My Book Of Shadows

Here is a list of unconventional and affordable ingredients that can be used in spells and witchcraft along with their correspondences; good for witches “in the woods” and witches on a budget. Many of these can be easily found for inexpensive prices or at home.

Acorns/Acorn Caps: security, abundance, longevity, good luck, youth and brings good health

Animal toys/stickers: relates to correspondences of that animal

Artist’s Charcoal: banishing negativity, protection; cursing

Baby Powder: cleansing, beauty, youth

Baking Soda: cleansing, purification, protection

Birthday Candles: wishes, joy; color magic and number magic depending on their color and/or what number they display

Black Tea Bags (used): earth magic, grounding, strength, stability, banishing negativity; ending, death 

Bottle Caps: prosperity, luck, material gain

Bubble Bath: self-love, relaxation, emotional healing, serenity; plus whatever scent the bubble bath is affects correspondences

Bubbles/Bubble Liquid: wishes, joy, whimsy, imagination, fantasy

Buckeye Nuts: luck, sexual energies, warding

Butter: femininity, flattery, friendship, warmth, happiness; good for fae work

Candy Bars: love, romance, happiness, lust, fertility, emotional healing, healing of the heart, forgiveness, friendship

Candy Corn: courage, imagination, endurance, energy, motivation, happiness, celebration

Candy Foil: sweetness, secrets, protecting one’s emotions; color magic

Chocolate Syrup/Milk: happiness, love, lust, romance, sweetening relationships

Cocktail Swords: strength, assertiveness, competition; cursing, revenge; ending rumors

Cotton Balls: beauty, gentleness, warmth, sleep

Cotton Swabs: cleansing, purification

Dice: chance, opportunity, luck; number magic

Dirt: grounding, earth magic, growth, prosperity, patience, home and family; cursing

Dish Soap: cleansing

Duct Tape: binding, storing energy, cursing

Egg Shells: cleansing, protection, warding

Energy Drinks: energy, motivation

Envelopes: messages, communication, protection during travel

Epsom Salts: purification, cleansing, protection, pain relief, serenity, comfort, stress relief

Fake/Play Money: wealth, prosperity

Fish Sauce: prosperity, water magic, curses

Foil: glamour, protection, storing energy, binding

Glue: sealing, immobility, binding, curses

Googley Eyes: vision, divination, scrying, creativity, protection, imagination; curses, paranoia, nightmares

Grass: growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss

Hand Soap: cleansing, curse removal

Hole Punches: good for cursing

Hot Sauce: motivation, lust, confidence; cursing, anger, revenge, emotional pain

Koolaid: youth, sweetness, happiness; color magic, corresponds with flavors as well

Lip Balm: glamour, confidence in speaking, honesty, beauty

Lollipops: sweetness, innocence, ending rumors and lies, lust and sexual energies, love

Lotion: protection, beauty

Laundry Soap: cleansing, purification

Marshmallows: friendliness, comfort, gentleness, fidelity, sleep and dreams

Metal Crafting Wire: binding

Modeling Clay: poppets, earth magic, grounding, balance, stability, creation, change

Mud: grounding, earth magic; curses

Muslin: poppets, change, creativity

Noodles: Longevity, good health

Pompoms (craft): gentleness, comfort, love, sleep, dreams

Paper Clips: balance, focus, organization; curses, binding

Pennies: luck, wealth

Pickle Juice: curses to sour things

Plastic Bags: protection; binding

Plastic Ribbon (wrapping): happiness, glamour, delight; binding; color magic

Plastic Wrap: binding

Popsicle sticks: poppets

Scissors: offensive magic, curses

Seltzer Water: purification, removing negativity; curses

Sewing Needles: curses, pain

Shaving Cream: cleansing, softness, patience, calmness

Stamps: travel, communication

Sour Cream: cursing

Soy Sauce: protection, banishment; cursing

Sticky Notes: communication, memory

Strawberry Milk: love, self-love, beauty, sweetness, friendship

Syrup: joy, sweetening one’s emotions

Taco Sauce: Focus, Energy, motivation

Taffy: joy, flexibility

Thumbtacks: curses

Tissue Paper: softness, serenity; color magic

Toothpaste: cleansing

Toothpicks: curse

Walnut Shells: protection, warding

Wasabi: Energy; curses, anger, envy

Whipped Cream: beauty, light-heartedness

Whistles: communication, attention grabbing, warding

Other Tips:

Recycle bottles, jars and medicine bottles for jar/bottle magic

Reuse tea bags (though not too long after use) in bath magic

If you do wish to use herbs, it is cheaper to order them online in bulk rather than the supermarket. Trust me, supermarkets and grocery stores really over price most herbs. You can get triple the amount for 2 dollars less online

Make up and toiletries are great for glamours

Its fine to use kitchen knives if you can’t afford am athame

Look at the ingredients in food you eat to see what is in it and determine that food’s correspondences, quick and easy kitchen magic

Crayons, colored pencils, markers and pens are good for easy sigil and color magic

instead of jars to bury your spells in, my i suggest the idea of peat pots planters?

not only are they biodegradable, they are useful for many different things. you can grow herbs and starter plants or use them to bury a home protection without the fear of broken glass rising to the surface, or your jar staying in the ground for a 100 years. they also come in many different sizes as well. from large to very tiny

and you can even make your own from left over toilet paper rolls for a byproduct option that lessens garbage going into landfills.

