It is hard to imagine that this is the sixth release of my take on the Mercury in Nutmeg luck talismans, and moreover the fifth year in a row that I’ve offered them for public sale. Over the past half decade, I’ve been experimenting with my fascination and love for these beautiful and reliable charms across the board, programming them for different purposes and at times dedicating them to different spirits. I initially encountered them within the genre of magical books known as the Black and White Magic of Marie Laveau as “The Best Gambling Hand (Toby)” and worked them extensively for fast luck, fortune, gambling, and other such currents. My initial runs of them have focused largely on these properties, crafted under the auspices of St. Expedite, who has been an enduring foundation for their creation. Now, I’m especially excited to release a brand new instantiation of the Mercury in Nutmegs, intended to compliment the previous ones while also working beautifully on their own: the Gold Edition.
Filled with mercury, adorned with gold.
This is a new innovation on the Mercury in Nutmeg charm, born of mastery, sovereignty, and riches of treasure hunting. I was especially inspired by the alchemical natures of mercury and gold, as well as the many legends I’ve encountered across American and Mexican folklore of mercury being used to hunt for gold in treasure hunting expeditions, with the substance seen as inherently seeking out gold like a magnet. Those who have followed my work for the last few years know I have a special affinity for magical treasure hunting across spiritual traditions. I am excited to finally marry my love of treasure hunting, alchemy, and the nutmeg charms in one form, blessed once more at the hands of St. Expedite, as well as several of my most trusted spirits in all these arts.
The “Toby” from The Genuine Black and White Magic of Marie Laveau.
The Gold edition is born from the same base of Indian nutmeg filled with mercury and sealed with wax, such that when physically shaken you can feel the liquid metal moving within. In addition to the usual properties of bringing luck and fortune to their bearers, these are especially fine tuned to remove ambient misfortune and convert it into fortune, alchemizing base substances into gold. Those who tested the prototypes described them as “toothier”, possessing a more aggressive ability to hunt down and convert malaise, an absence of passion, motivation, and willpower, as well as evil eye into sources of luck. They are called upon to convert any time the names of their owners are spoken of negatively into blessings, such that even idle gossip and jealousy can become a fuel for victory and mastery.
One amidst many.
These nutmegs were laid on a bed of genuine, ethically-sourced lion skin fur to provide them with additional solar glory and mastery. They were fully enchanted and enlivened within yesterday’s Sunday solar hour, which also happened to be the Serbian Orthodox feast of Vidovdan so renowned for cultivating psychic sight and discernment. Sfinga actively assisted me in their construction, praying different bajalice (oral charms) over them as they lay at the feet of the saint. Upon nutmeg and lion skin were added the materia of black cat, five finger grass, a drop of every Expedite oil from my Saint of Many Colours collection (drawn from a personal not-for-sale Rainbow Oil), High John the Conqueror root, real gold flakes, and more. Each is bound in gold-coloured fabric resembling its innards and tied with gold thread.
This edition works beautifully with any previous incarnation of my Mercury in Nutmegs, ensuring that all fortune drawn is also protected from and also fed by the envy of others in recognition. These charms passively consume and convert maledictions, and as such they are especially fruitful when carried on the person to events, presentations, work meetings, and any area in which you expect to confront the projections and misconceptions of others. With their vigilant feline protection and alchemical mastery, they proudly proclaim “let them talk!”, devouring each ill thought and utterance into a newfound source of power for the cultivation of fortune and authority. While these are excellent allies to anyone down on their luck, they are also phenomenal for those already well-grounded, as they magnify the protection and success of other surrounding blessings and charms present in one’s life.
The nutmegs may be carried alone or together, or kept in the workplace, by the home office, or in one’s purse or everyday carry bag for maximum effect. They may be given whiskey, brandy, or dark rum along with tobacco and candles of the colour of their cloths in thanks. Additionally, they may be used and manipulated by your spirits as tools for their own arsenal, and similarly may be kept on their person at their shrines to passively boost them.
A light within the mine.
Only 11 are available for sale, and it is unlikely that I will make this specific edition again for some years. Each year, these charms have sold out within 24 to 48 hours of release, and it is always an absolute delight to hear back from everyone about how they feel and respond to their unique energies and courts.
All nutmegs will be shipped within seven business days of purchase. My thanks go out to each and every one of you for your patronage and support of my work. May they bring you success beyond your wildest dreams.
They prick and preen at the fraying edges of memory, ripping out threads of vigour like worms. They darken the eyes of perception with their wings, bringing shadows to even the most illuminated foregrounds. They steal the most vital and precious of treasures, time itself, and retreat them into their nests of delays.
They are the Familiars of Tomorrow: the Devils in the Details.
