I got a LOT of these from @afledglings-guideto-witchcraft when they answered an ask I sent in, that blog is a fantastic place for information whether you've been practicing a few days or a few years imo.
I've been posting a lot about trying to find information on this subject and now I've gotten a good list compiled in a google doc and figured I'd share it with y'all, feel free to add on your own notes or just any commentary you have or experiences you've had using certain ingredients. I'm using some of these to make a hex jar to try and help a friend out with a shitty abusive household, which I might post more about if y'all would be interested in it, or if I just feel up to it.
Black pepper: bad luck, punishing negative energies
Pickle juice: to bring sourness
Broken glass: cutting ties, warding off negative energies, pain
Black salt: banishment
Thumb tacks: pain and suffering
Rotten tea/anything moldy: for detriment on their life
Hot peppers: pain, irritation, burning, anger
Garlic: disgust and repulsion
Dead matches: to drain energy
Salt: to intensify wounds, to sting, to keep someone away
Mustard seed: strife and discord
Onion: breaking relationships/habits/etc, strife
Lemons: causing pain (think lemon juice on a cut), souring a relationship, or any good luck the target has been receiving lately.
Rusty Nails: can be stabbed into lemons, or added to sour jars/hex jars. Pins the hex/curse to the target.
Vinegar: souring, dissolves relationships
Poppyseed: intoxication and confusion
Alum: stops communication/speech.
Small pickles: male impotency
Beet pickles: female hormonal problems
Thick mud: darkness, suffocation, feeling trapped
Feces/urine: to make their life nasty
Black candle wax or strings: binds the curse to the target
Coffee: insomnia
Tea: lethargy/oversleeping
Gravel: Being crushed and stepped on by life and the people around you
Don't ever let anyone tell you you are a bad person or you're going to get hurt if you practice baneful magic at all no matter what. The threefold law is a rule that Wiccans follow, no one else is obligated to believe in it, I respect people who believe in it and they should respect people who don't. Always make sure to judge a situation very carefully and use this magic appropriately.
And, very very important, research on how to protect yourself from a spell backfiring (because you can get hurt), make sure that your intention is very focused on your specific target(s), and, if you're doing something similar to what I'm doing, do something (protection jars, spells, etc) to protect other people around this person or people from the effects of the jinx, hex, or curse. Oh and if you're casting a spell on someone else who practices witchcraft, make sure you know the signs if they deflect the spell back onto you and try and do what you can to prevent that from happening.
Apollon is the warmth you feel when you wake up in the mornings.
Apollon is the sound of birds chirping on a sunny morning.
Apollon is the breeze on a hot day.
I need you to understand and to really listen when I tell you that the land knows you.
If you have spent months, years, decades living in the same place and exploring the same land I can promise you that the trees, the plants, the lakes and rivers, and the spirits will know and remember you.
You can call out to them and they will call out to you because they know you - they have for so so long, my love, and they love you, so much.
Trust me.
There should totally be a movement called “Sleep in Public” where people defend their right to sleep on public property. Sleep in your cars. Sleep on benches. Sleep at the park. Just make it a mundane and regular part of life to see someone napping in the library. It would make it much harder to single out the homeless for harassment if everyone else is doing the same thing and much harder to argue that it’s a “threat to public safety” when it’s so clearly harmless.
You can call me Mae or Birdie. I’m 25+ witch with over 20 years of experience and research.
This is a side blog for: feartheactualgoat.
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When deciding what the properties of a crystal are, please do yourself a favor and look up why. WHY is obsidian associated with cutting ties with things or reflection? Ohhhhh it’s because the Aztecs used it as sacrificial knives and reflective mirrors. WHY is rose quartz associated with love? Ohhhhhhhh because the goddess of Love (Aphrodite) had a lover who bled out onto the stone. WHY is amethyst- ok you get the point. Context is EVERYTHING. Otherwise it’s just meaningless regurgitation of concepts missing their original relevance. Then, after you figure out why they are associated with certain attributes, decide for yourself if you subscribe to this. If YOU feel a difference in energy then obviously use it differently.
“CONNECTING WITH THE LAND
Go somewhere you know well. Someplace that calls to your bones and stirs your blood, whether that's a forest clearing, a pasture, a churchyard, or a mountain trail. “Betwixt” places such as crossroads, the place where three creeks meet, a river between two mountains, the base of a tree grown into three, or a mountaintop are especially good spots to help bring you “between” times and places. Ponder what took place here. How many footprints do you now follow? How many forgotten graves lay beneath the red clay? How many bones has this soil devoured?
