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St. Cyprian – Patron Saint of Necromancers

There are two saints known as Cyprian and there has been much confusion between these two martyrs as it is said that both bishops were born in Carthage sometime in the 3rd century, one was an orator and teacher, the other, a pagan necromancer that traveled around the Mediterranean in order to expand his occult knowledge who now bears the image of the other. He is known and prayed to as Saint Cyprian of Antioch.

Very little is known about this ‘saint’ who is sometimes petitioned for love, luck, money, etc., but one thing is for certain, those are not the characteristics of his mythic nature, as most do not know of his dark and sinister past.

It is said that Cyprian of Antioch was born in Carthage as a pagan child dedicated to the service of Apollo, Greek God of light, youth, healing, and prophecy.  He entered the mysteries of Mithras at the age of seven, carried the torch of Demeter, wore the white garments of Kore, and served the serpent of Pallas. He was then sent off to Mount Olympus to be initiated into communion of dæmons who are born from the echoes of the heavenly voices, feeding only on fruits and acorns after sunset for twenty-nine days.

At the age of ten he learned divination from the movement of animals, the sound of trees, and from the whispers of the dead. At the age of fifteen he lived in Argos and served the goddess Juno. He then lived in Icara where he served the goddess Diana, and then Sparta where he learned incantations on how to commune with the dead.

He moved to Memphis, Egypt at the age of twenty where he learned the ways of possession and demonology, meeting the dæmons the Great Solomon once had. It is also said that this is where Cyprian learned how to magically induce natural disasters.

At thirty years old, he set out to learn from the Chaldeans, astrology, herbology, as well as the motion of ether, fire, and light. This is where Cyprian met and honored the Devil, thus, he was entrusted with an infantry of dæmons.

“His form was like a golden flower adorned with precious stones, and he crowned his head with stones that were twined together—the energies of which illuminated that plain, and his garment was no different—and when he enwreathed himself, he shook the land.” —Confession of Cyprian of Antioch

He then moved to Antioch where he became a famous philosopher and a powerful sorcerer.  One day a young man named Aglaïdas came to seek his services to win the love of a virgin named Justina. He sent out several dæmons who were unsuccessful in turning her will. Justina’s god was more powerful and through prayer, no dæmon could harm her. And after several attempts, Cyprian’s magic was extinguished.  Seeing this, the Devil himself tried to carry on the mission, but after Justina made the sign of the cross, his attempts were also unsuccessful.

The powerless Cyprian renounced his pagan practices and went to Justina to plea for his live, turned away, he approached the Christian god, where he was shown mercy. After converting to Christianity, he eventually worked his way through the hierarchy and became the Bishop of Antioch. He was then turned over by the people to the Roman governor of the region, where he would be judged for shaming their gods and turning people away from them. Both Justina and Cyprian we tortured by being thrown in a boiling cauldron, but no harm came to them, fearing their sorcery, they were sent to Nicomedia were they were both beheaded.

During his confession prior to his death, he recounted the acts he committed, killing people physically and magically, decapitating dark-skinned youth to Hekate, burying young adults to Pluto, giving the blood of virgins to Pallas and the blood of full grown men to Kronos.

It was in Portugal during the 19th century, that a book bearing his name appeared, The Great Book of Saint Cyprian, in which the legend tells us that this book was written by the saint himself, and contains spells and incantations that terrifies anyone who possess it. Legend also says that if read in its entirety it will attract the devil himself. This book was later taken to Brazil where its practices were infused with the Afro-Caribbean religions of Umbanda and Candomble, where he is venerated alongside the Pombagiras of Kimbanda.

Today, his image is that of a bishop wearing a white alb, a purple cope, a mitre, a golden crozier, while holding a bible. But what most people do not know is that this particular image is a variation of the image of Saint Cyprian of Carthage as there have been no images found of a Cyprian of Antioch .

Unfortunately, Cyprian has now been deemed a fictional character as historians found no evidence of his existence and his confession was classified as a borrowed literally work, which eventually lead the Vatican to remove him from the list of saints in 1968. But, whatever spirit has taken on the name, it carries it proudly and effectively, and so, he shall remain as such, Cyprian of Antioch, Patron Saint of Necromancers.

