Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Magical Inks :}

Magical Inks
It can be used to inscribe spells, to instill a little extra convincing power into handwritten missives, you may wish to use it to write in your book of shadows, or, you may just think it's cool. Either way, it's fun and easy to make and you've got lots of options!
Ink can be made from the following: (Use Gum Arabic to thicken inks as necessary) Angelica, Beet Juice, Blackberry, Boysenberry, Dragon's Blood, Grape Juice, Lampblack, Pokeberries (POISON!), Pomegranate Juice, Saffron, Coffee Beans

WARNING-
As with all of my recipes, you cannot assume that any of these quantities are correct, they are estimations. I never actually measure anything.

Invisible Ink
The ink itself is lemon juice. After it dries, it will disappear. To make it reappear, hold it over a candle Soon the words will once again be visible.

Walnut Ink
Walnuts are associated with maleness and Jupiter. This ink is good for 'manly' things, dominance over others and things associated with honor, power and success. So you could use it in spellwork involving verility, convincing others to see things from your point of view, and success in career and legal arenas.
You will need:
About a dozen walnuts that you have gathered from the ground under a tree. They should be black and shriveled. As you gather these walnuts, think about the ink you will be making and what you will be using it for. Thank the tree for its gift and leave an offering.
You will need a cast iron pot
Place them in a large pot and cover with water. Simmer until the water is brown and the walnuts shells begin to soften. Break the shells up and add more water. You should have a nice muddy mess in your pot now. Continue simmering until you've acheived the color and consistancy you want, then strain out the bits of walnuts.

Remember, while boiling visualize your intent. Talk to your ink! Sing it a song! "Bubble bubble toil and trouble..."
Note- You can use a similar method for creating wood stain or dye for cloth or your hair.

Further note- You can try using different types of nuts and galls (they're swellings on the tree in places where insects laid their eggs). Select a tree that will correspond with your desire or your totem tree, if you have one. Different nuts and galls will work differently.
Yet another note- This sort of dye will look lighter when first printed and darken over time.

Lampblack Ink
Gather lampblack using a silver spoon held over a lit candle. You will see the blackness accumulating on the spoon in a few minutes. Just scrape it off with a bit of cardboard into a dish. Once you've gathered enough, you can mix it with water and add a pinch of gum arabic to make your ink.

You can choose your candle's color, or scent based on the sort of spell you want to use the lampblack ink for. You can make a whole ritual out of it if you like, carving your intent into the side of the candle, anointing it with oil, etc. Whatever you do, be sure to visualize. Think about what you want to use the ink for, talk about it, sing about it.

Tibetan Ink
Blue pine wood. Burnt, collect the ashes
Strips of leather
Place the strips of leather in a pot of water and boil until it starts to stink. Take out the leather and throw it away retaining the water. Mix a bit of water with the pine ashes until it's the consistancy you wish..

Dragon's Blood Ink
Dragon's blood is a resin from a palm tree. No dragons were injured in the making of this ink. It is said to add power to any magical workings, especially those to encourage virility (or discourage the opposite) or entice a lover to return, or general protection spells.
You will need:
15 parts High proof vodka or everclear
1 part Dragon's Blood resin
1 part gum arabic
Dissolve the Dragon's blood in the alcohol, then add the gum arabic and store in a dark bottle.

Bat's Blood Ink
Many things used in those scary old recipes are in fact herbal in origin or have established herbal substitutes in common practice today. Bat's Blood Ink is one of these. It is alot less trouble, and just as effective to just mix up a batch.

Start with Dragon's Blood Ink
Add to it-
A pinch of myrrh resin
2 drops cinnamon oil
red food coloring (optional)

Dove's Blood Ink
Dove's blood ink is suitable for those spells that encourage peace, harmony and romance.
Start with Dragon's blood ink
Add to it-
Two drops Cinnamon oil
Two drops bay oil
Two drops rose oil
Black Ink
Cinnabar
Mulberry Tree Sap
Rainwater
Wormwood
Vetch

Hermaic Ink
(Burn ingredients first, then mix with a bit of spring water and use to write.)
4 drams of Myrrh
3 Figs
7 Date Pits
7 Small Dried Pinecones
7 Piths of Wormwood
7 Wings of the Hermaic Ibis
Spring Water

Typhonian Ink
Red Poppy
Artichoke Juice
Acacia Seed
Red Typhonian Ochre
Asbestos
Quicklime
Wormwood
Gum Arabic
Rain Water
In The Seven Faces of Darkness: Practical Typhonian Magic Don Webb reprints a formula for an ink used in a Graeco-Egyptian spell for success and profit in the workplace. Webb adds that the ingredients of the ink provide several clues to the nature of Set-Typhon:
A Fiery Red Poppy
The emphasis on fiery red implies the common field poppy Papaver rhoeas rather than the opium poppy P. somniferum. According to Lisa Manniche (Ancient Egyptian Herbal) both were known to the ancient Egyptians but P. Somniferum would have had a pale pink or lavendar flower.
In his 1917 Manual of Organic Materia Media and Pharmacognosy Lucius Sayre states that P. rhoeas is a "weak and uncertain" opiate, and that the primary use on pharmacy is as a coloring agent. Other sources support this, mentioning the use of an extract from the fresh blossoms for an ink. In this connection note in Graeco-Egyptian magic the color red is generally identified with Set-Typhon.

