Author: A Solitary Pagan
Creating a Witches Good Luck Sachet
Creating a Witches Good Luck Sachet. Creating a Witch’s Good Luck Sachet is a simple and meaningful way to invite positive energy, fortune, and protection into your life. In this guide, I will walk you through each step, making the process clear and easy to follow. First, gather all the items you will need. Each one has a special purpose in your sachet. Step 1: Choose a small bag or a piece of pan...
Creating Coloured Sachets For s
Creating Coloured Sachets For Rituals. Creating coloured sachets for rituals is a simple and meaningful craft. Here is a straightforward guide to making your own ritual sachets. Begin by choosing a natural fabric, such as cotton or wool. Select a colour that matches your intention: red for courage, green for prosperity, blue for calm, yellow for joy, or white for protection. If you are unsure, whi...
Creating Your Own Besom
Creating Your Own Besom. While you can easily buy a broom, making your own besom from natural materials is a deeply meaningful and empowering experience. This process connects you to the earth and the traditions of witchcraft, and it allows you to fill your tool with your own energy and intention from the start. Crafting a besom is a rewarding activity that anyone can do, whether you are new to wi...
50 Ways To Use Essential Oils
1. For good-smelling towels, sheets, clothes, etc. place a few drops of your favorite essential oil onto a small piece of terry cloth and toss into the clothes dryer while drying. Add 5 drops of essential oil to 1/4 cup fabric softener or water and place in the center cup of the washer. 2. Potpourri which has lost its scent can be revived by adding a few drops of essential oil. 3. Add a few drops ...
ABC of carrier oils
Vegetable and carrier oils have a plethora of fine uses which include acting as a carrier for therapeutic applications, as an excellent addition to your culinary creations, as a lathering agent for soap, and as a binding medium for cosmetics. It is hard to imagine where we would be with our creations if it were not for the goodness and substance that pure oil provides. There are so many varieties,...
Essential Oils and Their Magickal Properties
ACACIA: Possessing high spiritual vibrations, this oil is worn to aid meditation and to develop psychic powers. Some also use it to anoint their altars, censers, and candles. ALL-SPICE: Very vitalizing. Gives added determination and energy, excellent for convalescents. Anoint daily. ALMOND: Almond oil, the symbol of wakefulness to the Egyptians, is used in prosperity rituals (anointing candles, mo...
Devil’s Marks
According to witch-hunters, the Devil always permanently marked the bodies of his initiates to seal their pledge of obedience and service to him. He marked them by raking his claw across their flesh or using a hot iron, which left a mark, usually blue or red, but not a scar. Sometimes he left a mark by licking them. The Devil supposedly branded witches at the end of initiation rites, which were pe...
Hermetica. Mystical Wisdom
Hermetica Forty-two sacred books of mystical wisdom attributed to the mythical Hermes Trismegistus, or“thrice great Hermes,” the combined Egyptian and Greek deities of Thoth and Hermes, respectively. The books, which date from somewhere between the third century b.c.e. and first century c.e., had an enormous impact on the development of Western occultism and magic. Many of the spells, rituals and ...
Allotriophagy
The vomiting or disgorgement of strange or foul objects, usually associated with someone possessed by or obsessed with the Devil or other demons. Such actions also once were seen as illusions or spells caused by witches or as attempts at suicide by the mentally deranged. Most treatises on possession written during the Renaissance and later included the vomiting of unusual objects as an indication ...
Airts, The Four
This is an old Gaelic term for the four points of the compass, north, south, east and west. They are important in magic, as the magic circle should always be orientated to them. Early Christian churches were also carefully orientated, with the high altar in the east; though in modern days this custom is not invariably observed, probably because present-day scarcity of land compels church architect...
Aiguillette
A knotted loop of thread, also called a ligature, which witches were said to use to cause impotence, and perhaps even castration, in men; barrenness in women; and general discontent in marriage. The aiguillette also served to bind couples in illicit amatory relationships. The phobia of the ligature, or fear of satanic castration, was widespread in 16th-century France. It was believed that at the i...
Alrunes
In German and Scandinavian myth, the Alrunes are sorceresses or female demons who can change shape; they are believed to be the mothers of the Huns. As late as the 19th century in some rural areas, they were personified by small statues, which were kept in the home, clothed and made offerings of food and drink. It was believed that the Alrunes could divine the future by responding to questions wit...