Bone Collecting
Blessing suffumigations of the dead A bone collector is someone who gathers the bones of the dead and honours them – not kills things for their bones. Rendered bear fat, bear drum, amanitas, bear...
View ArticleOf Blood, Spirits, and Visions
I don’t know what it is about this season of death and the coming of winter, but it makes me more secretive and private and withdrawn. I am moving inward instead of outward and everything feels too...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Necromancy
Defining Necromancy Necro just means death (necropolis, necrosis, necronomicon… you get it) and has two meanings: the first is a form of divination/mediumship/spiritwork involving the summoning of the...
View ArticleA Day of Bone Collecting, Poisons, and Magic
Today I hung out with bone collectors, and, yes, it was awesome indeed. Old Woman now has the mountain lion and bear skulls to complete her altar composed of dead things – bones, skulls, antlers,...
View ArticleThe Garden of Blood and Bones
Palo Mayombe – The Garden of Blood and Bones by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold This treasure arrived today at my door and I stroked its besigiled cover as I brought it across my threshold. I have been...
View ArticleHow to See in the Dark: A Practitioners’ Dialogue on Working with Darkness in...
“The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great...
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View ArticleBone Collecting: Cleansing & Consecration
When you bring home new bones and skulls (or other animal parts), and before you add them to your altar or craft fetiches or tools of them, you should first cleanse them. This prevents energies from...
View ArticleWestern Gate Samhain Festival
Last weekend I hopped in the Shaman’s truck with Mel and Kerri and after meeting up with more friends we all drove up North together to the Okanagan stopping in Hope to have lunch with Huntress and...
View ArticleCollecting the Bones of Trees
There are many books of magic, ethnobotany, and cooking in my living room, staring at my lonely unwarped loom, but hidden away in the darkness of my room is a seldom-seen collection of books. Some...
View ArticleThe Old Graveyard on the Hill
I wanted to go the graveyard on Samhuin and leave offerings to the forgotten dead, but life and magic kept getting in the way so I took the hint from spirit and went on the third day. I paid a penny...
View ArticleMysteries of Beast, Blood and Bone
© 2013 Sarah Anne Lawless – Originally printed in Serpent Songs: An Anthology of Traditional Craft curated by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold and published by Scarlet Imprint. Do not copy or use any...
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