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Elves, Faeries, Spirit Work and European Animism Masterlist

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I do not personally endorse all these sources, read skeptically and cross-reference at your discretion. These are, however, all sources I personally use, with varying levels of trust.

Books, Articles, Etc

Elves in Anglo-Saxon England : Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity - Hall

Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture - Hall

The Evidence for maran, the Anglo-Saxon "Nightmares" - Hall

Folk-healing, Fairies and Witchcraft: The Trial of Stein Maltman, Stirling 1628 - Hall

Getting Shot of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials - Hall

Myths and symbols in pagan Europe : early Scandinavian and Celtic religions - H.R. Ellis-Davidson

Swedish Legends and Folktales - Lindow

Trolls : an Unnatural History - Lindow

County Folk-lore - GB Folklore Society

Welsh Fairies - Mhara Starling

Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland - Campbell

Scottish Folk-lore and Folk Life - MacKenzie

Collected words of Eleanor Hull

The Denham Tracts

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies - Kirk

The Certainty of the World of Spirits, to which is added the Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather - Baxter

Gods and Fighting Men - Lady Gregory

Survivals in Beliefs among the Celts - Henderson

The Aryan Household, Its Structure and Its Development: An Introduction to Comparative Jurisprudence ; Chapter II: the house spirit - Hearn

An Encyclopaedia of Fairies - Briggs

Northern Mythology: comprising the principal popular traditions and superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany, and The Netherlands - Thorpe | vol 2 | vol 3

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The Athenian Calendar 🏛️🌿📅

There was no standard calendar in ancient greece, however the most written about and commonly used one by modern reconstructionists is the Athenian Calendar! This calendar can be easily incorporated into the Gregorian Calendar as well (in my opinion)

I would like to thank @hermesmystic for creating a beautiful lesson on our Hellenismos Online Temple discord server! It helped a lot with this post ♥

It’s a long one so brace yourself!

D A Y S 🌇 The days in the Athenian Calendar begin at sunset. This was important for being able to observe festivals or holy days, if they were to begin at midnight like it does for us, the Greeks would have had a much harder time practicing their religion.

The main Olympians have sacred days of the week which can be used if you would like to make small daily offerings. Weekdays have two gods and weekends have three. A week in review would be: Monday: Artemis and Demeter 🏹🌾 Tuesday: Ares and Athena ⚔️📜 Wednesday: Hermes and Hephaestus 📬🛠️ Thursday: Zeus and Hera 🌩️💍 Friday: Dionysus and Aphrodite 🍇🕊️ Saturday: Hestia, Hades and Persephone 🕯️💀 Sunday: Apollo, Posedion and Amphitrite ☀️🌊

Obviously you don’t need to change your clock and begin living your life around this BUT it is useful to remember.

M O N T H S 🌑 The months are where it gets a little complicated! So we’ll begin with the way the months began and ended and that is with the new moon.

Most Athenian months will fall between two Gregorian months, and sometimes a Gregorian month can have two full moons. A rule of thumb to remember with this is an Athenian month begins on the last (or only) new moon of a Gregorian month and ends on the first (or only) new moon in the next Gregorian month.

The Athenian Calendar also has seasons like the Gregorian calender, and these seasons have three months within them.

S u m m e r: 🌻🏄 Season Theme: Setting foundations and goals Hekatombion (holy month of Zeus 🌩️) - Falls between July/August. Theme: Planning and getting your life sorted Festivals for this month are the: Aphrodisia (6th), Kronia (12th), Synoikia (15-16th) and Panathenaia (28th)

Metageitnion (holy month of Demeter 🌾) - Falls between August/September Theme: Securing foundations from the previous month This month doesn’t have confirmed festivals but these are believed to fall under this month: Metageitnios (Unknown), Herakles Emera (Unknown)

Voedromion (holy month of Hestia 🕯️) - Falls between September/October Theme: Focus on spiritual/religious comfort Festivals for this month are the: Genesia (5th), Kharisteria (6th), Boidromia (7th), Eleusinian Mysteries (15th-21st)

The Eleusinian Mysteries was the most important festival in the Athenian year held in honour of Demeter and Persephone. What happened during this festival isn’t well known so it’s challenging for a modern Hellenic Polytheist but for the ancient Greeks acknowledging the festival was important, acknowledging meant to observe the festival, in the modern sense this can be doing a personal ritual.

