#like banish him or actually put up Price specific wards

[ghouljams]

I absolutely love the thought of Price being there so much and gently pushing the threshold that eventually the threshold/ward thinks that’s he’s meant to be there. And if he can get away with it I bet your ass that he ain’t telling Witch shit until it’s the perfect opportunity for him to pounce and claim his prize.

You really hate to do this, but it feels necessary. At this point you shouldn’t have to dig into your new home rituals, the page in your grimoire has seen little use outside of client requests. Its words are still neatly inked in, no sun bleaching that you can detect, and no dog ears or creases. You scratch your head, pulling herbs(Marjoram, Rosemary, Oregano) and referencing your grimoire as you grind them down. You feel like a new witch, eyes glued to your books, unsure of your talents. It’s not a pleasant feeling, then again neither is the waving threshold. Every time you test it it’s as strong as ever, but as soon as Price is around…

That man is making more trouble for you than you’d thought he would. You suppose that’s his job in a way. Doesn’t he have anyone better to try and trap? You twist the pestle against the herb mix, move the crushed leaves with your finger to see how fine they’ve been ground. He must have someone better to bother. You reach for your rosy pink bottle of thorns and hesitate. A threat isn’t a threat if you can’t follow up on it, and a ward is just a warning if it doesn’t bite. You shake a few thorns into your mortar, breathe your intentions over the edge as you pick it up. 

You are warding your house and that’s final, no more putting it off, no more running from Price. You’re going to be a responsible adult and take care of yourself. No one is going to do it for you. You carry your mortar out to the garden and pinch out thorns and herbs to sprinkle at the four corners of it. The threshold lights up pleasantly, accepting the reinforced magic. You pat the roses idly as you pass them, thanking them for their sacrificed thorns. You stall by the gate, staring at the ivy patterns, the overgrown iron. 

A smart witch might trip the leaves back, reveal the metal underneath so wayward hands don’t try to unlatch it. Your skin prickles with chill at the thought. That feels like a definite answer, one you don’t want to give. It feels like an end to the conversation. Why does the thought that he might never get into your garden seem so unappealing? That’s the best outcome. Price is supposed to stay on his side of the gate. 

“You’re thinking awful hard about something,” He tells you, his deep voice running more chills over you.

“I’m warding the garden,” You respond, still considering the implications of a bare iron gate.

“Fancy.” He doesn’t even sound mad. Did you think he’d be mad? Should he be mad? “Against what?”

“Against you,” You tell him honestly, as is your policy. Although times like these you wonder why magic seems so keen on the truth.

“I’m flattered,” Price’s smile is always evident in his voice, even when you’re not looking at him. He taps the threshold, and you feel it like he touched you instead. The thin bow of it, the pressure and ripples it sends through the rest of the barrier. He touches it like it’s nothing. More thorns, you think. 

“It shouldn’t do that,” You look up at him finally, moving closer to inspect the air between you, “Are you doing something to it?”

“What would I be doing?” He asks, and you don’t really have an answer for that. You hum, upset that you don’t know. “Come on smart girl,” Price mumbles, you shake your head.

“No you’re right, it’s silly.” You sigh, but it’s not. You’re so wickedly clever, so fucking observant, if you just put a little more thought into it Price is sure you’d realize it was him. Couldn’t you feel it? The way the threshold was starting to question him? The way your new thorns hesitated to prick him? How your wards seem to shiver right at the edge of acceptance?

If you let him touch you again he’s sure you’d know immediately. You’d feel the way he’s been working your wards, pushing them just a little further every time he sees you. Your threshold noticing his presence over and over, never pushing for entry, but there. You’d even let him in once, is he supposed to be let in? 

Price rubs his knuckles against the edge of the threshold, just to watch you shiver. Generations of magic lick at his hand like a dog. Magic is always a reflection of its owner. What must you be thinking about when he isn’t around? He wonders. 

