Prayers To Saint Judas

A customer asked for them, and I thought these would be useful for those of you who work with him. Saint Judas is asked for the most difficult tasks; he is the patron of lost causes and one of the hardest working, most generous saints. Prayer 1 O Holy St Jude! Apostle and Martyr, great [...]

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Images Of The Week

Lillies and Irises, spreading their majestic fragrance around the house. A new Rose of Jericho for the altar, unfurling its beauty. When friends go hiking and come back with pine nuts, iron covered stones, seeds and mossy branches, you know they love you. Last week, I sent some doll clothes to a Flickr friend that [...]

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Today’s Herb: Rue

Rue plant grown from wildharvested seed, 2009. Latin Name: Ruta Graveolens Gardening Needs: this plant needs sandy soil that drains very well, and lots of sunlight. It’s quite the survivor, so it can thrive in less than optimum conditions, and resists all temperatures above freezing. Medicinal Properties: This is a very bitter plant so its [...]

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Folk Magick Alphabet – Letter A

This is the first of a series of alphabetic posts about superstitions, folk magick, charms and everything we love about magick. I will randomly choose several for each post, in no particular order and chosen just out of my own interest. So, do not expect this to be encyclopedic, as it is a collection of [...]

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Extended Weekend

My witchy friend has arrived today from Madrid with her husband, so we are taking three days off to enjoy their visit and their lovely company. The pic above shows how many spell works we’ve already had this week – you just can’t place more candles or offerings in the altar. Remember that this week [...]

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Spellwork Pics

use As usual, here are some pics of last week’s spellwork – with this week starting just as full as the previous ones, I’m glad we decided to take weekends off, because we really used the free time for ourselves and worked on our Pagan Dollhouse non-stop from Friday evening to Sunday evening. Nothing more [...]

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Bones, Incense Pellets And Salvaged Furniture

All the bones found at the mountain were cleaned and will be drying under our unforgiving sun for a few days, before starting an amulet-making storm for the shop :) The incense pellets Fernando made are already listed and being sold and reserved as hotcakes! We have name it The Wanderer in honour of our [...]

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Offerings

We didn’t have any appointments on Wednesday, so we decided to go early in the morning to our beloved mountain of Las Mercedes to make an offering, something we had been delaying for a while. We made a gofio ball with gofio, honey and milk and filled a small bottle with rum; we gathered scissors, [...]

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Drawing

Pan – unfinished sketch on my journal, monday night. I love drawing when the day is over; just an hour of complete tranquility after all the furry babies are fed, housework is done for the day, shop work is finished and we do what a Cancer and a Taurus do best together; enjoy our home, [...]

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New Items Listed

Road Opening Mojo Bags Each bag contains five herbs for road opening and removing obstacles, three apple coral stones and our own Legba Powders . On the bag’s tie, a buzio shell (symbol of money and wealth) and a key charm (symbol of Eleggua, the Orisha that owns fate), plus a dyed guinea feather – [...]

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