In continuing my experiments with Lion, I’ve been asked about one particular item more than any other – the belt. The lion skin belt itself is one of the most impressive, and thereby most elusive, instruments of art from the Lemegeton’s Goetia, which calls for the magus to prepare “The other materials [are] a scepter or sword; a miter or cap, a long white Robe of Linen, with shoes and other Clothes for the purpose also a girdle of Lyons skin 3 Inches broad, with all the names about it as is about the uttermost round Circle” (Peterson, 2025). Similar variations of the belt are found in other proto-Lemegetons such as Sloane 3824, and in Scot’s Experiment of Bealphares. Skinner, in his Techniques of Solomonic Magic, suggests that in each case, wearing lion is both to convey authority to the magician and to provoke fear and obedience in the spirits (for if the magician can have dominance and triumph over a lion, they can have the same dominance and triumph over a spirit). Due to the lack of abundant lion skin for what are hopefully obvious ethical and environmental reasons, many solomonic magicians substitute, or more commonly entirely omit, this garmet. This implement aims to bring the magician closer to the letter of the text, with an eye toward tested practical efficacy.
Enhancing the inherent virtues of the lion within the circle is the The 5th pentacle of Mars, which “…is terrible unto the demons, and at its sight and aspect they will obey thee, for they cannot resist its presence“, with its verse being Psalm 91, verse 13: Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. With lion, serpent, and spirit alike subjugated in the same manner as suggested by Skinner. In practice, both in my own experiments and in those of other Goetic magicians who I’ve compared notes with over the years, this pentacle serves as the ideal substitute for the belt in whole. Its hold on infernal spirits is jarring in its efficacy, as the grimoire describes, especially those lower in the infernal hierarchies. The use of lion is both prescribed, and for the aforementioned reasons, serves as an added layer of correspondence and sympathy in the performance of the art of Goetia.
I consecrated these pentacles in the usual manner described by the Greater Key, working only within the days and hours of Mars with blessed ink and consecrated tools. I performed additional consecrations and layered enchantments for personal power, subjugation of spirits, and subversion of entrenched powers in subsequent days and times, and finally sealing the enchantment before additional Angels and planetary spirits of Mars atop a tablet inscribed with the first pentacle of Mars.
The pentacles themselves are warm to the touch and have a tangible “buzzy” feeling, radiating their virtue if left exposed. Through this quality, I noticed a decrease in phenomena in spaces where this pentacle was left, in addition to prompting an exodus of astral larvae and other ambient parasitic spirits. In testing these pentacles, to say they were strongly repulsive to the infernal hordes conjured is an understatement – I have not encountered a tool so effective at demanding obedience and stripping infernal spirits of their ministers and attendants as when this was revealed within the circle.
5 pentacles are available as of 30 December 2025 in honor of Mars, and they will not be restocked once sold due to the rarity of the material. We wish you all a happy new year!
Those in our Patreon Discord server know that recently, I was able to legally obtain a good quantity of antique lion skin from an old, damaged wall hanging pelt. Listeners of the podcast know well that I’m exceptionally dedicated to treasure hunting, including the sourcing of rare materia as an offering unto itself to my spirits. Getting this pelt, after much searching, has opened the door to many forthcoming projects ranging from grimoiric tools to bespoke spirit-inspired fetishes. In addition to finally creating some long-promised artifacts for myself with my spirits, I’m especially eager to pay them back for their efforts by honouring this hunt through the creation of various tools for the sorcerer and witch alike, born of my hands to serve your practices.
The first of these implements, which all but demanded to be crafted immediately, is the Oil of Helios’ Triumph. Drawing on and invoking Helios’ lion-faced form, this oil bears a triple enchantment drawing from two sources of solar magic: the Greek Magical Papyri and the Faustian Key of Necromancy Volume 1.
The core strip of lion skin prepared for consecration.
This oil is driven by a four-armed crossroads of solar cunning in honour of the journey to obtain its ingredients. The first component is the consecration born of PGM XXXVI. 211—30, one of the famous charms to “restrain anger” that Sfinga had written about previously. The original charm is an oral recitation performed seven times towards the sun, after which you anoint your hand with an undisclosed oil and wipe it on your head and face. In addition to mellowing and diminishing the anger of humans and spirits alike, this charm also secures favour and glory by the power of Helios and the Agathodaimon. The core barbarous words from the prayer were written on a strip of ritually-prepared lion skin and fumigated in an incense prepared for Helios, which was itself ritually consecrated using the PGM IV.1596—1715 “consecration for all purposes”. Having presented the strip to the twelve faces of Helios to gain his favour, it was ritually entombed in a mother bottle that was also found through the auspices of the same treasure-hunting spirits, being shaped as a hermit’s lantern.
