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Dream Magic
Shoes
Stockings
Garters
Pennies
Dream Lover
Dove Feather
Onion
Apples
Salted Egg
Bay Leaves
Rosemary Sprig
Pink Yarrow
Honeysuckle Wreath
Ivy Leaves
Sprig of Yew
Dream Haunting
Dream Mirror
Dumb Cake
Four Kings
Candle Flame
Hanging Apples
Apple Seeds
Apple Peel
Book Divination
He Loves
Pear Tree
Hawthorn Branch
Sage Leaves
Yarrow Leaf
Four-Leaf Clover
Ivy Leaves
Dandelion Fluff
Carlins
Pea Pod
Hempseed
Cigar
Tossing a Die
Handkerchief
Comb
Gold Ring
Acorns
Walnut Shells
Walnut Tree
Hazel Nuts
Three Bowls
Cat Whiskers
Wishbone
Trail of Ashes
Hooked Heart
Braided Anklet
Circle of Stones
Two Sticks
Popsicle Sticks
Locked in Love
Armpit Orange
Bent Pennies
Luck Changer
Herb Bundle
Moth Sending
Knotted Hair
Bottled Love
Tree-Bound Love
Red Wine
Chicory Root
Fern Leaf
Ivy Leaf
Footprints
To Force a Confrontation
Twelve Pins
Water Dump
Appendix
Superstitions
Dream Dictionary
Bibliography
Shoes
inside your bedroom door with the toes of your shoes pointing
in towards your room. This action will provide you with a dream
showing you the next lover that will walk into your life.
windowsill. Say:
Stockings
Garters
For this first divination, the girl must knit her left
How he goes,
All days,
And years.”
girl to tie her garters around the bedposts nine times while
saying:
wall:
Place one penny under each corner of your mattress and one
Dream Lover
lover that visited her nearly every night. When I asked her how
mugwort and dried red rose petals. After putting the mattress
back upon the boxspring, she tied four gold strings, one on
each leg of the bed. She replaces the dried herbs monthly and
on nights when she doesn’t want any visitations she unties the
gold strings.
Dove Feather
ink, a slip of white paper, and three dimes. Snip off the end
paper inside your pillowcase and place the three dimes on your
Onion
Apples
love, push a pin into a juicy red apple. Put the middle finger
of your left hand on the head of the pin and say the man’s
name. Place the apple under your pillow. When you have gotten
into bed to go to sleep, clap your hands together one time and
say:
Make no delay,
apple on Halloween. Place the apple under your pillow and you
Salted Egg
future lover is to remove the yolk from a hard boiled egg and
put salt in its place. Eat this just before going to bed.
yolk, salt the white, and put the salted eggwhite under your
pillow.
Bay Leaves
bay leaf to each of the four corners of your pillow and one bay
Rosemary Sprig
John’s Wort flowers and place them under your pillow. You will
the root. Keep this root in a pouch of its own and whenever you
desire to see who your next lover will be, place the root under
Pink Yarrow
and say:
Honeysuckle Wreath
Ivy Leaves
Should a man desire to know who his wife will be, he must
on a full moon, and bring them to his home. When he reaches his
front door, he must toss one ivy leaf to the ground and put the
rest under his pillow. This will cause him to dream of his
wife-to-be.
Dream Haunting
Midsummer Eve. Then on Midsummer morning you must bury one rose
under a yew tree and one rose at a cemetery. The third rose
needs to be placed under your pillow. Sleep with the rose under
your pillow for three nights and, afterwards, burn the rose.
Dream Mirrors
will provide you with a dream of your future lover. Some say
anyone’s image. One lady told me that the mirror should first
you cannot get the person’s image directly, reflect his or her
Dumb Cake
exactly who a girl’s husband would be. The dumb cake was made
was made into a dough using spring water and patted out round.
used unbaked.
write her initials on the cake using a pin. The dumb cake was
until a few minutes after the stroke of midnight when the image
of the future husband would enter the room and place his hand
by no more than three maidens. The dumb cake was made and
baked. When the clock struck midnight, each of the girls would
way, the girls would either see the image of their future
would make and bake the dumb cake, divide it between them, and
then each would eat a bit of her portion and place the rest of
locked padlock beside your bed. Put the key under your pillow
and say:
from a deck of cards and place them under your pillow. This
Candle Flame
to find out how a relationship will turn out with the person
named.
