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What magic spells are cast at Halloween? What magic spells are cast or Bobbing for Apples, in which a person must Eko, eko Bazabi lacha bachabe at Halloween catch apples floating in a basin with his teeth is Lamac cahi achababe a forgotten survival of the Pagan 'baptism' ritual of seining. Karrellyos By Maurice of Coventry Greens The Samhain Spell Lamac lamac Bachalyas Cabahagy sabalyos Introduction The following 'spell' is a modern Wiccan Baryolos composition. The veil between the worlds is thinnest at Lagoz atha cabyolas Hallowe'en. Take advantage of this to cast extra- Be unafraid of Shadows dark Samahac atha famolas powerful spells, read the future and And to their whispers Hurrahya! communicate with spirits who have passed on. Do Not Hark Unfriendly words [Form the Circle] Need-Fire Spell You do Not hear [High Priestess assumes the Goddess Position] No worry, trouble [High Priest gives the Five-fold Kiss to the High The Anglo-Saxon tribes that invaded Britain Loss or Fear Priestess] called Hallowe'en 'need-fire.' They lit bonfires No Shadow falls [All are Purified] to magically endow the sun with the strength to Upon your Heart [High Priest assumes the God Position] survive the winter. Such bonfire customs We Stand Together [With the Athame the High Priestess invokes] survive in Great Britain, but have been moved Though Apart. [High Priestess:] to the 5th of November and associated with the We Stand Together burning in effigy of Guy Fawkes. Revive the old Ever Winning Dread Lord of the shadows, god of life and magic by lighting your own 'need-fire' out of All our spells the giver of life. Yet is the knowledge of thee the doors and add a colourful touch of the modern Together Spinning knowledge of death. Open wide, I pray thee, thy with fireworks. For Every End gates through which all must pass. Let our dear A New Beginning ones who have gone before, return this night to Protection against Evil Spirits Wealthy, Healthy, make merry with us. And when our time comes, Happy, Free as it must, O thou the comforter, the consoler, The fierce faced lanterns carved out of If this your Will the giver of peace and rest, we will enter thy realms gladly and unafraid, for we know that pumpkins and, in colder climates where So Mote It Be! when rested and refreshed among our dear ones pumpkins are rare, turnips, are apotropaic we shall be born again by thy grace and the charms intended to ward off evil spirits and How do Wiccans Interpret Hallowe'en grace of the Great Mother. Let it be in the same protect traveller and household from harm. (Halloween)? place and the same time as our beloved ones, Make a Jack O'Lantern (US: Jack-O-Lantern) to and may we meet and know, and love them keep the ghosties and ghoulies at bay. It is said Most people celebrate Halloween as a children's again. Descend, we pray thee, upon thy servant that when you see the flame flickering, a spirit holiday of candy and costumes. However, I will and Priest [give name]. is near... be celebrating tonight as Samhain ("Sow-wen"), the Celtic New Year, the night for remembering [High Priestess gives the Five-fold Kiss to the Hazelnut Love Spell loved ones past and looking toward the future. High Priest] For I am a Neo-pagan, a follower of the Old [Initiations, if any, may be conducted] A girl might divine who her future husband was Religion, a Wiccan. I am a Witch. [All are Purified] going to be by lining up hazelnuts in front of the Cecylyna Brightsword, 'A Witch's [Ceremony of the Cakes and Wine is enacted] fire, each of which represented one of the boys Thoughts on Halloween'. [The Great Rite is performed, actually or that was wooing her. She would then chant, "If symbolically according to circumstance] you love me, pop and fly. If you hate me, burn November Eve, All Hallows' Eve, the Gaelic [Dismiss the Guardians, Close the Circle, and die." fire festival of Samhain, now generally called conclude with feasting and dancing] Halloween, represents the summer's end, when Water Love Spell the Earth Goddess turns over her reign to the Commentary Horned God of the Hunt, the transition from life Another tradition from America instructs the to death, from an agrarian time to one of The italicised section in the above is a direct curious girl to take a lamp and go out on the hunting, from summer to winter, from warmth quotation from the Gnostic Mass (Liber XV night of Hallowe'en to a spring of water and to coldness, from light to darkness. O.T.O. Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon peering in she should see the reflection of her L. L. Martello, Witchcraft: The Old Missae) of Aleister Crowley. future husband. Religion. Apple Love Spell How is Hallowe'en (Halloween) Sources celebrated by Wiccans? - Crowley, Aleister, Magick. Guild Publishing, To find out who your future partner in life is 1986. going to be try this simple divination spell. Take Wicca was invented by Gerald Gardner during - Gardner, Gerald, 'Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical,' an apple and peel its skin off in one long piece, the late 1940s and early 1950s. This is not a unpublished, 1949. saying, criticism, it is a fact. The following ritual was - Gardner, Gerald, 'The Book of Shadows,' first committed to paper circa 1949 in Gardner's unpublished, 1953. [] I pare this apple round and again prototype of the Book of Shadows. It was My sweetheart's name to flourish plain originally called November Eve, although many FROM WITCHES TO WARLOCKS, FROM I fling the pairing o'er my head later Wiccans have preferred to resurrect the old UFO’S TO ALIEN ABDUCTEES, FROM My sweetheart's letter on the ground be read Celtic name of Samhain for this festival. ASTROLOGY TO TAROT, FROM THE PARANORMAL TO PARAPSYCHOLOGY, The peel should then have landed in the shape The Ritual FROM GHOSTS TO HAUNTINGS, FROM of your true-love's initial. OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES TO The Seining Ritual [All:] REMOTE VIEWING - ROB McCONNELL HAS INTERVIEWED THEM ALL! It has been suggested that the game of Dooking, Eko, eko, Azarak www.xzoneradiotv.com