Feel the presence of the place. This is the spirit of the land. While few speak of the spirit as having form, it is likely to appear as an animal, a cluster of summer gnats in the sunlight, or a whisper on the breeze. Those with the sight are more inclined to see them; some have reported the spirit of the land lives in the trees themselves and is a simple voice that speaks from an unknown source, while others say it takes the form of giants that make their residence in the mountaintops or the rocks by the rivers. Many of them are left without a name because, much like this work, they're too old for those things or anyone living today.
When you find where your roots are nourished, give an offering to the land. The Cherokee gave corn, tobacco, and blood. The Irish gave bread, butter, and sweet things. Today's Appalachian workers give tobacco, food, hard candy, whiskey, coins, and old cheap jewelry. Sit with the land and feel your surroundings. Walk about and familiarize yourself with the hills and rocks and trees.
Don't expect them to be accepting of you right away, or at all, really. As with any other friendship, it takes time to become familiar with each other and sometimes it will never grow. Some of these land spirits simply wish to be left alone and unbothered by humans. Who could blame them, after the blooddrenched history they have witnessed in these hills? The spirit of a place is simply someone who has taken up residence on that land, meaning it could be a little person, or a haint, or it could simply be made up of the events that occurred there. For example, a bridge known for suicides wouldn't be a good place to start, as it would contain the spiritual traits of its distinguished events.
It will take many times of showing up, giving an offering, and simply presenting yourself before any presence will be shown. Because not all spirits have your best interest in mind, I'd reckon you ought to carry three used horseshoe nails on you: one around your neck and two under the soles of your shoes. It's quite an odd thing to try and do, but with a handy pocketknife you can pry the soles up just enough to slide a nail under it right at the heels. It may be a bit uncomfortable, but horses have always been regarded in Appalachia as being able to see and protect from haints.”
3: ‘Barefoot Wandering’
by Jake Richards
Part 1
Ague Weed- causes confusion
Balmony/White Turtlehead - overall hexes
Black peppercorn- make the unwanted/unwelcome flee
Foxglove- use ashes in curses/hexes (associated with time, love, and money aka the planets of Saturn and Venus )
Hemlock- destructive work (pair with olive leaves for peaceful disposal of an enemy)
Mustard Seed- sew discord and strife (disconnections and misunderstandings)
Patchouli- bring medical sickness
Poppy seed- couples will argue
Red pepper- banish people from your life with bad intentions
Spanish moss- used for cursing, can be put in war water, jinxes and brings bad luck
Vetivert- silences those that speak ill of you
Wormwood- use to send harmful black magic back on its sender, good for vengeance
Yew- associated with death and necromancy; commune with the dead or seek prophecy; curse enemies and bring bad luck and illness
Baneful Magic Masterpost
***I understand that cursing is a controversial topic for some people. I don't believe in the threefold's law or whatnot, so such things aren't a concern for me. I do, however, advise you to only curse someone who truly deserves it. Curses are meant to be permanent and difficult to break, while hexes aren't nearly as potent. Do with that knowledge what you will. Intense spells will be marked with "***".***
Curses (long-term, usually permanent)
"Supernatural Soul Eater" curse***
"Red Heart" curse
"Gentle Curse" curse
"Hekatean Witchcraft Curse" curse
"From This Pain, I Will Rise" curse
"Blood Rain" tied with protection↓***
"Curse For Protection" tied with blood rain↑***
"Drown In Your Horrors" curse
"To Sink A Sailor" curse
"Curses For Empathy" curse
"My Pain To Yours" curse
"Beauty & The Beast" curse
"Your Joy Will Turn To Ashes" curse***
"Your True Nature Revealed" curse
"Releasing The Hounds" curse***
"The Curse Of Arrows" curse
"Lollipop Curse" curse
"Anon Hate" curse
"Sickness Killer" curse
"A Bellyful Of Stones" curse
"Bind & Break" curse***
"Forget Me Not" curse
"Did You Miss Me?" curse***
"Dragon Fire" curse
"Headless Horseman" curse
"Only A Memory" curse
