Author: B. Key

Seven Wards for Seven Destinies

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I wanted to begin by first offering my sincere thanks to everyone who has generously supported by Saint of Many Colours St. Expedite collection. The tremendous support and feedback has been nothing short of uplifting and I’m so humbled by the interest this project has received. This year, I will be working on many other such offerings, from entire lines like this one, to one-off amulets and bespoke creations that will eagerly await their future owners. Rest assured, the Jupiter in Cancer collection is forthcoming, and Sfinga and I are putting the final touches on it this month. In addition to a set of oils and charms grounded in the Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter, we will also be offering bespoke spirit vessels crafted with the aid of its blessings and auspices. Stay tuned for more as this special project is due to release in June.

In the meanwhile, I’m excited to share a one-of-one charm straight from the workshop: Seven Wards for Seven Destinies. This design is born of a prototype I constructed a few months ago, a twisted hydra of padlocks and keys securing existing blessings in the life of the conjurer, and ensuring their amplification by locking away misfortune and closing roads to the poor decisions that often lead to it. This version is a new beast altogether, primed in many colours to hold and secure virtues untold.

The charm undergoing testing before release.

The core of the charm itself is a written pact with the hydra therein, bound to its oath with the central padlock’s seal. Chains augment this binding, as a cross-cultural tool to pin down otherwise slippery and tricky spirits. Two additional locks are affixed with representative black and red thread; the former absorbing and making more vibrant all other possibilities bound to this charm, the latter warning any spirit that would bring misfortune down an unfortunate road otherwise sealed by this charm. Each of these binds its own small packet of finely ground herbal materials, which feature prominent road opening and road closing herbs in corresponding measure atop the fundamental powder that brings life and adheres the spirit to the material body of the charm. With this, I affixed additional locks with this powder as each blessing was secured, each head of this hydra bound to maintain it in turn.

Each color, in turn, secures a particular blessing and prevents the charm’s keeper from moving towards misfortune, having been dressed in my own stocks of corresponding oils and powders as I manipulated and charmed each serpentine thread, knotting and unknotting possibilities, futures, and fates, and picking through the wards and locks of those even more fixed in time. Once these entanglements were resolved, the benefic fates were sealed in one final shackle of each lock, and the key that sealed this fate bound as the new nexus around which these events converge.

  • Red firmly secures a path of force, and vibrancy, the dance that makes life worth living, and blocks out the bloodshed of accident and harms that could come to the charms keeper. Red lacks a key of its own, as the prospective keeper should affix a token to one of these strands to secure a pact with this coiled serpent. I recommend an old key of your own, a hagstone, the feather or bone of a spiritually significant animal, or any such similarly inspired object.
  • Yellow secures the material wealth that we already possess and prevents unnecessary expenditure. The Key affixed to yellow unlocks the treasures we encounter, and allows us to have wisdom and discernment when we open our own coffers.
  • Green adds the Viriditas of Hildegard, in all its vitality, lushness, and growth. Green lacks a key of its own; in its place, conjurer should affix lucky coins and similar milagros that they may become green in turn, growing in a bed of fertility and possibility into the very key upon which to build other workings.
  • Blue secures the fundamental blessing of enduring health and locks away illness and the spirits that cause it. The key affixed to blue reminds the keeper that there is always hope, and there is always an option to begin anew once this blessing is secure.
  • Pink binds love in all forms to the charm’s keeper, be it found in friends, family, lovers, or muses, while keeping us bound from entering into self-destructive or otherwise harmful relationships in turn. The affixed key can be dressed with oils for the same purpose to unlock hearts sealed away from reconciliation or hope for a better future.
  • Black offers the protection of concealment, binding shut your own cloak of this charms protection while closing and locking shut the eyes and lips of those who would seek to trespass against or speak falsely about the keeper of this charm. The affixed key can be used to close images of suspected gossips and known adversaries alike, sealing their slander away in the inky darkness.
  • White offers the protection and stability of synthesis, while sealing off the access points that ambient dead and harmful phenomena would otherwise use to access and affect the keeper of the charm. The key affixed to white is a skeleton in every sense, wielded to unlock any magic or crossed conditions in the path of the conjurer, offering to open a door to ritual purity at any time.

