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Elodi Nichole | 24 | Capricorn | Utah | Chaos Witch

[breelandwalker]

Dead Man's Dust

Intent: For preventing spirits from following you home.

Ingredients:

1 pt Chili Pepper (any type)

1 pt Salt

1 pt Basil

1 pt Garlic Powder

1⁄2 pt Dill

1⁄2 pt Lemon Peel

Optional: Add a pinch of Curry or Cumin for extra oomph.

Note: Powdered versions of most herbs are available online. I recommend Starwest Botanicals and Penn Herbs for quality products at reasonable prices. Also, if you can get your hands on a good electric spice grinder, you can make your own powder from dried herb products. If you don't have premade powdered herbs, grind each ingredient separately to produce fine powder. Sieve the material through the mesh strainer into the collection dish; this removes the larger unground pieces and gives you cleaner powdered herb. (Pro-Tip: Putting a funnel under the mesh strainer reduces lost material and makes collection much easier.)

Combine the component powders in the collection dish, mix well, and bottle immediately. Label with the name, date, and ingredients for future reference.

This powder performs one of the functions of Banishing Powder, but with special attention to warding off pesky ghosts. After visiting historical or haunted locations, or any time you feel spooked while walking home, sprinkle a palmful of powder on the ground and scrape your feet on it (as if you were wiping off dirt) to keep anything ghostly from following you home. Take three steps backward and spit toward the powder, then continue on your way.

For extra protection, toss a pinch of Banishing Powder, Threshold Powder, or Black Salt over your doorstep when you get home.

Note: For safety's sake, make sure you never cast this powder into the wind and wash your hands after use. Leftover particles on your skin can cause pain and irritation if they come into contact with your eyes or breathing passages.

-adapted from Pestlework: A Book of Magical Powders & Oils, (c) 2017 by Bree NicGarran

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A collection of some of my original magical powder recipes. All-Purpose Cursing Powder Bree's Banishing Powder Clean House Powder Dream Dust

[breelandwalker]

Dead Man's Dust

Intent: For preventing spirits from following you home.

Ingredients:

1 pt Chili Pepper (any type)

1 pt Salt

1 pt Basil

1 pt Garlic Powder

1⁄2 pt Dill

1⁄2 pt Lemon Peel

Optional: Add a pinch of Curry or Cumin for extra oomph.

Note: Powdered versions of most herbs are available online. I recommend Starwest Botanicals and Penn Herbs for quality products at reasonable prices. Also, if you can get your hands on a good electric spice grinder, you can make your own powder from dried herb products. If you don't have premade powdered herbs, grind each ingredient separately to produce fine powder. Sieve the material through the mesh strainer into the collection dish; this removes the larger unground pieces and gives you cleaner powdered herb. (Pro-Tip: Putting a funnel under the mesh strainer reduces lost material and makes collection much easier.)

Combine the component powders in the collection dish, mix well, and bottle immediately. Label with the name, date, and ingredients for future reference.

This powder performs one of the functions of Banishing Powder, but with special attention to warding off pesky ghosts. After visiting historical or haunted locations, or any time you feel spooked while walking home, sprinkle a palmful of powder on the ground and scrape your feet on it (as if you were wiping off dirt) to keep anything ghostly from following you home. Take three steps backward and spit toward the powder, then continue on your way.

For extra protection, toss a pinch of Banishing Powder, Threshold Powder, or Black Salt over your doorstep when you get home.

Note: For safety's sake, make sure you never cast this powder into the wind and wash your hands after use. Leftover particles on your skin can cause pain and irritation if they come into contact with your eyes or breathing passages.

-adapted from Pestlework: A Book of Magical Powders & Oils, (c) 2017 by Bree NicGarran

(If you’re enjoying my content, please feel free to drop a little something in the tip jar or check out my published works on Amazon or in the Willow Wings Witch Shop. 😊)

A collection of some of my original magical powder recipes. All-Purpose Cursing Powder Bree's Banishing Powder Clean House Powder Dream Dust

[desertwaterwitch]

Salt is so powerful, I get amazed every time I use it for some sort of magic.

