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CASTING SPELLS WITH DAME DARCY

Dame Darcy

, who illustrated the story in this issue about

loving Tonya Harding

and has recently reissued the very first issues of

Meat Cake

, wrote some spells for us. She is a real-live witch so cast at your peril and remember that whatever you do comes back to you three-fold.

Words Have Weight, What You Say Is Real.

Say Out loud: "I expect the unexpected, my glorious good now comes to pass, then stays and grows every day. Break down the wall and let the roses grow forth free!"

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Acorn Youth and Beauty Spell

When three acorns are attached to each other they can be used to keep your youth and enhance beauty. If you have a charm of gold or silver of three acorns this will work as well. Let the acorn charm charge under the new moon, and wear it in your hair.

Goddess Freya's Potion

Freya' s favorite flowers are Cowslips (wild peonies)--they are also beloved amongst the powerful spirits of the Faeries and are the transmitters of beauty secrets. Create an herbal infusion by boiling water over the blossoms. When the water cools, strain the blossoms. This potion can now be used as a tincture for your face; use with a cotton ball. Use the remainder in a bath; it can be used up to 24 hrs.

Spell to Remedy Headaches

Use only moss or whatever plants are growing on the head of a stone statue. Combine these plants with peppermint and/or mugwort. Using red thread, tie them and place them in the spot where your head hurts. If you suffer from frequent headaches, use a stone statue head to plant mugwort and peppermint; these plants prefer rocky soil to grow.

Marcellus Knot Spell

For a migraine behind the eye. This spell originated in 380 CE and comes from Marcellus of Rome. At the first sign of pain, take a length of flax and tie as many knots as you have letters in your name. Pronounce each letter as you make the knot. Then tie the flax around your neck.

Protection Spell: Here we go Gals!

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Iron for Women The supplement Iron should be taken by women to promote stronger blood. Iron can be found in dark green leafy vegetables and beets, etc. But the element Iron and iron objects protect women from evil of all kinds. Iron will enhance and make your magic powers stronger so you can better protect yourself. Iron will make you more vital and energized. Bend a used horseshoe nail into a ring for a double power luck/protection amulet. Wear clothing with iron nails sewn into the hem. Your hand will have reinforced magical and protection power when you wear an iron bracelet. String beads made from iron into a necklace and wear bracelets made from the beads on your ankles. For protection while you sleep, slip a horseshoe under your pillow. Or keep a fireplace poker under your bed. Better yet, sleeping in a bed with an iron frame is like a boat of safety sailing on a sea of dreams. It invigorates health and creativity while you sleep.

Herbal Protection for Home and Person

Collect white handkerchiefs and pale blue ribbons or thread. Place in the center of the handkerchiefs St. Johns Wort, Dillweed, and Vervain. Create sachets by tying them closed with the ribbon. Hang them throughout the home and wear one around your neck or in your purse.

Protection for the Home/General

Crush a red brick into powder; sprinkle this powder in an unbroken line over all entryways to the house. Evil spirits or people with evil intent will not be able to cross the line. Salt also works for this and is used in many protection spells. Salt helps with protection from illness, physical, and psychic harm.

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Spell to Get a Boyfriend or Girlfriend

Do this spell during the waxing moon (when the moon is getting full) This spell combines the fun of doll crafting with a love spell to manifest a boyfriend or girlfriend. Make a doll of yourself, then make a doll of the one you like (if you have his/her hair, scrap of clothing , or anything else, this will help make the spell go faster) Or just make a doll of a person with the qualities you like. Write on a piece of red paper the qualities you want, make sure to list defining things that will let you recognize him/her, like a favorite color or an astrological sign you prefer. Fold the spell and put it with the doll that represents the one you want. Bind the doll of you and the other together (tie them together) with a red ribbon for passion or a pink ribbon for friendship or a white ribbon for purity. Sleep with them one night and put them in the eastern corner of your room.

Employment Conjure Bag

Take a green rectangle of fabric and fold it in half. Sew a running stitch along three sides, leaving the top open. Turn inside out Retrieve the following herbs and fill the bag with them: • 5 finger grass also known as cinquefoil, this will inspire generosity and kindness from others • Deer's tongue to help you be eloquent • Gravel root to provide employment • Rue to make false opportunities reveal themselves and avoid • A lodestone to magnetize good fortune to you • For a woman, add angelica root; for a man, add high john the conqueror root • Sprinkle with magnetic sand and crown of success oil Wrap green or gold thread or ribbon around the top of the bag to secure it, and wear it around your neck under your clothing, or in your purse.

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Money and the Number 8

The number 8 is the infinity symbol on its side. It's also "what goes around comes around." Put the number 8 in your wallet or purse where you keep you money and as soon as you spend your money will three-fold come back to you

Saltwater Purification

To spiritually purify and prepare for any ritual. We Cast a circle to reenact creation. Circle Casting makes the tools on the altar empowered by the elements of creation: earth, air, fire, water, and spirit. Create the womb of life by combining them. (Water/chalice and salt/earth) with the spark of creation (blade/will and air/consciousness). The Spirit Element can be your own divine spark, or the spirit of the Goddess you honor. Together these elements create the circle of life and our sacred space

Moon Water

Moon water holds many magical properties and can be used in spells to replace holy water. To make Moon water; leave a (preferably glass) clear container in the light of a full moon over night. Moon water can be used in spells of love to magnetize and purify, also in spells for wealth and for health to cleanse and cure. And to bathe a crystal ball and make images clear. Wash your hair in moon water to increase its luster. Drink moon water to retain eternal, ageless, luminous witch beauty.

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Illustrations from The Penalties of Hope by Vincent D. Dominion and Dame Darcy Release Date: January 2010