#protective magic

[ozarkdirtwitch]

Tajin for Protection

Protection powders and potions are common across many cultures. My own mentor taught me a very simple recipe:

Something Hot

Something Sour

Salt

An Enhancer

Tajin has all three base ingredients! The best thing is it is cheap, easily accessible, and you can use the bottle as part of your working.

A Note about Enhancers

Enhancers are added to make the working more potent. In general, they can be divided into a few groups:

Herbs and powders to increase potency. This usually involves ingredients such as asafoetida, camphor, cedar, or yarrow.

Items to tie it to a specific person/spirit

Items to specialize the powder. If you want someone to go away and also not talk about you, you might add something to sweeten their speech.

In my next post, I will have a recipe and ritual for House Protection Ointment, my own personal blend that I use on the corners, windows, and doors as an all purpose protective spell for our home.

[lailoken]

To Ward a Natural Space

This is a Ward that defends a natural area against those who would disrespect the land. It was taught to me by the Glaoming Folk, and I have since been given permission to share the process in hopes that others might use it to protect their own beloved ecological sites. It is worth noting that this ward only seems to have a range of about 20 to 40 feet, which I realize isn't necessarily ideal, but when strategically placed, multiple wards can be used to create a 'warding net' across an area.

To make this Ward, a switch must be harvested from a propitiated Crabapple tree, which is then split in half to create a pair of sticks measuring approximately the same length. Thereafter, a long and thin runner of blackberry bramble is collected and harvested—ideally from a place with fae activity—and is stripped of leaves. A God's Eye is then woven using the Crabapple sticks and the Blackberry brambles, working one's intent into every turn of the Weaving, before a tuft of Hare's fur is ensnared within the center of the ward. All of this must be done bare-handed, as every prick and drop of blood serves to strengthen the will of the Ward and appease the Spirit of the Blackberry, which lends its power to this magic.

The resultant device can then either be hung with twine, or simply placed in a fitting spot. It has shown itself to be quite helpful in discouraging those who would litter or mar a natural space from doing so. While littering and tree carving hasn't gone away entirely since beginning to use these, it has most certainly dropped significantly—and only in the places where they are employed.

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

apotropaic masks, a griffin, a deer and some crosses carved on a romanesque church in Inowrocław

schematic but cute deer

[sag-dab-sar]

I like to think that my earnest usage of knocking on wood to avoid self jinxing / tempting fate is me letting little wood spirits, perhaps nymphs, know I could use some help in life.

[magickfromscratch]

I know this gets zero points for aesthetics from the High Magic crowd, but once I learned that strong smells disrupt etheric energy and can even destroy talisman consecrations that I'd spent hours on, I started using TIGER BALM to unblock my energy centers, and I am never going back. Vicks works too, and I think it's less expensive. In fact, I think you can get it at the Dollar Store.

You have a cold? Put Vicks on it. Sore muscles? Vicks on it. Imbalance in you mleh-mleh-mleh chakra? VICKS. Some newb trying to target you with a ray? Vicks.

[madladmorty]

Tips for pagans/witches I discovered #1

You can invoke Loki's name to banish negative energies and spirits. Literally, just shout that you banish them in his name in whatever words you like. He will hear you and help you. It might help that I work with Loki, but I have told negative entities they aren't welcome and to go in his name and they went. Even my friend on the other end of the phone benefitted from my shouting at the negativity to piss off. Loki is a protector deity, a God of the Hearth and Home and Divine protector of Children. He takes these calls seriously and will very likely respond to your call if needed.

[actiwitch]

something in progress...

soon to be shared

[creature-wizard]

Does kundalini awakening protect us from black magic or people who wants to harm us using dark magic?

Sliding past the fact that "dark magic" and "black magic" are iffy terms due to racial connotations and generally sketchy dualistic worldviews, the main thing I know is that kundalini awakening is a thing that's been bastardized to hell and back by westerners, and if you wanna protect yourself against malefic magic there's like nine zillion ways to do it that don't involve butchering somebody else's culture.

[daughterofthesettingsun]

Ever felt like your phone or laptop was full of demons? Want to keep them away from your personal thoughts or hard work? Bap one of these stickers on with a blessing and a prayer to trap and nullify demons acting against you! Designed by yours truly in the Name of Goddess Herself 💕

[ozarkdirtwitch]

House Protection Ointment

This is an all purpose protective for your home. Other ingredients can be added for for specific purposes.

