I have told you that I am He: if therefore ye seek Me, let these go their way: Of them which thou gavest me, have I lost none.
Longtime listeners of the podcast and the Patreon-exclusive Q&As at this point have heard me reference a moment in which I created a set of vampiric vessels, all of which sold to the people they were meant to be with before I was able to make a public post about them. For the entirety of 2023, my literal blood, sweat, and tears had been poured into the brokering of pacts, the sculpting of bodies, the feasting on dreams, and the answering of calls to increasingly outlandish magical excursions in order to bring to life a group of charms embodying the Children of Judas, a grouping of vampire spirits I had come to know through my witchcraft pacts. The trusted companions who came to inherit them have since worked them for their own ends, each obtaining a moth familiar laid to rest in a coffin with a lead cross that had come to weep genuine blood into the snow as part of its consecration process. I have been asked many times to tell this story as much as I am able to, secrecy taboos being respected, especially in light of it being more than three years now that these were fully brought to life. Over the course of the Lent of this year, I began to set out to see what shape this attempt might take; be it a post, an episode, or even a chapbook of arcana itself.
What emerged instead was a renewed pact with these same spirits, this time in the form of a completely new embodiment. There are some spirits which simply demand flesh, charms which mandate form, cantrips which require utterance – this offering is all three. I was not given much of a choice in what to create, as this fetish was, in essence, also a proof of the ongoing tenure of this pact. From Theodore’s Saturday this Lent, through Holy Thursday and Friday, up unto the Transfiguration of Jesus on the Eastern Orthodox Julian calendar, I worked on the bundle at the heart of this fetish, as a witch’s answer to a witch’s riddle: how to speak about something which demands articulation but refuses voice?
By giving it justification in form.
This fetish is born of three influences that lead my hands in how I sculpt spirits into being: my enduring appreciation and love of Congolese sorcery, especially as expressed in Afro-Brazilian Quimbanda and African-American conjure and hoodoo, my encounters with Balkan and South Slavic witchcraft via Sfinga and my travels throughout the Balkans, and my lifelong flirtations and experiences with vampiric spirits, both of the human restless dead and the supernatural, non-human varieties. Throughout these periods, the core was made to witness the Passion of Christ, to experience the grief of not being able to intervene in its suffering as well as the joy of understanding its prophecy’s completion, and to birth the many spirits that arose from the tears, blood, and seed of Judas as he hung on the tree of his penance. Born of a dove given in ceremony, which itself was christened as the Logos, this fetish is made of a complex of my personal vampire powders, bones personally rendered clean, and the pieces of a crown of thorns I obtained from Jerusalem. I was greatly inspired witnessing Sfinga’s private work with her own crown of thorns and my spirits tasked me with developing my own take on this sacred object within the context of the Children of Judas: restless spirits risen from the fluids of his penance.
The bundle’s core also includes the heart of the dove, the wishbone from a hen given to an important vampire ally, and thirty pieces of silver to pay off the various beings who orbit the fetish itself and lent their blessings to its construction. Tied up in layers of blessed cloth laden with my own powders, the fetish takes its shape in black and white, with the feet, feathers, and thorns of its spirit arising outward. Four skull beads adorn the sides, watching the directions of the mournful winds whipping the hangman’s tree. A fifth skull, operating as the locus of whispers, resides within the bundle. A fed hagstone taken from a volcanic gorge sits at the apex, channeling the voices of the mournful wights subservient to this charm.
