The Spellcaster's Source Hoodoo and Voodoo Witchcraft Blog of Talia Felix

Why do you dress like that? Wasn't Halloween last month? What's wrong with you? Such common questions, and all stem from the single biggest curiosity about gothic lifestyle: What is being Goth all about? Well, the best source to check is probably -- other goths! Here are the musings of folks over on the forums of Goth Blog regarding the subject. Being goth is not about fashion. It's about how you live your life and how you view life. It's appreciating the beauty in the darkness. Laughing at dark humor. It's NOT about wearing all black, painting your face white, and being depressed. If you want to paint your nails, do it. If you don't want to, then don't. You also sound like you think you have to wear white makeup and black eyeliner to be goth. Just so you know, you don't have to be pale as fuck to be goth. It's mainly just a personal preference. Personally I like being pale, but I know goths who are tan or have naturally dark skin. Bottom...

Figural candles, also called image candles or iconic candles, are like a halfway point between a candle and a so-called Voodoo Doll or poppet. Some people even use the wax candles in place of dolls for certain workings, since they come easily available and already shaped. Interestingly, I have found that when using figural candles for magic spell casting -- after having prepared them according to the method in Denise Alvarado's Voodoo Doll Book -- they behave differently from other candles. They take on personality, and are uncommonly good for predicting the future outcome of the spell based on the behavior of the wax. Once I did a spell using a figural candle on a person who had been using some other magic of their own. It was a multi-day spellcast, but after a few days the target became aware that I was working on her. The candle on that day exploded, went out, and shot a lump of wax at me that looked like a hand making a particular rude gesture. Another time I was doi...

Was last month's Funeral Chicken not Goth enough for you? Well, for those who need to take it up a notch, there is a breed of chicken called a Silkie that you will want to know all about. Silkie is the other dark meat. You know, really dark. It is a kind of chicken; living, it is coated with soft fluffy feathers which can be any color, but this bird is literally black to the bone. The black meat of a Silkie is generally considered an unusual or even undesirable quality in most European and American cuisines, but in Asia, Silkie meat is a gourmet food. Chinese cuisine especially values the breed, but it is also a common ingredient in some Japanese, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Korean dishes. A few fusion restaurants in metropolitan areas of the West have also cooked it as a part of traditional American or French cuisine. They reportedly have a more gamey flavor than regular meat chickens. The New York Times has an article about Silkie meat including links on where it can be bought.

L.W. De Laurence was born in 1868 in Ohio. By the time of his death 68 years later, he'd become one of the most influential occultists around the world. He is often despised for his blatant book-pirating of works by people like S.L. MacGregor Mathers: a loophole in US copyright laws at the time allowed him to reprint new books by British authors as if they were in the public domain. Since he had already built up a reputation for himself as a hypnotist, to make these books more sellable from his company, he would doctor the text so that his own name was listed as author. This caused the name De Laurence to be associated with some of the most respected magical texts of the 19th and 20th centuries. His mail-order occult business ensured these texts were spread around the globe, and consequently so was his reputation. In fact, De Laurence is better known outside of the US than he is within his homeland, due to the spread of his merchandise. Eventually, occult products became ...

William Buehler Seabrook, a journalist in the 1920s, set out to live with African cannibals so he could learn the answer to a perplexing question: what does human flesh taste like? Unfortunately, after all that trouble he found that the cannibals he met weren't interested in sharing, so he was reduced to bribing an intern at the Sarbonne Hospital to steal a slice of meat from the corpse of a recent accident victim. It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. Knowing this much, what then becomes the best wine pairing? According to World Wine , the answer may be, as we've alw...

For removing bad habits from yourself or others, for cleansing after doing "bad work", overcoming ill behaviors, etc. This is a particularly suitable version of the magic spell for anyone who cannot burn candles or incense -- while it's easy to perform with an image candle, the candle itself is not ever burned. You need: 1 black devil figural image candle OR a black voodoo doll Cast Off Evil oil Lemongrass sachet powder Hyssop sachet powder Most Powerful sachet powder personal concerns wax or a 'junk candle' white cloth or white paper, and string for wrapping You also need to have access to a river, ocean, or other body of water. Start the work a little before dawn: Begin by boring a hole in the base of the devil candle. Fill it with the personal concerns of the person for whom this spell is being cast. Also add a few drops of the Cast Off Evil oil before using your wax to seal up the hole. (You can use wax dripped from a '...

This year for Christmas, I got a gift from The Church of Good Luck (thanks, Rev. Jim!) -- a  Cup of Destiny Fortune Telling Cup . If you've ever thought that breakfast and divination needed to go together more smoothly, here's the answer to your prayers. The above is a photo of an actual reading I did with it, for myself. I was testing it with the simple question -- how will my day go? I perceived there to be three markings of importance: a trail of dashes a cherry a tiny butterfly The cup comes with a little book that offers some suggestions for how to read the symbols, so I went by it here. DASHES: A number of short lines together suggest a period when you will be running around a lot more than usual, with a number of short trips and local journeys coming up. Some of these could be a waste of your time, so plan meticulously to avoid frustration and depleted energies. FRUIT (general): A productive phase lies ahead, particularly in your emotional lif...