☽WitchShit☾

History of the Witch Bottle:

In the early times, Witch Bottles were designed to protect homes against malicious witchcraft. They were commonly made around Samhain to protect the home from evil spirits. The witch bottle was commonly made up of glass, pottery, pins and nails. Sometimes, the maker would include his own urine to link the magick to the home and the family with in it. They were used as far back as the 1600’s! Witch Bottles are said to be of English origin.

Purpose of the Witch Bottle:

The Witch Bottle provides the home with protection from negative entities, the evil eye, or any malevolent spells by sending the negativity back to it’s caster.

How to make one:

Step 1: Find a Glass Bottle or Jar.

Step 2: Decorate the bottle with ribbons, feathers, charms, and crystals that are associated with protection.

Colors that symbolize protection: Black, White, Blue, Red

Charms that symbolize protection: Horseshoes, arrowheads, eye of horus, four leaf clover, snakes, scarab beetle, scorpion, unicorn, pentagram, raven, seal of solomon, Thor’s hammer, celtic knots/crosses, bells, etc.

Crystals for protection: Amber, Agate, Cat’s eye, Carnelian, Garnet, Lapis Lazuli, Malachite, Onyx, Pearls, Quartz, Topaz, Turquoise

Feathers for protection: Black feathers, Blue feathers, White Feathers.

Step 3: Fill it with sharp, rusty, and pointy object. (Handle these objects with gloves and proper care!)

Feel free to add protective herbs as well.

Objects you can put in your witch bottle: Barb wire, mirrors, glass shards, bent and rusty nails, thorns, pins, fish hooks, a tangle of string, salt, needles, razor blades.

Step 4: Add an item that was once a part of yourself and can be used to symbolize yourself.

Such as: Blood or urine which is pretty gross and I definitely would not recommend. Instead add hair, nail clippings, menstrual blood, etc.    

Step 5: Seal the top with black candle wax. You may also say a chant while doing this.

Step 6: Bury it somewhere inside your property or hide it somewhere in your home.  

Your Witch bottle is complete!

May the moon light your path!

💸 Abundance flows to me with ease 💚 I attract all forms of green into my life 🔮 The Universe works in my favor

This is the current collection of useful posts that I have reblogged on sigils, all in one place. If any post is from another tumblr blogger, all of their sources will be below each post, so you can look through and follow the amazing people who posted them. (If you are going to reblog something, never remove the original caption, or sources).

A Guide to Sigils: 🌙  A Small Guide to Sigils

Sigil Grids: 🌙   Square Grid  🌙   Circular Grid  🌙   Leaf Sigils

Charging Sigils: 🌙   Methods of charging sigils 🌙   Water Charging Outdoor Sigils:   🌙   Safe to use Items for Outdoor Sigils 

Every Day Use:   🌙   Doormat Sigils 🌙   Tea Sigils 🌙   Where to put sigils on your body 🌙   Nail art sigils 🌙   Tattoo pens for safe body sigils 🌙   Places to Put Sigils

Pre-Made Sigils: 🌙  Positive Sigils 1 🌙  Offence and Defence

Sigil Directory: 🌙  An amazing directory from thesigilwitch 

“When was the last time these crystals were charged?”

“Do you not cleanse your space? Look at all this spiritual build up! Don’t you dare tell me you cleansed this!”

A few months ago, someone broke my heart by dumping me for another girl.  In my sadness, I unleashed an outpour of 86 casual curses on my facebook wall as a way of venting my feelings.

Here is that list.

May you bite into a big chunk of garlic so your mouth feels funny for the next few days.

May a condom commercial come on tv while you’re in the room with your girlfriends dad.

May you stub your toe on every piece of furniture in your apartment.

May you over-salt every meal you try to cook.

May all of your pillows smell of feet.

May your toast always burn, and may no amount of scraping remove the black parts.

May your pen leak all over a drawing that was coming along really well.

May your teeth become very cold-sensitive.

May your mailbox be clogged with advertisements.

May you clog the toilet the first time you go to a new friends house.

May you always have an unsettling feeling of bugs crawling all over you when you’re trying to fall asleep.

May you always step in a funky-colored liquid after putting on socks.

May your ice cream always be frost burnt.

May every vending machine eat or reject your dollar.

May that “silent” fart come out surprisingly loudly.

May you develop erectile dysfunction.

May you step on a d4

May every toilet seat you sit on be either uncomfortably cold or uncomfortably warm.

May the elastic on all of your underwear give out.

May you always have a zit right on the inside of your nostril.

May you always have to pee while a cat is sitting on your lap.

May your next-door neighbor buy a set of bagpipes and practice every night until 4 in the morning.

May your favorite sweater shrink in the dryer.

May you get busted for illegally downloading something.

May you always have that feeling of having to sneeze.

May you fart in the middle of making out with someone.