The so-called “Prayer to Helios”.
Next, having fumigated some genuine vellum with the same incense, I copied out the “Sigil for Sunday” from the Faustian Key of Necromancy: Volume 1 with a ritually prepared solar ink. The grimoire notes that all works through the planetary spirits associated with each day should be performed under its proper rulership, having employed the sigil of the day. As this is one of my most-worked grimoires within the Faustian tradition, from which several of my primary treasure-seeking familiars originate, it was explicitly requested during the divination process for the recipe of this oil that this seal also be fully prepared and included. Much like the Key of Solomon pentacles which suppress the pride of each planet’s spirits, this seal, in my experience, serves much the same purpose, while also serving as a knowable point of contact to yet-unidentified solar spirits brought under its fold.
The “Sigil for Sunday” on vellum.
The spirits that govern this oil were called upon through the microcosm of a hexagram encoded with the characters of the sun drawn on the floor with chalk, also derived from the same Faustian text. With a light lit at each corner of its hexagram, they were called into the mother bottle to pray over, charge, and attest to the potency of each vivified ingredient. The oil itself was built brick by brick, through herbal, mineral, and animal powders prepared independently and blessed for each of the named functions of the Prayer to Helios. Powders of conquest against enemies were blended with seeds that germinate and celebrate victory alongside seen and unseen allies alike, then unified through a Greco-Egyptian solar powder that brings peace through unyielding strength and the force of regency. Once composed, the final powder was bound in local honey, and finally brought together with very good quality olive oil. The bottle, already humming with spirit activity, was prayed over using the Prayer of Helios, Consecration for all Purposes, and a selection of spirit-derived oral charms and petitions taught to me directly by my solar familiars.
The oil receiving blessings alongside a dagger belonging to a solar familiar.
Following its blessing, the enchantment was sealed through offerings of beeswax candles and the oil was allowed to incubate until dawn to receive the first rays of light, that Helios-as-oil might complete his underworld transit and arise triumphant once again. Use with the PGM incantation to wipe your face for favour, triumph over enemies, and victory in all things. Anoint your crown and hands before crossing borders, passing through security, or undergoing background checks to move swiftly and easily through all bureaucracies. Use as a holy anointing oil to suppress the pride of arrogant spirits and protect yourself from those easily offended. Include a drop into an oil lamp for communing with spirits you do not yet have a name or character of. Anoint your temples for easier scrying, or slick your thumbnail for divining directly into its surface. Anoint your luggage and car to move more easily through crossings.
Each order is for a 30 mL (1 fluid ounce) bottle of oil and includes free shipping. Orders will begin shipping through USPS on November 26th. Sold as a curio only.
A few years back, I wrote a post about about a matrix of herbs and powders that came together to better presence St. Expedite and those spirits that dance in his blazing footfalls in a particular loci of devotion. The everlasting quest to help my spirits meet me somewhere in between this world and the next by finding ways to ensoul, manifest, and anchor them in this world that they may have more ingress and presence, and resulting experiments, lead me to making this new set of charms. In technique a spiritual companion piece to the charm bundles affixed to Christopher’s Protection Chaplets for Travelers, these bundles draw from the life of our beloved dog-saint, in which he bore the entire world upon his shoulder (in the form of the Christ-Child). It follows that if he can uplift, make safe, and most importantly make manifest the world, he can do so with anything therein. In lifting up spirits all the same, he provides both a gentle hand elevating and aiding the manifestation of our allied spirits, bringing closer those distant and forgotten, and, as needed, a mechanism of control against unruly, wild spirits.
Like most of my charms made at the foot of St. Christopher (and one might argue like the saint himself!), they are simple in construction, but blessed through labour and repetition. Each bag contains an herbal blend, with plants selected to share breath with spirits to rouse their presence and increase their strength, pacify disagreements among those they encounter, send roots and stems and seeds into other worlds to secure and germinate the means of ingress, and to mediate and nullify imbalances that need to be navigated in the environs of the spirit. Like following a long and desolate path, each component was selected to navigate obstacles and hindrances without being so heavy or distracting as to over-encumber the bearer. Tobacco, Sage, and Dittany of Crete feature heavily, with celandine, mullein, and many members of the mint family mediating.
Each plant was called forth to the table of his catholic feast, and united under the celebratory banner of the dog-saint, with an exhortation of his virtuous qualities delivered over corresponding herbs. Candles lit for the saint and each of these allies were used to apply a small drop of beeswax on the reverse of each metal, to deliver their fire and seal the initial enchantment. Following their initial consecration, they were continuously prayed over, offered to, and further empowered through charm and incantation, until they satisfactorily eased the production of spirit phenomena (being sustained and visual or auditory, beyond the usual capabilities of the distant and forgotten spirits contracted to test the charms).