A familiar in waiting.
In my Saint of Many Colours collection for St. Expedite, I teased that an additional “CRAS” themed addition would be coming, ever so thematically, “later”, and that time has finally come. These are individual familiars from within the retinue of the Crow Devil of Tomorrow under the Holy Martyr’s foot, contracted to become familiars to witches, sorcerers, karcists, and any manner of worker in need of a more malefic ally. These are not for the faint of heart, being little devils that bring destruction, delay, procrastination, and forgetfulness to enemies. They may be set over pictures of rivals, business competition, or others requiring domination to ensure they forget important deadlines, dates, and obligations, to corrupt divination results and blur the truth within them, to ensure one delays and neglects their own spiritual hygiene, protection, and offerings, and to break oaths and promises through neglect. These are primarily malefic spirits, best suited to aid those in need of humbling enemies and preventing them from having power over them. If you are in need of a superior at work to forget your mistakes and overlook them, a parent-in-law to no longer wish to visit and prefer the laziness of solitude, or a rival to lose their creativity and passion for productivity, these familiars will happily assist for a small price.
Much as with my and Sfinga’s earlier experimentations with the Crow Devil of Tomorrow as companion, adversary, and subjugated familiar of our holy martyr, every piece of this fetish charm, from conception to construction, was fraught with delays. The necessary ingredients and materia came slowly into my hands, resisting swift accumulation. The spirits themselves, each bound to their own vessels, continually followed me as I birthed their forms, stalking me whenever I was out gathering the materia as crows. While they continually tested me, as is their nature, I carried with myself a cloak of red fabric fed a rooster on the feast of St. Expedite as an emblem of the holy martyr’s mantle, at times tying it to my leg to trample over their influence, and at other times wearing it on my arm to brace myself for their handling.
In time, as the full recipe revealed itself to me, I was able to come across the final pieces necessary with their assistance. Their cores are made with a medley of ingredients sourced from the very same origins as Sfinga’s CRAS powder, with a head made from a devil pod that I foraged by hand at a lonely lighthouse where St. Expedite and his crows were propitiated. They are each crowned with a crow’s foot, embedded within black wax from candles dressed and lit in his name. The entire fetish bundle is wrapped tight in layers of black cloth and thread over clay in which the powder matrix is incorporated. Embedded within the clay beneath the thread are twelve guinea pepper seeds to bring heat and aggression, as well as six match sticks with their heads pointing outwards, which threaten to light themselves on the seeds should any misfortune come to their keepers. Additionally, together they form a clock of twelve sections, each having been prayed over to bring delays and misfortune to enemies.
A crow in a nest of dice.
Each familiar also comes with a set of three dice which were washed, fumigated, and perfumed during the feast of St. Expedite this year, as well as having been generously anointed with my Blue Oil of divination. You may use any three dice oracle of your choosing to speak with these spirits (a great example of which can be found on our good friend Matthew Venus’ blog); simply print off the instructions or rules of the chosen oracle and place it under a black candle lit to the fetish to allow them to memorize and understand its structure. The dice may be used to speak with them, as well as to ensure St. Expedite’s control over them is maintained even if you do not have an active St. Expedite practice.
The dice washed on St. Expedite’s feast.
When your fetish charm arrives, burn myrrh incense and inform your spirits that a new familiar is joining your home. Fumigate it in front of the shrine of your primary spirits and give your crow devil a name of your choosing that it will respond to from now on. Etch the name into a black candle and burn it before it. After it finishes burning, you may commune with the spirit any time by etching the name again into another black candle and rolling your dice in front of it while the flame is still burning. The familiars may be fed offerings of black candles, food just past its expiration (or “best before”) date that had been forgotten, any sort of sticky licorice candy, and anything shiny that corvids would enjoy (coins, broken jewelry, gemstones and beads), as well as broken or stopped watches.
It is my hope that these familiars find their new sorcerer companions and serve them well as rogues and spies. You do not need to have a practice with St. Expedite to work with them; they are consecrated under pacts with him to obey their keepers and not bring harm to them. However, if you do have a shrine to the saint, keeping these by his feet would be an auspicious placement. Otherwise, they may be placed near windows to fly freely and bring messages to you when not in active use. To set them upon a target, simply print off their photo, mark them up as a petition, and place it under the fetish while burning a black candle with their name inscribed before them. Additionally, you may knot the name of your victim nine times into red thread which you then wrap around the claw to further bind them to your familiar as its target.
May you always reign today while your enemies delay until tomorrow.
Only five are available. All familiars will be shipped out within seven business days of purchase.
All familiars have been purchased. Thank you so much for your patronage!
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.
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With Cunning & Command 