The Magickal Use of Psalms and Powders

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The Magickal use of Psalms This is a list of psalms and the uses they can be put to according to G. St Michael Nottingham, Liber Noctis. This is just one list among many that have been and still are used by Cunning folk in rituals, candle magick and other rites. 1: The protection of women and their children during pregnancy. 2: For protection from storms at sea. 3: Traditionally used for the healing of back and headaches. 4: Use three times before sunrise to reverse runs of bad luck. 5: To gain favour from those in authority. Repeat this psalm over some olive oil at both sunrise and sunset then anoint thy head. 6: Good for health concerns. 7: If persecuted by slanders and by those who would do you ill, then use this psalm and throw a handful of dust in there general direction. 8: This psalm is useful to gain the favours of others that will promote your business. 9: Useful to turn the tide against thine enemies and to promotion of good health in young male children. 10: This is a good psalm to quieten a disturbed spirit. 11/12/13: Will protect from evil. 14: Will promote good will from your neighbours. 15: Good to quieten troubled souls. 16: Can be used to turn enemies into friends and promote good luck and the return of stolen things. 17: Use for healing and protection. 18: Use to promote good health. 19: Used in exorcism and dispelling of bad vibes. 20: Traditionally used to gain the favours of a judge. 21: To gain favours from those in positions of power use this psalm.

22: Will protect the utterer on journeys from all peril. 23: Useful in gaining answers in dreams to your troubles. 24/25/26: Used in rites of protection. 27: To gain favours from those who can help. 28: To gain the friendship of your enemy use this psalm. 29: 30: Traditionally used to dispel bad vibes. 31: Very good to protect from slander. 32: Promotes good luck and well being. 33: Protects children. 34: Good for the promotion of a safe journey and for the gaining of favours from those in authority. 35: Use to gain justice in a court case. 36: Protection against libel and slander. 37: Used to clear hangovers. 38/39: To be believed in court use both of these psalms. 40: Good to promote peace in a disturbed environment. 41/42: Traditionally used to regain what you have lost through the actions of another. 42: To gain answers in dreams. 44: To be safe from your enemies use this psalm. 45/46: Promotes peace within a relationship. 47: Good to gain favours. 48: To stop the persecution of you by your enemies. 49/50: useful to promote the health of members of you family. 51: To gain forgiveness and peace of mind for thine sins.

52: Use to stop the bad actions of those who are against you. 53/55: Good for the protection of the actions of your enemies. 54: To gain revenge on thine enemies. 56: To resist temptation. 57: For good luck. 58: Protection against dangerous animals. 59: Protection from doing the wrong thing. 60: To gain victory over your adversary. 61: Good for blessing a new house. 62: Promotes contact with divinity. 63: Use to gain advantage over business rivals. 64: Promotes a safe journey at sea. 65: used to gain favours. 66: Traditionally used in some quarters in exorcism. 67/68: Useful in exorcism recite over a bowl of clean water and then asperge the area. 69/70: Recite over clean water and wash therein; this will help to break bad habits. 71: Good for the release from difficult situations. 72: Brings good luck and favours. 73: Protection. 74: Brings retribution and frustration to one's enemies. 75: Brings peace of mind. 76: Provides protections from perils. 77: Grants relief from want. 78: The use of this psalm grants favours from those above you.

79: Fatal to enemies and those who oppose you. 80/81: Promotes sound judgement. 82: Good for business. 83: Provides protection. 84: By washing in the waters over which this psalm has said, the relieving of all manner of ills may be acquired. 85: Promotes friendship. 86-88: Useful in providing good will. 89: This psalm will be found to be of use in the promoting of good health. 90/91: Will be extremely useful to assist with protection from all dangers. 92: Good to gain favours. 93: The reciting of this psalm will assist in the winning of lawsuits. 94: This psalm will gain you the advantage over an opponent. 95: Helps to promote understanding. 96/97: Useful to gain good luck. 98: Promotes peace. 99: Use this psalm to gain peace of mind. 100/10: Used to overcome one's enemies. 102/103: Traditionally used to overcome barrenness. 104: Overcomes evil. 105-107: These three psalms will promote good health. 108: Good for success in business. 109: Will definitely promote bad luck upon your enemies (known in some quarters as the cursing psalm). 110/113: Good to overcome your enemies. 114: Will promote business success.