Whether it’s putting out a bowl of salt (I add rosemary sometimes) and the air immediately clearing up, like you can feel how much easier to breathe it is. I have bad depression and anxiety and find it hard to breathe most of the time, so this is saying something.

Or when you make a simple salt and moon water spray for negativity cleansing. I made one earlier and sprayed it a couple times. Like the air is so clear and I love it. For some reason I was inclined to spray at my bedroom door and I of course did it.

I can always sense and feel energies and spirits, and there are none in my room right now. Only my grandparents. Well actually they’re not right now. They have some urgent family stuff to do, but they are normally with me pretty much 24/7.

Anyway, use salt!

[bubblelovewaltz-deactivated2024]

my pepsi warriors

[excess-of-eyes]

i can’t stand this Pepsi dog erasure. She walked so they could run

[gensgrimoire]

Common Spell Items

Here’s a collection of items you can easily find outside and their correspondences/associations

Grass:  Psychic powers, protection, growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss Pine needles:  Cleansing, healing and strengthening. It also acts as a natural insect repellent Pine cones: Masculinity, fertility Maple Leaves: Feminine, moon magic, travel, learning, dealing with change, decision making, spiritual healing Pennies: Luck, wealth Dandelions: Divination, wishes, calling spirits Dandelion leaves:  Summoning spirits, healing, purification, defeating negativity Red/purple wild clover:  Fidelity, love, money, protection, the blessing of domestic animals White wild clover: Breaking curses Two leaf clover: Love, luck Three leaf clover: protection, luck Four leaf clover: Protection, psychic powers, spirit work, luck, success Oak leaf:  Truth, steadfast knowledge, protection Acorn:  Good luck, protection, wisdom, and personal power Walnut: Healing and protection

Feel free to add any more! 

[themanicnami]

Unconventional & Affordable Ingredients for Spells

Here is a list of unconventional and affordable ingredients that can be used in spells and witchcraft along with their correspondences; good for witches “in the woods” and witches on a budget. Many of these can be easily found for inexpensive prices or at home.

Acorns/Acorn Caps: security, abundance, longevity, good luck, youth and brings good health

Animal toys/stickers: relates to correspondences of that animal

Artist’s Charcoal: banishing negativity, protection; cursing

Baby Powder: cleansing, beauty, youth

Baking Soda: cleansing, purification, protection

Birthday Candles: wishes, joy; color magic and number magic depending on their color and/or what number they display

Black Tea Bags (used): earth magic, grounding, strength, stability, banishing negativity; ending, death 

Bottle Caps: prosperity, luck, material gain

Bubble Bath: self-love, relaxation, emotional healing, serenity; plus whatever scent the bubble bath is affects correspondences

Bubbles/Bubble Liquid: wishes, joy, whimsy, imagination, fantasy

Buckeye Nuts: luck, sexual energies, warding

Butter: femininity, flattery, friendship, warmth, happiness; good for fae work

Candy Bars: love, romance, happiness, lust, fertility, emotional healing, healing of the heart, forgiveness, friendship

Candy Corn: courage, imagination, endurance, energy, motivation, happiness, celebration

Candy Foil: sweetness, secrets, protecting one’s emotions; color magic

Chocolate Syrup/Milk: happiness, love, lust, romance, sweetening relationships

Cocktail Swords: strength, assertiveness, competition; cursing, revenge; ending rumors

Cotton Balls: beauty, gentleness, warmth, sleep

Cotton Swabs: cleansing, purification

Dice: chance, opportunity, luck; number magic

Dirt: grounding, earth magic, growth, prosperity, patience, home and family; cursing

Dish Soap: cleansing

Duct Tape: binding, storing energy, cursing

Egg Shells: cleansing, protection, warding

Energy Drinks: energy, motivation

Envelopes: messages, communication, protection during travel

Epsom Salts: purification, cleansing, protection, pain relief, serenity, comfort, stress relief

Fake/Play Money: wealth, prosperity

Fish Sauce: prosperity, water magic, curses

Foil: glamour, protection, storing energy, binding

Glue: sealing, immobility, binding, curses

Googley Eyes: vision, divination, scrying, creativity, protection, imagination; curses, paranoia, nightmares

