Hello! You can call me Icarus or Frankie. I’m agender (he/she) and aroace!
I am Greco Buddhist and Omnist / Omnitheist and recently practicing Christopaganism ! I have a special interest in Religion, Spirituality, Occultism / Esoteric practices & Mythology in different cultures.
Buddhism is my primary religion and I take refuge in the Dharma which saved me during a dark period of my life while incorporating Hellenism in my practice to connect with my Heritage.
I’m a Lady Persephone devotee; she’s the primary deity I work with and worship. I developed a deep connection with her due of her strong relation to my ancestry and for the way she helped me overcome many of my traumas.
Other deities I worship / work with are Lord Zeus ( which is also related to my ancestry ), Lord Hypnos and Bodhisattva Guan Yin.
I also practice Hero Worship for my beloved King Odysseus which was cherished by my people and my land.
My beliefs are very personal and I like to incorporate religions that I find akin to my persona and life, Including deities. I don’t follow a rigid set of dogmas. I am particularly drawn by Feminine Deities as I find it easier to connect with them since they help me heal my feminine energy. I also enjoy connecting with Trickster Deities and Deities related to the Sun / Light as I find their energy to resonate with mine.
I hold immense gratitude and love towards Lord Gautama and Jesus (which I prefer to refer as Yeshua) and I like to incorporate their respective teachings in my religion.
My interests include a variety of practices and divinations connected to nature. And my beliefs system is based on nature and natural cycles.
I’m currently studying:
Buddhism Traditions & Sutras
Shadow Work
Deities Work
Italian Folk Magic
Mastering Tarots
Herbs
In the future I intend to learn more about the Ching, Taoism / Daoism, Cultivation, Feng Shui, Tibetan Buddhism, General Alchemy, Hinduism, Kabbalah, Christian Theology, Angelology / Angel Work & Astrology in different traditions.
I’m trying to make my blog a welcoming and safe space for any kind of faith as long as it doesn’t harm you / the people around you & your community. Any ill & harmful intentions or practices will be averted 🧿
“Men knew that the gods whom they served could not give them freedom from danger and calamity, and they did not demand that they should. We find in the myths no sense of bitterness at the harshness and unfairness of life, but rather a spirit of heroic resignation: humanity is born to trouble, but courage, adventure, and the wonders of life are matters for thankfulness, to be enjoyed while life is still granted to us. The great gifts of the gods were readiness to face the world as it was, the luck that sustains men in tight places, and the opportunity to win that glory which alone can survive death.”
- H.R. Ellis Davidson, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
Odysseus and Penelope being cute and loving and trying to outsmart the other on a warm morning
My very first work of 2026, Happy New Year everyone! Here’s something for everyone
I hope to be more active this year as I feel my life is slowing down again, finally. Getting used to commute (for university) is a tough job for me as I’m not used to living in a metropolis, my most hated places in the world LOL
But this year my goal is to put animatics out there for you guys in EPIC: The Musical, Paris The Musical and other topics as well as working on my original story to publish a book (which I might slighty illustrate)
just to preface that i am a BEGINNER in baneful magic. i've become quite knowledgeable on benevolent magic after several years of practicing it, so while i do have foundational knowledge of the materials and techniques, the execution is often very different. this post is as much for me as it is for you (whoever you may be). it is not meant to be a comprehensive introduction, nor a complete guide, but if you have any questions i will absolutely do my best to answer them :)
special thanks to @trash-bin-witch for all their help assisting my introduction to baneful magic, as they're a lot more experienced with all this than me.
INTRODUCTION
my thought process for baneful magic revolves a lot around chaos magic. chaos magic, to put it simply, is that what you believe to be will be. if you can believe in it, then it exists (or will exist). this is a very simplified way of thinking about it, but that's how i sum it up.
this is different from benevolent magic, which revolves a lot around action which merely guided by spell work. it involves manifestation too, but only to a certain extent. with benevolent magic there is little to no way to get things done without putting work in yourself. with baneful magic, it's more like creating the spell and letting it do the work. this is, i believe, because baneful magic almost always has an inciting incident. think of it as if your ex cheats on you. them cheating, your emotions, your "belief" is the action needed to get the spell to work. this is why curses, hexes, jinxes, etc. will work on relatively good people. if the witch believes the person to be bad, or believes they wronged them, then the spell has power.
again, that's how i think about it, not necessarily how it concretely is or must be.
baneful spells can be created yourself just as much as benevolent spells can, and this post is intended to give you the foundational materials to do that.