A u t u m n / F a l l: 🍂🥧 Season Theme: Tackling hardships, the gods challenge Pyanepsion (holy month of Ares ⚔️) - Falls between October/November Theme: Time for tackling hardships Festivals for this month are the: Proerosia (5th), Puanepsia (6th), Oskhophoria (7th), Theseia (8th), Stenia (9th), Thesmophoria (11-13th), Khalkeia (30th)

Maimakterion (holy month of Artemis 🏹) - Falls between November/December Theme: Time for taking care of yourself through hardship Festivals for this month are the: Maimakeria (unknown), Pompaia (20-end)

Poseideon (holy month of Poseidon 🌊) - Falls between December/January Theme: A time to prove work ethic (or arete) to the gods Festivals for this month are the: Poseidea (8th), Rural Dionysia (last two weeks of the month), Haloa (26th)

W i n t e r: ❄️☃️ Season Theme: A time to recover and revise goals Gamelion (holy month of Hera 💍) - Falls between January/February Theme: Time to reconnect with the gods Festivals for this month are the: Lenaia (12-15), Gamelia (26)

Anthesterion (holy month of Haephestus 🛠️) - Falls between February/March Theme: Time for ingenuity/finding creative solutions Festivals for this month are the: Anthesteria (11-13th), Diasia (23**/28th)*, Lesser Mysteries (unknown)

Elafevolion (holy month of Athena 📜) - Falls between March/April Theme: Reflecting on potential weaknesses and improving Festivals for this month are the: Elapheblia (6th), Asklepieia (8**/9th)*, Greater Dionysia (9-13th), Pandia (14/17th**)*

S p r i n g: 🌷🐣 Season Theme: Strength and Hope! Mounikhion (holy month of Aphrodite 🕊️) - Falls between April/May Theme: Celebrate the progress you’ve made! Festivals for this month are the: Feast of Eros (4th), Mounikhia (6/16th**)*, Olympieia (19th)

Thargelion (holy month of Apollo ☀️) - Falls between May/June Theme: Faith and Divination, working hard Festivals for this month are the: Thargelia (6-7th), Plunteria (Last week with the peak on 25th)

Skiroforion (holy month of Hermes 📬) - Falls between June/July Theme: Making goals for the new year, devotion Festivals for this month are the: Arrhephoria (3rd), Skirophoria (12th), Dipolieia (14th)

[* means it can be observed on either day] [** means that is the prefered date to observe it]

Each month has an 11 day transitionary period from one to the next called the Neos Minas, each day (except one) has an event that help to fully transition spiritually from the theme of one month to the next.

Day 1: Chthonia 1 - the 3rd day before the end of the old month 🧹 Day 2: Chthonia 2 - the 2nd day before the end of the old month 🧹 Day 3: Hekate’s Deipnon - last day of the old month 👻 Day 4: Noumenia - First day of the new month ✨ Day 5: Agathos Daimon - 2nd day of the new month 🎉 Day 6: Tritomenis - 3rd day of the new month / Athena’s birthday 📜 Day 7: Tetras - 4th day of the new month 💖 Day 8: Rest Day - 5th day of the new month 🥱 Day 9: Birth of Artemis - 6th day of the new month 🏹 Day 10: Birth of Apollo - 7th day of the new month ☀️ Day 11: Poseidonas - 8th day of the new month 😤

M o n t h 1 3 ? Occasionally there will be two new moons in a Gregorian month, this was a dillema for the ancient Greeks as well and their solution was to add a 13th month! Mounikhion has to begin and Elafevolion has to end on the same day but there are two new moons… what do we do? Who do we honour?!