Grass: growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss

Hand Soap: cleansing, curse removal

Hole Punches: good for cursing

Hot Sauce: motivation, lust, confidence; cursing, anger, revenge, emotional pain

Koolaid: youth, sweetness, happiness; color magic, corresponds with flavors as well

Lip Balm: glamour, confidence in speaking, honesty, beauty

Lollipops: sweetness, innocence, ending rumors and lies, lust and sexual energies, love

Lotion: protection, beauty

Laundry Soap: cleansing, purification

Marshmallows: friendliness, comfort, gentleness, fidelity, sleep and dreams

Metal Crafting Wire: binding

Modeling Clay: poppets, earth magic, grounding, balance, stability, creation, change

Mud: grounding, earth magic; curses

Muslin: poppets, change, creativity

Noodles: Longevity, good health

Pompoms (craft): gentleness, comfort, love, sleep, dreams

Paper Clips: balance, focus, organization; curses, binding

Pennies: luck, wealth

Pickle Juice: curses to sour things

Plastic Bags: protection; binding

Plastic Ribbon (wrapping): happiness, glamour, delight; binding; color magic

Plastic Wrap: binding

Popsicle sticks: poppets

Scissors: offensive magic, curses

Seltzer Water: purification, removing negativity; curses

Sewing Needles: curses, pain

Shaving Cream: cleansing, softness, patience, calmness

Stamps: travel, communication

Sour Cream: cursing

Soy Sauce: protection, banishment; cursing

Sticky Notes: communication, memory

Strawberry Milk: love, self-love, beauty, sweetness, friendship

Syrup: joy, sweetening one’s emotions

Taco Sauce: Focus, Energy, motivation

Taffy: joy, flexibility

Thumbtacks: curses

Tissue Paper: softness, serenity; color magic

Toothpaste: cleansing

Toothpicks: curse

Walnut Shells: protection, warding

Wasabi: Energy; curses, anger, envy

Whipped Cream: beauty, light-heartedness

Whistles: communication, attention grabbing, warding

Other Tips:

Recycle bottles, jars and medicine bottles for jar/bottle magic

Reuse tea bags (though not too long after use) in bath magic

If you do wish to use herbs, it is cheaper to order them online in bulk rather than the supermarket. Trust me, supermarkets and grocery stores really over price most herbs. You can get triple the amount for 2 dollars less online

Make up and toiletries are great for glamours

Its fine to use kitchen knives if you can’t afford am athame

Look at the ingredients in food you eat to see what is in it and determine that food’s correspondences, quick and easy kitchen magic

Crayons, colored pencils, markers and pens are good for easy sigil and color magic

Binders are cheaper than blank books and make great grimoires

[wikiwicca]

Does anyone know how to get one of those satchet/spell bag spells to stop working?

So I did my first spell a week ago (one of those spell bags with a sachet, crystals and herbs) to help me sleep better, and boy does it work! But it also gives me extremely vivid, extremely weird dreams that leave me feeling tired when I wake up. I would like to break the spell I guess but i cant find anything online that says how to do that. (Im probably just asking the wrong question tbh). I set the bag on the other side of the room from me and its helped a little, but I still get weird dreams.

Tl;Dr spell gives me weird ass dreams and im tired. Please help me make it stop LMAO.

[breelandwalker]

The simplest way to break a spell with a material focus, like a jar or a charm bag, is to deconstruct the object that contains the spell.

In your case, I'd recommend opening the bag, emptying the contents, and possibly discarding them. At the very least, discard the herbs and possibly the bag, unless it's something special. Components you want to save or reuse should be cleansed and left to sit for a while before you put them into anything else. (Please note that certain crystals will dissolve in water or fade in sunlight, so choose your cleansing method carefully.) As you disassemble the charm, you can say or think something along the lines of, "As this item is taken apart, so is the spell ended and done."

The room can be cleansed for good measure if you wish, just to clear the air and start with a blank slate. You can also try remaking the charm with more specific instructions if you like.

