{"id":5353,"date":"2019-06-01T01:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=21341"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:23:35","slug":"spellcrafting-spells-rituals-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2019\/06\/01\/spellcrafting-spells-rituals-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Spellcrafting: Spells & Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Abracadabra<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nMerry\nmeet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\nAbracadabra\nhas become known as a word used by stage magicians when performing a\ntrick. In that context it has no real meaning. But long, long ago, it\nwas a mystical word with great healing power. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSome\nsay it comes from Aramaic phrase avra\nkadavra<\/em>, meaning\u201cit will be created\nwith my words\u201d or \u201cI will create as I speak.\u201d Another theory is\nit comes from the Hebrew words Av Ben and Ruach meaning Father, Son\nand Holy Spirit. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe oldest mention of the word abracadabra <\/em>is found in the work De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima <\/em>written by Quintus Serenus in the second century,\u201d according to grammarist.com<\/a>. In it, Serenus instructed the incantation be written on parchment as an inverted pyramid, and that it be worn as an amulet around the neck to prevent disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFor\nit to have power, it must be written in the form of an inverted\npyramid \u2013 or some say an inverted triangle. Each line drops the\nlast letter of the line before. Like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nABRACADABRA
\nABRACADABR\n
\nABRACADAB
\nABRACADA
\nABRACAD
\nABRACA
\nABRAC
\nABRA
\nABR
\nAB
\nA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nOr\nlike this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nABRACADABRA
\nABRACADABR\n
\nABRACADAB
\nABRACADA
\nABRACAD
\nABRACA
\nABRAC
\nABRA
\nABR
\nAB
\nA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThe\nspell still works today. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSome\nsources say wearing the charm around your finger or neck for nine\ndays will result in cleansing and healing powers. The dis-ease will\nrecede just as the letters in the word disappeared as you wrote them.\nAfterwords, the paper was to be thrown into water. Another source\ninstructs you to hold the paper to the part of your body that is\nafflicted for a few minutes and then to place the paper in the split\nof a tree, exposed to the elements; that way as the paper with the\nword fades and dissolves, so will the pain or malady. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her book, The Modern Witchcraft Spell Book: Your Complete Guide to Crafting and Casting Spells<\/em><\/a>, Skye Alexander calls for burning a blue candle while writing out the spell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nA\nSicilian witch I know calls the Abracadabra spell her \u201cget rid of\nanything\u201d spell, using it for bills, energy vampires and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cManifest the light\u201d is how Clairaudient Spirit Fairie defines Abrahadabra in her YouTube video. She says that whatever you ask for before you say Abrahadabra \u2013 not Abracadabra \u2013 begins to manifest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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