Okay so I love making sigils it’s super fun and relaxing for me. I also live with my phone in my hand and I love makeup so I wanted to combine the three.

I carry my face powder in my bag and I thought I’d get a little witchy with it by adding a sigil for awesome skin.

Anyway here’s how I did the thing:

I have a screenshot of the keyboard on my phone:

I open it in paint and just kinda doodle around playing with the letters that make a workable design:

(For this sigil I used “My skin is beautiful”)

Once I have the shape I like I grab some paper and a pen  so I can finalize my design(I like working my final drafts on paper, but you can totally keep the digital thing going)

I got some lines that I liked and flipped everything vertically, now it’s time to make it pretty!

This is what I came up with in the end. I’m kinda in love with it. Looks a bit like a flower. Anyway all that is left to do now is draw it on my thing and charge it. I ended up charging this under the blue moon. I realized since I took the sponge thing out there’s actually room for a spell pouch or some crystals in there too! :)

@shipping-the-gods Spell a Day Challenge

Day Four: Write a spell based off of your favorite fantasy book series or TV show.

Phoenyx’s “Hide your face so the world can never find you”-  A Phantom of the Opera Invisibility spell

Okay, so I’m cheating a bit.  I’m basing this spell off the Phantom of the Opera which IS A BOOK.  But my spell references the ALW musical.  So cheating, but not entirely.  

This spell will help you to go by people without being seen/noticed.  It won’t make you literally invisible.  It’ll be kind of like a glamour.

Materials needed:

A poppet

Paper

Ribbon

Instructions:

Do anything you would normally do pre-spell.  Grounding, centering, etc.

Write your name on the poppet or object you are using to represent yourself.  Put a piece of paper on top of the poppet/object’s face.

Holding the ribbon, tie it around the paper on the poppet/object saying:

”Masquerade. Paper faces on parade Masquerade.   Hide your face so the world can never find you.

Masquerade. Every face a different shade Masquerade. Look around, there’s another mask behind you.“

Keep the paper mask/ribbon on the poppet for as long as you want the spell to last.

[Anti-Nightmare Pouch]

[A Chant for Preventing Nightmares]

[Basic Nightmare Ward]

[Bells and Yarn] (nightmares caused by fairies)

[Dream Protection Spell]

[“Enchanted Sleep” Balm]

[Help Rid of Nightmares: Tea and Charm Bag]

[Herbal Pouch to be Rid of Nightmares]

[Light Spell to Get Rid of a Nightmare]

[Nightmare Jar]

[Nightmare Prevention Charm]

[Nightmare Prevention Charm]

[Nightmare Protection Magic]

[Pouch for a Restful Sleep]

[“Restful Sleep” Charm Bag]

[Simple Nightmare Ward]

[Sleep Sweetly Spell]

[Soothing Dreams Sachet]

[A Spell for Banishing Nightmares]

[Spell: Nightmare Guardian]

[Stuffed Animal Guardian]

[Sweet Dreams Bottle]

[Three Leaves Spell (A Spell for Restful Sleep)]

[To Stop Nightmares]

Sigils

[I am no longer afflicted by nightmares]

[I sleep without nightmares]

[I will sleep well]

[Nightmare protection] (second sigil from the top)

[No nightmares or invasive thoughts]

[Ward off nightmares]

Misc

[Nightmare Prevention Magic]

If you are hoping for exciting weather, this spell can help you conjure up a storm. You only need a few things:

• A sprig of broom • Sea salt • Water • Wooden spoon • A red candle

Now, for this spell you need a piece of the broom plant, NOT an actual broom you sweep with. You may have to check herb suppliers, florists or plants shops to find it. There really isn’t a substitute for broom in a weather spell.

Light the red candle and pour water into the bowl while you say:

Rain that brings a land’s rebirth Time to weep upon the earth.

Use the spoon to stir up the water, then dip the piece of broom in. Repeat:

Winds shall follow, you shall see Blowing wildly through the tree

Envision a storm growing in strength and power. Let a few drops of hot wax from the candle fall into the water, and say:

Lightning quick, lightning long Make it last, make it strong

Add in the salt to seal the spell and stir again. Give it one last stir, and take it immediately outside and toss it all into the air (you can hold on to the bowl). Don’t let the water settle down before you throw it. Now you can expect a storm to start brewing on the horizon within a few days.

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