In addition to any magical workings, I would recommend examining your sleep habits. Check in with yourself - Are you super stressed or anxious right now? Are you feeling physically unwell? Has there been a recent change to your life or routine that you're still adjusting to? Has your sleep schedule been disrupted? Do you have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep? Do you get anxious or frustrated when trying to settle down for bed? Is your bedroom too warm or too cold for your liking? Is it dusty or in need of a change of bedding? Do you wake up with back or neck pain? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, part of the problem could be poor sleep quality in a very physical and non-magical sense, which I suspect you already know since you wanted a sleep charm in the first place.

Hope this helps!

[wikiwicca]

Thank you for the explanation that is very helpful!! The only thing I “need” (I.e. would really like to) keep is my amethyst crystal that is inside. I don’t mind getting rid of the herbs and bag.

[breelandwalker]

Definitely use either a light sprinkle of water or sound or smoke to cleanse your amethyst - leaving it in the sunlight can cause it to fade or discolor.

[breelandwalker]

hi! ive been getting back into the craft recently and i was wondering if you have any book reccomendations that i could learn more from! (i know youve published your own, which i will be checking out soon!!)

I have a book recs tag that contains most of the titles that I regularly recommend for witchcraft studies, but there are a few I could mention by name:

History:

Drawing Down The Moon (Margot Adler)

Triumph of the Moon (Ronald Hutton)

The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present (Ronald Hutton)

The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic (Owen Davies)

Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Owen Davies)

Witchcraft:

The Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft: Seeking an Intentional Magical Path Seeking an Intentional Magical Path (Fire Lyte aka Don Martin)

New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic (Cory Thomas Hutcheson)

By Rust of Nail & Prick of Thorn: The Theory & Practice of Effective Home Warding (Althaea Sebastiani)

Sacred Actions: Living the Wheel of the Year through Earth-Centered Sustainable Practices (Dana O'Driscoll)

Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration (Mallorie Vaudoise)

Spellcrafting: Strengthen the Power of Your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells (Arin Murphy-Hiscock)

The Magical Writing Grimoire: Use the Word as Your Wand for Magic, Manifestation & Ritual (Lisa Marie Basile)

Light Magic for Dark Times: More than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis (Lisa Marie Basile)

Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols (Laura Tempest Zakroff)

The Hearth Witch's Year: Rituals, Recipes & Remedies Through the Seasons (Anna Franklin)

Previous Posts:

Here are the Top Ten foundational texts that I started out with.

Here are the books I recommend if you want to work with plants.

Here are the three titles I have on the market.

Here is the Dropbox I made with free (legal) historical texts on witchcraft and magic.

And here is my personal library (slightly out of date) which might give you some more ideas!

[somebogwitch]

Know Your Crows!

[magnoliawitchcraft]

So you wanna make your own incense?

You've come to the right place sweetness. For clarity's sake I want to specify that I am not a professional. This is simply what I did to make the incense that I use. Always research your herbs and herbal mixtures, be aware of your allergies, and remember to use herbs from high quality sources to protect your health. And remember, the best witchcraft is safely practiced witchcraft.

What you'll need: Herb of choice (no correlations listed here, otherwise we will be here all night)

Coffee grinder (or a mortar and pestel, but baby we are in the 21st century work smarter not harder)

Tap water (charge it if you want for extra pizzazz)

Optional: oven, preheat to 190 degrees Fahrenheit

Step one: grind up your herbs in the coffee grinder, the finer the better. My herb was food grade lavender.

Step two: Divide the ground herb into two separate bowls, a wet bowl and a dry bowl. Into the wet bowl, mix into the herb with some water so the consistency is a modable clay. Sacred water is great for this.

Step three: Form the clay into a cone shape in any way that makes the most sense for your body. For me, that involves using my thumbs and middle fingers, but whatever way works best.

Roll the wet cone into the dry bowl, coating the cone in a layer of powdered lavender.

You can either leave the cone to dry over night, alternatively---

Place in oven for 40 minutes to an hour to dehydrate the cones!

Ta-da! I hope these directions inspire you to give this a shot yourself. I know I had a lot of fun making this lavendar incense, and I know I'm excited to make more in the future. Don't stop creating lovelies.