How I honor, serve, and work with Cyprian:

He is called upon to aid in any workings when dealing directly with the dead. His statue was placed inside a cauldron filled with graveyard dirt and surrounded by the ashes of the dead. He was given seven gold coins, seven acorns, seven nails, a dagger, a skull of a black dog, and a purple candle which is lit on Fridays, the day I observe the dead. He was also given a second cauldron filled with liquids for divination. On his feast day, September 26, I light for him seven candles after sunset and feed him with fruits.

Personal Prayer to Cyprian:

In the name of Cipriano and his seven candles, on behalf of his black dog and his seven gold coins. In the name of Cipriano and his silver dagger. In the name of Cipriano and his holy mountain. In the name of the tree of the zephyrs and the great oak. I ask and shall be answered, by the 7 churches of Rome, the seven lamps of Jerusalem, the seven golden candles of Egypt. Amen.

Personal Prayer to Cyprian against an enemy:

Mighty Cipriano, sorcerer of shadows and occult powers, to you whom nothing is impossible, through your conjure, by your Holy Dagger, cut the tongue of my enemies, the wicked and the malicious who want to bring their evil to my home. Return twice as much what was sent to me, sheltering and protecting me at all times. Amen.

_______________________________ Sources: The Chaldean Oracles Picatrix Greek Mysteries, 2003 Greek and Roman Necromancy, 2004 The Confession of Cyprian of Antioch, 2009 El Gran Libro de San Cipriano, 2005 Orthodox Christian Information Center

_______________________________ For more information and ways to serve him, you can purchase my booklet on St. Cyprian at: www.vodoustore.com

Breaking a Curse

Sooooo you’re not sure what’s going on in your life but you think you could be cursed? Luckily you have several options!

1. Burn a bay leaf at dawn and again at sunset. Allow the smoke to waft over you and when the leaves have finished smoldering scatter them in the wind.

2. Burn black salt. I personally like to write a small incantation on a slip of paper and use it to light the salt letting it all burn together.

3. Natural water. Enter a lake, stream, river, or other naturally occurring body of water. Water is extremely conductive and can easily carry away most curses or ill intent sent your way.

4. Take a bath with epsom salt and curse breaking herbs bay leaves, fennel, jasmine, sage, and nettles are all soild choices.

5. Clean your house with curse breaking herbs. Mop the floors, clean the windows, wash the doors paying attention to the threshold and when you’re finished throw the mop water out the back door.

These are a few of my personal favorites as far as beginner curse breaking in concerned! These aren’t for everyone and I caution you to take heed and practice with care!

Magickal Properties of Incense

(by Raven and Crone)