I suggest affixing this charm to the leg of an altar table or shrine, or keeping it beneath a table of practice during use, that they may participate in, and themselves osmose the virtues to bear up spirits. The bundles can also be given to spirits to use as toolboxes, with each component potentially easing the burdens to travel between their world and ours. I encourage communion with your own spirits at the locus of the charm to determine further idiosyncratic uses, as the composition is meant to be a kaleidoscope through which these encounters are had.
10 charm bundles from this set are available for sale, with shipping included.
The long-awaited Mercury in Nutmeg charms are available once again! I have deeply enjoyed experimenting with this rich-in-folklore talisman over the last few years, itself embodying a synthesis of herb and metal that always fascinates and delivers secrets of each. As was discussed in [previous] [posts], the technique of drilling a hole in a whole nutmeg, adding mercury, and sealing it with wax was once a favourite of gamblers and those looking for a fast change in luck and circumstance. Having fallen out of fashion due to the dangers inherent to mercury as a material, I set about finding ways to make this magic safely available again, through the use of more intricate wax seals and better containment within the layers of flannel, with this edition developing on the lessons learned and techniques honed through five prior batches.
As such, these talismans for all manner of luck-enhancement can be petitioned with your desires in mind in order to bring about expedient and radical changes in fortune, luck, finances, and all manner of ever-winding fates. The buzz of the talisman helps the bearer remain awake and focused, with an inspired drive toward grabbing life by the reins. This year’s form of the talisman is much closer its folkloric counterparts in more ways than its past counterparts: a green flannel mojo hand containing the nutmeg itself alongside various luck and money drawing herbs and dressed in oils for the same, with the ever-flowing mercury contained such that its physical movement is much more tangible than previous versions.
This particular edition, through the gracious guidance and help of Sfinga, also contains a Balkan folk magical “boost” for psychic strength and discernment of the ever-shifting lines of fate and fortuna, following omens interpreted, offerings made, prayers given, charms uttered, and magic woven on Vidovdan this year. While specifics must remain veiled, St. Vitas, being the foremost patron saint of Sight, was called upon to bless the mercury as mirror, harkening to its use in telescopes in order to grant the bearer the ability and faculties to gaze into the most distant horizons and beyond.
This edition is limited to 21 charms (many already spoken for), so be sure to get one fast!
All charms are sold as of the 11th of July. Thank you so much for your patronage!
As listeners of our podcast may have heard, I recently moved across the country, obtaining a brand new job and home at the beginning of the year. One of the joys of starting anew is the ability to witness first hand all your spirits settling in alongside you, scouting out the unfamiliar landscape, introducing themselves to its land spirits, and charting out the cartography of the many worlds which intersect across it. Since moving, my spirits have been constantly reporting to me their findings, leading me to walk and drive around exploring all manner of churches, crossroads, cemeteries, parks, forests, and trails off the beaten path to discover places of power, materia, and contact points for various beings. As much as I’m still very much putting my roots down, it goes without saying that my spirits have accomplished this far more quickly than I, taking to the new mountainous landscape with ease and excitement.
Yet as I’ve been getting set up, so too have all manner of other spirits been knocking at my newly-Christened door. Our latest episode, Cleansing the Home, was born out of this consideration: how to navigate routine spiritual hygiene for your dwelling space, as well as manage the ambient dead that will inevitably flow through it. With all the witchcraft that I get up to, many of my shrines behave as lighthouses for the dead, while others keep them far at bay, signaling danger and potential, devouring should any come close. As I’ve been constantly engaging with the dead of this new land in my waking and dreaming lives alike, I’ve found myself growing in my arsenal of techniques for how to care for them, nourish them, redirect them, and ultimately ward them away when it becomes necessary.
It is through these experiments that I’ve given birth to these charms. Constructed out of locally foraged grasses and brambles said to stave off the dead, dirts from cemetery gates, cemetery walls, church doors, and monuments dedicated to reclaiming space and territory previously lost, and numerous additional herbal and animal powders mixed into a matrix of black clay, these small, spherical talismans are meant to be carried on the person should one find themselves especially ghost-bothered, or alternatively hung up on a wall or placed on a shelf in the home where poltergeist activity is especially strong. These charms serve to turn away wayward, predatory, and fragmented dead, and to act as a sort of “vacuum”, neutralizing spiritual detritus and astral parasites. In addition to providing this protection, these charms also amplify the ability of your own spirits to manifest in the space left behind, ensuring that it is your allies going bump in the night, not strangers. In this way, these tools benefit your spirits by increasing their reach in your home, while keeping away unwanted visitors who may be lurking in hopes of catching a few crumbs off the plates of your familiars.