May all of your favorite shows and movies be removed from Netflix.

May you get an un-hideable hickey right before you go visit your grandmother.

May there always be a pebble in your shoe.

May you spill your drink in your lap so it looks like you peed yourself. May this happen right before a date.

May your significant other forget your birthday.

May you run out of toilet paper, paper towels, and kleenex, and then get food poisoning.

May you always lose your chapstick.

May a flock of noisy geese start hanging out right outside of your bedroom window.

May the delivery guy always forget your drink.

May you take a giant drink of milk right out of the carton, only to discover its gone bad.

May your cup runneth over… with hot coffee.

May Autocorrect punish you.

May you always overdraft your bank account by like a dollar and have to pay a stupidly large fee.

May you find something really gross in the bottom of your cup of coffee after you’ve already finished it.

May you be the one to discover that there is a hole in the oven mitt.

May you step on this ungodly hybrid. (picture of a lego with a thumbtack stuck through it).

May you have an unforgivable Freudian slip.

May your roommate get addicted to a really irritating song and play it constantly.

May your most embarrassing tumblr post go viral.

May you be cursed with ingrown hairs that look like herpes.

May you suddenly become uncomfortably aware of your tongue.

May you get the hiccups during a phone interview for a job you really want.

May every surface you touch be sticky.

May your acne never go away.

May you always die in a video game just before you reach a checkpoint.

May your life develop a laugh track.

May your laundry always come out of a dryer a little bit damp.

May your favorite book be adapted into a terrible movie.

May you get a blister on the side of your pinkie toe.

May the spoon fall into the bowl every time you eat soup.

May you have to close every open tab because you can’t figure out where the music is coming from.

May you slice your finger while cutting up a lemon.

May you hit every red light.

May that unreachable spot on your back always itch.

May someone set the child censorship thingy on your netflix account.

May the YMCA song get stuck in your head for the next six months.

May all of your exes suddenly get really really hot.

May you develop a persistent itch on the inside of your nose.

May netflix cut out on you every few minutes for the rest of your life.

May you always get called in to work on your day off.

May you never find a job in your chosen field.

May your name become synonymous with the word “asshole” in someones circle of friends.

May all the cheese and toppings fall off of your pizza.

May you suddenly become lactose intolerant.

And gluten intolerant.

May you always think of epic comebacks two hours after an argument.

May your water heater suddenly crap out in the middle of winter.

May every table or chair you sit on/at have uneven legs.

May you never find a comfortable sleeping position again.

May you accidentally send a sexy text message to your mom.

May you always wake up two minutes before your alarm goes off.

May your roommate suddenly develop a habit of chewing way too loudly.

May every book or TV series you ever watch get spoiled.

May every selfie you post for the rest of your life get zero likes.

May the barista always give you decaf by accident.

May you always burn your tongue on your hot chocolate so you can’t even taste it.

May a bee fly into your mouth while you’re biking.

May someone always flick a cigarette butt into your can of soda. Even if nobody’s in the room with you.

May all of your favorite videos on youtube get deleted.

May you always end up in the line for the slowest cashier.

I hope that from here to eternity, every time you try to download something, your computer crashes when its at 99%

I’m so mad I didn’t think of this sooner!!!

For all of my witches out there that need their morning coffee/tea-

     1. Cleanse your space, cleanse your tools

Cleansing incense

Cleansing Mist

Crystal & implement cleansing

More cleansing methods

     2. Cleanse yourself

Cleansing Bath Salt Recipe

Purification and Protection scrub

Cleansing shower steamer

Witch Bottle

     3. Protect your home

House Guardian

Protection powder

Eyes like Coals House Protection Spell

Folk Charms for Home Protection

    4. Protect yourself

Protection Charm

Protection Sigil

Sleep sachet

Sleep Circle ideas 

    5. Take it Easy

Sit back

Do something mindless

If you’re unfamiliar at all with blood magic, and interested in learning the basics, then check out these two posts I’ve done on blood magic before.

Blood Magic 101

Where Do I Start?

If you’re trying to figure out what comes after the 101 stuff, then that’s what this post is for. I’m not an expert, I’m not the sole authority on blood magic, this is just my practice, and what I’ve learned, but I’m willing to help out the curious by sharing what I know.

In this post I’m assuming you already understand the basics of safety when handling and using blood in spell work, and I’m assuming you’ve already considered the moral implications for yourself in using blood, and what kind you like to work with. This is not a “how to” for what blood magic “really is.” That’s talked about more in my introduction to blood magic, where I explain safety, and realistic standards for incorporating blood into your spell work.

