Not content with my good luck, I acquired a black cat. To my mother and father's credit, they resisted what must by then have been the almost irresistible, and I lived on. My particular hankering was to be tossed into a chasm, though these are not at all common around Basildon. I made up witch songs and caterwauled them out of the window at night. I communicated with other (invisible) witches in witch language scrawled over my cupboard door. Borrowing my mum's old milkpan, I would pass balmy summer evenings stirring livid stews of wild berries and gladioli over a bonfire at the back of our garden, then pour the resulting brew into jam jars and label them "potion". When I was a little girl, I thought I was a witch. Once the spell has worked, the poppet will be burned or buried, thereby releasing the spell. The poppet's leg might be bandaged as part of a healing ritual, or its mouth might be sewn up to prevent the living person it represents from spreading gossip. In a coven, the poppet may be consecrated on a witches' altar, attached by cord to both a woman and a man (according to the Wiccan belief, that male and female energy combined create the most effective magic), and given the appropriate symbolic treatment. Poppets are wax, clay or even Plasticene figures resembling the person on whom the magic is to be focused. A witches' ladder also refers to a string of 40 beads used like a rosary as an aid to concentrated repetition. Untying the first knot would unleash a light breeze, the second a stronger wind and so on.
Witches' ladders have a long tradition in Cornwall, where they were commonly sold to fishermen before a trip out to sea. Tie the knots towards you to draw your object inward and away from you to dispel it. Following the same lunar pattern as for candle magic, each night tie one knot in the rope while strongly visualising what you wish to achieve. Don't talk about the spell and, once it's done, forget about it.ĭedicate a piece of rope to magic. Repeat the procedure the next night, and again each night until the moon has completed its waxing or waning. Light the candle and strongly visualise what you want to achieve for as long as you can maintain concentration. To draw something to you, begin the spell on a new moon to dispel it, begin on a waning moon. Candle magic, like most magic, is best done after dark. If it's something you want to dispel, write it from the bottom to the top. If you wish to draw something towards yourself, write its name from the top of the candle to the bottom. Pick a candle of an appropriate colour for the job (green or pink for love, yellow for wealth, red for strength, blue for good fortune, mauve for wisdom, brown for stability).
'A good general-purpose spell that anyone who believes in it can do,' says Latham.
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