The Tenth Rune Spell
Let’s fuck with someone, shall we? Time to hone your defence against the dark arts skills.
In a 13th century Icelandic text called the Poetic Edda, we find a long poem called Hávamál, and in that poem the god Odin recites a list of Rune-spells he has learned while hanging upon the World Tree (axis mundi). This part of the Hávamál has come to be called the Song of Spells. There are many translations of this verse; here are four of them.
For the tenth I know,
if I see troll-wives
sporting in air,
I can so operate
that they will forsake
their own forms,
and their own minds.
~ Benjamin Thorpe
A tenth I know: when at night the witches
ride and sport in the air,
such spells I weave that they wander home
out of skins and wits bewildered.
~ Olive Bray
If I see the hedge-riders magically flying high,
I can make it so they go astray
Of their own skins, and of their own souls.
~ Nigel Pennick
A tenth I know, what time I see
House-riders* flying on high;
So can I work, that wildly they go,
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Todays Rant: Curses! (foiled again)
People think that curses are less or non effective if you don’t believe in them, this is false.
Curses are not less effective if you think they are bullshit. Sorry, it just doesn’t work that way. If I don’t believe in UV rays I can still get a sun burn. If I think that only gays get AIDS I can still catch HIV.
Curses are more effective if you believe in curses, believe you have been cursed and get all paranoid about it. This is why someone who believes in curses seems to get it worse than someone who does not, because a believer will talk themselves into thinking its worse than it really is.
It like two people having the same allergic reaction, one is rational and the other a hypochondriac. The hypochondriac is going to itch and scratch worse because he will make a big deal out of it and obsess over it. The rational person will simply apply cream and shrug it off, or ignore it until it goes away.
Also having someone think bad thoughts in your general direction or even send off a negative vibe at you is not a curse. Putting energy into thinking… Continue reading
Forum Love
I love Walking the Hedge’s Wild Geek Hang aka the forum (FYI: “wild geek hang” is an anagram for “walking the hedge” hehehehe)
Here’s the start of a great thread going right now called Seeking help with protective charms:
pa_hsia says:
“I want to make a couple of protective charms for my new house – goodness knows we need some if this last month is anything to go by – so I’ve been doing a bit of reading on the topic, focusing on English folk magic and East Anglian (Anglo-Saxon) charms as my particular area of interest.
I think I understand how they work – sympathetic magic, mostly, as well as warding sigils and protective spirits – and I can more-or-less extrapolate reasons for why the charms are made how they are, but the reasoning behind one eludes me.
According to the Times Online, at least one Witch’s Bottle contained a leather heart stuck through with an iron nail.
I know that this is a symbolic representation of a charm for the protection of livestock – a bullock’s heart pierced by pins or nails and placed in the chimney – but I cannot find out how the original… Continue reading
Three Magical (and mundane) Things That Happened Yesterday
I headed out job hunting in the downtown core yesterday, wearing my best clothes and the boots-that-look-good-but-hurt. The stress of looking for work combined with navigating a new city on my own and a minor bladder infection was weighing heavily on my mind as I left the printing store and headed down Sparks street.
As I walked in to the cold December wind and plodded along in my boots, heavy bag over my shoulder, I began to think to myself that I should have done more to rack up “good karma” over the last week before going job hunting. Just as I finished this thought a homeless man approached me.
He was in his 50s or 60s, with scraggly grey hair and a scruffy beard. He walked with a slight limp and sported a nasty looking black eye that had swollen shut. Speaking with a thick Northern European accent (German or perhaps Norwegian) he humbly asked me for “One dollar or even fifty cents”.
I follow a mostly Celtic path, but certain Norse gods have popped up in my life a few times before. Including Odin, I have also met a couple of folks who swear they have encountered Old… Continue reading
A Reality Check on Magick
A Reality Check on Magick
Only YOU are responsible if you bungle a spell and harm yourself or others.
Spells that change the color of your hair, change red traffic lights to green, make you invisible and such DO NOT WORK. This is not Hollywood.
Spells that force a person to act or feel against their own free will rarely work, and when they do, they always wear off. There is also a high price to be paid for such spells, so think twice.
If you think you have been cursed or some such thing, chances are you HAVE NOT been cursed, you’re just having a run of bad luck.
Start small and work towards the big stuff.
Use your common sense.
Make sure that any work you do is worth any backlash you may receive.
Choose your words carefully.
Magick is a not cure-all for your life’s problems.
Magick takes a lot of energy out of you; it is not advisable to cast spells while ill or tired.
Energy work, such as working with tarot cards or casting spells, can be very wearing on your natural reserves, try not to over do it.
Bragging about how powerful you are… Continue reading
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