To work this charm, anoint the colour of choice with a corresponding oil of intention. In a pinch, simple olive oil prayed over and consecrated to this purpose will do. Write out your petition and recite it to the thread while holding it in a loop, then pull the end through to seal it into a wish. In time, this hydra will stand as a nest of petitions and bound commands, keeping them taught and pulled into their grasp so that nothing can wrestle them from you.

This is a bespoke one-of-one piece intended to go to a home that will work it hard for their security and gain. Further instructions will be provided to its keeper via e-mail, including three herb recipes for each coloured “arm”. Hang above the door or keep at one’s shrine for for vigilant protection, or keep in a bowl over cash, petitions, and pictures of what must be locked down and secured. This charm is recommended for a skilled practitioner who will be able to speak to its spirit, work alongside it, and knot their desires into fruition through its arms.

May it open each road to success and close each door to ruin.

This charm is sold out as of May 5, 2026. Thank you so much for your patronage!

A Saint of Many Colours

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St. Espidee is a saint of many colors, see […] Dat mean he wo’ many colors in his garments – many colors on his garments. Dat why yo’ use many diff’rent lights – red, yellah, green, blue. Each day he gits a diff’rent color light fo’ nine days. An’ each time yo’ light a light in front of dat lamp, yo’ ring dat bell an’ yo’ make dat wish…

Nahnee, the “Boss of Algiers”, as recorded in Harry Middleton Hyatt‘s Hoodoo Conjuration Witchcraft & Rootwork Volume 2

Blessed Beltane! Following the April whirlwind of St. Expedite’s feast day, a full-mooned Walpurgisnacht, and the corresponding third anniversary of The Frightful Howls You May Hear, the 2026 annual St. Expedite launch is upon us. In honor and devotion to our saint of many colours, and inspired by the multi-faceted view presented by the Boss of Algiers, I prepared six oils in his name, and revitalized the three primary.

This collection is a labour of love and adoration for this saint, and a desire to express his multitudes across conjure. Each oil was nourished and worked over the period of the last month to ensure that the colours expressed within their rainbow are clear and visible, using only natural ingredients and materia. My original three oils were further revitalized and nourished, and the other six were crafted at the feet of the saint using traditional hoodoo formulas as their bases, empowered by the light of the martyr to bring about swiftness and expediency in each of their actions. For example, the Blue Oil, built atop a traditional recipe for Psychic Oil, is tailored to smooth over the natural pauses and stutters of the medium, erasing the “ums”, and “ahhs” that can distract from a clear reading, in addition to its usual effect of increasing psychic clarity. The Purple Oil, being an Expedite-themed version of Dream Oil, brings dream recall to the user with swiftness and clarity, and can also be used to promote lucid dreaming. Seven star anise seed pods may be dressed with this oil and hung in a witch’s ladder above the bed to create a powerful charm for dream recall, clarity, and manipulation.

Even the ingredients that went into each oil (and charm!) were sourced under the light of the saint’s cross. I solicited and carried his blessing with me each time I set out to hunt my treasures, ensuring that I captured the cherry blossoms right at peak bloom for the Pink Oil, acquiring the coffee grounds used across the launch from specialty roasters and sourcing them based on their tasting notes and origin (from countries that have a known veneration to the saint), and acquiring each St. Expedite medallion in person as opposed to buying them online. The medals themselves I sourced from a craft store that has a dish out of various saint medals on display. I picked them clean and anointed them immediately with one of the oils I was working on to claim them for myself, and worked them diligently to transform them into the keychain charms you see below. I’m especially fond of these discreet little charms that can be worn as a pendant or placed on one’s keychain for protection against the evil eye. I wrapped heart-shaped red nazar beads behind simple keys to always watch over their wearers, and bound the medals over them so that the saint protects their back. I have a great fondness for knotwork and macramé in all its forms, and the red thread that binds these was itself prayed over in each stage of unwinding, measurement, cutting, and binding.

The three charms you see below were all made as hands of the saint. I keep a trinity of them on my own shrine, as does Sfinga, who generously tested them and worked them until we were both satisfied with their results. The purple and red Armour of Expedite is a joint collaboration between her and I, and feature a genuine four-leaf clover in each, as well as pieces of the pound cake Sfinga baked on his feast, the yeast having been risen with holy water collected from Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel in New Orleans on his feast many years ago, where his famous statue lies. I’m so delighted to release this collection in deep devotion to this incredible worker of miracles. Here is a spirit who has been fundamental in my own adventures, ever challenging me to move a little faster, bet a little higher, retreat a little wiser, and drink a little deeper of the passion, virility, risk, fun, and pure “magic” of life itself. I hope these gifts bring you as many delights as there are colours of this incredible saint’s mantle.

