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This should be used for ‘What does a Gardnerian ritual look like?’ Gardnerian High Priestess, Eleanor Bone (also known as the Matriarch of British Witchcraft), with her coven in the Italian documentary ‘Angeli Bianchi, Angeli Neri’ (White Angel, Black Angel) by Piero Umiliani (1969), also known as ‘Witchcraft ‘70’ in its English Version

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Normandy produced the largest known collection of male witches anywhere in Western Europe. From 1564 to 1660, the judicial records of the Norman Parlement at Rouen (almost 90 percent complete between 1585 and 1630, the peak years of recorded witch trials in Normandy and across Western Europe, generally) reveal that almost three-fourths of its 380 recorded witchcraft defendants were men. Approximately two-thirds of the 100 people whom the Rouen Parlement condemned to death for witchcraft were men; men virtually monopolized Norman witchcraft cases after 1630, providing its final defendants long after Louis XIV supposedly decriminalized witchcraft in 1682.

Shepherds accounted for over one-fifth of all male witches in Normandy, using a variety of magical methods either to sicken or to cure livestock. The most frequently mentioned malevolent substance used by shepherds was toad venom; their most powerful benevolent magic required stolen consecrated Hosts. Two other occupational groups were also overrepresented among Norman witchcraft suspects: clergymen (prominent from 1598 until the 1640′s) and blacksmiths, who practiced illicit forms of veterinary medicine. Normandy experienced no witchcraft panics, but rather a steady trickle of witch trials every year. The Witches’ Sabbat was well known before 1600, but apparently never led to multiple denunications and trials. After 1590, the Rouen Parlement became more severe than Paris in judging accused witches.

“Toads and Eucharists: The Male Witches of Normandy, 1564-1660“, by William Monter, French Historical Studies, Vol.20, No.4, pp. 563-595.

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@theheadlesshashasheen I know you’ve been looking at magical gems lately. Does the database have anything on string amulets or is it mostly jewellery based stones?

Also, what’s the difference between a talisman and an amulet?

I’ve been reading a lot of references to amulet strings worn close to the body by children and women, especially hetaira and wondered if you have any recommendations.

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Well, for the most part, it is cut gemstones. But some of the inscribed stones have obviously been turned into rings (sometimes post-antique), although I didn’t save any of those to my HDD. Others have obviously been altered to be hung from a string of some kind:

(Anguipedes / Abraxas (?), with Hekate and snakes on the Reverse. 4th century CE. Source.)

It looks like a small range of them were worn as necklaces, used as pendants, or even as clasps for cloaks and the like.

The distinction between an amulet and talisman seems somewhat nebulous. I could quote Agrippa on that, but I’m not sure his thoughts apply to items made in the 4th or 3rd century of the common era. LOL. When I discussed the matter with @grimoiresontape, he seemed to agree with me on the fact that there’s little difference. (Although if he’s got a better response, I certainly invite him to say so! You rock, Al!)

I definitely recommend messing around with making a Gorgoneion; the carrying of those items, specifically, predates all the amulets I’ve flashed significantly even if they were still in use:

(I forgot to save the source page for this one. Sorry! Gorgoneion with Triple-formed Hekate on the reverse.)

For the purposes of protection, the most common protective voces (magical words) are the Greek vowels lined up in a string, and the palindrome ABLANAT(H)ANALBA: Ἀβλαναθαναλβα. I can’t tell you what the word means, exactly, just what it does: it is a holy word, and is totally protective, and will straight up drive away certain types of dangerous spirits.

One Greek Magical Papyri spell for a phylactery (or protective amulet) reads:

“A phylactery: ‘Great God in Heaven revolving the world, the true god, IAŌ! Lord, Ruler of All, ABLANATHANALBA, grant, grant me this favor, let have the name of the great god in this phylactery, and protect, from every evil thing, me whom NN bore, NN begot.” - PGM LXXI. 1 - 8. (Betz, P. 298.)

Alternatively, the Ephesia Grammata could be inscribed on the amulet. It partially appears in a spell for protection in the PGM, which calls on Hekate-Ereschigal:

“ASKEI KATASKEI ERŌN OREŌN IŌR MEGA SAMNYĒR BAUI (3 times) PHROBANTIA SEMNĒ, I have been initiated, I went down into the underground chamber of the Dactyls, and I saw the other things down below, virgin, bitch, and all the rest.” Say it at a crossroad, turn around and flee, because it is at those places that she appears. Saying it late at night about what you wish, it will reveal it in your sleep; and if you are led away to death, say it while scattering the seeds of sesame, and it will save you.” - PGM LXX. 4 - 25. (Betz, P. 297.)

‘ασκι κατασκι’ could look really sweet on an amulet, and it is definitely good stuff.

Alternatively, there does seem to be a precedent for simply placing a deity you worship, or is protective, on it. This Isis-Demeter-Hekate (again with a Gorgoneion) amulet comes to mind:

If you feel a local form a deity is appropriate, I really think they might be an excellent choice.

Um, I don’t want to ramble and bore you. So, if you have any other questions, feel free to ask. I can’t claim to know everything, but I’ll do my best with what I’ve got.

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To what shall I compare thee? or to what shall I liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? … for great as the sea is thy destruction; who shall heal thee?