WARDING
warding yourself, your space, and those vulnerable around you is, in my opinion, the most important first step to take before embarking on baneful magic.
to make a simple ward there are two things i would include: protective herbs or crystals and your taglocks. a taglock would include hair/fur, blood, nail clippings, anything that is biologically from you or your subject (even a photo would work). for example: if i wanted to create a protective spell jar for my cat i might include some whiskers (DO NOT REMOVE THEM YOURSELF, THEY DROP NATURALLY), some fur, some tiger's eye and/or cat's eye quartz, a picture or drawing of them, and some herbs from the list below.
WARDING/PROTECTIVE HERBS:
Angelica
Anise
Basil
Bay Leaves
Black Cohosh
Black Pepper
Boneset
Cedar
Cinnamon
Frankincense and Myrrh
Garlic
Ginseng
Mandrake Root
Mistletoe
Rosemary
Valerian
Vervain
Witch Hazel
Wormwood
CURSES, HEXES, JINXES
before we start, lets define some things:
1) CURSES: long term effects, sometimes lifelong or multigenerational. often invoked with rituals
2) HEXES: have long term effects, but often not lifelong. more generic effects like "bad luck" or "desolation"
3) JINXES: invokes a specific bad event to happen
now, i don't do much work with jinxes, and i've never had a reason to do a full on curse, so my work primarily takes the shape of hexes right now. if you'd like to do any of these types of spells, down below are some herbs you can use.
also practice extreme caution when handling these, and acquire nontoxic variants or parts as available! some herbs are DEADLY toxic just through touch and should be respected!!
Asphodel: invoking spirits (which can assist in spells)
Belladonna: toxic, madness, invoking spirits
Black Mustard: confusion, failure, bad luck
Blackthorn: revenge, binding
Blue Cohosh: breaking up relationships
Boneset: exorcism, boundaries
Celandine: binding, madness
Dragon's Blood: power, banishment
Jasmine: love related issues
Larkspur: banishment
Mandrake Root: toxic, exorcism
Mugwort: dreams and nightmares, insomnia, madness
Mullein: invoking spirits
Nettle: irritation, retribution
Oleander: toxic, bad luck, revealing true self
Poke Root: cord cutting
Pomegranate: binding, love and fertility
Rue: retribution, reversing spells
Thistle: retribution, reversing spells
Wormwood: bad luck, sorrow, bitterness
Yarrow: invoking spirits
OTHER USEFUL MATERIALS:
the general framework for good hex ingredients include things that are visually disgusting or is smelly, sharp, painful, or toxic things, and objects that symbolically represent the harm you want to inflict. to be specific you can use:
salt: consecration, i use it as the base for my jars
rosemary: cleansing, protection
pine needles: spiky, also good for protection
thorns of plants trees or flowers
spicy things (peppers, seasoning, etc.)
sharp things (needles, broken glass, etc.)
food (especially rotten)
railroad ties/other iron objects: exorcisms and banishment
other metals like aluminum cans: can be used for sigils
hand mirrors: for "reflecting" energy
jars, bottles, boxes
cards: using face cards to represent people
small candles
trash: cause it's gross
money
ash/charcoal: protection, enhancing or sealing spells
bones: can be broken to invoke injury, or as a makeshift taglock
expired makeup: to make them feel ugly
vinegar/bleach
receipts/mail ads: monetary issues
dead bugs: cause they're gross
dirt (graveyard, four corners of your property, etc.): invoking spirits or setting a target area
thread: to ensnare or paralyse
note that you can also freeze or burn things for their symbolic effects
RECOMMENDED READING:
"Of Blood and Bone: Working with Shadow Magick & the Dark Moon" by Kate Freuler (just ignore her divine feminine shit)
for information on sigils i recommend "Sigil Craft" by Lia Taylor
"The Spell Book of a Wicked Witch" by Thalia Thorne
Here's a list with obscure deities from Greco-Roman Mythology to obssess about
Aceso: The goddess of the healing process and Asclepcius' daughter;
Achlys: The goddess of the eternal night, aka the Mist of Death;
Agon: The greek god of competition;
Alala: The goddess of the war cry, daughter of Polemos and one of Ares' attendants;
Alke: The goddess of battle-strenght and Eris' daughter;
Amechania: Apparently the ancient greeks did have a goddess of helplessness too.
