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Artistic offering to Ancestors
"Stone Graves" - memories from Donetsk country landscape in Ukraine
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Blood, Brains, and Botany: Decoding the Grossest Grimoire Recipes
To step into the world of traditional magic is to enter a stranger, older imagination. In the pages of grimoires like the Picatrix or the Greek Magical Papyri, you may come across ingredients that feel shocking to the modern eye: odd, unsettling, and steeped in a logic that no longer sits easily in the daylight.
From medieval âlove cakes,â for which the dough was said to be rubbed over the practitionerâs sweating body before baking, (1) to darker spells requiring powdered human bones (2) or cobra blood (thought in parts of Indonesia and Southeast Asia to rouse sexual desire) (1) the history of magic can read less like legend and more like a haunted, fever-dream cinema. The infamous Picatrix casually drops recipes requesting lion brains, leopard fat, and wolf blood, or a concoction of black cat brains mixed with human faeces to make someone hate you. (3) A 16th-century love potion recipe created and shared by the Italian monk Girolamo Folengo even listed tomb dust, bits of corpses, toad venom, and infantâs blood. (4) A lot of these ingredients make magic sound like the evil cult that a lot of media paints it as. Like⌠what kind of occult shopping list is this supposed to be?
However, before you freak out and close the books, or worry that traditional magic is a disgusting unethical hellhole, Iâd like to share the big secret with you: you arenât actually supposed to be using blood and brains. Iâve written this post in order to look into the grossest grimoire recipes and help you decode them for your practice.
Unmasking Decknamen
Back in ancient times, magical and alchemical knowledge was highly guarded and very secret. To prevent untrained laymen from getting their hands on and performing rituals that were secret and that could entail "destruction for the world", ancient sages in Egypt  and Mesopotamia used a system called Decknamen, which translated to âcode namesâ. These codes used animal or human terminology in order to refer to common substances.(3)(5)
Some examples mentioned in the Greek Magical Papyri and ancient Mesopotamian texts (3)(6)(7):
Blood of Hestia = Chamomile
Semen of Hermes = Dill
Human Bone = Shepherd's Staff plant
Snake's Blood = Hematite stone (or Snake-Plant resin)
Blood of a Baboon = Cynocephalion herb (or lizard blood)
Blood of Typhon (or Donkey) = Red Anemone flower (or red lead oxide)
Blood of Titan = Wild Lettuce
Kronos' Blood = A specific high-energy terrestrial mineral or resin
Wolfâs Fat = A specific currently unidentified medicinal plant
Mummy Powder = Myrrh or Benzoin
So if the spell you found in that old grimoire is telling you to use the Semen of Hermes donât freak out, you just need some dill, my friend.
Sources:
Casting Love Spells by Gregory Lee White
Ex Umbra. Necromancy Grimoire by Asamod ka
The Complete Picatrix (Christopher Warnock translation)
Bring Me Love by Icy Sedgwick
Written in Blood? Decoding Some Red Inks of the Greek Magical Papyri by Miriam Blanco Cesteros
"Dreck- Deck- or What the Heck?" by Maddalena Rumor
Greek Magical Papyri
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Some witchy things from my windowsill. There is various mortars - I work with herbs proffesionally as pharmaceust. Also I prepare some infuses, decocts, ointments and liniments. I like my job. Being znakhar as we talk to my kind people, who mix the magic and medicine - is everchallenge ars. But sometimes I lack of inspiration. What is inspiring you in deep autumn? Share your like and dislikes of this season.
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My old witchladder
Magical pinecone ink The recipe is simple: 1 cup (45 g) pine "scales" 2 cups (475 ml) distilled water 2 teaspoons (8 g) soda ash (or washing soda store-bought) bring the content to a boil then very slow simmer for 2 hours. I ended up with 1/4 cup of dark liquid. The content was strained and voila! In the bottle I added 6 drops of cloves essential oil which helps for storage and potential mold. You could also use wintergreen essential oil. If you don't need to store the ink for a long time, you could skip that step. The ink is placed in the fridge. Magically pinecones are associated with the planets Saturn and Mars Pine is a funerary tree that represents everlasting life and immediately as an evergreen tree. Pine trees were often planted over graves to strengthen the souls of the deceased and help preservation. I found the pine cone I used to make my ink at the oldest cemetery in my area. Pines magical aspects are: necromancy, healing, protection, fertility, prosperity, cleansing, immortality. Spiritual protection from negative energies. Luck ,Joy, Balance , Purification , Banishment pine cone as a symbol of spiritual consciousness and enlightenment, awakening, or immortality. #witchcraft #tradwitch #greenwitch #greenwitchcraft #greenwitchery #greenwitches #pinecone #pineconeink #occult #magicalink #DIY #inkmaking #witchesofinstagram #witchyvibes #witchythings #witchaesthetic #witchblir #hygge #hyggelife #cottagecore #cottagecoreaesthetic #cottagecoreaesthetic #hyggelife #magical #magicalmakers #naturecrafts #naturecrafts https://www.instagram.com/p/CZxixSNvEla/?utm_medium=tumblr
Today I collected some Irish Yew for spell work. :) it took me a lot of research to find some growing in my area and traveled to it. The Yew Tree magic It is called âTree of Resurrectionâ or âThe Tree of Eternityâ â¨Correspondences:â¨Planet: Saturn and Plutoâ¨Element: Earth and Waterâ¨Symbolism: The Tree of Life, Immortality, Rebirth, Protection, Longevity, Change, Divinity, Strengthâ¨Metal: Leadâ¨Stone: Olivineâ¨Birds: Eagle, Hummingbirdâ¨Colours: Black, Dark Green All parts of the yew tree is poisonous except for the fruit around the seeds. â¨Signs of poisoning might include nausea, dry mouth, vomiting, stomach pain, dizziness, weakness, nervousness, heart problems, and many others #witchcraft #yew #irishyew #tradwitch #poisonpath #witchblr #witchesofinstagram #witchythings #witchyvibes #witchythings #bookofshadows #spellcraft #pagan #treemagic (at Sacramento, California)â¨https://www.instagram.com/p/CZQvv4rr5fn/?utm_medium=tumblr