilization" partly "indigenous" to the Otherworld and partly "recruited" from humanity across time—which is part of why various wights feel so uncannily familiar, yet never quite human.

[bargainbinwizard]

I really don't need it,it's most likely a phase but tell me why do I want to buy a chef apron that says ''Kiss the my ass'' and a chefs hat so I can wear it when I do my magic and wizardry just for shits and giggles. Or maybe I can wear it when I'm making food too.

Yeah, I got two robes and two cloaks but those aren't my exclusive spell outfits. I am magic already so I just lounge around in my house wearing my wizard shit if I'm cold. The sleeves are too long to be practical without getting dirty/wet/catch on fire.

[mothmanatl]

You should lowkey just DIY one

[bargainbinwizard]

I know that the original on Fangamer is about 24 dollars but it's pixelated to hell and back. I'm not much of a ''draw the words on with sharpie myself'' kind of person either. I would rather go on etsy and pay someone to put the words on themselves and it might(?) be better than a classic dollar general apron because they have to physically obtain the materials,sew it and then put words on it.

Maybe.

[bargainbinwizard]

I really don't need it,it's most likely a phase but tell me why do I want to buy a chef apron that says ''Kiss the my ass'' and a chefs hat so I can wear it when I do my magic and wizardry just for shits and giggles. Or maybe I can wear it when I'm making food too.

Yeah, I got two robes and two cloaks but those aren't my exclusive spell outfits. I am magic already so I just lounge around in my house wearing my wizard shit if I'm cold. The sleeves are too long to be practical without getting dirty/wet/catch on fire.

[bargainbinwizard]

Got my work closed for a few days because of snow out of pure spite by angrily singing the snow miser song in my head after walking out.

No candles or herbs,just bare naked spite music.

[bargainbinwizard]

Since I've already been meditating on so-called 'true evil',I'm just going to tell you what I've realized for a while.

So the universe is created and the Earth was formed. The very first lifeforms:bacteria,came into existence. What were they doing? Eating because that's all they could do. They ate basically chemicals and the most simple lifeforms were made of chemicals. They ate each other too. They killed each other. What am I going with this?

Before there was kindness and empathy,there was evil. Well,murder specifically. There had to be evil before the bacteria learned about avoiding the other bacteria that could eat them. And then years passed,evolution happened and now we can feel empathy.

So-called 'Evil' as a concept is fundamentally baked into EVERYTHING in this universe and even right now, our cells die to make new ones and our body produces stuff that also kill each other to keep us alive.

You're gonna tell me that hack ass philosophers and occultists in the past could write about the so-called ''fall of man'' because of our ability to murder and steal even though nature created these things without further prompting?

Your universe can't possibly be made out of love and light because shit DIES AND THE MOST SIMPLE LIFEFORMS IN EXISTENCE KILL EACH OTHER. We have teach our own babies empathy otherwise they'll be messed up.

Common on, really?

Evil is just nature manifesting in inconvenient ways and that's that. There's no occult book on this planet that could ever convince me that goodness came first before evil.

[bbrothertedd]

[bargainbinwizard]

The problem about so-called energetically aligning someone to an ascended timeline makes me think about how you would get the perfect life in theory and you're hogging all the good energies but all the other versions of you aren't going to get any of the perfect timeline energies. Since you would be in perfect timeline, you aren't going to do energy work to help the other hypothetical selves in other dimensions therefore they're ''stuck''. Can more than one ''you'' be in the perfect timeline? I don't think so.

It would be better if you helped everybody in every dimension in every timeline instead of just hogging all the blessings to yourself. Like throw spells around...?

Well actually I don't know about what I believe in terms of timelines and magic,this is just a thought experiment that I posted online so someone could throw their opinions at me.

[bargainbinwizard]

Devin Splintergiver is the guy whose only weapon is an unsanded 2x4

Well duh he needs it to cast powerful splinter spells.

[bargainbinwizard]

I tried to give myself a super cool wizard name on Wizard101 but my Rog Ally ruined my finger inputs now I'm just Devin SplinterGiver.

I didn't want to be Devin I wanted to be Demetrius but I guess the universe had other plans.

[oaths-sworn-in-blood]

The Cambrian Oracle

© Yui Sakamoto