<3 Magnolia

[sweetwatersworld]

𝗠𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

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Artificial intelligence image production is becoming increasingly popular on social media. I started tinkering around with these photographs a while back and developed an appreciation for the ambiguity and intricacies that surround what the AI program could make. I went through all of the different art styles using simple cues like my name. I connected with all of the visuals it generated, and it piqued my interest.

I then proceeded to look through each of the Zodiac Signs through this lens, and I was astounded by the findings. I even started using the AI algorithm to build my own tarot deck. Since I'm already using it for Tarot cards, I figured I might as well try using the information it yields for scrying. It goes without saying that it was a huge success. I want this post to be a walk through of that procedure for you.

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I'll walk you through exactly what I did for these readings so you may utilize my strategy and use it for your own readings. Finding an artificial intelligence image creator is the initial step. I utilize the Wombo Dream app. There are countless others available for download from the AppStore or on the internet! Wombo Dream gives you the option to choose an artistic medium and give an inspiration prompt for the artwork.

Take this piece, for example. This is a photo of Pan. I'm a devotee of this God and I wanted a closer way of communication with him. I selected my favorite art style which is Psychic or Dark Fantasy, and proceeded to give the prompt of "Messages from Pan".

So, what do you specifically see in this image? Well, to begin with, I see a face that appears to be humble, perhaps full of melancholy, a heart in the middle, and horns and hooves encircling it in various locations. I looked closer and saw that the main focus appears to be shaped like a tree throughout, with branches coming out of each direction of the heart in the center. I also notice several faces of different animals intertwined together.

As I continued to study this picture, I began to recognize the surroundings more and more. I'm always taken to this deep forest with all of these enormous trees during my lucid dreams. The Deku Tree from Zelda comes closest to describing them. This woodland is usually teeming with life. The birds guide me to the entrance, where a family of deer, foxes, bunnies, and bears coexist together.

I came to the conclusion that Pan had been trying to tell me all along that he had been paving a route toward my goals, and that this image overall represented what he was trying to say. It's just up to me to seize the moment and grab the opportunity by the horns. This entire image simply hit so close to home.

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I then decided to do one for Persephone as well. She is another one that has been around me for quite a while. I'm not so much a devotee to her, but I do honor her regularly. It had been a while since I had any contact with her, so I wanted to see if she was still around. This is what I got when I typed in the prompt "Messages from Persephone"

I noted right away that the foreground of the picture was colorful and filled with flowers, while the background was substantially darker and appeared to be a cemetery. She seemed to yearn to go back to the Underworld, but her obligation keeps her from doing so. My interpretation of this image is that she has just returned from a brief stint in the Underworld and is still present, responding to my calls. She was one of my first deities and actually shaped who I am today, so hearing this brought me peace.

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Although I'm not really sure if this qualifies as scrying, that's what I've been calling it for a while. I wanted to explain how it functions specifically to you all. If you give it a go on your own, please let me know what you think of it. I felt fusing technology with divination was quite ingenious. Thank you so much for reading. Fair Winds ♡

[confessionsofagreywitch-arc-blog]

Dollar Store Magick (Part 2)

Continuation of my previous post.

~Want to enchant jewelry for different things but don’t have anything? Don’t be afraid to get some of the cheap jewelry. As long as there is glass or metal or anything really, you can still put a lasting enchantment on it. Even plastic can hold one, though you may have to renew it more often.

~Want to practice a bit of kitchen witchery? Research the properties of the different spices and herbs you keep on hand. You’d be surprised what all you might have in stock without realizing it.

~Buy a jar of coconut oil. It’s cheap and is solid at room temperature, but melts when touched. Draw sigils on your body for things like health, joy, or peace. Not only will you get the benefits of the sigils, but also softer skin. Not to mention there are a lot of uses for coconut oil in every day life as well as magick such as hair product, health benefits, mix with epsom salt to make a scrub or with essential oils to make salves.

~Want to work with mirrors? Grab some of those hand mirrors or compacts. A dollar each and great for magick. A friend of mine used her compact as a scrying mirror.

