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There are various old traditional charms and spells associated with each of the letters of the Futhark alphabet. You will not find them in books. There are several volvur (female seers) and vitkar (male sorcerors) of the Northern traditions who know these old spells, and they will share them with you if you prove your spiritual lineage as a Witch and good faith. Even if of different traditions, the Wise withhold nothing from one another. Here is one such traditional spell.

This Rune is Ur, which means “Aurochs,” a type of Wild Ox that used to roam Europe, but which became extinct in the late 1600s. Ur is associated with strength, physical energy, good health, strong male energy, will, diligence, vitality, courage, stamina, life force, power, intensity, and independence.

A Charm For Strength or Health: Find a branch fallen from a mighty oak tree. Take it home, and break it in two places, and then form it into an Ur rune, as above. Place this on the ground or floor and sit before it, with your outstretched right index finger over it. Begin chanting the galdr spell OOOOOOO-RRRRRRR over the rune, elongating the vowel sounds as long as your breath will allow. With each recitation of the chant, use your right index finger to trace the letter just above the branch, without actually touching it. The tracing starts on the left hand side, goes up, slides downward to the right, and then finally down to the bottom again.

As you chant the spell over and over, imagine the rune beginning to glow with a strong, vibrant red light. When you feel that the power of your spell has entered the rune branch, stop your chanting. Save the longest piece of the branch. The two shorter pieces should be returned to the base of the oak tree, and left there in a crossed (X) fashion. On the longest piece of stick that you have retained, draw six Ur runes evenly spaced down its length, either in red paint, red ink [1], or blood. This longest piece of stick can now be used as a type of wand. To bring strength or health to another, trace the Ur rune five times on the person: once on the forehead, once on each palm of the hand, and once on each sole of the foot.

[1] In olden days, such paint or ink would have been made from red ochre.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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A WIND FROM THE EAST
WILL BRING THEE PEACE.

Some of the spells of traditional Witches are very simple, requiring little more than knowledge and patience. For instance, per the Witches' Proverb above, a wind blowing from the East toward the West will bring clarity and peace to a troubled or confused mind. A Witch who wishes to use the power of the Eastern Wind will watch the weather for days on end, particularly if she lives in an area where strong Eastern Winds are comparatively rare. When she is fairly certain that such a wind will be available to her, she will meditatively walk to the highest point that she can reasonably find without much travel or trouble, such as a nearby hill. If the wind is blowing from the East when she reaches the top, she will face into it, and let it cleanse her mind. If the wind is not yet blowing, she will keep standing and face East and wait for it to start.

She will go meet the East Wind in all but the most dangerous weather. It will be most pleasant, of course, if the day is sunny or fine. Cloudy is also nice and would suffice. But even rain will not deter her, unless it is accompanied by thunder and lightning.

The other Winds, of course, have other powers.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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Not long ago, a forgetful Witch friend asked me if I remembered the ingredients for The Dreaming True Potion. Yes, I do.

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RED WINE, SOUR,
RED WINE, FINE,
GOLD OF THE BEE,
DEW OF THE SEA.

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Combine the ingredients and let them sit at least a day in a bottle. To use it, take a sip before bed. Then anoint your forehead, your inner wrists, and the inner hollows of your ankles. No need to douse yourself with it. The barest touch of a drop suffices.

I will give prophetic dreams, generally, or divinatory dreams, if you write your question down and put it beneath your pillow.

It's got a great shelf life, too.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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A Page From the Fictional Charmed Book of Shadows

It has always mystified me that people would spend money on reproductions of fake spellbooks from television series. Reproductions of spellbooks are nice, if the pages are blank, but I do not know why anyone would want them filled with fictional, fake spells. Most of the spells from television shows are drivel. Almost never historical. Almost never magical. And, let's face it (see the Charmed spell above), barely grammatical. I have seen reproduction spellbooks from the Charmed television series, the Practical Magic movie, and the Secret Circle television series. Sometimes the reproduction artist will attempt to replace the fake spells with spells they make up themselves. But if the reproduction artist is not an initiated Witch (I have never met nor heard of such a person being both), you are likely to get just one step up above drivel.

Why invest time and/or money in fakery, when you can have the real thing? See below.

A skinny dragon, illustrating a wise saying from Nietzsche, written in a Witch Script and English: THE MAN WHO FIGHTS TOO LONG AGAINST DRAGONS SOON BECOMES A DRAGON HIMSELF.

A spellbook page illustrated by a Mandrake Doll. The bottom of the page contains three Witches' Proverbs written in a Witch Script and English:

a. Curse without cause, be cursed without cause.
b. Do not trust the Sparrow to do the Raven's work.
c. Better a free Witch than a captive King.

An Imp, illustrating an old curse of the nature of Mars, recorded for historical purposes. To give you some idea of the scale of this spellbook, the Imp is about 6 inches long from top to bottom. So, the spellbook is very large.

An Old Traditional Tree Spell

A drawing of a Lamia, illustrating A Charm Against Fear, and a Spell involving Spirits of the Night.

To give an idea of the scale of this spellbook. The top left records, for historical purposes, a traditional curse from the southwest of England, the Curse of the Flies. In the lower right, a skull/plant, probably illustrating a warning against poisons.

Witches have their own traditional spells (ex. The Willow Tree Spell, a love spell; the Three Blows Countercurse, which was widespread throughout Europe, and is easily 500 years old, perhaps older; The Healer's Charm, a general charm to set the body to rights). But, with the advent of the academic and internet ages, we have also had access to spells from the past and other cultures that we have learned to adapt. For instance, The Great Curse, Long Curse counterspell from the Maoris. The Tongue Twister from ancient Rome (to make everyone disbelieve a person speaking against you unjustly). The Book Sentry (to protect a book from theft), from ancient Egypt. All these have enriched us.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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The Ten Pins Spell

. . . with a surprise ending. Back in March, I was putting in my spellbooks three old spells for "dominating" a lover, or keeping a lover faithful. These are traditionally known as The Ten Pins, The Knotted String, and Socks in a Box.

The Ten Pins, shown above, can be used by men or women against men or women.
The Knotted String is traditionally cast by a woman on a man.
Socks in a Box is traditionally cast by a man on a woman.

Something for everyone!

When I was recording The Ten Pins, I noted to some friends that I found it very interesting that, whatever Witch wrote it, her last bit of advice was "Be strong, and don't cry." A friend responded that she also found the last sentence very intriguing, "as if the essence of the spell were actually there, and not in the pins."

Indeed, sister. Indeed.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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