Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Black Cat Bone


Black Cat Bone

(to traditionally to be done on Good Friday)


from the Book of St. Cyprian:


"Cook the body of a black cat in boiling water with white seeds and wood from the willow until the meat is loosened from the bones. Strain the bones in a linen cloth and, in front of the mirror, place the bones, one by one in your mouth, until you find that you have the magic to make you become invisible. Keep the bone with the magic property and, if you want to go somewhere without being seen, place the bone in your mouth."


by Zora Neale Hurston (1931) in the Journal of American Folklore:


“Make a coffin one-half foot long. Dress a small doll in black and put the doll in the coffin. W rite the victim’s name on paper and put it in the coffin under the doll. Don’t cover the coffin. Dig a trench much longer than the coffin. Take a black cat and put it in the grave. Cover the open grave with cheese-cloth and fix it so the cat can’t get out. Take a black chicken and feed it one-half glass of whiskey in which a piece of paper with the victim’s name has been soaked. Put the chicken in with the cat and leave them there for a month. They will die. Then put the coffin in and bury it with a white bouquet at the head and foot.” (Hurston, 1931 as cited in Haskins, 1990, p. 116).

from Harry Middleton Hyatt’s Hoodoo-Witchcraft_Conjuration Vol.2, p.1358:


"An' now it's a bone in his left hin' laig - dat straight bone from de top part of de left hin' laig - y' git dat bone out of him [away]. But yo' jes' want dat bone out de left hin' of de laig.

An' now, it's a straight bone, yo' see, an' it has lak a little joint lak at de top. Now, yo' take a knife or somepin an' yo' cut dat little joint off dat it has at de top. Yo' see, yo' cut it off round at de top.

Now, into dat bone - yo' stuff dat bone. Yo' see it's hollow on de inside of it. Yo' take dat bone an' yo' stuff dat bone.
[Here is a new type of black cat bone {see pp.74-97) dressed or magically prepared {see p.92f.) by an expert.]

Yo' git a powdah, yo' understan', whut dey call five-fingah grass, an' yo' stuff it into dis bone. Yo' git steel dust an' yo' git dat genuine lodestone an' see dat it be 'live. An' jis' make it into dust, an' put dat down into dat bone. Yo' put all dat down into dat bone an' yo' take a piece of cotton - yo' understan', dis cotton dat chew use - an' yo' stuff de top of dat bone. Yo' stuff dat aftah yo' done stuff all de ingredients in dat boen - yo' take a piece of cotton an' yo' stop it at de top, jis' a piece of absorbant cotton.
Yoo' understan'?

Now, yo' keep dat, carry dat bone, an' it must be concealed into a pocket, lak in a wallet or into somepin - jis' keep it oil [oiled] - an' it must be on yore person all de time. An' nobody else must nevah touch dat bone but chew

(What is that lucky for, now?)

Into any game, any kinda games, a crap game, or yo' could go to a lottery game - any kinda game dat chew undertake tuh go into."

Algiers, LA; Informant #1583, Nahnee the "Boss of Algiers"

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Lilith

Lilith is a 'tricky' energy-to say the least-I have and continue to work with her as 'WitchMother'...

A great deal of the work I have done over the years with Lilith-is Very personal-and I feel pretty confident that for each indivdiual-the relationship-IF that is what it can be called-will be unique...I will say-that for me personally-she is a rather aloof entity-that is at best unapproachable-and she is Very demanding-and zealous.

I have found it best to work with her-via an intermedius energy-I have been successful via work with the 4 Demon Kings-specifically-Mahazuel and Azael and their 'feminine' elemental associations...

I have also learned the hard way-that it is best as a Man-NOT to approach her direct-rather communicate with her via a scrying mirror-while looking over one's left shoulder-this is from YEAR'S of working with her-and I still feel as IF she is a stranger...

She is indeed the Initiatrix-and WitchMother-Creatrix-but she is also- The Dark Queen of Passion-and wears about her throat-the garland of skulls of the impure-directly linked to intentions...

Her Phallic wand-the flesh of the Magus-spews forth Life from one end-and Death from the other...


Lilith-by Andrew Chumbley

Monday, June 2, 2014

Evocation of Chontaret-2nd Decan of Aries-invitation to a Spirit Vessel

ok-today-6/2/14 @ 10:30 - in the Planetary hour of Mars-I did an evocation ritual for Contaret-the 2nd Decan of Aries-"whom governs nostrils and all conditions thereof'-in an effort to stop persistant nose bleeds I have been experiencing...

The Spirit Vessel was filled with a bed of Wild Rue-and a Siderite stone was placed on the bed of herbs. the Vessel's top was removed and made open for the Spirit. This vessel was placed atop a Hex-painted and charged with the energies of Aries-the Planetary influences of Mars-tempered by the Elemental energies of FIRE...


I first evoked Eleggua as the Opener of the Ways-with some home-made incense-based in gun-powder-it sparked like CRAZY!!!


next-I placed Eleggua's key-linking the Opener of the Ways-with the Hex of Chontaret-
 
 
 

the Smoke and the Flames begin to drift towards Eleggua-which I took as a sign of success in Opening the Ways...

Next-I added Dragon's Blood to the censer, and Evoked Chontaret (9) nine times-the number of letters in the Name...


the smoke began to hover over the three candles placed at the points of the Triangle of Manifestation for Chontaret painted on the Hex...
 

and then slowly begin to form a face in the smoke-directly over the Spirit Vessel-


I conclude that Not only was the Spirit Vessel satisifcatory for Chontaret and his temporary residence while my magickal intentions are made manifest via our alliance-but I was graced by an actual physical manifestation as well...in the form of His Visage!

Close-up of the Visage of Chontaret-2nd Decan of Aries!

Saturday, April 26, 2014

found a really nice-larger piece of Siderite at the Gem & Mineral show today-here is a pic of it sitting on the bed of wild rue...