Light the candle with a match. If the candle does not want
start. When the candle is lit, watch the flame. If the flame
future husband.
For a woman to see the image of her future lover she must
walk backwards around a well two times, hold a mirror over the
well, and then look into the mirror to see his reflection
purposes. For this divination you will need one small stone. It
onto it and then put the stone under your pillow. For three
nights you must sleep with it under your pillow. Keep notes on
from under your pillow. Mark one side of the stone with a
circle for “yes” and mark a line on the opposite side for “no.”
Is it [name]?”
Let the stone drop onto a table or floor. The symbol that
safe keeping.
white thread onto the ring and then suspend it over a wine
recite the alphabet until the ring hits the glass two times
all.
The apples are twirled around and the person whose apple falls
first will marry first. The rest of the apples will fall in the
Apple Seeds
count the seeds. An even number of seeds means that you will be
married shortly.
on your cheek, naming each one after a man of your choice. The
apple seed that sticks to your cheek the longest is the best
man to marry.
words:
Apple Peel
Peel an apple in one long strip. Throw the peel over your
the ground. You will be able to see the initials of your future
Book Divination
enamored with and then open the book to a random page. Let your
pointer finger select a passage and read it. The passage will
tell you something about the person you were thinking of.
the person you are interested in and then reach out and pull a
book off the bookshelf. Look at the last page number of the
book and add the numbers together. For example, if the last
numbered page of the book is 264, you would add the numbers
2+6+4. If the answer is an even number then you and the person
He Loves
drop onto the ground. Count the number of pennies that are
rhyme from the beginning and continue until they are all
counted.
Pear Tree
If a girl wishes to meet the man she will marry, she must
Hawthorn Branch
wind has blown the branch and from that direction your husband
or wife will come. If the branch has altogether blown away, you
Sage Leaves
Another way to see the image of the person you will marry
is to pick twelve sage leaves on the night of the new moon and
Four-Leaf Clover
shoe. The first man you meet will be your husband or he will
Ivy Leaves
Pick an ivy leaf and put it in your left pocket. You will
currently married.
Name the ivy leaves and throw them into a fire at the same
time. If the ivy leaves jump together, the two people named
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will marry. If the ivy leaves jump apart, the two people will
Dandelion Fluff
young girls pick a dandelion that has gone to seed and blow on
it. The number of times it takes to blow off all the seeds will
Carlins
with an added odd bean. When served, the person who received
the odd bean among his or her carlins would be the first in the
group to marry.
dished out to all who were present until there was only a
then take a turn removing one pea at a time from the bowl. The
person who got the last pea would be the one who would marry
first.
lintel outside her front door, the first man to enter through
Hempseed
“Hempseed I sow.
Hempseed, grow.
sidewalk will “break your mother’s back,” but did you know that
will marry the next man she sees? That is, at least, how the
Tossing a Die
die.
Handkerchief
the fireplace. If the love letter burns bright and clean then
the love is true. If the love letter doesn’t want to stay lit,
the love affair will soon be over. Should the flame burn blue
mirror and angle it so that you can see the new moon reflected
in it. Say:
Stare into the mirror and the face of your next lover
stone farmhouse built in the early 1800’s and the place was
mirror on Halloween night and comb your hair. The image of the
Gold Ring
would look through a gold ring and into a mirror to see the
Acorns
Gather two acorns. Give the one acorn your name and the
other acorn the name of your lover. Drop both the acorns into a
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bowl of water. If the acorns float next to each other then
Walnut Shells
the candle, and sets the walnut shell to float into a bowl of
water. The girl whose candle goes out first will marry first,
and so on. Should any walnut shell sink, that girl will not
marry.