~Speaking of scrying, use your phone screen for black mirror scrying. It looks a lot less strange in public than pulling out a huge, black mirror.

~Eat a melon or fruit? Keep a few seeds and save them back for any ritual/spell for growth, new beginnings, life, fertility, etc etc

~Eat ribs or another meat with a lot of bone? Clean off the bone and save it back for spells. 

~Can’t use candles for whatever reason? Get some of those battery powered tea lights.

~Speaking of tea lights, grab one of those 100 count bags of white tea lights. They work for everything.

~Want to represent water a bit more fancily? Grab one of those cheap little water fountains. Calming trickling sound to set the mood and nice water representation.

~If you ever go to a museum, check out the gift shop. A lot of times they will have tiny little five dollar boxes of tumbled stones including tigers eye, rose quarts, blood stone, etc etc. Nothing fancy, but it’s enough to get you going on the right path. Plus, they make great additions to those tiny witch bottle necklaces.

~Stop by the crafts section and see if they have any multicolored packs of paper(odds are they will) and get a pack. If you work with color magick a lot, this is a life saver in a pinch.

~An extension of the above tip. Grab a multicolored pack of sticky notes to keep with you. Write sigils or little spells on them when you’re on the go and need to do a bit of magick. Part 1

[confessionsofagreywitch-arc-blog]

Dollar Store Magick (Part 1)

I’m not going to pretend, being a witch can be pretty hard on the wallet, so here’s a few tips for those of us who are, to put it bluntly, poor. All of the tips here can either be bought at your average dollar store, thrift store, or around your house.

~Use shoe laces instead of chord. I can’t stress how much getting one of those dollar packs of 12 or so shoe laces at the dollar store can help you so much in magick. Bonus:They usually come in a mix of white and black and of varying length!

~Grab one of those 20 packs of birthday candles while you’re at it. Multicolored, burn quickly, and if you ever have a birthday you forgot about you already have them on hand!

~Those little box sewing kits that contain needle, thread, buttons, pins, etc are practically portable alters. Just take out the thimble and replace it with a stone and put a candle in there, then boom you’ve got a mini-altar. Plus, wardrobe malfunction? No problem. Hemming dresses and casting spells all while heading to that cocktail party.

~Use old clothes, those shoe laces, and that sewing kit and make your own sachets! They don’t have to be the prettiest or most well sewn, they just have to be able to hold your ingredients, plus now you get to choose if you want patterns! Reusing old clothes AND making your own sachets, I see no loss.

~Got a pillow you need to throw out? Save back some of the stuffing! Now you can take that sewing kit and some more old clothes and make poppets. Plus, if it’s one of those feather pillows you can use those lovely down feathers in so many spells I could write a whole other post about it!

~Need spell jars/bottles? Save back jars from things like pickles and peanut butter! A bit of soaking and scrubbing and that label comes right off. Saving the environment AND stocking up on supplies.

~Got old tomatoes? Plant them! Tomatoes are some of the easiest plants to grow and they do well in most climates. A little known fact about Tomato is that it is a member of the nightshade family, so it is great for any harmful magicks. Plus, free tomatoes!

~Work with sigils? Grab some of those little boxes of chalk, either multicolored or all white, and write your sigils with those then wipe away in one smooth motion. Plus, you can draw those little pictures of sunsets like you did in kindergarten.

~Need an athame? Use a kitchen knife, there are PLENTY of ones to choose from, including ones with a wooden handle you can inscribe with symbols and things of the like.

~Need a chalice? Grab one of those cheep wine glasses, or two so you can use one to hold offerings or to hold water if you work with the elements. Personally, I’ll use a wine glass to hold coins during money or prosperity spells, dirt with a seed for growth or new beginnings, salt water for purification, even incense in a pinch. Part 2

[hagoftheholler-deactivated20260]

Interested in seeing some discussion, so answer me this: What is a popular concept among witchtok/witchblr/etc that you don't like, agree with or understand? Explain.

[owlspinningyarns]

Anything and Everything is a Sign, and is often reacted to with fear or, especially with divination, an assumption that the worst possible outcome will happen. Often coupled with the idea that you have brought it upon yourself, often due to:

Manifestation/Law of Attraction. This bullshit.

