rain-airfox:

This house protection spell is inspired by Maleficent’s thorn curse in Sleeping Beauty. It is designed to stop unwanted people or negative entities from entering the house, and to hex them if they try. It could also be adapted to protect a specific object or person.

Items:

• An empty jar
• A selection of thorns (rose thorns, hawthorn thorns etc)
• Some pins and needles
• Stinging nettles
• Cactus spines
• Any other sharp items you may wish to add

To give it a bit of an extra kick you could also add:

• Cayenne pepper
• Vinegar
• Lemon juice

Also, if there is a specific person you’re trying to keep out, add their name on a bit of paper, a photo of them, some of their hair etc to the jar too.

Once you have added all the ingredients to the jar, hold it in your hand and visualize your house being completely surrounded by thorns that constrict to keep out whatever it is you want to keep out (a specific person, negative entities, negative people etc). If they try to pass, they’re cut by the thorns. As you do this, say:

A forest of thorns shall be their tomb

Born through the skies on a fog of doom

Now go with the curse and serve me well

Around this house I cast my spell!

Keep the jar hidden from sight in a dark place, where it wont be disturbed.

qedavathegrey:

As far as I can tell there are two types of spirit workers – those who are always available and those who set time aside. I value myself of being the latter. I like my place and I like it free of disturbances, as such I have always been very thorough when setting my perimeters. I don’t just bar the main doors, I would bar every doorway – just in case should someone break through one, there would still be containment so that I could manage the issue without worry. While this is a great defensive, I find that communicating with spirits in my home can be somewhat difficult – even when given permission to enter. Given my recent move, I elected to try a new strategy – which so far has paid off quite well so far. That is a selectively permeable boundary, through which those who share my blood/spirit (ancestors) or given my blessing may pass. Now, you can rest assured that my bedroom will still be spelled up like Fort Knox, but at least I’m becoming a little more hospitable, right?

I digress.

To Perform the Ritual, gather:

• Brick Dust
• Salt – a half/half blend of black and white
• White Chalk – and/or Cascarilla
• Sulphur

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• Vinegar
• Saliva
• Blood

Optional: to add a little more fire to those who might try to pass the boundary – add in a blend of used coffee grounds, chile powder, black pepper, iron oxide and dark rum (pine tar is a great addition, too, but it’s hard to find)

Don’t waste your time on any ceremonious nonsense for this one, just combine your dry ingredients first and then the wet and toss/churn/shake your concoction aptly. Your ratio and consistency is dependent on your preferences, but I like more of a dry paste. It really depends on how fine your brick dust is – for chunkier, hand-broken bricks, you’re not going to have a paste one way or another and that’s completely fine, just dampen your ingredients. For a very fine dust, you want to add a bit more to ensure your powder will hold once dry: a bit more vinegar can remedy an overly dry mix.

Take your paste and run it along the base of each entrance to your home. After each has been door has been dressed, read the following incantation as you “close” the door:

Mind these words – for they bear weight and consequence:
Those of blood and spirit blessed – yet kinsman all the same,
For it is they whose lines I tie,
And they who govern fate;
But to the wayfarer and the miscreant,
No tiding favor found,
These walls be charmed
These doors be crossed
The ill might find no solace;
By witch’s blood –
By witch’s word –
By witch’s will –
‘Tis I who mark the Gates

To close the door, place both index fingers together at the middle of the frame overhead. As you read, trace your fingers along to the corners, down their respective sides, then closing them together at the base of the door. I like to then walk through the door and “cross” it from inside. That’s been the hardest habit to break, as every time I walk through the door, I was used to ‘X’ing it immediately.

Good luck and good barring!

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