magic

Magical Journeying - Part 2 from tylluanpenry 94 days old

[ ... ] that in magic, or indeed in magical worlds, there is an echo of what is in our real, day to day world. By recognising magic in this world, we make ...

The Magic Word - Abracadabra! from tylluanpenry 99 days old

Just a brief digression from Anglo Saxon magic today. But I hope you find it interesting all the same. A great deal of magical practice seems to cross ...

My first spell.....apologies for it being so long.... from tylluanpenry 246 days old

‘How do you get rid of warts, Aunty?’ I was covered in them. Horrible gnarled things that encircled my fingernails like tree roots. ‘Let me see.’ ...

Cows with names.... a form of magic from tylluanpenry 296 days old

[ ... ] of magic, giving a cow a name is a must. Likewise with any pet, if you give them a human name, they tend to behave in a more human manner. ...

The Peaceful Grape.... from tylluanpenry 549 days old

Here you can see the vine in my garden just starting to come into leaf. Sometimes in a good summer we even manage to get a few grapes on it, but to ...

The 8 minute witch.... from tylluanpenry 555 days old

[ ... ] and magic take years of work to master. There is no way to make this any easier, because it's a test of character as much as anything else. ...

Pin, Rag and Nail trees from tylluanpenry 585 days old

One of Jack Frost's posts (about Shoe Trees) set me thinking about Pin, Rag and Nail trees, all of which were popularly used for healing in this country. ...

This time of year from tylluanpenry 709 days old

There's something very special about this time of year. The moment I wake up (especially when it's not raining I'm aware of a tingle in the air hard ...

Magic and Water from tylluanpenry 752 days old

One of the strange things about learning to do magic is that the better you get at it, the less you need to do it. I’m not quite sure why this should ...

The Magic of Thought Forms, part 2 from tylluanpenry 790 days old

[ ... ] at magic (and even then I have my doubts) but with thought forms there is an added hazard - if you create something which for some reason ...