The spiritual meanings of fragrances and magickal properties of incense will help focus your mind on achieving specific goals. Burning incense has a symbolic meaning that helps pagans and witches focus their attention on the purpose of a ritual or magickal working. ACACIA: Burned with sandalwood to stimulate the psychic powers. AFRICAN VIOLET: Burned for protection and to promote spirituality within the home. ALLSPICE: Burned to attract both good luck and money. ALOES: Burned to attract good fortune, love, spiritual vibrations, and strength. ALTHEA: Burned for protection and to stimulate the psychic powers. AMBER: Burned for love, comfort, happiness and healing AMBERGRIS: Burn for dreams and aphrodisiac ANGELICA: Burn for protection, harmony, integration, insight and understanding, stability and meditation ANISE SEEDS: Burned as a meditation and emotional balance incense. BASIL: Burned to exorcise and protect against evil entities such as demons and unfriendly ghosts, and to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy, and wealth. This is also an excellent incense to use when performing love divinations. Also burn for concentration, assertiveness, decisiveness, trust, integrity, enthusiasm, mental clarity, cheerfulness, confidence and courage BAY: Burned to facilitate the psychic powers, and to induce prophectic dream-visions. BAYBERRY: Burned mainly to attract money and also burned for protection, happiness and control BENZOIN: Burned for purification, astral projection, clears negative energy, emotional balance, eases sadness, depression, weariness, grief, anger, anxiety and to attract prosperity. BERGAMONT: Burn for money, prosperity, uplifting of spirits, joy, protection, concentration, alertness, confidence, balance, strength, courage, motivation and assertiveness BISTORT: Burned often with frankincense as a powerful incense to aid divination. BRACKEN: Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain. CARDAMOM: Burn for mental clarity, concentration, confidence, courage, enthusiasm and motivation CARNATION: Burn for protection, strength, healing, love and lust CEDAR: Burned for purification, to stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, attract love, prevent nightmares, and heal various ailments, including head colds. CEDARWOOD: Burn for healing, purification, protection, money, balance, grounding, clarity, insight and wisdom CHAMOMILE: Burn for harmony, peace, calm, spiritual and inner peace CINNAMON: Burned for protection and to attract money, wealth, prosperity, business success, stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, and aid in healing. Also burned for stimulation, strength and lust CITRON: Burned in rituals to aid healing and also to strengthen the psychic powers. CITRONELLA: Burn for cleansing, warding off, healing and exorcism CLOVE: Burned to dispel negativity, purify sacred and magickal spaces, attract money, and stop or prevent the spread of gossip. Also burn for pain relief, intellectual stimulation, business success, wealth, prosperity, divination, exorcism, protection, eases fears, improves memory and focus COCONUT: Burned for protection. COPAL: Burned for purification, uplifting spirits, protection, exorcism, spirituality and to attract love. CYPRESS: Burn for strength, comfort, healing, eases anxiety, stress, self-assurance, confidence, physical vitality, willpower and concentration DAMIANA: Burned to facilitate psychic visions. DITTANY OF CRETE: Burned to conjure spirits and to aid in divination, astral projection, especially when mixed with equal parts of benzoin, sandalwood, and vanilla. DRAGONS BLOOD: Burned to dispel negativity, exorcise evil supernatural entities, courage, purification, attract love, and restore male potency. Many Witches also burn dragon’s blood for protection when spell casting and invoking. When added to other incenses, dragon’s blood makes their magickal powers all the stronger. ELECAMPANE: Burned to strengthen the clairvoyant powers and scrying abilities-divination by gazing. EUCALYPTUS: Burn for healing, purification and protection FERN: Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain. Also used to exorcise evil supernatural entities. FRANKINCENSE: Burned to dispel negativity, spirituality, purify magickal spaces, consecration, protect against evil, exorcism, aid meditation, astral strength, induce psychic visions, courage, protection, attract good luck, and honor Pagan deities. FUMITORY: Burned to exorcise demons, poltergeists, and evil supernatural entities. GALANGAL: Burned to break the curses cast by sorcerers. GARDENIA: Burn for peace, love and healing GINGER: Burn for wealth, lust, love and magical power GINSENG ROOT: Burned to keep wicked spirits at bay, and for protection against all forms of evil. GOTU KOLA: Burned to aid meditation. HEATHER: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, and to magickally produce rain. HIBISCUS FLOWERS: Burned to attract love, lust and also for divination. HONEYSUCKLE: Burn to attract money, happiness, friendship and healing HOREHOUND: Burned as an offertory incense to the ancient Egyptian god Horus. HYACINTH: Burn for happiness and protection JASMINE: Burned to attract love and money, and also to induce dreams of a prophectic nature, purification, wisdom and astral projection JUNIPER: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and also to break curses, exorcism and hexes cast by evil sorcerers. It is also burned for calming, protection and healing. LAVENDER: Burned to induce rest and sleep, and to attract love-especially of a man. Also burned for cleansing, healing, happiness and relaxation LEMON: Burn for healing, love and purification LEMONGRASS: Burn for mental clarity LILAC: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract harmony into ones life. LOTUS: Burn to elevate mood, protection, spirituality, healing and meditation MACE: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. MASTIC: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and intensify sexual desires. The magickal powers of other incenses are greatly increased when a bit of mastic is added. MESQUITE: The magickal powers of all healing incenses are greatly increased when mesquite is added. MINT: Burned to increase sexual desire, exorcise evil supernatural entities, conjure beneficial spirits, and attract money. Mint incense also possesses strong healing vibrations and protective powers. MUSK: Burn for aphrodisiac, prosperity, courage MYRRH: Burned (often with frankincense) for purification, consecration, healing, exorcism, and banishing evil. Myrrh is also aids meditation rituals, and was commonly burned on alters in ancient Egypt as an offering to deities Isis and Ra. NUTMEG: Burned to aid meditation, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract prosperity. OAKMOSS: Burned for money and attraction ORANGE: Burned for divination, love, luck and money PATCHOULI: Burned to attract money, love, growth, mastery, sensuality and also to promote fertility. PEPPERMINT: Burned for energy, mental stimulant, exorcism and healing PINE: Burned for purification, and to banish negative energies, exorcise evil supernatural entities, and attract money, as well as to break hexes and return them to their senders. Also burned for grounding, strength, cleansing and healing POPPY SEEDS: Burned to promote female fertility, and to attract love, good luck, and money. ROSE: Burned to increase courage, induce prophetic dreams, house blessing, fertility, healing and attract love. Rose incense is used in all forms of love enchantment and possesses the strongest love vibration of any magickal incense. ROSE GERANIUM: Burned for courage and protection ROSEMARY: Burned to purify, aid in healing, prevent nightmares, preserve youthfulness, dispel depression, attract fairy folk, and promote restful sleep and pleasant dreams. RUE: Burned to help restore health. SAGE: Burned for protection against all forms of evil. It is also burned to purify sacred spaces and ritual tools. Plus it is great for promoting wisdom, clarity, attract money, and aid in the healing the body, mind, and soul. SAGEBRUSH: Burned to aid healing, and to banish negative energies and evil supernatural entities. SANDALWOOD: Burned to exorcise demons and evil ghosts, conjure beneficial spirits, and promote spiritual awareness. Sandalwood incense is also used by many Witches for protection, astral projection, healing rituals and in wish-magick. SOLOMONS SEAL: Burned mainly as an offertory incense to ancient Pagan deities. STAR ANISE SEEDS: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. STRAWBERRY: Burned to attract love and for luck. SWEETGRASS: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits prior to spell casting. SWEET PEA: Burned for friendship, love and courage THYME: Burned for the purification of magickal spaces prior to rituals, to aid in healing, and to attract good health. VANILLA: Burned to attract love, increase sexual desire, and improve the powers of the mind. VERVAIN: Burned to exorcise evil supernatural entities. VETIVERT: Burned to break curses, exorcism, for protection against black magick and thieves, money, peace and love. VIOLET: Burn for wisdom, luck, love, protection and healing WILLOW: Burned to avert evil, attract love, and promote healing. It is also used by many Witches as an offertory incense for Pagan lunar deities. WISTERIA: Burned for protection against all forms of evil. WORMWOOD: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. When mixed with sandalwood and burned at night in a cemetery, wormwood is said to be able to conjure spirits from their graves. YARROW: Burned to arrow courage, exorcism YLANG-YLANG: Burned for love, harmony and euphoria

