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hearth magic, the broom, household spirits, basil/savory/mint/dill for keeping a kitchen

For love: throw a handful of rose petals on the hearthfire and let them flare. Take a burning brand out of the fire and let its flame dwindle. Using it as a stylus, mark the love rune on the hearth stones, scrape a little char from it, and return the brand to the fire. When the fire is out, rub out the symbol with a little ash from the fire, and, powdering the charcoal you took, take it in red wine half by sunset and half by sunrise.

To gain money: take a silver vessel and fill it with water. Take it outside under the full moon. Catch the moon's reflection in the water. Drop a silver coin in the water. Dip your hands in the water and rub them together. Speak the spell. Pour the water out and bury the coin in the same spot. This will not bring gold, but it will bring silver.

For love: braid three red or pink ribbons. Tie seven knots in the cord and wear or carry it. Witch's Ladder: take a cord of appropriate color and tie seven knots in it. Insert a flower, twig, feather, etc. into each knot. Speak the spell. Hang it in your home or coil it around a candle.

Bathe in a running river or stream for healing. Be sure to submerse yourself completely.

Expose magical objects to a lightning storm to give them great charge. Lightning-struck wood is good for healing and is also a "battery" of power.

For an offering to a spring or brook: Take some mead, a cake, and a silver coin to the spring. Address the water's spirit by name and give it greeting. Toss in the coin. "You give me silver song; I give you silver money." Crumble in the cake. "You liven wood and field; I give you back their bounty." Pour in the mead. "You give to me sweet water; I give you back sweet honey." Take a sip of the water. "For these three gifts I bring to thee, I pray give fortune unto me." Thank the spirit by name and take your leave. (original, based on idea from Forest House and a general concept drawn from Cunningham)

Giving coins to wells, springs or fountains is giving a gift to the spirit of that water so that it will grant your wish. Use silver coins for this, thank the spirit, and drink a little of the water to seal the spell.

To see sea spirits: look through the hole of a holed stone you found by the sea.

For anything: gather a candle, a length of sea-blue cloth and some herb appropriate to your spell. Go to the seaside and ask the sea to give you a shell for the spell. Walk the beach until you find a suitable shell. Place a few pinches of the herb within the shell and light the candle. Drop wax into the shell to seal the herb to it while speaking the spell. Put out the candle with seawater and wrap the shell in the cloth. Hold it up to the sea and charge it with the seventh or ninth wave.

To lose troubles or ills: find a dead bush, shrub or tree in an open space and push a leaf onto the tips of its twigs for each of your troubles. Call to the North wind and ask its Riders to take the leaves and your problems. Then leave and do not look back. Do not think of the spell, for such a wind cannot rise while, like the bush, you hold onto the "leaves."

To raise the wind: procure a strip of rawhide or leather. When a gentle breeze is blowing, hang the strip where it can blow in the wind for a while. Then tie a knot in the leather, binding the breeze inside it. Repeat this to tie a second knot with a steady wind, and a third with a very strong, storm-like wind. To call the wind to action, untie the knots. Retie the knot to make the wind die down.

To protect your home from a wind-fury: stick a knife in the ground in an open field with the blade facing the coming storm.

A pact with a tree, for longevity:
Seek the darkness of a wood
Where oak and elm and maple brood,
Kneel before the greatest tree
That stands among that company,
Bury near its roots profound
A penny in the yielding ground,
Rise, and trace upon its bark
This verse, the covenant to mark:
"Ancient tree, I offer thee
This mortal Coin as gift and sign:
Guard my fate both soon and late,
And let my rust grow green at last."
Seal the burial with a stone;
Leave it, and do not return
Until one lunar month has passed,
Then go and part the fertile dust--
If the coin has changed to green,
The forest's years will be your own.
(Valerie Worth)

