Faerie Lore and Legends

THE THREE MAIN TYPES OF MAGIC:
Three basic types of magic anthropologically defined:
 

1. Homeopathic Magic
   (The law that like produces like) – if some form of action is being performed on something, it will have the same impact on the intended real thing.
2. Sympathetic or Imitative Magic
   The believe that Performing an action on some object, the same will happen to the person or object in which it represents. This is based on the belief that a relationship is made between the objects based on the presumption that one can influence something based on the attachment. An example of this is such acts as rock art with hunting magick by drawing out a successful hunt, rain dances, etc.
3. Contagious Magic
   The law of contagion basically states that if a person has contact with certain things, they will influence the person who is under contact with such things. Examples of this are: Voodoo dolls which contain part of fingernails, hair, or teeth (DNA) of a targeted person – creates the person him/herself within the doll and anything happening to the doll happens to the attached person.Methods of Spellcraft:
   Herbs, incenses, oils, brews, candles, divination, oracles, sacrifices, offerings, sex magic, tantra, incantations, rhymes, dances, 8-Fold states, chemistry, alchemy, stones, elemental, worlds, fire, water, air, earth, trance, prayer, petition, manifestation, portals, visualization, invocation, evocation, poetry, words, names, symbols, talismans, charms, amulets, tools, events, prana, healing, cursing, attacking, defensive, curing, poppets, etc.
   Methods of Purification:
   Sweeping, censing, asperging, anointing, cleansing, bathing, showering, dusting, warming, implantation of symbols, dunking, baptizing, erasing, purifying.

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Folk Magic Workshop #4 – Florida State University C.P.E. 1991

Workshop #4 – Folk Magic – by Cypress Knee
(preserved notes from my class I taught at Florida State University CPE)
Fall 1991

Workshop 4 – Folk Magic
Magic – is within you – It is you. It is the Craft of the Wise – whether it be that of Witchcraft, Shamanism, Druidism, Ceremonial, or Christian. When you work magic you weave the unseen forces into form and explore the occult – “the hidden knowledge” of the hidden reality. It is the craft of shaping – your will, your mind, and your being. It is the actions of love, wisdom, knowledge, and is the senses of exhilaration, inspiration, power, and adventure. It is both harmless and dangerous.

It often works in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control. It is not a simple process nor a difficult one and it does not confer omnipotence. Saying a chant, waving a wand, and scattering some herbs do nothing in and of themselves but appear curious. But when you put your forces of trained awareness behind these actions, you come up with a powerful cause and effect situation.

To learn to do magic is a process of reprogramming your brain. Just like learning to play a musical instrument – you are dealing with processes that involve the development of new pathways for neurons to follow, requiring practice and patience, which when mastered is an emotional and spiritual channel for great beauty. You are taking magical energy from another plane of existence that exists within our plane of existence – but in an invisible form – hidden because of our left brain. Magic opens the doors of the mind for creativity and the subconscious. To be effective with “magic”, one must get into the right brain – the creative side of the mind and be able to operate uninhibited by your logical left brain.

The dominant side of our brain is the left, that which keeps control. It is primarily the conscious mind with what we call “reality” or this world (our plane of existence) – it is the side that says something is so or not so, that which makes us feel guillty, stupid, or dumb, that which criticizes us on everything we do. Now the right brain is the creative side of the brain. It pertains entirely to what we call imagination or the other world of plane of existence. It is the artistic side, the visualization. It is the powerful belief formed in this area of the mind that contacts the deity energy pools and creates manifestations.