Tag: jinxing/crossing

Technique: Directionality

WHICH WAY IS THE WAY?

Utilizing the proper directionality when doing a trick/work falls under the category of “Technique.” What I have come to understand in conjure, is that many of these techniques or propensities to do a thing a particular way are usually done as a means of reinforcing the work. That is, things are…



Making Black Salt: A Personal Evolution

A FEW RECIPES FOR BLACK SALT

Black Salt is one of those traditional preparations that you either use or you don’t. It’s easy enough to make, especially these days, and it keeps with no effort. Like many things in conjure, Black Salt pulls double-duty as both a protective work and as a crossing work.

Now, I have…



The Easiest Crossing Working

BRILLIANT AND SIMPLE

I first heard of this work back in 2005, when I was a student of Cat Yronwode. Unlike most of her students, I did not stay close, as we had a falling out early on. Given all of the stuff that has come out since then, I would say that was for the…



Horse Hair and “Live Things In You”

FOOD FIDDLIN’ AT ITS FINEST, OR WORST

It is said that if you feed things like horse hair, snake parts, scorpions, insects, frog spawn, and the like to a target, it will cause the condition known as “live things in you.” Essentially, this trick is meant to cause snakes and worms and other nastiness to make…



Feather Pillows and Death Crowns

ONE OF THE ODDEST MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD

I was five years older than my brother. I say “was” because he has passed now. Been gone now much longer than he was alive. My dear brother was always sickly. He had asthma, among other issues, and the North Texas weather was not kind. My mother did…



It’s Super Bowl Time Once Again

“A DIRTY BIRD CAN’T FLY WITH A BROKEN WING”

Whenever the Super Bowl comes around, it makes me think of the year the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts were playing (Super Bowl XLIV, 2010). The media got a lot of millage out of the fact that New Orleans is associated with the practice of…



The Turn of the Screw

THIS TRICK IS HEAVY ON THE SYMBOLISM

Once in a great while, there will be an instance where I simply cannot bide my time waiting for the Cosmic 2 x 4 to come along and smack a given individual in the head. (I’m getting older and I just do not have the patience.) Instead, I will…