DIONYSUS TIME BAYBEEE 🍇🍇🍇🍇

Dionysus would be given a month whenever this issue would arise and it fit his theme perfectly, to come in and cause chaos! This month never had any festivals as it was so sparadic in length or time of year, routine went out the window! In even more Dionysus fashion this month isn’t named after him! It’s called Duo Poseideon and has nothing to do with Poseidon’s month!

Y E A R S 🎉 Years in the Athenian calendar begins in the summer, giving the Greeks plenty of energy to honour and celebrate. The final day of the year was always to honour Athena and Zeus for blessings in the new year

To keep with the theme of four seasons, the years were also grouped into fours called Olympiads 4 years = 1 Olympiad. The way to write the year would go as such: “Year 4 of the 704th Olympiad” Once the year is complete this summer it will become “Year 1 of the 705th Olympiad”

The years also come with their themes, they follow that of the seasons.

I hope this post was helpful! Sorry if I got anything wrong but I hope you can add some of this information to your worship and have fun with it! Don’t worry about trying to follow the calendar perfectly.

Gods bless xx ♥

olympiansoncrack

Too Much?

Ares: I’m ready to attack.

Hermes: Who?

Ares: Oh, I don’t know...I was just letting you know.

Hermes: I’ll be sure to let everyone know of the impending danger.

Ares: *knocks Hermes out*

Athena: *walking in* Do I even want to know?

Ares: He knew too much.

rad-magick

“The demonisation of fairies can be illustrated, in miniature, by the treatment of a discrete class of fairy spirits: those that were described loosely as “will o’ the wisps”. It was widely believed that some fairies used lanterns, or “false fires”, to lead travellers astray at night; this was either to lose them in woods or, more treacherously, to direct them towards dangerous bogs. The creatures responsible had many names. Reginald Scot identified “Kit with the Candlestick” and “the puckle” in 1584; Robert Burton also named “pucks” as will o’ the wisps in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).25 The hobgoblin Robin Goodfellow was also counted among these spirits, as Shakespeare attested by naming him “Puck” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. These creatures shared obvious qualities with the Devil. Both were false lights that beckoned the unwary from the true path. William Tyndale hinted at the demonic nature of will o’ the wisps in his commentary on the first epistle of St. John in 1531: without the light of scripture, he argued, Christians were left to “wander as in a mist, or (as we say) led by Robin Goodfellow, that they cannot come to the right way”. If Christ was the “true light” described in St. John’s epistle (1 John 2:8), then Satan was the false equivalent; and he pursued his ends through deceptive appearances – as darkness masquerading as light (Luke 11:35). Later Protestant writers linked will o’ the wisps explicitly with the Devil. In 1616, Francis Rous noted that the love of wealth “makes sport for the Devil, and thus is man most truly fairy led, even led aside by the spirits of darkness”. The theme was refined in the devotional poetry of Thomas Washbourne in the 1650s. In “Upon His Losing His Way in a Mist” (1654), Washbourne imagined himself as a wayfarer beguiled by elf-light: And till the fog was by the sun Dispell’d, I in a maze did run And ride as if ‘twere fairy ground, Or that the Puck had led me round.”

— Fairies and the Devil in early modern England by Darren Oldridge

ivy-kissobryos

“[…] take the milk with the honey and drink it before the rising of the sun, and there will be something divine in your heart […] For milk and honey are sacred meals.”

— PGM I 1-42

lailoken

‘For Toothache’

“Speak the words:

Galbes, Galbat, Galdes, Galdat.

Upon parchment or paper, these words may be written and worn by the patient as a charm:

Strigiles, falcesque, dentatae. Dentium, dolorem persanate.

This Devonshire charm may also be employed:

Peter stood by the gate of Jerusalem weeping, and the Lord said unto Peter, "Why weepest thou peter?" an he said "Lord I amsore troubled with tooth-ache that I know not what to do." The Lord God said "arise Peter and go with God, and I will help thee of tooth- ache." Grant Lord that s/ he that is troubled thou may help them in the name of the Father an the Son an of the Holy Ghost.”