You Must Consistently Buy More Stuff to be a better witch/person. 

[transcendentalwitchcraft]

"You Must Consistently Buy More Stuff to be a better witch/person"

THIS.

When I started looking into witchcraft as a young teen everything was focused on cheap alternatives and making your own tools with what you had... There is no talk of Thifty Witching anymore, which is sad because most teens getting into it don't have the money to buy all the expensive crystals and tools "trendy witches" are showing off.

Your altar also doesn't need to be perfect or picture worthy... Mine were never great, but they made me feel good.

[champagnepuppies]

hey if you’re in the U.S. and use food stamps or know somebody who does i found this online cookbook that has recipes for eating well on approximately $4/day :o) 

[kimreesesdaughter]

I don’t have food stamps but I need to know how to eat well for $4/day. Thank you for this.

[spiritscraft-deactivated2025031]

I love this cookbook!

[basedcomradefox-deactivated2017]

Tips and tricks on how to survive being working class.

[a-spoon-is-born]

I’ve seen this kind of thing before and a lot of them are full of random weird shit you’d never make…because of time constraints or like, it just sounds super gross.

But this one had a whole section that’s just “Things on Toast”. Another that was all about putting crap in your oatmeal to make it better. Those are fairly pedestrian and don’t take forever.

I haven’t looked through the whole thing yet but so far it’s actually pretty practical. Also if you’re broke like me and don’t know how to make Dal, you should get on that. 

I also liked that there’s this at the beginning:

This book isn’t challenging you to live on so little; it’s a resource in case that’s your reality. In May 2014, there were 46 million Americans on food stamps. Untold millions more—in particular, retirees and students—live under similar constraints.

[dduane]

Been there. Done that. Advice on this art is always welcome.

[sonatagreen]

The link above seems to be broken; here’s one that still works.

[biglawbear]

Holy crap some of these recipes look delicious

[breelandwalker]

hey mama bree! so ive been lucky enough to have gotten the chance to host a small, socially distanced gathering for lammas. only thing is, ive been struggling on coming up with the menu for dinner. when it comes to lammas recipes, i have a hard time finding anything other than bread. got any wisdom for me?

You’re in luck! Lammas / Lughnasadh is one of the holidays that I actually celebrate, so yes, I’ve got some wisdom for you.

Lughnasadh is the first of the three harvest festivals, as you know. Most of the established traditions emphasize the harvest of corn and wheat, BUT it’s also the harvest of first fruits and vegetables. So any early fruits and vegetables would be appropriate. Here are some examples:

Fruits:

Watermelon

Strawberries

Raspberries

Blueberries

Currants

Apricots

Papaya

Plums

Figs

Mango

Grapes

Cherries

Tomatoes

Cantaloupe

Honeydew

Blackberries

Gooseberries

Huckleberries

Vegetables:

Beans (green beans, wax beans, long beans, etc)

Peas (with the pod or without)

Bell Peppers

Chili Peppers

Asparagus

Eggplant

Carrots

Garlic

Okra

Corn

Zucchini

Cucumbers

Bitter Melon

Early Squash

Sweet Potatoes

Lugh is also the patron of field days, feasts, and games. So with this in mind, think picnics and festival foods.

A bright fresh salad of mixed greens might be in order, maybe with colorful bell peppers or little mandarin orange slices to reflect the summery colors and joyful mien of the festival. Fish or poultry would be appropriate for the main dish, if you’re serving meat. I’ve had great success with fried chicken or baked catfish with a nice lemon-shallot cream sauce in the past. If you’re serving a meatless meal, a savory vegetable pie or some eggplant parmesan would do nicely. Fried green tomatoes, baked sweet potato wedges, and bowls of fresh fruit make wonderful side dishes. And perhaps a nice peach cobbler, melon salad, or berry compote dessert. Fruit tarts are always a hit at summer gatherings too!

Hope this helps! Have a wonderful feast day!

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[kmparker616]

Thanks for the information!!

[mayflowers07-deactivated2026071]

I will reblog this everytime i see it

[floraone]

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