Spell: To Bind an Enemy

Cast a circle.

Light a black candle. Burn incense of Saturn.

Sprinkle your poppet with salt water.

“Blessed be, thou creature made of art. By art made, by art changed. Thou art not wax (cloth, etc), but flesh and blood. I name thee _____. Thou art s/he, between the worlds, in all the worlds. So mote it be.”

Hold the poppet in your hands. Visualize a silver net falling over it, and binding the person it represents.

Take a red ribbon and wrap it around the poppet, tying it firmly, and binding all parts of the body that could conceivably harm others. Charge the binding with power.

“By air and earth,
By water and fire,
So be you bound,
As I desire.
By three and nine,
Your power I bind.
By moon and sun,
My will be done.
Sky and sea,
Keep harm from me.
Cord go round,
Power be bound,
Light revealed,
Now be sealed.

Earth the power.

Open the circle.

Bury the poppet during a waning moon, far from home, under a heavy rock.

Lesson: Binding a Spell

When you have finished casting a spell, visualize yourself tying a knot in a cord wrapped around the symbol or image on which you have focused. Tell yourself you are setting the form of the spell, as a clay pot is set when it is fired.

“By all the power
Of three times three,
This spell bound around
Shall be.
To cause no harm,
Nor return on me.
As I do will,
So mote it be!”

Italian Folk Magick

* Old keys of the skeleton key type are considered amulets for good luck. They can be carried on your person in a pocket or purse, or may be hung from a red ribbon near a window or doorway. When you find a key it is considered back luck to pass it by. One should always pick it up and say the following as you take the key in your left hand:

“It’s not a key that I have found
Nor one that I shall bear around
But fortune that I trust will be
Ever my friend and near to me.”

* A Binding Chant

“Feathers here as black as night,
Bind the villain with magick tight,
And in darkness actions quell,
Until such time I release this spell.”

* A Healing Spell

Take a silver coin that has sat beneath the Full Moon from midnight until 1 a.m. Anoint the coin with olive oil that has also sat beneath the Full Moon. Place the coin face down on the afflicted area. Move the coin in a counter clockwise circular manner (sliding the oiled coin around the area). Say:

“Pain that hits
With the fury of dragon’s blood,
For the love of all spirits
Leave this body,
Remove your stain.”