One of the charms, resting and receiving empowerment within a serpent-bone prayer rope and a rosary, each carrying prayers for and against the dead.
I’ve produced a larger batch of these and am making them available to sorcerers of every background to gift to their spirits, keep in their homes, or carry with them when out and about. These are especially useful for those prone to getting spirit sicknesses, who are sat upon heavily by the dead in general, or who work in places like hospitals, the funeral industry, or near and around cemeteries and places of frequent accidents. Take them with you to breathe easily in the chaos of it all, and hear your own spirits more clearly without the discordance.
It was a real joy to work on these and test them in real time until they passed every check and balance. I’m especially excited to share them with you all in anticipation of the Vernal Equinox!
All charms in the first batch have been sold out. Thank you!
All orders will ship via USPS with tracking within one week of being placed. Please note that due to the handmade nature of these charms and prevalence of natural materials within, there is some slight variation in size and shape. Thank you for your kind support!
As discussed in our recent Episode 38: Lording over Landlords, one of the most common techniques to dominate your landlord, protect yourself against eviction, ensure the renewal of your lease, or otherwise live unbothered is to “nail down” your place of residence—that is, to take four nails (or other such metal implements, like needles or railroad spikes, themselves dressed in appropriate condition oils or urinated on) and implant them into the earth at the four corners of the property, proclaiming yourself unmovable. One can expand on this technique by collecting a small amount of the dirt from the four corners of the property and using it to line a small dish, into which a fifth nail is implanted. One can mix into this soil all manner of materia magica, such as herbs seeds and roots of prosperity, peace, and protection, images of the property, maps of the surrounding area, and links to the landlord, along with oils and powders of the same. Once a cohesive whole has been formed, awakened and balanced by the conjurer, one can stab a nail upright into the center, and treat this as a focal point by which enchantments affecting the entire property can be wrought.
With these techniques in mind, I’ve decided to offer a few supplies to implement these techniques yourself.
The five nails, duly prepared.
The first is a set of five nails, intended for use in the manner described above. The bundle around the central nail contains a variety of herbs traditionally used to gain an advantage over those in positions of authority: Devil’s Shoestring, Galangal, Licorice, Tobacco. four gold-plated pins also adorn the bundle, that their eyes may keep watch over the 4 directions and their tips may prick any misfortune that comes your way. The four nails intended to be planted around the property were dressed in a variety of oils for the purpose—my own law stay away blend, (which you can get here), my own “peaceful home” style blend, and one of my own domination oils. They were then linked to the central nail, and blessed with smoke and fire to obfuscate any wrongdoing and protect those within their perimeter. No additional preparation is required, but I encourage those who pick up these talismans to allow the hands of their spirits to guide them in further uses.
A railroad spike for protection of the home.
The other offering of this collection is a railroad spike prepared in a similar manner to the above, intended to be implanted by the front door of the property or otherwise hidden in a potted plant nearby. The charm bag affixed to the spike contains similar domination herbs and ingredients to the central nails of the aforementioned bundle, further enlivened to provide a degree of autonomous, proactive protection to the home and its residents. Implanting the spike above an image of the landlord to be dominated, or an image of the property as described in the episode, inspired by Starr Casas, grants additional potency.
Landlord Domination Talisman Set
Includes shipping.
$60.00
Railroad Spike Talisman
Includes Shipping.
$60.00
One of Each
One each of the railroad spike talisman and the landlord domination talisman set offered at a discount. Includes shipping.
$100.00
Please note that orders for these talismans will ship on the first of October 2024, as I will be away from the workshop for the remainder of September. Thanks for your patience!
“…you are not a citizen of a democracy but the subject of a carceral state, just waiting to be cataloged.”
Associate Justice Sonia Sotamayor, writing in dissent in Utah v. Strieff
Coinciding with the release of Episode 33 of the Frightful Howls You May Hear, Law Stay Away and Magical Resistance, we’ve decided to make available the Patreon show notes as a resource for those who find themselves victimized by the state on the basis of race, class, gender, or sexuality. Included within are written instructions for all of the workings described in the episode, along with an extended reading list and links to resources that we enjoy and support.
As I also described in the episode, I’m introducing a small collection of oils and charms that work to curry favor in the courtroom, repel law enforcement, and provide protection to the home.
The Court Case Oil.