Ingredients

1/4 cup of Vaseline

3 TBS of Tajin

1 tsp asafetida (aka hing) powder

1 tsp graveyard dirt or rust powder

Melt the Vaseline in a double boiler and then add the other ingredients. Place in a sealable, heatproof container and let cool.

To use

On the full moon, rub a small amount of the ointment on your exterior door and window frames and corners of your house. While you work, pray to your divine being of choice to strengthen and protect your home and all those who live within.

Works best if you renew it at least once a quarter on the full moon. You can also add a bit to witch bottles to increase their power.

[lailoken]

The Pender Ward:

An Amulet of Personal Protection

"The 'Pender' is an Amulet that serves as a potent, portable, protective ward against malefic forces.

Each Pender Ward is composed from a Hagstone and a Thunderstone that are bound to one another by a length of thirteen alternating beads. Each material is chosen for its significant folkloric associations with protection —the innate virtues of which are then aligned and enlivened in specialized ritual to consecrate it as a personal amulet.

The materials incorporated in every Pender include:

A Thunderstone (a fossilized Urchin, also known as a Faery Loaf, Sherpherd’s Crown, or Snake's Egg, among various other folk-names, and traditionally held to provide the bearer with good luck and protection from dangerous forces such as witchcraft and lightning,)

a Hagstone (a holed stone, also known as an Adder Stone, Faerie Stone, or Hex Stone, among other folk-names, and traditionally held to protect against witchcraft, fae enchantment, and jinxes, thanks to the power of Running Water that was worked into it over generations)

and Pure Copper (a magically active metal, known amongst the Wise to defend against the Evil Eye, as well as offering a degree of protection from lesser Wights of maleficent virtue.)

The alternating beads can be made up from any combination of the following materials —two of which may be chosen by the buyer:

Job's Tears

Obsidian

Serpentine

Jet

Rowan Wood

and Black Tourmaline."

Anyone interested in purchasing a customizable personal ward may do so for $59 on my shop: ☆

[moonlightskinscreams]

Protection

The first bit of knowledge I'd like to share is how to protect yourself. A simple and effective way to protect yourself spiritually is to wear an article of black clothing. Black is the color of protection, it wards off the harmful and invites balance. By wearing a black shirt, shoes, earring, or even undies you are warding off evil.

[scholarlyhobbit]

Powdered eggshells are a powerful protective tool to keep off bad dreams and/or nightmares. Sprinkle some on your pillow before putting on the case to keep bad dreams at bay. If you wake up from a nightmare and you're afraid you'll have another, splash cool water on your face, and when you're dry, sprinkle some powder on your head, preferably on your hair. Remember to rinse your hair in the morning!

Egg shells in witchcraft

Save your eggshells and make them into a powder. You can use them for protection, peace and cleansing!

Also, can be used to make Black Salt. Just add some incense ashes!

Just rinse them, allow them to dry, crush in your mortar and pestle and store them in a labeled bottle.

Powdered Eggshells can be used in your magical workings to cast circles or for protection.

To add some extra oomph, add a pinch of salt and dragon's blood resin in your protection blend.

[the-faultofdaedalus]

magic system where “dark magic” and “light magic” are literal terms - dark magic consumes photons, making an area around the spell visibly darker, sometimes to an Extreme extent, and light magic releases photons.

because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!

needless to say this is incredibly confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the culture

[couch-house]

little comic for disability pride month! HoH rouge is a headcanon i've had for a while but I never do anything with it... tragic... well now I've changed that :)

[1001aus]

Phantom is a member of JLA when everyone finds out that the Bats have contingency plans against everyone else.

While everyone else is shouting about trust and betrayal, Danny can't help but be relieved. He's seen his bad future, after all. Dan is reformed now, but that doesn't retroactively save the timeline he wiped out.

Danny only has one issue with the contingencies for him: Batman mistakenly believes that his intangibility works the same as Martian density shifting.

It doesn't. In fact, they're very different powers. Intangibility is more of a phase shift where he turns his physical form into energy.

This means that none of the contingencies in his file will work because they don't accurately account for one of his basic powers.

(The shouting actually gets derailed for a bit when he brings it up. All the scientists are a bit horrified about the implied energy conversions happening whenever he uses this "basic" power. As a halfa with an actual physical form, Danny should be giving off enough energy to blow up the planet whenever he transforms.)