So, having said all that…..do you work with blood magic? Feel like you’re just “tacking it on” to a spell? Or maybe you aren’t sure of how to use blood magic effectively? Fear not! I’m here to share my own piddly knowledge and experiences. Side note, while my knowledge isn’t super-awesome-master level, let me put that into perspective real quick. Every single person who does spell work has their own unique experiences, they have their own associations, their own practices, and entirely different cultural bases on which they build their skills. I can’t know their backgrounds and the same things they know, at least not in the same way. I will always have more to learn, until the day I stop breathing. That’s how the universe works. So I’m not saying I don’t know jack, I’m saying more that mine is a single drop of information, drawn from an ocean of knowledge.

The essence of blood magic is strength, equal to that of a life. That’s both the appeal and the terror behind blood magic. Blood, on it’s own will make any spell stronger. But working that blood as you would other elements of a spell, makes it into something even greater. Beyond just determining the associations of blood in magic depending on how it was gathered, we can also tap into its other potential. One grossly important part of that is intimately understanding blood as an ingredient. Just as you can study and learn all the properties of a specific plant or stone, and learn how to manipulate it to its full potential in your spell work, you can do the same with blood. At it’s core, blood is about creation and life. From it, all animals exist. Blood holds the very code for who each individual is. Your body is constantly producing more blood, to keep you alive. You have blood that carries oxygen and nourishes your body, and you have blood that fights disease and infection. From your blood (especially thinking about donating blood in this instance) others can live, well past an otherwise fatal incident. Without blood, our lungs and brains and limbs are all useless and lifeless. At the same time though, a single blood cell is a short lived, expendable drone. It is a single point, and the system functions the same without it. It is all possibility, all creation, all change, and yet on it’s own…completely insignificant.

When you draw blood for spell work, you can already begin to charge and focus it towards an intent before you ever add it to a spell. Just like when you pick an herb to use because you want it for it’s ability to protect, but not for it’s associations with love, you can do that with blood. One way of do this is to pair the ingredients with other items that have the same desired association as your spell goal. Another is to take an ingredient with that desired association, and when you charge it, specifically focus on that one aspect of it. If you’re drawing your own blood, this can be done prior to the spell work and the drawing of blood, by meditation or trance work. Through your meditation, focus not only on the intent you desire the spell (and your blood as an ingredient) to have, but on tying that intent to your blood. Listen to your heart beat, feel it. Each time it beats, it’s driving that intent and energy deeper into the individual blood cells. You can also do this focusing on blood that’s already been obtained from another source as well, just focus that energy into the ingredient, rather than allowing it to run through your own being.

This charged blood can then be used for many purposes. You can include it as is, as an ingredient in it’s own right. You can include it to charge a spell, allowing the blood to be a constant carrier for your energy and intent, inside the spell. You can also use it to enhance other ingredients. For example, you’ve charged your blood, focusing on protection. You want to enhance the protective abilities of basil before adding it to a spell though. You can combine a small amount of blood with basil, and mix them (if your basil is powered/ground) or smear a bit of blood onto a basil leaf. This essentially takes the charged blood, and focuses it on one of the spell ingredients, to basically tone down all the other latent associations, and bring the desired one to the fore-front in order to keep the spell intent from getting muddled. This can also be used to nudge an ingredient over to where you want it. Say you associate all roses with love, but specifically yellow roses with platonic love, and orange-ish roses with friendship. You want a spell for strengthening friendship, but can’t find orange-ish roses. You can charge blood and apply it to any color rose to nudge it’s energy more into line with what you desire. For me, this is easier than just trying to charge the rose with the exact intent I want, because I have trouble getting ti to “stick.” However, since my blood is a stand in for me, it holds my will, and when I apply that to the rose with the intent of shaping the energy to my will, it holds much easier.

Blood can be mixed with wax for many purposes as well. Use this blood to seal spell jars. Add a few drops to the melted wax in a partially burned candle and let it cool to have a candle with the exact intent you charged the blood with. Use a mold to cast wax dolls with blood inside the wax. A blood and wax seal with a sigil or other symbol pressed into it can be used to bind something.

Speaking of sigils. You can make your own sigil inks using blood magic, that enhance the abilities of the sigil. Charge your blood that you’ll be using for the sigil. Add it, along with powdered dry ingredients and liquid ingredients that match your intent, or are simply designed for adding extra energy and power to a sigil, and mix them all together until you like the consistency. Essentially all you need to make ink is color and liquid. Gum arabic, or another thickening agent will keep your ink from being too runny and going all over the place, and it also helps to make the ink appear crisper and darker on paper, though too much gum arabic makes the dry ink stiff and brittle. By custom making your inks for sigils, you are insuring that every fiber of the sigils creation and existence is custom tailored for your purposes.  