—

The Charmers’ Psalter

by Gemma Gary

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brazen ares

Often, Ares is referred to with the epithet “brazen” - meaning “bold without shame”, but it can doubly refer to his bronze armor. But, there is more to it than the tangible nature of its definition.

Bronze, brass, and other brown colors are associated with strength, growth, and experience. It is an earthy color, so there is an intimate connectedness with nature.

According to Alphapedia.net, a person who prefers the color bronze is someone who favors “solidarity … community initiatives, as well as being an active participant against injustice”. But negatively, one can exhibit traits of “irritability, ambition, ego and cheekiness.”. All of these descriptions are ways Ares has been characterized, in both good and bad terms.

The comparison between the God and bronze is quite frequent in The Iliad: Ares is always clad in bronze armor, wielding a bronze spear and shield, he is trapped in a bronze jar, and it is Diomedes’ bronze spear that pierces Ares’ lower stomach. When Ares ‘shouts’, the verb ‘ἔβραχε’ is used. However, this word is commonly used when describing the ‘grating’ or ‘rattling’ of bronze armor. It is at this point that being “brazen” transcends symbolic association. Rather, it is used as an essential descriptor of the being.

Bronze is made from the heat of the flame. Ares is thus made from the fire of war - the madness and passion of it all. As a warrior he embodies strength and solidarity, but to a certain point. In the view of those such as the Athenians, he becomes overwhelmingly ambitious, a nuisance - something they need to keep restrained. So, they use his own qualities against him - a brazen jar to keep him contained and a brazen spear to strike him down.

whether or not he deserved to be treated this way is another topic for a later post.

lovecorekiss

Ares and Hermes being best friends is the duo that I never knew I needed

unphallicmenace

Adrian, you can’t just drop this amazing info without further details! You’re leaving me hanging! Please! Info dump @ me!

lovecorekiss

Okay gladly! But I’m too tired to write something up so here’s a bunch of quotes:

There is perhaps no test of manhood more daunting in the ancient mind than the context of war, and while it is generally believed that Hermes had little to do with mili- tary conflict, he does maintain a particularly close relationship with Ares. Certainly in the time of ‘Homer’ there are clear indications from the oral tradition that tales involving a relationship between these two gods were current. In Iliad (5.385–91), we are given a glimpse of one of these lost episodes, wherein Hermes, apparently on his own initiative, saved Ares from virtual extinction by his timely rescue of the god from the bronze jar in which he had been imprisoned. One would suspect that there was some significance in the fact that it is Hermes who releases ‘War’ into the world again. In another incident from the Odyssey (8.335–43), when Ares is caught in a compromis- ing position with Aphrodite, it is Hermes who lends support to Ares’ actions, declaring that he, too, given the opportunity, would do as Ares had done. Some things are just plainly worth the risk of hostile confrontations. Yet again, in the Pythian section of Hymn to Apollo, these two gods are found together (200–1): while Apollo plays his lyre, and the Muses and Artemis sing, Hermes and Ares are said to dance (‘play’, ‘romp’, ‘sport’: ‘paizdo’ can be used of all these activities) together. A strange scene indeed; that is, until we recall that the most famous and frequently sung songs of the Muses are those tales of men’s ‘toils’ and ‘sufferings’ (Homeric Hymn to Apollo 190–3) such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. In fact, certain forms of dancing were connected with war- fare, such as the Pyrrhic dance-in-arms, which the Daktyls, Kouretes and Kourybantes were all said to have danced (Downes 1904). Each of these groups was associated with warriors and each also seems to have been connected in various ways with Hermes.16