- Lam. 2:13

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Hekate: Procession to a Witches’ Sabbath, c. 1640 Jose de Ribera

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milagros charms, spain Milagros are votive charms, a sort of folk medicine and prayer combined. They are used in many Hispanic regions and countries, from the US through Latin America, even the Iberian Peninsula. Made of gold, silver, wood, wax… but most frequently found in tin and pewter, milagros vary greatly in size and depth. (Most are relatively flat, and smaller than a quarter.) Whether found at a saint’s shrine, in a church, left as an offering or hanging on a simple ribbon in a home - they are unified by their symbolic meanings, and their intention. “As part of a religious ritual or an act of devotion, milagros can be offered to a symbol of a saint as a reminder of a petitioner’s particular need, or in gratitude for a prayer answered. They are used to assist in focusing attention towards a specific ailment, based on the type of charm used. Milagro symbolism is not universal; a milagro of a body part, such as a leg, might be used as part of a prayer or vow for the improvement of a leg; or it might refer to a concept such as travel. Similarly, a heart might represent ideas as diverse as a heart condition, a romance, or any number of other interpretations. Milagros are also carried for protection and good luck.”

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Votives such as these survived pretty directly through Ancient Roman to Roman-Catholic prayer and belief.

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I would love a spell to basically make my home invisible to the nosy neighbors. Thank you!

If gossip is at all a root of the problem, you might try this spell as well:

"A GoodRemedy Against Calumniation or Slander:+ + + (crossyourself three times)Take off yourshirt, and turn it wrong side out, and then run your two thumbs along yourbody, close under the ribs, starting at the pit of the heart down to thethighs.”– Pow-wow: or The Long Lost Friend by John George Hoffman

If you want to create more of an illusion to stop them from noticing the house as much you can try using the Celtic Faith Fith charm:"Fa’ fithe cuiream ort Bho chu, bho chat, Bho bhò, bho each, Bho dhuine, bho bhean, Bho ghille, bho nighean, 'S bho leanabh beag, Gus an tig mise rithisd. An ainm an Athar, a’ Mhic, ‘s an Spioraid Naoimh. A magic cloud I put on thee, From dog, from cat, From cow, from horse, From man, from woman, From young man, from maiden, And from little child, Till I again return. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. …Again, the Tuath de Dannan were credited with the power of raising storms and causing darkness. When the invading Mile- sians reached Ireland, the Tuath de Dannan, by means of sorcery, enveloped the Island in mist, and hid it from their view.” – Gaelic Incantations, Charms, and Blessings or the Hebrides by William MackenzieThe above charm is a short version, you can find more on that here, from the Carmina Gadelica. If you work with the Goetia you can try petitioning to Belial or Glasya-Labolas who both have the power to grant Invisibility. Their pentagrams are listed below in that order.

– The Lemegeton IYou may also try confounding their sight with Confusion Oil. You don’t want to sprinkle this on your property, but if you can get to their windows or fences or the areas from which they watch/poke about your place, rub or drip some of the oil and they will become bewildered as they attempt it. Here is my recipe below: Confusion OilVetiverPoppy seedsAshes from a knotted shoelaceBlack mustard seeds

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To Thanatos, Fumigation from Manna. Hear me, O Death, whose empire unconfin’d extends to mortal tribes of ev’ry kind. On thee, the portion of our time depends, whose absence lengthens life, whose presence ends. Thy sleep perpetual bursts the vivid folds by which the soul, attracting body holds: common to all, of ev’ry sex and age, for nought escapes thy all-destructive rage. Not youth itself thy clemency can gain, vigorous and strong, by thee untimely slain. In thee the end of nature’s works is known, in thee all judgment is absolved alone. No suppliant arts thy dreadful rage control, no vows revoke the purpose of thy soul. O blessed power, regard my ardent prayer, and human life to age abundant spare.

Invocation of Thanatos, Greek personification of Death (from Orphic hymns)

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The Letters, or Characters of Saturne.

[Artemis] fierce huntress, glorying in the sylvan war: swift in the course, in dreadful arrows skilled, wandering by night, rejoicing in the field: of manly form, erect, of bounteous mind … immortal, earthly, bane of monsters fell, ‘tis thine, blest maid, on woody mounts to dwell: foe of the stag, whom woods and dogs delight, in endless youth you flourish fair and bright … give earth a store of beauteous fruits to bear.

Orphic Hymn 36 to Artemis (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.)

#artemis #orphic hymns

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Atavistic resurgence, a primal urge towards union with the Divine by returning to the common source of all, is indicated by the backward symbolism peculiar to all Sabbath ceremonies, as also of many ideas connected with witchcraft, sorcery and magic. Whether it be the symbol of the moon presiding over nocturnal ecstasies; the words of power chanted backwards; the back-to-back dance performed in opposition to the sun’s course; the devil’s tail - are all instances of reversal and symbolic of Will and Desire turning within and down to subconscious regions, to the remote past, there to surprise the required atavistic energy for purposes of transformation, healing, initiation, construction or destruction.

Kenneth Grant, “Vinum Sabbati,” Hidden Lore: Hermetic Glyphs (via iopanosiris)