Juice from an Artichoke

The artichoke here is almost certainly the wild artichoke, the cardoon. This thorny ancestor of our cultivated globe artichoke was known on both sides of the Mediterranean, and part of traditional Berber, Greek and Roman cuisine. The plant resembles a giant spiny thistle and favors arid, poor, even salty soils.
The cardoon's bitter juice was used as a coagulant, like rennet, to separate out curds of milk for cheese. It was also the source of a yellow dye. The stem is edible if blanched before harvest. For the most part, today, it is regarded as a perfidious weed.
Seed of the Egyptian Acacia
The Acacia family includes many species of small trees native to arid parts of Africa and Asia. Plantations of Acacia nilotica, the Egyptian acacia, were a familiar sight in upper Egypt in antiquity.
This small, tough, thorny tree is a plant of many uses. The seed pods, rich in tannins, have been used for tanning in Egypt for 6,000 years. The sap, described as either milky or reddish, is the source of gum acacia, or gum arabic. This edible gum has a long history of use in food, medicine, incense, paints, and glue.
Writing in The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics, Jean Doresse remarks on the region where the Nag Hammadi papyri were recovered: "The Coptic name for the little town was Shenesit -- the latest form of an Egyptian name which would signify, 'Acacias of Seth'." Acacia wood was the most popular wood for bows and arrows in ancient Egypt.
Red Typhon's Ocher
An earth pigment. Iron oxides are responsible for the ruddy color.
Unslaked Quicklime
Unslaked quicklime is a highly reactive powder prepared by burning bone, seashells or limestone at high temeratures. This caustic material dissolves more easily in cold water than in hot water, and produces heat as it dissolves. As a building material it has been used in preparing mortar.
Wormwood with a Single Stem
The silvery herb wormwood, Artemisia absinthium, is legendary for its bitterness. Its common name derives from its ancient medical use in expelling intestinal parasites. Despite its noxious flavor, oil of wormwood later gained notoriety as an ingredient of the alcoholic beverage absinthe.
The specification of a single stem may identify a particular variety (there are many closely-related species of Artemisia), a particular stage of growth, a mutation -- like a four-leafed clover -- or it may be purely symbolic.
Gum
The most likely candidate is gum arabic. The gum arabic in international commerce today comes from plantations of Acacia senegal, but Acacia nilotica and related acacias provided this gum in antiquity.
Rainwater
A relatively rare and precious thing in Egypt. The result of storm, in contrast to the annual flood waters of the Nile. Other spells in the same collection of magical papyri specify use of rainwater in bowl divination when scrying after matters known to the celestial gods.

"Bat’s Blood" Ink
2 parts Dragon's Blood Resin
1/2 part Myrrh Resin
2 drops Cinnamon Oil
2 drops Indigo Color
12 parts Alcohol
1/2 part Gum Arabic

"Dove’s Blood" Ink
1 part Dragon's Blood Resin
2 drops Cinnamon Oil
2 drops Bay Leaf Oil
10 parts Alcohol
1 part Gum Arabic
2 drops Rose Oil

Dragon’s Blood Ink
1 part Dragon's Blood Resin
15 parts Alcohol
1 part Gum Arabic

Scented Dragon’s Blood Ink
Dragon's Blood Resin (powdered) or crush well
1 Cinnamon Stick (crushed)
13 cloves
clear alcohol
a jar with a tight seal
Pour the resin and spices into the jar. Pour in enough alcohol to cover the mixture plus 10% more. Seal the jar tightly. When the mixture has reached your desired darkness, dip a sterile toothpick into the liquid, and test it on the type paper you intend to use it with. Let dry, if it is not dark, leave to steep again, repeat until you have the desired result.

Hopi Black Ritual Ink
A lump of Yellow Ochre
Gum form the Pinyon pine
3 cups of black sunflower seeds (the little ones)
3 T ground Native Alum

Start by burning the lump of yellow ochre with
an equal amount of the pinyon gum. This will make
a nice black soot. (Catch the soot on a cool ironstone
plate that is held over the burning mixture.) Save the
soot. Next, take the sunflower seeds, still in their shells,
and boil them for twenty to thirty minutes in 8 cups of water.
Remove the seeds just after splitting open. (Do not allow
them to soak in it.)

Add the native Alum after toasting it in an iron pan.
Stir and simmer so that the Alum is completely dissolved.
Simmer the liquid until it is reduced to six cups of liquid.
Dip out a cup of the liquid and scrape the soot into it.
Stir until it is dissolved. Add the soot-dye mixture back
into the greater dye. Gently simmer until it is reduced to a
desired consistency. Use with a ‘quill’ pen or fine lined paint brush.

General Magickal Ink
Frankincense smoke*
Myrrh smoke*
Rose Water
Sweet Wine
Gum Arabic

*you get smoke by holding a spoon over burning resin until
blackening gathers on the spoon, then tap spoon carefully
into a bowl, this stuff is light so go easy. Mix the smoke
in a bowl with a little rose water and wine. Add enough Gum
Arabic to make the mixture thick enough to write with
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