Grave Earth and “Cheating”
There are some of the ways I avoid taking dirt from the cemetery yet replace it with a suitable substitute. And ways I work around certain illegal practices.
1. If you need dirt from the grave of a soldier, find a war monument instead and take dirt from the base. These are monuments erected to the glorious dead and work just as well. I suggest leaving a small token upon doing this such as piece of poppy jasper. This stone is acknowledged by the dead as a suitable gift for fallen warriors.
2. If you need dirt from just the cemetery go to your garden and dig out some soil. There is no need for it to be from a human burial site. More things died here in the garden than which actually died during burial.
3. If you need to sleep on a grave to regain your energy I recommend taking a jar of garden soil, sealing it in a jar, (label as grave earth) and sleeping with it in your bed. If you feel the need put a miniature skeleton inside. Contagious and image magic right here!
5. How do you get grave dirt from the grave of a doctor for healing? Take a old medicine bottle. Then fill it with garden dirt. Its that simple.
Sometimes because of the ritual nature of necromancy spells one has to think outside the box and use cheats. So yes sometimes that grimoire will call for the fat of a hanged man, so what? Just use the fat from a butchered hog. Human meat is known as long pig. Scientists often remark on the similarity of pigs to humans. Pigs symbolize greed and gluttony. Butchers hang pigs to let them bleed out. So a pig symbolizes greed which is embodied in a thief, thieves used to be hanged, etc. So the pig fat is a perfectly acceptable substitute in such a case
Making a art which was once mostly used in a ceremonial context into one of practicality seems difficult at first. But with time and sage advice you’ll learn.
The fuck is this shit? The first tip is a good one but the rest are laughably stupid. The entire point of using grave dirt is to enlist the aid of human spirits in your workings. Unless you’re a serial killer, there probably aren’t too many human corpses nestled under your tomatoes so sleeping with a jar of dirt isn’t going to do jack shit to draw human spirits to you or help you conquer your fear of death and the dead (which is the entire point of grave sleeping) no matter how many plastic skeletons you stick in it.
This is the problem with viewing spell ingredients as recipe components without putting any thought towards what purpose they serve. Instead of understanding that the point of taking dirt from a doctor’s grave is to enlist the aid of a spirit who’s an expert in healing, you end up thinking that a patch of dirt a beetle died on is functionally identical because “lol something died on it!!” What’s the point of calling yourself a ~necromancer~ if you can’t even be bothered to do the absolute bare minimum and go to a graveyard? Aesthetic?