115: With the power of this psalm you will gain the best of arguments and debates. 116: Regular use of this psalm will protect those who utter it from dangers. 117: Helps to cope with bad actions. 118: Confounds those who would oppose you. 119: Used in the healing of all ills. 120: Good to win in a court case. 121: This psalm will provide protection whilst travelling at night. 122: Will grant favours from those in positions above you. 123: Good to return lost or stolen property. 124: Will promote safe travel by water. 125: Traditionally used to overcome enemies. 126: Has always been regarded as having the power to bring people to you. 127: Provides protection. 128: Provides safety in pregnancy. 129: Good to promote good deeds. 130: Considered potent in providing of safety. 131: Stops one from making bad judgements. 132: Will to break bad habits. 133: Good for the promotion of friendship. 134: This psalm will help you to be studious. 135: Traditionally used to promote stronger links with divinity. 136: 137: Overcomes hate and malice. 138/139: Good for the gaining of love and friendship. 140: Restores peace.

141: Removes fear. 142-144: These three psalms will help to promote good health. 145: Good to provide peace in a disturbed atmosphere. 146/147: These two psalms will promote good health and the overcoming of ill health. 148-150: Provides protection from danger.

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Polter pystri-Magick powders Most people may have come across the idea of magick powders in the context of American hoodoo, root magick etc. But the wytches/Pellers of the south-west of Britain also have a history of using magick powders as I'm sure have magickal folk of other parts of Britain. Here I give a few that I know of from the southwest used by wytches/Pellers of that region. Of course these are just the material bases for these powders which to have affect need to be magickally empowered or as some would say cooked. Witch powder There are a few different formula for this more famous powder, the main ingredients being Dragons blood, salt and brick dust to which are often added a "smelly" i.e. a pungent ingredients like camphor, Rosemary oil etc. Wytch powder is used to cast of/take of negative spells, Ban's etc normally by being sprinkled around the house being affected or over the person or animal during a banishing rite. Soot Soot is a very magickal substance it can absorb vast amounts of magickal energy both negative and positive. A Bowl of appropriately consecrated soot placed a room will absorb the negative energy in that room. Soot can also be made into a paint or ink and used to paint protective symbols an the walls and doors of houses, barns and other buildings. On the other hand a curse will be all the more affective if the person sending it can obtain soot from the chimney of the hearth of the victim. It is said that in the past those sending a curse would fly a kite over the chimney of there intended victim to gather this soot. Cross road earth

Earth gathered at the cross roads is used in many spells, a mixture of earth gathered from a place were four roads meet and earth were three roads meet being the most powerful. Mixed earth A useful base for spell can be made from earth gathered from a number of places, the greater the number of locations the better. This earth being gathered from so many different places will loose it's distinct associations and so is easier to charge with your intent what ever it may be. Grave soil This must be soil that has actually touched the coffin and even better if it comes from within the coffin and incorporates powdered human bone. Used in certain rites either to cast curses or to bring fertility to land. Death powder, Corpse dust This is just the above soil and bone powder charged in certain necromantic rites. It is used both to bring death to a house and to send it away. Also used in some rites to summon the dead to a location. Love powder A mixture of Orrisroot, Red rose petals and sugar ground fine. This sweet and sticky powder is a common ingredient in love spells. Charm ash After making and then charging talismans they can be burnt and then the ash scattered were the result is required. Though this technique is normally used for what might be called positive out comes it can also be used in a particularly nasty traditional curse. I will use this curse as an example as it illustrates, I think, particularly well the use of charm ash. Take a clean piece of paper, draw on it a large circle and at it's centre the name of the one who is to be cursed and around the name write all the bad things you desire them to suffer. As you write these words declare them out loud. Now take a largish piece of meet (say a leg of lamb) and pin the paper to it and then hang it up out side. As long as the weather is warm the meet should soon become covered in maggots when they have become fat and start to fall gather them up in a container you can cover. Take of the paper with your curse on it and dry it out and then burn it to ash keep this ash. Soon the maggots will pupate and then turn to flies, when this has happened lift the lid slightly and put the ash from the curse paper in with them. The flies will be covered in the ash. Release the flies through the letter box of the one being cursed, in this way the flies will carry the curse to every thing the victim touches and eats, there will be no escape.

Well I did tell you it was a particularly nasty curse. Crow ash Crows are emissaries of the spirit world and their ash is sometimes used in rites where strong spirit contact is needed. On the night of full moon a small fire is made without flint or iron and on it are burnt the corpses of crows. The fire should only be just big enough to burn them to ash. Once the fire has cooled sieve the ash and put in a jar. Bone ash Made in much the same way as the above (Bonfire/Bonefire). Used to mark out magick signs upon the earth during some rites.