Category: Methods and Tips
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Jinn Ritual
So I have been working from Corwin Hargrove’s Practical Jinn Magic and noting down a review which gets more complete as I do each spell. I wasn’t a fan at first because when I work with jinn there’s usually a lot of talismans and verses from the Qoran which Hargrove doesn’t bother with, but in…
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Give a blessing
So I’m having a quick flick through an old fluffy bunny book for ideas on things I could post about. Long gone were the times when you would find anything they say helpful or authoritative, but they always were fun and remind me of the times when I first got involved in the occult and…
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Pagan Story-time is for Muggles
Introduction Story-telling is quite magical. Since it is so magical it can seem difficult to distinguish between story-telling and the performance of magic. For people who do not explore any spiritual dimension, story-telling is about the most magical thing in their lives. The story-teller creates a whole new universe and pulls our minds into it,…
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Papyri Graecae Magicae (PGM)
Also called the Greek Magical Papyri often called by the acronym of their name in Latin PGM. I found the texts in Swansea University library when I had first developed a serious interest in the occult in 2005. I was so excited to find them written in what I thought was Coptic. It was a…
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Ancestor Worship and Offerings to the dead
This is a stub I’ll build on this more when I have more time. I recently was able to observe a Romany family holding a funeral and was lucky to have someone so quick to tell me about the practices. So I wanted to record my diary notes right now and build on it later.…
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Crown of Success Oil
Okay so this is one of the most useful oils in all of conjure. It can be used to dress a candle when doing a spell to add potential success. It is very hard to come up with an oil for this because it’s sort of a catch all / “do everything” oil. Often recipes…
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Itan
In the Yoruba region of Africa this is the Oral traditions of story telling where the Pitaki are told. Sometimes the deeds of a certain person became so well known they became part of the Itan, which often led to certain spirits becoming venerated as Saints or Gods. The most common deities to feature in…
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Tema (Temata)
A tema is a metal plate which is embossed and left as an offering, particularly in the placating of Greek Orthodox saints. It is not unusual for the plate to be embossed with an image of the saint to whom it is offered or symbol representing the things desired (i.e embossed with an image of…
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What is a pitaki?
This term is normally associated with African diaspora traditions such as Yoruba spirituality like Santeria. A pitaki is a story which conveys the mythology of a spirit in these traditions. For example a pitaki might speak of Olodumare (a supreme god) giving Eshu Elegbara (or Elegua) keys to past and future to convey this spirits…
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Cone of Power
This is an energy work technique that is used in Wiccan circles. It is basically “raising” energy holding it in the shape a cone. The flat base of the cone is the circle that is drawn on the ground at the beginning of the Wiccan ritual. The point is considered to be symbolic of the…