Apate: A daughter of Nyx and the goddess of deceit;
Arete: She's more a concept than an actual deity. From what I found, her name means virtue, in the sense of being the best version of yourself or reaching tour highest potential. She was supposed to personify that;
Aristaeus: A minor god primarily known for rustic arts like beekeeping and cheesemaking. And Eurydice's assaulter;
Arke: Iris' sister who was thrown intk Tartarus after betraying the gods and becoming a messager for the titans;
Atë: Eris' daughter and the goddess of mischief, delusion, folly, and reckless impulsiveness that leads to ruin;
Bia: The goddess and personification of force;
Caerus: Very obscure guy and the god of opportunity;
Ceto: An early sea goddess and the mother of the Gorgons, the Graia, Echidna and the Hesperian Dragon;
Cybele: A Phrygian Mother Goddess, her cult being very popular in Anatolia once;
Dike: Goddess of mortal justice and fair judgment;
Dolos: God of trickery and guile, and a former apprentice to Prometheus;
Dysnomia: Daughter of Eris and goddess of lawlessness;
Eleos: A daughter of Nyx and the personification of pity, mercy, clemency, and compassion;
Endovelicus: Worshipped only by the romans, and apparently a deity who came from the Lisutanian Mythology. He was the god of healing and light.
Epione: The goddess of the soothing of pain and Asclepcius' wife;
Eucleia, Eupheme, Euthenia and Philophrosyne: Hephaestus and Aglaea's daughters;
Geras: Son of Nyx and the god of old age;
Homados: God of the noise of battle and all the blood-curdling screaming that implies;
Homonia: Goddess of concord, unanimity, and oneness of mind;
Hygieia: A daughter of Asclepcius and the personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation;
Iaso: Daughter of Asclepius and the goddess of recuperation from illness;
Janus: Present only in the Roman Mythology, Janus was the god of doorways, gates, transitions, and beginnings and endings;
Kratos: Apparently he actually existed in Greek Mythology, but he was the god of strenght and power;
Limos: Daughter of Eris and the goddess of starvation;
Lyssa: Daughter of Nyx and the goddess of mad rage, frenzy and rabies in animals;
Mithras: Besides the fact that he was a roman god worshipped by a popular mystery cult there are few things known about him;
Momus: Son of Nyx and the god of satire, mockery, censure, writers, and poets;
Moros: Son of Nyx and the god of impending doom;
Oizys: Daughter of Nyx and the goddess of misery;
Pamacea: Daughter of Asclepcius and the goddess of universal remedy;
Peitho: Goddess of persuasion and seduction;
Penia: Goddess of poverty and need;
Phorcys: God of the mysterious dangers of the deep and Ceto's husband;
Plutus: God of wealth;
Polemos: Personification of war;
Ponos: God of hard labor and toil;
Porus: God of plenty and a son of Metis, making him the half-brother of Athena;
Praxidike: The goddess of judicial punishment and the exactor of vengeance;
Priapus: A minor fertility god, known for trying to rape Hestia once and his large equipment;
Ptocheia: Greek goddess of beggary;
Quirnius: An early roman god of Rome itself as a city state.
Seilenos: The god of drunkeness and crushing grapes under foot to make wine and the godfather of Dionysus;
Soteria and Soter: The goddess and god of safety and deliverance from harm;
Zelus: The personification of dedication, emulation, eager rivalry, envy, jealousy, and zeal. Had wings like his siblings (Nike, Kratos and Bia) and was an enforcer for Zeus that stood about his throne;
The expectation that a woman can be in the most horrific, mentally and emotionally destroying situation possible and the audience still expects her to be endlessly reasonable and empathetic or else she's Evil