Walnut Tree
For a young man wishing to discover who his true love will
Hazel Nuts
marriage, name two hazel nuts and then set them side by side in
the hazel nuts burn side by side quietly, the marriage will be
a good one.
Crown - Marriage.
Ship with Sails - You will marry far away from home.
Three Bowls
Three bowls are set on a table: one filled with water, one
with mud, and the other is empty. The girl whose turn it is is
filled with water means a good and honest husband, the one
filled with mud means a husband who will come to no good, and
Cat Whiskers
whisker, you will not be married within the next three years.
If you find two whiskers, you will marry your soul mate. You
whiskers. Find four whiskers and you will marry and bear a
Wishbone
drill a small hole through the flat part at the top. Place the
through the drilled hole. The amount of times you fail to pass
the thread through the hole is the number of years until you
marry.
Trail of Ashes
woman who follows this trail will one day be his bride.
“Circle round
The merry-wise.
Love is crowned,
Not otherwise.”
Pluck two petals from one of the rose blooms and put one
Hooked Heart
Scratch the initials of the one you love onto the heart. Very
carefully, push a fish hook through the heart. Put the hooked
Gather together:
one match
pin
penny
white string
Begin:
With the pin in your writing hand and the candle in your
name on the slip of white paper, using red ink. Draw a heart
around both of your names together. Fold the paper in half and
enough spilled wax or soft wax from the candle, take a small
matchbox.
already.
Spell is done.
together. But, she warned me, the spell would have to be easily
name on one heart and his name on the other. Bind these two
safe place.
Should the need arise to undo the spell, rip open the
envelope and remove the hearts. Open the safety pin, separate
“First bound,
Now undone.
To separate paths,
We have come.”
Braided Anklet
To bind his love to you, you will need a yard each of dark
Circle of Stones
first need to gather a pile of small stones. You will also need
be noticed or disturbed.
the small clearing. Next, create a stone circle around the two
life.
matches
compass
avoid ruining the photo you can make a photocopy of it. Use the
Begin:
Using the compass, set each red candle at the four points:
candles.
(South).
matches.
about me.”
while the candle burns. When some of the wax has melted, lift
Put out the match in the bowl of sand. Wait a few moments
inside of you.”
Put out the match in the bowl of sand. Wait a few moments
“[His/Her name], you now realize that you are in love with
me.”
Put out the match in the bowl of sand. Wait a few moments
Put out the match in the bowl of sand. Wait a few moments
Once all the candles are out, take the photo and place it
Two Sticks
was performed using two sticks and some string. Each stick was
named for a person. For example, one stick would be given your
name and you would announce, “This is [your name].” The other
stick would be given the name of the person you want bound to
you, “This is [his/her name].” The two sticks were then bound
Popsicle Sticks
will need two wood popsicle sticks, a red marker, glue, and a
write the name of the person you love. Glue the sticks on top
place.
Into mine
To dwell
And entwine.”
Keep your lemon balm pillow with you wherever you go until
time around the pond widdershins and find a stone with a smooth
walk, turn around and, still holding onto the stone, walk
around the pond clockwise one time. When finished, write your
name or initials and those of the one you desire onto the stone
with the marker. Throw the stone into the center of the pond
Locked in Love
Begin:
Before you are to see the person you desire, open the
lock. Place the open lock in your pocket and the key in another
pocket.
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When you see the person you desire from a short distance,
place your hand inside your pocket and while you are looking at
Upon returning to your home, remove both the key and the
Allow the candle to burn for a short while and then tip
keychain.
Armpit Orange
with it under his armpit. The next day he would give the orange
to the girl. If she ate the orange, she would fall madly in
your name, write the person’s name whom you are attracted to.
safe place.
Drop the fifth and final penny into the well and say:
When you find it, keep the pebble on your person until love
finds you.
Bent Pennies
These days one might alter this charm using a penny with
heart. These two items can then be tied into a white cloth with
Herb Bundle
glue
apple tree sticks you have gathered. Two sticks should both be
ladder. For the rungs, you will need four thin sticks that are
about two inches in length. Glue the rungs onto the side sticks
on the ground and against the trunk of the tree with the white
To send out a calling for love you will need one white
“Ever gently.”