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 for me to package and ship each order. Shipping is included in the cost of each item, and an email with tracking information will be sent automatically to the address associated with the PayPal account used at purchase. Oils are sold as 1 fl. oz. (30 mL) volumes in amber glass dropper bottles.

In addition to this suite of oils, I also prepared a handful of complimentary charms, including a protection charm in collaboration with Sfinga!

The next edition of my Mercury in Nutmeg charms are, at the time of writing, undergoing their final consecrations. Please keep your eye out for a post dedicated to these charms, as availability will be limited! Also, a CRAS-themed parallel to this collection will be coming ”Later”…

Thank you, St. Expedite, for guiding my hands.

An Oil According to Their Deeds

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Give them according to their deeds…:
In the wake of Episode 74 of the Frightful Howls, I composed this formula to meet the needs of this month’s first community ritual for invisibility from adversaries. Following the ritual, in dialogue with the spirits involved and with the spirit of the oil itself, we came to the decision to release this to the public to better facilitate the goal of granting additional forms of protection through concealment to those in need.

…And according to the wickedness of their endeavours:
The composition of the oil began with the sun and ended with the moon, each drawn down through sympathetic herbs and resins such that the eclipse of the solar powder with the lunar grants the same power of occlusion to those who wield the oil. I used fennel to “steal” any remaining fire from the solar materia, and conjured it to redirect the light and heat of attention, prying eyes, and inquisitive minds away from the bearer. A mixture of seeds was added in an uncountable sum to introduce confusion and redirection through delay, in addition to serpent sheds, that the bearer may shed away old guises and take up new ones at a moment’s notice. To further enliven and empower the quiet beast that is this oil, I constructed multiple distinct talismanic cores as “organs” to form the body of the spirit within: a written copy of Psalm 28:4 atop a petition and pact sealed with wax, specific shells and animal materia, resins collected from lucky and auspicious trees, and bundles composed of cloth and herb containing traditional formulas for law-keep-away work (including my personal law-keep-away powder) in the American folkloric context to grant distinct protective, evasive, and deceptive functions and frayed threads from old charm bags to unravel plots and magic against you like old cloth.

Give them after the work of their hands…:
Additional consecrations were completed on the oil under the dual lights of the recent eclipsed blood moon and the concurrent selenelion, at which time the now-pronounced redness of the oil was captured and augmented. I then brought the primary bottle of the oil with me to a place of conflict, a place of unjust law enforcement activity, a visible place, and a cursed place, and again tested the spirit’s ability to protect, to obfuscate, to distract, to hide, and to enact revenge. Each of the tests was passed with flying colors.

…Render to them their desert:
This oil’s functions are diverse, ranging from protection and invisibility to retributive and even vampiric functions, each use dependent on the creativity and interaction of the conjurer. As something slightly more enlivened than other oils I’ve produced, I suggest spending time contemplating the oil in various forms – on a candle, in a lamp, on petitions, on photos, on your hands, and in the environment to tease out mysteries and uses. The spirit of this oil is one responsive to need, and is hungry to right what it sees as wrongs. I suggest using the oil somewhat regularly, so that it does not get bored. It can be fed with a neutral carrier oil to extend its life, although I recommend not stretching it further if the scent of cinnamon is no longer detectable in your original bottle.

Each order includes 1 fluid ounce (30 mL) amber glass dropper bottle of the Oil According to Their Deeds. Shipping included. Please allow for up to a week from the time of your order for me to ship via the USPS.

5th Pentacles of Mars on Lion

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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!

Oil of Helios’ Triumph

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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.

To Hold a Spirit Up – St. Christopher’s Charm Bundles for Spirit Manifestation

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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.

Mercury in Nutmeg, Fifth Edition

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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!

Earthen charms against the wayward Dead

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UPDATE: These charms are available once again!

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!

An Offering of Landlord Domination Talismans

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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!

Implements of Magical Resistance

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“…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.

Show Notes 33_ Law Stay Away and Magical ResistanceDownload

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.