This week we touch on Darker Magics

Lilith

Title

• Goddess of sexuality, childbirth, equality, and knowledge

Description

• Often a scantily clad beautiful woman, with dark hair, sometimes with a snake wrapped around her

Duties

•  Teaching women to empower themselves, watch over childbirth, watch over those who follow her

Lineage

• Lilith was created from the clay of the earth and so has no mother or father

Stories

• Adam demanded Lilith submit to him and she refused preferring to leave the garden of Eden rather than be treated as less than equal

Interesting Facts

• Lilith has been seen as either giving birth to the first vampire or being the first vampire herself

Symbols

• Dragons, apples, her sigil, crossroads, mirrors, owls, stars, and snakes

Superstition

The wishbone

I’m sure most of us have made a wish upon a “wishbone” at some point or other in our lives. I know I have.

Usually turkey or chicken bones are used for this practice, the bone that is used is known as the Furcula. It is located right above the sternum of the chosen bird. 

Some History

Bird oracles were often used for divination of the future which may have begun around 700B.C.E. with Etruscans. The furcula was dried in the sun and then they would gently stroke the bone making a wish. This is where the term wishbone was first derived from. 

It seems that the Romans continued with this belief, however, there was a shortage of fowl so in order to have enough bones to go around they began to crack them in half.

Skip forward a bit to the British who got the practice from the Romans, then brought the tradition over to Plymouth (in the Americas). This land had an over abundance of fowl and now used the wishbone for luck. 

Wishbone Rules

There are MANY different versions of the possible ways to create your wish. It began with two people using their pinky fingers on either side of the bone, making a wish and then pulling. In 17th century Britain a more complicated version was used. The wishbone would be placed on their noses (balancing it), make their wish and then shake it off. After that they would pull it apart (I’m not sure I understand this method). Yet another version depicts the broken pieces being placed into the fists of one person and the other person would choose one of the fists. Whoever got the longer piece was considered to have gotten the lucky piece, therefore theirs was the wish that would come to fruition. [source: Meikle].

Wishbones have been worn or carried much like the lucky rabbit’s foot or the four leaf clover. The final note here is that only a broken wishbone would grant the wish, an unbroken one would offer good luck. The term “lucky break” may stem from this superstition. 

Black Magic and the Left Hand Path

I am not encouraging people to follow the practices of black magic or the Left Hand Path. I am simply providing information and to get people to think about what they’ve been told vs. what actually is.

We’ve all heard of black magic, but what is it really? It usually denotes magical or supernatural means used for “evil” and or selfish reasons. It is also associated with demons and sometimes called the Left Hand Path. Unfortunately at this point people can call any magic they don’t