— Gods and Heroes: Hermes

Just as Hermes and Zeus reward those who show the appropriate hospitality to strangers in need, they punish those who fail to do so. The valley in which Baucis and Philemon lived was full of neighbours who refused to receive the disguised gods and, in recompense, they were swept away along with their homes by the flood waters sent by the gods. In another story, Hermes is sent to punish two young men who do not feed, but literally feed upon, strangers who come to their door. Antoninus Liberalis (Metamorphoses 21) reports that Ares persuaded Hermes from the harsh punish- ment he had intended to inflict and instead agreed to transform the boys into birds of ill-omen: Oreios into an eagle owl and Argios into a vulture (21.5.4–9). Even their mother, Polyphontê (21.5.1–4), is transformed into a small species of owl, which, as in her former life, is for all intents and purposes speechless, along with the family’s serving woman (21.6.1–5), who was turned into a woodpecker. This, however, was not a bird portending evil because Hermes, understanding that her independent action was constrained, honoured her prayer not to become such a bird.

— Gods and Heroes: Hermes

In this regard, it is not surprising to find Hermes as one of the gods setting matters to right in a ritual which will permit the restoration of economic activity in the world of mortals. Larson (2016: 220–1) reports the instructions for a ritual procedure undertaken by the Pamphylians to prevent attacks by pirates, one they had received from Apollo’s oracle at Klaros (SEG 41.1411). In it they are directed to ‘set up an image of Ares, and perform sacrifices beside it, while Hermes holds him in iron bonds’. Ares is kneeling as though a suppliant and on the other side of him stands Dikê (‘Justice’ and ‘Judgement’) who passes sentence on him. Once this ritual has been performed, the Pamphylians are told that Ares will now be ‘peacefully disposed’ to them and thereafter they shall receive the ‘much-prayed-for prosperity’. As the directions have come from Apollo, this means they originated with Zeus, and thus Hermes is authorised to restrain Ares physically without adverse effect to either himself or the people on whose behalf he restrains him.

— Gods and Heroes: Hermes

Even Hermes and Ares are happy dancing together while Apollo plays the kithara and the Muses sing in the Great Hall on Olympos (Homeric Hymn to Apollo 200–2) and work cooperatively to assist Orestes in regaining his paternity (Sophokles’ Electra 1396–7) by leading the aveng- ers into the palace. But beyond the relationships Hermes forges for himself within the pantheon, it is the connections he facilitates among the other gods that convert Zeus’ static order into the dynamic one in which he plays a crucial role.5

— Gods and Heroes: Hermes

On the magical side of things, Hermes is the one who can chain Ares:

Larson (2016: 220–1) reports the instructions for a ritual procedure undertaken by the Pamphylians to prevent attacks by pirates, one they had received from Apollo’s oracle at Klaros (SEG 41.1411). In it they are directed to ‘set up an image of Ares, and perform sacrifices beside it, while Hermes holds him in iron bonds’. Ares is kneeling as though a suppliant and on the other side of him stands Dikê (‘Justice’ and ‘Judgement’) who passes sentence on him. Once this ritual has been performed, the Pamphylians are told that Ares will now be ‘peacefully disposed’ to them and thereafter they shall receive the ‘much-prayed-for prosperity’.

— Gods and Heroes: Hermes

lovecorekiss

Ares is as much of a woman’s god as Dionysus. That is all.

lovecorekiss

Free Ancient Greek Magic/Witchcraft Books

Do I have a reason to make this post? No, not really. But I thought I should spoil my followers — y’all are the reason I create these posts, and I hit 1,100 followers! I’m shocked, thank you so much!! Therefore I shall spoil y’all, as you deserve. I love you funky bois so let’s go!!

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lovecorekiss

hello! do you have any resources on Ares, Hermes, and/or magic in Ancient Greece? ive seen a couple PDFs you’ve shared about Ares but I’m always hunting for more

I do! You’ll find Hermes and Ares mentioned in Ancient Greek Magic too, because they’re best friends and both have beautifully unique roles in it too. Unfortunately they both lack scholarship, but I’ll see what I can provide.

