Wishing on a star

This is a variation on the simple wishing on a star that many of us indulged in as children. In the Gypsy tradition, it goes like this:

Wish upon the first star you see in the night sky, on any night of the year...
Your wish will come true if a second star appears shortly afterward.

Quick Biscuits Gypsy Style

Ingredients:

• 4 cups flour
• 1 cup sour milk...

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Autumn Fire Blessing

If you have a fireplace or wood stove, it’s a good idea to perform a blessing ritual as you light the season’s first fire, especially if you perform fire magic. Ready the wood and ignite the fire using the flame of a white or orange candle as you recite this blessing:

Ancient fire,
Burn safely and bright.
Favor me with warmth and light....

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Gypsy Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs peeled pumpkin, cut into chunks
• 4 1/2 cups of strong white bread flour
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1 oz fresh yeast

Instructions:

Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil and add the pumkin....

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Brotherly and Sisterly Love

To draw children in a family closer, as well as to stop them from bickering, take water from a stream or river. Bring it to a boil on a fire built with fresh twigs. Write the name of each child on a bay leaf and let them simmer together in the water. Ask Venus (The Goddess of Love) to bless them.

Using a pin, inscribe the names of the children on a pink candle and then light the candle, so that its flame may flicker over your spell....

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Griddle Cakes - Gypsy Style

Ingredients:

• 2 cups self-raising flour
• Pinch of salt
• Pinch of ground mixed/pumpkin spices
• 4 tablespoons butter 

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Power Oil

Power Oil is generally used to strengthen any spell, whether it is for health, wealth, love, or happiness. A few dabs on clothing helps a person win in a situation where they feel the odds are stacked against them....

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Make a wish

When two people coincidentally utter the same words at precisely the same moment, they should link fingers and each make a wish - the wishes will come true.


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Break a Streak of Bad Luck

Go for a walk and pick up seven twigs from the ground, one to represent each day of the week. Traditionally, the twigs should be ash for Monday, beech for Tuesday, elm for Wednesday, oak for Thursday, horse chestnut for Friday, yew for Saturday, and elder for Sunday....

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Gembétsa

Get kidney suet from the butcher and grind or chop it very fine after removing all skin and blood. Knead this with wheat flour, salt, pepper, baking soda, and parsley and enough water to make a stiff dry dough. In another pan fry bacon or sausage meat until quite crispy and break into small pieces. ...


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Trick or treat!

Here we have a complation of the longest list of folkloric supernatural creatures:

"What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts, boggles, bloody-bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, specters, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards ...

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An Old Gypsy Cure for Nervousness

Valerian Wine

• 2 handful valerian roots
• 1 clove
• 1 orange rind
• 1 rosemary twig...

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God Energy

It is an inspired truth, common among most pantheistic and so-called primitive religions of the world, that there is a great primeval intelligence, an energy that gives life and form to every particle of the universe. The archetype gods and goddesses are all part of this great intelligence, each having dominion over a different aspect of life....

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Nettle Soup

Wear gloves when picking the nettle leaves! It is best to pick young tender leaves from an unpolluted area and away from roaming dogs. Also, avoid picking any herbs from the roadside because of exhaust fumes. Make sure you wash the leaves well.

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1 onion, finely chopped

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Your Heart's Desire

You have met someone you desire. According to the Romanies this spell will ensure that he or she responds.

First, gather a fresh rose and two red candles, and find out the time of sunrise the next morning. Just before you go to sleep, place a red candle on each side of the rose....

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Tomato and Lentil Quick Soup

Ingredients:

• One tin of chopped tomatoes
• One tinful of water
• Two handfuls of lentils

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Zee Meditation

Find a place that has a comfortable feel for you, a spot that feels welcoming, preferably outdoors. It is good to lie on the grass, or lean against a tree or rock, but sit on something comfortable if that feels better. If it is more convenient to be indoors, try to fill your room with harmony and life. Have growing things about you. Burn pleasant incense or oil, maybe a candle or two if that pleases you. The main thing is to feel relaxed.

Don't try to clear your mind of thoughts: to try to do so consciously often has the opposite effect of making one tense. Let your mind range where it will. If you feel like looking around, look around! Notice the flowers, the sound of the birds, the wind through the leaves, the distant noise of traffic and people. Gradually your thoughts will quieten....

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The First Step

The first step towards performing any magic, or fortune-telling, is to recognize and harness the zee. This needs much less effort than you might expect, in fact it takes complete relaxation.

On a village green in Norfolk, there is a bench carved with the words,

"Sometimes I sits and thinks,
sometimes I just sits."

The Gypsy people spend much of their time doing hard physical work, but when given the chance they are very good at both the above-mentioned activities, or should I say inactivities. You may wonder what this has to do with magic, but it is surprising...

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The Zee Energy

The life force, the first primeval god, has been rediscovered several times in recent years. It has been called by various names: prana, chi, viril, telluric energy, earth energy, the ether, among many others. Just as the blood in our bodies permeates every corpuscle of flesh but is concentrated in the veins, so the god energy is concentrated in ley lines, or the dragon paths of feng shui. These currents of energy are known to most cultures of the world by various names....

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Amulets and Talismans

Many gypsies carry amulets and talismans as good luck charms.

In gypsy lore an amulet is an item from nature that is either naturally, or artificially (through ritual), charged with magical power. A typical amulet would be a stone with a hole through it or a rabbit's foot.

Talismans, on the other hand, are man made objects charged with magical power by the gypsy sorcerer....

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Carrot, Onion and Lemon Soup

Ingredients:

• One and a half pints of vegetable stock
• 1 Carrot finely chopped
• 1 Small onion finely chopped
• ....

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Recognising the Power of the Universe - part 2

Science has worked hard to uncover the secrets of the universe. Through modern techniques, what once was mysterious has become open, even commonplace. As a result the world has become rather two-dimensional, lacking the hidden depths that the human psyche needs to grow and flourish. For too many people life has lost its purpose; it has no meaning. they work hard, overeat, worry too much about their diet. They may take a holiday once or twice a year, and bring up children, but too often there is an empty space where their souls should be....

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Recognizing the Power of the Universe - part 1

In order to use the great power that permeates every atom of the universe and breathes life into the world around us, we must first learn to recognize it. Too often we take the workings of nature for granted and ignore, or are ignorant of the everyday miracles that enable life to continue on this small planet of ours.

Living and working as we do in the controlled atmosphere of houses, offices, factories or shops, travelling in the comfort of motor vehicles, we lose touch with the rhythm of the seasons and phases of the moon that are so important to us all for food and growth. Even people engaged in agriculture are in a constant battle against nature instead of working with her, especially since intensive livestock rearing and the growing of engineered vegetable crops are now the norm....

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Romany Money Spell

Place a small bowl or cup in a place you will see it every day.

Hold 3 coins of any denomination in your dominant hand and say:

Trinka Five, Trinka Five,

Ancient spirits come alive....

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The Power of the Universe

In order to use the great power that permeates every atom of the universe and breathes life into the world around us, we must first learn to recognise it. Too often we take the workings of nature for granted and ignore, or are ignorant of the every day miracles that enable life to continue on this small planet of ours.

Living and working as we do in the controlled atmosphere of houses, offices, factories, or shops, travelling in the comfort of motor vehicles, we lose touch with the rhythm of the seasons and phases of the moon that are so important to us all for food and growth. Even people engaged in agriculture are in a constant battle against nature instead of working with her....

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