The first item in the collection is a court case oil nearly identical in composition to the formula that I employ when working with clients. Calendula, galangal, and tobacco form the body of the oil, each awakened to align with their traditional virtues for victory in legal matters. Additional ingredients, such as the ashes of scripture, the ashes of legal documents from dropped and successfully defended cases, dirt from court houses, and dirt from the grave of a prominent civil rights attorney were added to sow confusion, mire the process in fortunate errors, and to respectively loosen the tongues of favorable witnesses and silence those against you.
The Law Stay Away Oil.
The second oil offered is rooted in traditional Law Keep/Stay Away formulations, with additions to emphasize protection and luck in getting out of dangerous situations. Buried in locations noted for their significance to the contemporary civil rights movement in the United States, as well as a police station and the grave of a once-prominent civil rights lawyer, this blend of Devil’s shoestring, Dragon’s Blood, Tobacco, and more come together to protect the conjurer from the agents of the state. The lock affixed to the bottle was requested by one of the spirits who aided in the oil’s construction, itself previously closing a gate that continually frustrated a local police department.
The Indian Head Penny protection charm.
Additionally, small kits consisting of an “Indian-head” penny and two nails, each awakened and dressed in advance with law-keep-away oil, themselves having been buried in a similar array of places of power, are available. The “Indian-head” penny is a folkloric house protection charm, often punched through the center and nailed to the threshold (or otherwise near the door of the home), or suspended with an “X” formed by two bent nails, which is said to “X out the laws”. I opted for the latter permutation for this reason, as well as situating the single coin in a crossroads, in which the guardian spirit can look to the 4 directions.
My St. Christopher’s Protection Chaplets, back in stock after being sold out for a year.
By popular demand, I also prepared another batch of St. Christopher’s Protection Chaplets, which you can read about in a post all their own. They fit nicely with the other items in the collection, and in my experience appreciate the occasional drop of Law Keep Away oil.
The oils and coins included in the collection are slightly discounted when compared to my normal rates, as I’d like to make these particular products as accessible as possible. A significant portion of the proceeds will also be used to contribute to the very organizations and causes that these enchantments were woven in service of, as well as bail funds for incarcerated protesters across the United States. While the episode is fairly US-centric, in order to reflect my own background as an American (separately from Sfinga and Salt being European), these formularies are intended to help anyone, and especially anyone marginalized by the state or especially vulnerable to its oppression, in their work so that they may live freely and well. If you can’t afford a particular item but have need of it, or are yourself part of a marginalized community, please reach out directly by email (broaderkey[at]gmail.com) or on Instagram and I’d be happy to work something out.
Court Case Oil
A court case oil nearly identical in composition to the formula that I employ when working with clients. calendula, galangal, and tobacco form the body of the oil, each awakened to align with their traditional virtues for victory in legal matters. Additional ingredients, such as the ashes of scripture, the ashes of legal documents from dropped and successfully defended cases, dirt from a court house, and dirt from the grave of a prominent civil rights attorney were added to sow confusion, mire the process in fortunate errors, and to respectively loosen the tongues of favorable witnesses and silence those against you.
1 fluid ounce / 30 milliliter amber glass dropper bottle. Price includes shipping and donations to charitable causes local to and verified by Key.
$50.00
Law Stay Away Oil
Rooted in traditional law-keep-away formulations, with additions to emphasize protection and luck in dangerous situations. Buried in locations noted for their significance to the contemporary civil rights movement in the United States, as well as a police station and the grave of a once-prominent civil rights lawyer. Devil’s shoestring, Dragon’s Blood, Tobacco, and more in a blend of carrier oils.
1 fluid ounce / 30 milliliter amber glass dropper bottle. Price includes shipping and donations to charitable causes local to and verified by Key.
$50.00
Indian Head Penny kit
Consists of an “Indian-head” penny and two nails, each awakened and dressed in advance with Law Keep Away oil, themselves having been buried in a similar array of places of power. Price includes shipping and donations to charitable causes local to and verified by Key.
$40.00
Implements of Magical Resistance
A bundle of Court Case oil, Law Keep Away oil, and an Indian Head Penny kit, for a slight discount.
2 fluid ounce / 30 milliliter amber glass dropper bottles, 1 “Indian head” penny, and 2 nails. Price includes shipping and donations to charitable causes local to and verified by Key.
$125.00
St. Christopher’s Protection Chaplets for Travelers, Second Edition
A fusion of chaplet and talisman designed to be taken on the road. For safety and protection during travel, and the elimination of interference along the way.
$125.00
Stay safe, protect your comrades, and fight the good fight.
