Internet Sacred Text Archive Home Free Magic Library Main Page - Tarotpedia Dyeing with Blackberries The blackberries growing in and around my garden are now way past their prime with all the heat we had last week. They are far too overripe for eating and preserving. Seeing that it seemed like such a waste I decided to go out the other day and pick all that was left. Extremely berry stained fingers later, I ended up with enough berries to dye 4 ounces of wool and one silk scarf and even freeze some for later use. I had previously applied an alum mordant to both the wool yarn and the scarf. To make the dye, I first mashed up the berries before adding them to my pot of water. I then added my wet fibers to the dye bath and turned the heat on slowly. As you can see the silk scarf really took up the color of the blackberries. All in all, I am very pleased with the results I achieved and will definitely be using blackberries to dye with again. If you try this out yourself be sure to let me know (or better yet send me a picture!) Tagged as: Blackberries, Natural Dyes
Free Book of Shadows .com - The Book of Shadows CD-ROM The Book of Shadows CD-ROM is a Complete Library! And it's all FREE The Book of Shadows & The High Magick Compendium CD-ROM What it is Throughout time, pagans have known that human beings have possessed the power to alter reality. Finally, a program that teaches you how. This is an electronic Book of Shadows Software and e-book anthology, designed as a compendium of knowledge that is easily accessible on your PC. System Requirements: PC with Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, XP, or 2000 Pentium II Processor or equivalent or higher An Open Mind What's in it This CD-ROM is jam-packed full of spells, articles, and other wicca, pagan, and magick information. Over 700 pages of pagan information, spells and resources in the Book of Shadows!
The Key of Solomon Index Sacred Texts Grimoires Title PagePrefaceList of PlatesPreliminary DiscourseIntroduction (from Add. MSS. 10862)Introduction from Landsdowne MSS. 1203 Book I Chapter I. Concerning the Divine Love Which Ought To Precede the Acquisition of This KnowledgeChapter II. Plates The Order of the PentaclesPlate IIPlate IIIPlate IVPlate V.Plate VIPlate VIIPlate VIIIPlate IXPlate XPlate XIPlate XII Book II Prefatory NoteChapter I. Appendices Ancient Fragment of the Key of SolomonThe Qabalistical Invocation of SolomonPlate XV. Magic Books, Occult Books, Esoteric, Ancient, Rare Books And Texts. Grimoires, Spellbooks, Manuscripts These catalogs give me the opportunity to present collections or groups of related books in a more detailed and sympathetic context than the normal website allows, and will also enable me to give people first choice at some of the more interesting new arrivals. As usual I have a variety of other catalogs in preparation. Future catalogs will be devoted to Hermetica, Witchcraft, Astrology, Kabbalah, Grimoires, Theosophy and also Aleister Crowley, H.P.Blavatsky, George Robert Stowe Mead, Gerald Gardner, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Hermes Trismegistus, Eliphas Levi, Austin Osman Spare, Ea Wallis Budge, Arthur Edward Waite, Leonardo Da Vinci, Louis Claude De Saint Martin. All of the materials here are presented in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, as it is accessible to users of most computer platforms. The Adobe Acrobat Reader also allows one to view the graphics in high resolution, and to print them out on laser printers with high quality.
Bottle Spells and Spell Bottles A spell bottle is a bottle into which a magical spell has been cast in the form of physical items used to ensure that the spell results in the desired outcome. A bottle spell is a magical spell that is contained within a bottle, and which, when finished, is expected to work for the ends one desires. There are many types of bottle spells used in folk magic traditions from around the world. Almost every culture that uses bottles (or gourds, or animal horns) as containers also has developed ways to use those containers to hold works of magical spell craft. The painted bottle spells shown here were made in America from small medical bottles. They come in both hoodoo and Catholic styles, as described below. Among the earliest spell bottles known are those called "Witch Bottles." In more recent times, the witch bottles of England and Anglo-America have been made from cobalt blue glass and they are often kept on a window sill "for pretty" as well as to keep away witches and the evil eye.
Sacred Texts Timeline Sacred-textsSacred Time Origins of World Religions This is a timeline which gives the history of sacred texts, as well as a few other relevant events. Of course, not all of the dates in this timeline are accurate; some are entirely conjectural. I have included a few dates, events and documents which are or may be entirely fictional. For space reasons, I have used the abbreviations listed at the end of this file. Key to Abbreviations auth. = author. b. = born ca. = circa Can. = Canonicalization Cent.= century. Cod. = Codification comp. = composition. d. = died hist.= accepted historical date o.c= date of original (typically, although not necessarily oral) composition. Orig. = original O.T. = Old Testament. p.v. = printed version Rev. = Revised. trad. = traditional date trans. = translation w.v. = written version [bhi] Baha'i [bud] Buddhism [tib] Tibetan Buddhism [chr] Christianity [cfu] Confucianism [hin] Hinduism [isl] Islam [jai] Jainism [jud] Judaism [shi] Shinto [skh] Sikhism [tao] Taoism [wic] Wicca [egy] Egypt