A charm to form an alliance with the trees:
When summer falters before its flight,
go on an evening of full moonlight,
and cut from an oak tree one true branch,
thick with leaves and with acorns bunched.
Then, where a wood grows dense and dark,
stand at its edge and the oak bough shake -
saying these words to the ranks of trees,
that their strength may be yours for whatever you please:
"With oak I lead
That ash may follow
Also alder
Elm and willow
Cedar and locust
Hickory, larch,
Walnut, chestnut,
Poplar, birch,
Beech and maple,
Fir and pine:
All these powers
So be mine."
Then hang the oak bough over your door,
taking one acorn from its store
to be sewn up fast in a chamois skin,
safe to be kept for what you would win.
(Valerie Worth)

A charm for eternal youth:
Go to a pine grove when the moon is new. Inscribe a circle on the ground as wide as you are tall. Lie down in it, arms extended, and say:
"The ancient pine
Is evergreen
The crescent moon
May never wane
The circle bound
Is ever round
And so my life
As light and leaf."
Pick 3 needles from a branch, take them home, and wind them round with a hair from your head and a green thread. Keep this charm beside your bed, and each night before you sleep, repeat the words that have conjured youth from the enchanted grove. Ever after, wear some token of green - a stone, ornament, or article of clothing - in honor of this fair spell now threaded through your life. (Valerie Worth)

Seed spell: plant seeds in the shape of a rune that matches your desire. A plant of the correct meaning is helpful. As they grow, the spell will work.

To be rid of a backache: circle a tall tree with a straight trunk seven times. Then stand or sit with your back up against the trunk of the tree. Thank the tree by burying something valuable to you at its foot. One can also replenish one's energy in this way.

Lying on bare earth is good for an illness. Feel the pulsing of the earth currents and let them flow through you, cool, deep, soft. For the bedridden, have a dish or pot of earth by the bed and touch it with the palm of the hand.

Tie up some earth in a cloth or piece of leather with a vine. Carry it with you to be as abiding stone and calm earth and to return ever to the place where the earth was taken.

glamours of attraction and repulsion - Faery Wicca (2?) p. 185

walking around a well 9x widdershins to do majik there

SUMMONING THE GREAT DRAGON
Find twelve stones of similar size and place them in a circle and put firewood in it. Start a campfire. Take twelve more stones and place them around you in a circle. Sit down and take a knife and trace a triangle with it. Stare at the triangle until dusk and then stab the center. After that, stare at the dusk sky, then into the fire. Say; "Great dragon, I waken you from your sleep!" Wait for the rush. Then get inspired from the feelings.

Ritual of the Raven (yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. But hey. Resonance. Inspiration.)

I can see adapting this to make a glamour ring, a general connection to faery: At sunset, go into a field of flowers or grove of oaks and there a circle cast of moonstones, rose petals, or acorns. Bless each quarter with a copper dagger, calling out:
"I call to thee Queen Saraelye
Elemental Faeryes bring to me
Faeryes of the Quarters, protect me
for I humbly honour thee..."
Ring a silver bell and drink of fine honey mead, leaving a few drops in the chalice to offer the Faery Queen Saraelye (Sar-a-lye). Place a crystal ring on a piece of white linen in the center of the circle (at your feet). The ring should have thy chosen Faery's name engraved upon the band in Faery Runes. Again ring the silver bell and say:
"I call upon thee --- to grant me thy virtue
By thy Faery name, whose virtue be the same.
I call ye so true, for I need you.
Serve me well as I do you..."
Ring the bell again and anoint the ring with mead (If you have "anointing oil" use that too). Pour the remaining mead onto the earth, giving thanks to Saraelye. Now invoke thy Faery by name into the ring by passing over it a wand of oak or hazel wood. Fill the chalice again and drink to thy Faery and the newly formed bond. Do this at the four nights of the full moon in the same month at sunset, and you will but have to gaze into the crystal ring to bid thy Faery to appear...saying:
"In innocent purity, I shall see thee
Bound to thee, though comest to me.
My virtues to thee, I hast shewn.
Thus, I may see thee in this stone."
Let no one else wear the ring, it could break the bond. When not wearing it yourself (though you always should) keep it wrapped in the white linen and rose petals.

 

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