#personal creation

Source: Gravity Falls, Journal 3; also Season 1, Episode 14 of the same

A spell to reveal the face of an enemy or compel a liar to speak truth.

Gather slippery elm bark, licorice root (both easy enough to find at the grocery store in the tea section) and lilac petals. Mix them into a bit of gold paint.

Take a photograph of the target, and, with a fine-tip paintbrush, gild their smile. If you don't have a photo, their name written on paper will do.

"Gilded teeth, now do my bidding.

Disobey your host unwitting.

Let smile betray lying intent.

“Faërie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold…flower-fairies and fluttering sprites with antennae…I disliked as a child.”

And the lightness and darkness shall collide

Letting them both be the "Ying and Yang"

Both fullfiling each other, letting sparks in the dark

Wanting to be united, and satisfied at last.

Every piece of you, completes mine

Maybe we were meant to be, maybe we're not going to get far

If this is the end of our journey, we need to let it pass

So we can enter the future, and forget our past.

And if we go ways apart, will we ever get in time

Before it all ends, before it all starts?

Maybe I'm seeing things differently

Or the way that I would like

But one thing is for sure, this isn't going to last.

Trying to make sense to nothing

And seeing shiny brightness in the obscurest dark

All the colors on the clouds, even the grey sky ones

Fighting helpless with hope, and surpassing the falling with flight.

Taking the hardest pain you can imagine everyday

But foreseeing every obstacle to avoid in the way

Pulling myself apart again and again

But constructing this new version of me with the past going away.

Made: 8/8/18

SEND ME ▲ FOR MY MUSE TO CHALLENGE YOURS TO A FIGHT.

Source: Sleeping Beauty, 1959

To deter intruders, thieves, etc.

Take three nails (preferably iron) and a handful of rose branches, cut into pieces.

Go to the entrance of your home.

Bury the nails in a triangle shape by your front step. Scatter the thorns over the boundaries of the property. (If you live in an apartment, bury the nails in a flowerpot and the thorns in a square shape around it.)

"A forest of thorns, intruders' tomb

borne through the skies on a fog of doom

now go with a curse and serve me well

Source: Hocus Pocus Spellbook, pgs. 168-169 (Processes are my own words; incantations are taken from the book.)

For the Fulfilling Dream

A sachet of rose, marjoram and chamomile shall be made, sprinkled with water, and placed beneath the pillow of the user. If using on another, fill a poppet with this mixture and sprinkle that. Place on your bedside table.

"I grant thee gift of flight without a broom,

a future foretold in the light of the moon

rejoined are lost ones,

with radiance of suns,

awaken healed and feeling newly hewn."

For the Haunting Nightmare

Write their name on a white cloth, along with the object of the intended nightmare. Wrap this, written side in, around a thistle and seal the cloth in place with candle wax.

"Nightmare cloaked in thistledown, quilt and candle,

the sunset fades, and thou fallest from craggy cliff;

runnest from maddened mass

bangest on sarcophagus

arise with brow beaded and shoulders stiff."

For the Manipulating Dream

Make a poppet of the target and simply bind it with ivy. Whisper your wishes to it.

"I alight upon thy dreams to twist with bane,

controlling course of thy still-dormant thoughts.

Old is now turned new,

sky is green, grass is blue;

when thou wakest, thy mind's morphed