Ancient Greek Magic

Free Ancient Greek Magic/Witchcraft Books - a gift/masterpost I did

The Magic of Homeric Verses

Ares

The Oracle and Cult of Ares in Asia Minor

War and the Warrior: Function Of Ares in Literature and Cult

Hermes

Hermes as Master of Lions at the Syme Sanctuary, Crete

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Ancient Greek Cults

I hope these help!

appalachianoraclewitch

As trump supporters storm the capitol, it’s important to remember. They are not patriots. They are traitors to our nation and to democracy. Offering up prayers to Ares at this time.

slavicafire

slavic folk love charms and spells

have you ever laid eyes on someone while getting back from a day of hard work in the field and thought - we must wed this summer or I shall throw myself into the Dnieper! or have you ever felt overcome with fear that your beloved might be sneaking out every moonless night to the neighbouring village to kiss that girl with braids thicker than yours? or perhaps you have seen this fair shepherd boy lead sheep into the Carpathian meadows and you wished he would take a liking to you before Kupala’s Night comes?

fret no more, my friends!

here are some of my favourite slavic love charms that I’ve stumbled upon lately:

♥ - to ensure that they will find a good husband - and fast - girls would find the branch where the first bee swarming of the year would happen: the branch on which bees sat had to be boiled, and that concoction used to wash the body

♥ - to make a boy fall in love, girls would bake mole’s heart into the bread and serve that to their chosen boy - mole’s blindess would “go over the boy, as love is blind”

♥ - if a woman did not want to become pregnant - especially again - she would have to walk in a circle around dead tree, saying “when this tree bore fruit, I bore children, when it bears again, I will”

♥ - if your beloved chose someone else over you, sneak close to their house during their wedding night, and throw over the roof: pin from a wheel to “close up the bride” or rope with knots tied on it to “knot the groom.” you know what that means.

♥ - to gain mad affection from a boy, girls would try to steal a thread from his hat - or even just dust from the soles of his shoes. then they would stick it into a lump of wax and throw into the fire, saying: “might you burn in longing for me like this wax is burning in the fire; might your heart melt for me like that wax is melting.” the boy would either fall in love madly - or get ill, and die. our foremothers did not favour the word “compromise”

♥ - to steal a boy’s heart, girls would steal his steps - cut out his footprint from the path, and take it with them.

♥ - to make sure that the chosen boy is stable in his love, girls would gather dirt from the path he walked on - again, best with his footprint - and put in into a pot, and plant there plants with flowers that bloom for a long time, and take good care of them.

♥ - to appear alluring and be desired by boys, girls would carry with them: a goshawk’s head, or swallow’s heart, or bat’s bones.

♥ - the most important love herbs that should be sneakily added to beloved’s food or drink: lovage (levisticum), adders tongue fern (ophioglossum vulgatum), sticky sundew (drosera), or poison darnel (lolium temulentum)

♥ - to awake desire in a boy, girls would either steal the water he bathed in and bathe in it themselves, or the other way around: sneak their own bathwater into the boy’s bath.

♥ - rub valerian into the clothes or possessions of a girl who’s trying to steal your boy - once she gets close to him, he will be overcome with hatred and disgust (or it will make him “wilt” with her. you know what that means.)

♥ - to become more beautiful, girls would sing to the sun, asking it to grant them its own fairness and charm, and make them as “bright and rich”

♥ - similarly, girls would ask the rainbow for similar favours: it was necessary to take off any shawls, caps, and ask “girl, girl, beauty in the skies, make me pretty so boys like me, and give me much blood so I can be full” (full as in full face, healthy, fatter - although as a strzyga I do love asking for more blood to be full as well.)