This is probably the most unique charm I’ve offered and I ask that anyone who wishes to buy it first divine with their spirits if their court would accept it. Its functions are myriad: in addition to empowering and cultivating communication with vampiric spirits, serving as a satellite for their manifestation, articulation, and binding – such that the restless dead obey your requests and bring ruin to your targets – they work along the mysteries of projection, blame, forgiveness, and penance. The skilled witch, in offering any clear alcohol which has been doctored or had something infused into it by your own hand, thereby dirtying it, can ask it to send forward a representative from among its cohort to receive requests on behalf of the entire fetish. It is essentially like a kind of radio tower to these spirits, and in time you may find that one among the Children of Judas begins to remain with you, becoming your primary intercessor with these spirits and also forming a pact via the fetish with you as familiar. Needless to say, a level of spiritual mediumship is required for this charm, as it is an advanced piece. These spirits are ambivalent at best towards humanity and make excellent companions to witches who have need of domination work and are repeatedly experiencing slander, having their reputation harmed by envy and projection, and are adept at glamours that allow them to triangulate these perceptions for their own gain. These spirits will take the pressure off your own court to do this work for you, freeing up the rest of of your familiars to tend to more important matters.
I will be in contact with whoever receives this fetish to communicate rituals and various ways of use with them that I cannot speak publicly about. Upon shipment, we will schedule a brief Zoom or phone call to discuss how to receive the charm, what to do with it in full, and how it may be integrated into your existing protections and glamours. We will also discuss the nature of their vampirism and how to harness it, as well as what kinds of vitalities these spirits may retrieve for you. These spirits are particularly adept at manipulating vital forces as well as coordinating the attention spans of others around you, and there are additional workings to be done with them to send them forth and implant them into your places of work.
As much as I am exceptionally proud of how this charm came out and has come to prove its functions, it is not something I intentionally set out to create. Despite my desires to initially reflect on the experience I teased earlier, it seems clear to me that these spirits certainly do wish to be spoken of and intimately shared, only within a select group of similar witches through the creation of additional charms and workings through their auspices. The muse of this working, as it were, made itself physical through the next iteration of its incarnation. For those for whom this calls to them, who hear what is being both said and unsaid, I invite you to contact me personally via the usual channels, especially if you have questions about how to integrate these spirits into your existing practice, or if you simply hear their call in your dreams and want to know how best to proceed.
This is a one of one charm, and once it is claimed it will not be made again. Again, I ask that you divine first before purchasing. These spirits have a tendency to grow and fester in their pacts, so unless you are already well versed in their way of working, do check with your existing court first to ensure that this practice is sustainable for you.
For those intrigued by the flavour of this witchcraft but less interested in fully submerging themselves in its depths, I’ve also created a far more manageable charm that can be used by almost anyone regardless of their magical persuasion. The Prick-Moons are small reservoirs of vampiric power born through the auspices of the moon itself. Their shape is that of a butter lamp painted black and constructed to be ever-burning with pale moonlight, channeling the rays of the devoured stars through the principles revealed by those same spirits. In addition to the same matrix of powders that went into the main fetish, here nestled in black wax under a lunar shell baptized during an eclipse, each Prick-Moon has one thorn from the original crown painted white and one piece of silver at their base. These charms are excellent for protection, turning the plans of adversaries, enemies, the envious, and those who plot against you against them – the more they fight and struggle and plot, the more it pricks them deeper. These are satellite charms that may be kept near a wall of the home such that the thorn is just gently touching it, that it may be the first force encountered by those who would trespass against you.
Each charm may be sustained through offerings of black or white candles. burnt in supplication on the nights of the full and new moons, respectively. Gazing into the moon-disk embedded in each charm in contemplative silence, while focusing on the space between heartbeats, can reveal sources of slander against you, and will just as easily reveal gaps in your own defenses against envy and the evil eye. I personally found these charms to have some affinity for the mysteries of the crows and ravens sustained by the flesh of Judas hanged, so it is appropriate to, in time, adorn them with feathers or limbs from these same beasts.
10 are available for purchase, and each will be shipped within one week of your order. With the current tariffs affecting global shipping, each will be sent via Canada Post, the USPS, or UPS depending on your location to ensure the best chance of a timely and cost-effective delivery.
I’m deeply grateful for the continued interest in this arcana as it grows and develops at the urging of my spirits, and to finally give voice to the history of this project. I anticipate more Children of Judas making themselves known, be it through unspoken word and whispered shape, or simply the hunger that, ultimately, gives them form.
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
With Cunning & Command 