“Ever closer.”
“Endearingly.”
“Entering my life.”
Set down what remains of the daisy beside the stream, and
say:
“Spell is done.
the full moon and gently catch a moth. While it is within your
Fill the clam shell with some sand. On the red votive
pressed down into the sand. Light the candle with a match, and
say:
day, bury the shell and candle remains outside your home or in
stores.
heat and is the combination of all colors), and red thread for
sexual energy.
forms part of the body of the fish which was a symbol of the
Christ.
On the upper left corner write the number 5. On the lower right
Knotted Hair
For this spell both you and the one you desire must have
some length of hair. You will need one hair from your head and
a hair from the other’s head. Hold the two strands of hair
Bottled Love
This old love binding spell requires hair from the person
First you will need to cut two hearts from red felt. Sew
stuff the heart with the person’s hair. Sew the heart closed.
bottle with a cap or cork and then seal it further with wax
You will need to keep this bottle safe and hidden. Should
charm you will need a necklace with a rose quartz bead(s). Some
own necklace.
rubbing some of your spittle onto the rose quartz and saying:
Get the children involved and ask them to help paint the
Some ideas are pink hearts for love, yellow suns for happiness,
blue eggs for peace and healing, and purple flowers for magic
water, make sure that the walnut shell floats and has no holes
and paint a red heart in it. Paint three white circles around
Tree-Bound Love
semen. He would then place three hairs of his love into a crack
requires the use of the middle finger on your left hand and an
your love in the sand using the middle finger of your left
hand. As the waves come in they will carry your desire with
love and married women would wear a ring on their middle finger
Red Wine
left hand pinky, she would fall madly in love with him. In
he does.
before s/he is due to arrive, tap the top of the wine bottle
with your left hand pinky nine times. Raise the bottle with
your right hand and repeat the tapping on the bottom of the
through and gives a last tidying to the place until his guest
arrives.
Chicory Root
chicory root in your pocket the next time you ask someone out
drawing amulet.
Hearts.
You will also need a paper clip or, if you are married to
Lay the Jack (Knave) of Hearts face down on the Queen, and
say:
Lay the King of Hearts face down on top of the Jack card,
and say:
If you have been married to the Knave for some time, sew
the three card together with needle and thread and then place
Fern Leaf
pick some fern and place it between the pages of one of her or
his books. This will fan the flame of love once more.
Ivy Leaf
from the footprints of the person you love. Place the dirt in a
pot and sow calendula seeds in it. As the seeds grow so will
To Force a Confrontation
you.
Twelve Pins
Love Stinks
safety. If you feel that this is not enough, perform one of the
following spells.
Water Dump
Toss the water onto the ground and return indoors or pour
For this undoing spell you will need two separate white
votive candles. On one candle, write your name and on the other
* A man who wipes his hands on a maiden’s apron will soon marry
her.
you.
end.
* Put three sunflower seeds down the back of your shirt and you
* If a hairpin falls from your hair, you will lose your lover.
unfaithful wife.
fortune. If her right eye twitch, bad luck. For a man the
breaking the needle foretells a kiss when you finally wear the
* Get the last piece of cake at tea time and you will be the
* If you feel that you have to sneeze but cannot come to it, it
* Find a double fruit and share it with someone you love. This
* Should three drops of blood fall from the nose of your lover,
* If you wear the shoes of the man you love for eight days, he
will fall in love with you after you have returned his shoes
sailor.
in love.
affair.
has a rival.
Dew: A maiden who dreams of dew on the grass will one day marry
a wealthy man.
Flying: Dreams where you are flying signify that you are both
Hat: To dream of losing your hat means that you will soon
marry.
rival.
pleasures.
Key: Unlock a door with a key and you will soon have a new
Lace: Dream of wearing lace and your lover will bow to your
every whim.
becoming a nun.
matters of love.
sexual pleasures.
Pit: To dream of falling into a pit tells you that your lover
good marriage.
spouse.
lover.
living in a tent.
lover.
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