Post by Rik Wallin on Apr 6, 2007 13:54:46 GMT -6
HOUSE-CLEANSING RITUAL
by Jessica Weihrich
This very nice ritual may be used to make the home feel much better and brighter. It is simple but effective, typical of rituals that you can do even if you are not an initiated Witch.
Necessary equipment:
1. 200 feet of silk thread
2. A 2-quart ceramic bowl
3. Aluminum tray 30" x 18"
4. 2 quarts dry sand
5. 2 beeswax candles
6. A box 2 feet or more on a side
7. Alcohol
8. Chicken wishbone
9. Cooking oil
10. Bread
11. Glass of wine
12. Sea Salt
On the evening of a full moon, tie one end of the thread to the front doorknob. Leave the door open. Take the thread in a counterclockwise direction into and out of every room in the house, including the upstairs rooms, every bathroom, and all storage closets.
Carry the end of the thread out into the yard. Tie it to the wishbone and put this into the box with a beeswax candle, the glass of wine and a piece of bread. The box is the spirit house. Such a box is often placed on a post or another elevated pedestal, which may be as simple as a wooden chair. Put some sand in the ceramic bowl and pat it down to make a mound in the center. Saturate the mound with a mixture of alcohol and cooking oil, mixed in the proportion of one cup alcohol to one-quarter cup oil. Put the bowl and the second candle on the tray. Light this and let it burn outdoors for thirty minutes before you carry it indoors.
At exactly midnight, light the two candles and the alcohol mix in the bowl. Be very careful with the alcohol fire because the bowl will get very hot. Start at the end of the silken thread you have tied to the front doorknob. Say in a loud voice:
I have prepared a home for any spirit who may need one. Come, follow the thread. Go to your new home. Go in peace. If you do not go in peace, I will curse you and banish you to the outer shades.
Follow the thread. Go in peace.
Walk forward along the thread repeating:
Follow the thread. Go in peace.
Carry in front of you the tray on which both the candle and sand are burning. If you like as you go a second person can sprinkle sea salt behind you.
As you move through the home, have someone wind up the thread behind you. Eventually you will come to the spirit house. Wrap the thread around the spirit house and say:
You have everything you need in this house. Everything you need is in this house. This thread will bind you in. This thread will bind you in.
When all of the thread is wrapped around the spirit house, carry the house away from your property, collapse it and burn it.
by Jessica Weihrich
This very nice ritual may be used to make the home feel much better and brighter. It is simple but effective, typical of rituals that you can do even if you are not an initiated Witch.
Necessary equipment:
1. 200 feet of silk thread
2. A 2-quart ceramic bowl
3. Aluminum tray 30" x 18"
4. 2 quarts dry sand
5. 2 beeswax candles
6. A box 2 feet or more on a side
7. Alcohol
8. Chicken wishbone
9. Cooking oil
10. Bread
11. Glass of wine
12. Sea Salt
On the evening of a full moon, tie one end of the thread to the front doorknob. Leave the door open. Take the thread in a counterclockwise direction into and out of every room in the house, including the upstairs rooms, every bathroom, and all storage closets.
Carry the end of the thread out into the yard. Tie it to the wishbone and put this into the box with a beeswax candle, the glass of wine and a piece of bread. The box is the spirit house. Such a box is often placed on a post or another elevated pedestal, which may be as simple as a wooden chair. Put some sand in the ceramic bowl and pat it down to make a mound in the center. Saturate the mound with a mixture of alcohol and cooking oil, mixed in the proportion of one cup alcohol to one-quarter cup oil. Put the bowl and the second candle on the tray. Light this and let it burn outdoors for thirty minutes before you carry it indoors.
At exactly midnight, light the two candles and the alcohol mix in the bowl. Be very careful with the alcohol fire because the bowl will get very hot. Start at the end of the silken thread you have tied to the front doorknob. Say in a loud voice:
I have prepared a home for any spirit who may need one. Come, follow the thread. Go to your new home. Go in peace. If you do not go in peace, I will curse you and banish you to the outer shades.
Follow the thread. Go in peace.
Walk forward along the thread repeating:
Follow the thread. Go in peace.
Carry in front of you the tray on which both the candle and sand are burning. If you like as you go a second person can sprinkle sea salt behind you.
As you move through the home, have someone wind up the thread behind you. Eventually you will come to the spirit house. Wrap the thread around the spirit house and say:
You have everything you need in this house. Everything you need is in this house. This thread will bind you in. This thread will bind you in.
When all of the thread is wrapped around the spirit house, carry the house away from your property, collapse it and burn it.