[examples come from Kultura Duchowa Słowian by Kazimierz Moszyński (volume I and II, 1934) and appear in the practices of many slavic peoples, especially from (historical and geographical) regions: Lesser Poland, Red Ruthenia, Belarus, Polesie, Great Rus, Moravia, Bulgaria, Little Rus and Ukraine]

stay tuned for new additions or part two!

shroud-of-roses

A Few Simple Curses

When in the public vicinity of your target, be inconspicuous and:

Look towards them and cut/break a hair tie (or rubber band) to make it hard for them to hold something back in public (ex: their true self, or if you want to be literal, their hair on a humid day)

Lay your hands on a table or similar surface and channel all the things you want to express into a pipeline of energy. Send it to them and cut the pipeline off immediately.

Tap out your intention in Morse code (ex: say "hex ex" over and over again with energy and intent behind each tap)

If they carry a bag, create a "magnetic" force of energy to attract bad luck to the bearer and visualize it attaching itself to the bag.

To weaken their immune system, get a tissue and write their name onto it. Fold it in a way that reflects the opposite creases it was pulled out with. Make it as small as possible. Blow your nose into it if that isn't too strange for you. It will send off your sickness or negative energy as well, so it's a win-win.

Break an old pencil to shatter their stability. Throw it away in the public trashcan nearest to them.

Spell their name in dirt, dirty snow, gravel, or road grit. Leave it in a high traffic area to get pounded into the ground.

Devise a simple but unique gesture to use as a way to trigger a curse. When their back is facing you, discretely make it and direct energy towards them. Keep this gesture a secret.

Put a very small amount of lotion and sand in a container. Mix it well, and slather over an image of your target. This is to have them wounded after doing or receiving something they expected to be pleasant.

If you live in the home of your target:

Switch their cereal box around as well as any other things they often eat. Moving them is good enough, but adding intent could turn their whole day into a tizzy. Do not meddle with the food contents!!!!

Put an energetic sigil on their door to bring the occupant bad luck. Ward yourself accordingly.

If you compost, bury them to become useful fuel via lovely worms by shaping a poppet of them out of veggies and other organic materials. It would be wise to use foods that they enjoy and/or ate other pieces of, but a general poppet with the right intent will do its job just as well.

Draw a map of your home and highlight their bedroom. Ward your home well, but leave this space completely open. Remove protective energy from there to leave them vulnerable.

If you don't see your target on a daily or regular basis:

Write your target's full name (and any identifying info) on your garbage bin (or write their name and info onto paper, spit on it, and throw it in).

Flip a well wishes card inside out and black out the positive words. Add your own, mark it with their name, info, and/or photo, and then seal it in an envelope for safe "delivery". Throw this away.

breelandwalker

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)

—–

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.

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☀️Spells For Every Day☀️

A spell is a prayer of sorts- a wish sent out with great intention, in harmony with the universe. Why are spells performed on a certain day, with a specific herb and just the right color candle? This is how practical witches synchronize with the greater good and harmonize with the cycles of nature. Each day of the week has specific correspondences and meanings.

YOUR WEEK AT-A-GLANCE:

☀️ SUNDAY IS A DAY FOR HEALING AND VITALITY, AS WELL AS CREATIVITY AND NEW HOPE. THE COLORS FOR THIS DAY ARE GOLD, ORANGE, AND YELLOW, AND THE SCARED STONES FOR THIS THEY ARE ALSO IN THOSE COLORS: AMBER, CITRINE, CARNELIAN, AND TOPAZ. SUNDAY’S HERBS AND INCENSES ARE CLOVES, CEDAR, CHAMOMILE, FRANKINCENSE, AMBER, SUNFLOWER AND HELIOTROPE.

☀️MONDAY, OR MOON DAY, IS A DREAMY DAY FOR INTUITION , BEAUTY, WOMEN’S RITUALS, AND YOUR HOME. THE COLORS ARE SHINY SILVERS, PEARL, PALE ROSE, WHITE AND LAVENDAR, REFLECTIVE LIKE THE MOON. THE GEMS AND STONES ARE SIMILARLY SHADED MOONSTONE, PEARL, QUARTZ CRYSTAL, FLUORITE, AND AQUAMARINE. THE HERBS AND INCENSE ARE NIGHT-BLOOMING JASMINE, MYRTLE, MOONWORT, VERVAIN, WHITE ROSE, POPPY AND CAMPHOR.