Blessings again to all for the Feast of St. Expedite, the swift intercessor and expedient chariot to our souls! For our annual offering to the wondrous saint, I’ve teamed up with Mahigan of Kitchen Toad to deliver a set of tools and ritual implements alongside revamped and reinvigorated versions of our staple offerings, with a surprise episode of The Frightful Howls You May Hear to top it all off! This year’s products primarily invoke that which claws at the heels of the saint, the ever-incessant one that croaks “whatever may be, may it be tomorrow”. The title of this post, and of course the work itself, invokes a Serbo-Croatian adage that I learned from Sfinga: “Uždi svecu jednu svijeću, a đavolu dvije,”which translates to “light one candle to the saint, and two to the devil,”itself emphasizing the importance of giving the devil his due. We’ve told the story before, but for those unfamiliar the crow-devil lurking in the shadow of Expedite, I can not recommend highly enough both Sfinga’s article about her incredible “Cras” Powder (wherein she describes the vision she had that started this journey), and Episode 27: Hodie Et Cras: The Feast of Saint Expedite with Mahigan Saint-Pierre for additional explorations of the darker aspects of St. Expedite, more recent experiences from the entire crew, a comprehensive review of the collection and musings on its very existence, and a detailed account of the creation of each implement.
The idol-fetish of Cras, a naturally beheaded St. Expedite statue painted black with various oils and materia, affixed with a crow claw found crushed underfoot.
Cras
The Cras (“Tomorrow) materials are being sold through Kitchen Toad, being a part of an exclusive bundle [LINK] with Mahigan’s own Cras chaplets and candles. If you would like to purchase any of these pieces as well as peruse Mahigan’s additions, please see his store page [HERE] while supplies last.
Double Fast Unluck Powder:
A play on the famous Hoodoo formula, double fast unluck powder is primarily a jinxing and cursing powder designed to bring misfortune. Emphasis is however placed on the exploration of the “left” and “right” sides of each of the offerings in this collection; teasing the benefic out of the malefic and vice versa. This powder can be used in works intended to liberate people from addictions of various kinds, and incorporated into aggressive protections against predatory or otherwise malevolently inclined spirits.
What follows is a selection of the ingredients that went into the powder:
Ashes of losing lottery tickets
Ashes of various talismans that protect against spirits
Dust from the graves of those whose deaths were called “freak accidents”
Dust and rust from many cemetery gates
Dust from many crossroads
Failed exams
Traffic tickets
Fixed rice
Poppy seeds
Sesame seeds
Black mustard seeds
Pepper seeds of various kinds
Vandal roots
A beheaded crow, found crushed underfoot
Saturnian powder elected by Salt
Martial powder elected by Salt
Mars in Scorpio powder elected by Salt
Small pinch of Sfinga’s Cras powder
A sampling of the losing lottery tickets left at the feet of the crow-devil of tomorrow.
Burning the tickets to ash with the aide of a fixed cologne.
The final powder, with its pact sealed.
Expedite’s Shackles:
Be it the chains that hold the soon to be martyred Expeditus in his cell, or the talons of the crow that beckon him into tomorrow, our marvelous saint has been bound by myriad different fetters. This implement aims to recreate the bonds that can be placed on hostile spirits, be it through oath, bind, or threat. We describe a few situations in the episode in which Expedite’s shackles can be used, be it for good (in the case of restraining the spirit of a problem, thus eliminating it by pushing it to a never-instantiating tomorrow) or for ill (causing procrastination, subterfuge, confusion, and a complete halting of fortune in enemies).
Each copy of the shackles is roughly one meter in length, cut from the black chain that encircles the statue. The chain was sprinkled with dozens of herbs, dirts, dusts, and powders over the course of its consecration. To one end is attached the claw of a crow; to the other is a charm representing chains of St. Expedite’s shadow containing additional crow materia and various herbs and powders (including a hefty batch of double fast unluck powder).
One of the initial blessings of the chain, granting the capacity to ensnare spirits and people alike in a never-ending spiral, burdened by the freedom of infinite possibility.
Much of the crow materia of these chains was sourced directly from a crow that I found immediately outside of my home right after musing aloud that I would like to find a crushed (but with the head, wings, and claws still perfectly intact) specimen somewhere in the wild for this collection. Only ten minutes at most passed between my uttering of this wish and my neighbor and close friend, who had just walked by the building, calling me to ask if I had seen the crow right outside. Its main claw went to anoint the idol of the Crow-Devil, and to replace the severed hand over the statue, such that it may dangle candles from both ends of the wick over the void where its head once stood.
The idol of Cras with its chains in action.