I know this is a touchy subject, and I’m really hoping that nobody get’s offended by this topic, but blood magic is a valid branch of magic that I practice and it has come to my attention that it’s really hard to find any good sources on blood magic. Everything I’ve found outside of personal experience and familial teachings is either steeped in “ooooo, mystery” or painted heavily with “never do blood magic, it’s eeeeevil!” So, I’m going to talk about blood magic a bit. Keep in mind, I don’t claim to be any kind of authority, and this is all my personal practice. I’m more than willing to hear how others use blood magic, but please, NO SHAMING. If you don’t like blood magic, you’re free to state why, but avoid blanketed statements such as “it’s evil/wrong/sick/ect…” because, just because it’s not okay for you, doesn’t mean your morals and life experiences apply to everyone else. I may go into more detail on specific things later on as I think of more things I want to add. 

Resources, Introductions, and Information

Blood Magic 101 (pomegranateandivy)

How to Start with Blood Magic (pomegranateandivy)

Intermediate Stuff (pomegranateandivy)

PSA on Blood Magic (wicked-bitch-of-thewest)

Sangomancy Writings (mothensidhe)

Blood and Bone Magick (blessedbeandmerrymeet)

Blood Magic and Paradigms (chaoticwanderings)

Spells

Blood Ward by Mothensidhe

- Witches with sigils scribbled in ballpoint pen up and down their arms, hidden beneath long sleeves and jackets

- Witches with an app for everything from moon phases to plant identification to tarot decks

- Witches whos apothecaries are supplied with dollar store herbs, domino’s red pepper packets, and hand dried weeds from the community park

- Witches that charm everything from their lip gloss to the WiFi router to help them though the day

- Witches who stack their grimoires with their textbooks, studying crystals and calculus in the same afternoon

- Witches that scry by the curl of creamer in their morning coffee or tea

- Witches who knit scarves for their friends stitching in extra warmth and hiding sigils to help fight seasonal melancholy

- Witches who have Pandora stations just for the spirits who accompany then

- Witches who tuck violets in their pockets so girls will realize they are flirting

- Witches with boxes of jam and salsa jars and single shot liquor bottles stashed away for future spells

So you wanna curse someone. 

Someone has really fucked you over and you’ve decided all of the ordinary routes of justice are not gonna cut it. But where do you start? 

Step 1: Commit to cursing.

It may sound obvious but cursing is a big deal. Its generally a risky spell to conduct in any paradigm you look at, and all morals aside, its laborious and energy intensive. If you feel iffy about cursing, the time to bail is now. (There are still alternatives to cursing if you want to do something about this person in your life. I recommend binding.)

Step 2: Find a curse that fits the crime. 

Please don’t do a death curse on someone who cut you off while driving (though I feel you). If you do believe in returning energy or similar ethics about the universe, this is a good way to minimize risk. 

Good places to look for curses and cursing ideas can be found throughout the witch community. These are two of my favorite tumblr directories to look through when searching for a curse. Sometimes curses are specific and state which crime they are punishment for, which is a simple way for beginners to follow this guideline. 

Step 3: Find a taglock for your target.

Curses need a direction and a taglock in order to hit the right person. This could be an item of theres, their signature, a picture of them, or even just their full name written out on a piece of paper. These are only suggestions, sometimes an integral part of cursing is getting creative with your taglock. Just give the universe a good way to find your intended person. 

Along this same thought, here is a piece on avoiding misfired curses. 

Step 4: Finalize your plan for conducting the curse.

Even if you use a curse 100% written by someone else, its important to mentally walk through exactly how it will be carried out. This is not the time to wing it. Curses are stressful and the best way to avoid accidents (which can have serious consequences) is to be detailed in how it will unfold. 

If you are tweaking a spell, you should double check that any ingredients you’re swapping out have the same associations so you get the same result. Similarly, make sure that changed actions will have the desired effect. If you’re making your own spell, verify that all people and intents are represented.

In all cases, make sure that what you’re doing is safe. Go on WebMD and check that the herbs you’re using aren’t dangerous with any health conditions you may have. If you’re doing blood magic, do it safely. Be smart, use your brain. 

Step 5: Put in a failsafe. 

Curses are not meant to last forever and trying to craft something to last that long will drain you of energy for a very long time. Put at the end of your spell that the curse will last a definite amount of time (i.e. six months) or will last until a certain action has occurred. 

Step 6: Gather materials and conduct the curse. 

Get everything together, set up the space. Its essential to clear the mind and cleanse before a ritual to set yourself up for success. Unless you hate yourself, you’re going to want to purify and protect you and your space. 

When you feel grounded, go on and do the spell. Go slow, be diligent. You can do this (especially because you’ve already mentally gone through all the steps). 

Step 7: Aftercare. 

Cursing is a lot for most witches, from newbies to experienced spell-casters. Do something restful and brings you back to center. If you’re looking for a simple spell to accomplish this, one can be found here. Other places to look into magical self care can be found here. Don’t skimp on this step, you need time to rest and regain your magical energy. You don’t want a curse effecting the rest of your magic.