"Hurricane Curse" curse***
"Let Loose Your Crimson Arrow" curse
"Hypnotic Flame" curse
"Drown In Your Guilt" curse***
"Stomp Out The Bastard" curse
"Duress" curse
"Essence Extraction" curse
"Red In Your Ledger" curse
"Sin Collector" curse
"The Ferryman's Curse" curse
"An Ancient Greek Curse" curse
"Knitting Curse" curse
Hexes (short-term, usually temporary)
"The Seven Stings" hex
"The Lemon Hex" hex
"Coffin Hex" hex***
"Curse Alternative" hex
"Hex Bramble" hex
"Black-Out" hex
"Burse Your Bubble" hex
"Year Long" hex***
"Ants Nest" hex
"By All Means, Panty Away" hex
"Hazy Smog" hex
"Hexing In A Pinch" hex
"Hexball" hex
"Revenge On Cheaters" hex
"The Singularity" hex
"Frostburn" hex
"Mess With A Witch" hex***
"Bring About Consequences" hex
"Riddle Of Lightning" hex
Jars, Charms, & Pouches
"Jar Of Consequences" jar hex
"Feel The Pain You've Caused Me" sigil
"To Banish & Bind: For Abusers" jar curse
"Wither & Rot" jar curse***
"Your Hatred Is Your Own" jar curse
"Revenge Curse Cage" jar curse***
"Box Of Terror" box curse***
"Catcall Hex Stone" hex charm
"Begone Neighbors" jar hex
"All Purpose Curse Powder" curse powder
Removals, Reversals, & Protection
"Curse Removal & Reversal" spell
"The Healing Pool: Cursebreaker" spell
"Mild & Spicy Cursebreaker Powders" powder
"To Stop Someone From Casting On You" spell
"Return To Sender Spells" spell
"Curse Removing Wash" spell
"To Reverse A Spell" spell
"Curse Removal/Protection" spell
"Decoy For Protection Purposes" spell
"Protection From Curses" spell
"Curse Decoy" spell
"Substitute Spell" spell
"Witch Bottle" jar spell
"Blackthorn Reversing Spell" spell
"Break A Curse Candle Spell" spell
"Curse-breaking, Purifying, Protective Witch Jar" jar spell
"To Destroy A Curse" spell
"Hex & Curse-breaking" info
"Hex-breaker Candle" spell
Information
"Curses vs. Hexes: What's The Difference?" info
"So You Think You've Been Cursed" info
"Signs You May Have Been Cursed/Hexed" info
"Object Cursing" info
"Ways To Protect Yourself While Casting" info
"Jinxes, Hexes, & Curses" info & spells
"Lessons Learnt From A Hex" info
"Curse Correspondences UPG" info
"Cursing101" info
"So You Just Did A Big Curse...Now What?" info
"Foxen's List Of Baneful Ingredients" info
"Nasty Shit To Put In Curse Jars" info
"Something To Consider Before You Curse" info
"Taglocks" info
The whole "Disney villain hates something because of trauma" meme that started with Cruella makes me kinda angry because it's one of the earliest examples of people either not understanding what actually happened, or worse, people not bothering to actually see the movie in question and just basing their thoughts on reviews they've seen.
Estella/Cruella never shows any kind of real hatred towards the Dalmatians themselves. She steals them as revenge, but they're shown to be taken care of and never actually harmed. Most she does is make a bad joke about maybe turning them into a coat, but that never actually happens.
And she never blames the dogs for her mother's death. First, she blames herself, in a similar way to how Simba blamed himself for his father's death - assuming that her mother just got caught in the crossfire, since the dogs had been chasing her daughter and she got caught in the middle. And when she learns her mother was targetted, she turns her anger towards the person who sent the dogs after her mother, not the dogs themselves.
Just a reminder (specifically to US folks) that the gods are not at fault for the election results. I feel this is important to say because while some of us were praying for different results, it doesn't mean that we were ignored, forgotten, or left on our own. The way I think about it is that the gods don't control the individual free wills of people; we have our own free will and make our own decisions. We can't blame them for the actions of others, for the free will of others. It sucks that things turned out the way that we did, but it's not the fault of the gods. Try to remember that.
Furthermore, they'll have the backs of their worshippers during the times ahead. They didn't completely abandon us or something. If they supported you before the election, they'll continue sharing that support with you. They're not going to leave you swimming in the middle of the ocean without a lifeboat.
system of 30+ want to start posting here and Instagram but we will see 🤷
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