As an example of workings that can be done with the shackles, my personal chain is here being used to restrain the action of an exploitative boss. The statue sits atop a floor tile taken from the workplace of the client and is adorned with the square of Saturn, and the chain binds a charm bundle containing his links alongside seeds of confusion and compulsion. Temporarily affixed to the opposite of the chain as the claw is a key.
The Cras Idol with its claws intact.
The final chains consecrated and ready for use.
Hodie
Of course, as we must ultimately triumph over Tomorrow with a proclamation of Today, some old favourites are making a return this year to lend a hand in doing so.
First and foremost, my Mercury in Nutmeg charms are back and better than ever, featuring two major changes compared to previous editions. Most importantly, the amalgam contained within each nutmeg has been improved after much experimentation to correspondingly increase the efficacy and potency of the talisman. Secondly, I’ve worked to improve the seal that keeps everything inside the Nutmeg contained, and I’m finally comfortable enough with its durability to provide these talismans in a form more familiar to their folkloric counterparts: a green flannel mojo hand, containing the nutmeg alongside various luck and money drawing herbs.
Additionally, each of my three Expedite oils is stocked and reinvigorated, having received another year’s worth of prayers and offerings upon the altar and fed with tinctures to the purpose.
Moments before feeding gold, silver, and other semiprecious metals to the mercury.
A more effective wax seal contains the Mercury for the 4th edition of the talisman.
Mercury in Nutmeg, 4th Edition
The Mercury in Nutmeg charms once again rear their heads! These talismans for all manner of luck-enhancement can be petitioned with your desires in mind in order to bring about expedient and radical changes in fortune. Adding another year of continuous experimentation with the aim of refining the ensorcelled components therein to the methods used in creating these talismans, the 4th edition of the Mercury in Nutmeg charms contain an improved variation of the amalgam that drives the spirit onward, born of metallurgical and alchemical processes hard won from the various patrons of these arts. Additionally, the method for sealing the nutmeg itself has been improved, allowing the form of the talisman to be much closer its folkloric counterparts: a green flannel mojo hand containing the nutmeg itself alongside various luck and money drawing herbs. As with previous editions of this talisman, a cantrip similar to the “knotting the wind” charm has been included to unleash a brief yet intense boost in luck in a critical moment. In order to use this extra boost in power, untie the red cord affixed to the talisman and burn it, scattering the ashes to the wind.
Those who have purchased previous editions report best results when carrying the charm with them, or keeping the it situated in work spaces, on computer desks, or inside the cash registers of their businesses. As these talismans are very much alive, the spirit should be nourished with offerings of strong, dark liquors such as whiskey, brandy or dark rum, tobacco smoke, red, green, or yellow candles, and praise upon successful completion of tasks.
All 4th edition Mercury in Nutmeg charms have been sold! Thank you all so much for the support!
Oil of St. Expedite: Gold Edition by B. Key
An oil built at the guiding hand of St. Expedite over many years and just as many iterations, bringing about countless successful workings, manifestations, and results for both myself and others along the way. This edition of the oil serves as a distilled offering to the Saint himself, primarily stirring him and his legions to action and guiding his virtues and sympathies into workings under his auspices. I recommend applying seven drops to the right foot of an image of St. Expedite upon the reception of this oil in order to complete a final personalized consecration.
Cinnamon bark, cinquefoil, coconut flesh, coffee beans, dice, eucalyptus, lemongrass, blessed palm fronds from a Catholic church, crumbs from multiple pound cakes offered to St. Expedite in exchange for successful workings in his name, roses fed holy water from three different Catholic churches and offered to St. Expedite on Easter, whole vanilla beans, wintergreen leaves, skeleton keys, scraps of cloth from a cape that adorned a statue of St. Expedite, dirt from various shrines to St. Expedite, gold, silver, a carrier oil kept and fed on St. Expedite’s shrine for one year from feast to feast, and additional vegetable, animal, and mineral components.
1 fluid ounce / 30 milliliter amber glass dropper bottle.
$60.00
Oil of St. Expedite: Red Edition by B. Key
An oil that expands on a traditional Hoodoo formula to bring luck in all forms, especially in financial and amatory workings. This edition of the oil was tested through cash bingo games at a local bar, thoroughly satisfying my expectations after winning 4 of the 7 games played, much to the delight, or chagrin, of the bar’s patrons.
Alkanet roots, multiple varieties of cinnamon bark, coconut flesh, blessed palm fronds from a Catholic church, roses fed holy water from three different Catholic churches and offered to St. Expedite on Easter Sunday, whole vanilla beans, scraps of cloth from a cape that adorned a statue of St. Expedite, a carrier oil kept and fed on St. Expedite’s shrine for one year from feast to feast, and additional vegetable, animal, and mineral components.