Witchcord Masterpost

Below are an assortment of discord servers with a focus on witchcraft, paganism, metawork, the occult, and more! This list is constantly being updated, so please keep tabs on this post for new servers!

Last edit: July 29, 2018

The Nightshade Network

The Nightshade Network is an active, 18+ Discord server for witches, pagans, magical practitioners, diviners, spirit workers, and anyone with an interest in the occult, metaphysics, or spirituality. Currently, we have 350+ members and roughly 100 channels on topics ranging from Hellenic polytheism/Dodekatheism, tarot, rootwork, spirit companionship, and more. 

 The Nightshade Network offers weekly member-run and closely-researched interactive classes in either voice chat or text chat and a monthly open mic night where members may perform written pieces and music. Membership to the Nightshade Network also grants you certain perks such as networking opportunities, giveaways, contests, and more! 

We are an inclusive server that welcomes people of all paths and experience levels. We do not tolerate bigotry of any kind.

Requirements: Must be 18+

 https://discord.gg/Y5UK7hr

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eat your gods.

EAT YOUR GODS. TEAR INTO THEM DEVOUR THEM LET ECSTATIC TEARS RUN DOWN YOUR FACE AND MIX WITH THE JUICE OF THEM.

get drunk on godflesh, stumble with divinity, whoop and shriek as they hit your bloodstream, roll in the dirt, suck their remnants off your gritty fingers, float, tumble, howl, chase, ascend, obliviate, transcend, transform.

wake disoriented, sick and aching with the loss of them. wipe your face, coax out your tangles, inspect your skinned knees and palms. leave your shoes where you threw them as an offering.

cultivate the hunger that only theophagy can sate.

consume them and be changed.

kulning (old swedish herding call) for a herd of cows.

Aishwarya Rai in Silsila Ye Chahat Ka from Bhansali’s Devdas (2002).  The level of glamour and ethereal aesthetics of a girl keeping a lamp continuously lit for her love since being separated in childhood—

At the sea, blue sea There was a floating flock of white swans  And where did the gray-white eagle come from?  It dispersed the flock around the blue sea White down rose to heaven,  Gray feathers fell on a green meadow  And who will collect these feathers?  A beautiful girl 

Can I interest you in a Gàidhlig Sea Shanty?