☀️ TUESDAY IS THE DAY FOR ACTION, “MARS’S DAY” IS THE TIME FOR HIGH ENERGY IN YOUR CAREER, FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, FOR AGGRESSION IN MEETINGS, AND FOR STRONG SENSUALITY. RED IS THE DAY’S COLOR, AND THE CORRESPONDING GEMS AND CRYSTALS ARE RUBY,GARNET,CARNELIAN,BLOODSTONE, AND PINK TOURMALINE. INCENSES AND HERBS FOR MARS’S DAY ARE RED ROSES, PINE, CARNATION, NETTLE, PATCHOULI,PEPPER AND GARLIC.

☀️ WEDNESDAY, OR WODEN’S DAY, IS WHEN THE PLANETS OF COMMUNICATION MERCURY AND CHIRON- RULE. THIS IS THE OPTIMUM TIME FOR WRITING, PUBLIC SPEAKING, INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS, MEMORY AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF COMMUNICATION. COLORS FOR THIS DAY ARE LIGHT BLUE, GRAY, GREEN, ORANGE AND YELLOW. THE CRYSTALS ARE SODALITE, MOSS AGATE, OPAL AND AVENTURINE. THE HERBS AND INCENSE ARE CINNAMON, PERIWINKLE,DILL,SWEET PEA,CINQUEFOIL, AND FERN.

☀️ THURSDAY , OR THOR’S DAY, IS THE DAY FOR BUSINESS, POLITICS, LEGALITIES, BARGAINING, GOOD FORTUNE, AND MATERIAL AND FISCAL WEALTH. THE COLORS ARE BLUE, PURPLE, AND TURQUOISE. AS YOU MIGHT SUSPECT, THE CRYSTALS ARE TURQUOISE, SAPPHIRE, AMETHYST, AND LAPIS LAZULI, SO FAVORED BY THE EGYPTIANS. THE HERBS AND INCENSES FOR THE DAY ARE SAFFRON, CEDAR, NUTMEG,PINE, OAK, AND CINNAMON.

☀️ FRIDAY IS RULED BY FREYA, THE NORDIC VENUS, GODDESS OF LOVE. FRIDAY IS ALL ABOUT BEAUTY, LOVE, SEX, FERTILITY, FRIENDSHIPS AND PARTNERSHIPS, THE ARTS, HARMONY AND MUSIC, AND BRINGING THE NEW INTO YOUR LIFE. THE COLORS ARE PALE GREEN AND DEEP GREEN, ROBIN’S EGG BLUE, PINK, AND VIOLET, AND THE CRYSTALS ARE EMERALD, PINK TOURMALINE, AND ROSE QUARTZ, AS WELL AS JADE, MALACHITE, AND PERIDOT. THE HERBS AND INCENSE FOR FRIDAY ARE APPLE, LILY,BIRCH,PINK ROSE,VERBENA,IVY,ROSE AND SAGE.

☀️ SATURDAY IS A TIME FOR PROTECTION,DISCIPLINE,DUTY, BINDING, FAMILY, MANIFESTATION, AND COMPLETION. SATURDAY’S CRYSTALS ARE AMETHYST, SMOKY QUARTZ, JET, BLACK ONYX, OBSIDIAN, AND DARKEST GARNET. THE INCENSE, PLANTS, AND HERBS FOR THIS DAY ARE IVY,OAK,RUE,MOSS,MYRRH, DEADLY NIGHTSHADE, MANDRAKE, HEMLOCK, AND WOLFSBANE. (MANY SATURNIAN HERBS ARE TOXIC, BE SURE TO EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN USING THEM).

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“Are Fairies Dangerous? Then Why Deal With Them?” by Morgan Daimler

Morgan Daimler came out with this video a while ago, and I finally got around to watching it. Such a good question, and such a great person answering it!

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