1 fluid ounce / 30 milliliter amber glass dropper bottle.
$60.00
Oil of St. Expedite: Green Edition by B. Key
An oil that expands on a traditional Hoodoo formula to bring monetary, financial, and business success, along with myriad other forms of wealth. This oil’s construction was made possible only after the Gold and Red editions brought the material and financial components included within.
Shredded currency won through gambling using the Red Oil, multiple varieties of cinnamon bark, cinquefoil, hyssop, indigo powder, lemongrass, multiple varieties of mint, coconut oil, sunflower oil, sweet almond oil, wormwood, gold, a carrier oil kept and fed on St. Expedite’s shrine for one year from feast to feast, and additional vegetable, animal, and mineral components.
1 fluid ounce / 30 milliliter amber glass dropper bottle.
$60.00
A Trinity of Oils by B. Key
For those who wish to purchase a set of of each Gold, Red, and Green editions of Expedite Oil, a discounted rate is available.
Three 1 fluid ounce / 30 milliliter amber glass dropper bottles.
$160.00
The products herein are made in limited quantity and offered on a first-come, first-serve basis as curios only. Please allow up to one week from the time of purchase to package and ship each order. An email with tracking information will be sent to the address associated with the PayPal account used at purchase.
For those interested in bespoke work or wholesale opportunities, contact me [here]. For additional services such as divination, spellwork for hire, and sorcerous consultation and coaching, check out my services page [here].
After so much prodding and teasing from dear friends who have been (generously!) boosting my work despite my complete lack of social media, I’ve finally been conjured by the Tetra-instagram-maton to go more public, and also to offer a full spectrum of services.
I’ve been quietly coaching a cohort of mentees in scrying, mediumship, spirit work, and sorcery, stewarding the growth of their abilities to take charge of their own craft and identify and commune with their spirit courts ever more deeply. Now, thanks to the generous support and encouragement of our supporters and listeners, I’m ready to open my books to wider array of clients.
I’m happy to offer divination, spell work services, mentorship, and custom talismans, charms, oils, and wares to suit your needs, informed by spirit augury and confirmed with divination, to better assist the flourishing of your sorcerous agency on your terms. You can find a full list of all my services at our link [HERE]. I’ll be posting more on Instagram over the next little while of my previous work as well as current projects, and debuting some important new collections over the coming months. I’m greatly looking forward to taking in a wider array of clients full time, and building on the great work already accomplished with my current mentees in the cultivation of further freedom and agency through magic.
Some of the materials called for by recipes preserved in various traditions of magic, be they oral or written, are fairly time-consuming to obtain. Thanks to popular demand from the listeners of our podcast (we love each and every one of you—thank you so much for making the show a joy to produce!), I decided to make some of the materia magica I’ve collected or crafted over available for purchase through the blog.
This is the first in what will undoubtedly be an ongoing series of materia which I will endeavor to refresh with some regularity. As mentioned on Episode 13: So You Think You Can Ward, every talisman, charm, and fetish that we make available on With Cunning & Command goes through strenuous testing to confirm its potency, which includes refreshing, praying over, and individually consecrating every building block which the spirits presiding over the work ensoul to their specifications. Much of this process involves how the materia itself is collected, by what manner its spirits are nourished, and how the ongoing pacts between land and witch are fed to ensure a profitable arrangement for both in every step of the gathering.
Before collecting any of the dirts herein, offerings were made to and permission was gained from the lords and ladies of each cemetery—as well as each individual grave the soil was collected from. In the case of the priests, archbishops, and nuns, the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be were prayed over each jar of dirt in the number of the individual spirits contacted (seventy-seven of each for the highest number of the batches). Each dirt is contained in a 1 fl. oz. / 30 mL glass bottle with cork lid, and each holy water sample is contained in a 1 fl. oz. / 30 mL amber glass dropper bottle. See Episode 14: Gathering Materia to hear some of the background philosophies behind their collection, as well as our advice on how to stretch your materia further and replenish your stock.
Dirt from the graves of 4 Catholic Archbishops
$21.00
Dirt from the graves of 7 Catholic priests
$21.00
Dirt from the graves of 7 Catholic nuns
$21.00
Dirt from the graves of 77 Catholic priests
$49.00
Dirt from the graves of 77 Catholic nuns
$49.00
Dirt from the central crosses of 7 cemetaries
$21.00
Holy water from 7 Catholic churches
$21.00
Holy water from 9 Catholic churches
$27.00
May this humble offering serve you well in the construction of your own charms, powders, incenses, and oils, and in further developing the tools and vessels of your individual spirit courts.
With Cunning & Command 