Still, it’s a hard barrier, it knows better than to let in uninvited guests and non-residents. Another tether from you, or another few grants of entry might do the trick. The real issue is what to do once he can cross, so many options, all of them sure to make you squirm.

#Fae!Price #oc: witch #captain price cod #captain john price #john price x reader #john price x oc #f!reader #f!oc #yeah he's keeping his lips sealed as long as he can #gotta keep the witch comfortable so she doesn't do anything rash #like banish him or actually put up Price specific wards #but she can feel that something is happening #Price is really weighing what isn't going to get him tossed out #like when can he hop the fence and how is he supposed to make sure Witch doesn't just hit him with something #gotta make the witch want him there more than she already does

[aleator]

day 04 - angels & demons au (thor/tony)

A warlock’s quest for knowledge is never-ending. Dangerous, yet thrilling. An adventure down a dark and twisty path with no way of knowing where you’ll end up. Granted, Tony isn’t exactly a warlock yet, but he’s working diligently on that part. Once he finishes preparations for his summoning circle, he’ll have a powerful entity as his patron and the ability to learn even more about the mysteries of the universe.

Tonight is the night. It’s a full moon. The circle is set. Tony has one of his ancient spell books open in front of him, the specific passage marked. Tonight he’ll call forth an otherworldly being that will bestow such power to him the likes of which he’s never had before.

He goes through the steps of the ritual, one by one until the final line of the incantation is spoken aloud. The candles in the room flicker and dim, a sudden chill in the air, and Tony holds his breath in anticipation as…

Nothing happens.

Frowning, he looks back down at his book and flips to the next page to see if he’d missed something, then flips back. All the steps of the ritual are accounted for. Surely some kind of demon or eldritch abomination or...minor fiend would have taken the bait at least.

Tony swears under his breath and angrily flicks a black rose petal off his spell book.

“Language,” a deep voice from within the summoning circle says, startling Tony so much he knocks over a bowl of sage, which scatters over the floor.

“It worked,” Tony gasps, looking up from where he’s kneeling on the floor in front of the circle, but he can’t see anything at all in the shadows within. “My name is Anthony, and--”

“I know who you are,” the voice replies. “I know what you’re looking for. I’m here to tell you to stop being so foolish.”

That’s not what Tony had expected at all and he blinks in surprise. “Stop? I’m not going to stop. The answers to everything I’ve ever wondered about are right in front of me.”

The invisible being sighs deeply, and Tony doesn’t think he’s ever heard a demon sigh before. “Be that as it may, the price for such knowledge is too steep. You won’t find any pacts to make here tonight.”

Tony gets to his feet, scowling at this mystery figure. “If you won’t make a pact with me, leave so someone else can!”

“It is too late,” the voice says solemnly. “Give up this foolish endeavor.”

All at once the flames on his candles flicker back to life, but they reveal nothing within the circle. The voice does not speak again, but it had been telling the truth. The time for the ritual had passed.

But Tony isn’t about to give up after one failed experiment. He gathers a new set of supplies and waits until the next full moon, this time putting up extra wards so that whatever pesky demon that ruined his last summoning wouldn’t be able to return. This time when the candles dim and the lights fade, Tony doesn’t waste any time, standing up with his book open to the binding incantation as he starts to recite it.

“You can stop that now,” says the same voice from last time, and Tony swears and slams his book closed. At least this time the voice doesn’t tell him off for swearing.

“Why are you here if you don’t want to be my patron?” Tony asks, frustrated. “Do you have fun ruining my night?”

“I promise I’m not doing this for fun,” the voice replies, and if Tony didn’t know any better he’d say this demon actually sounded tired. “But you did not heed my warning.”

“Right, sorry. I’ll listen now!” Tony says sarcastically, but the voice does not respond.

So that’s another full moon wasted, but Tony is nothing if not stupidly persistent. Yet full moon after full moon, the same mysterious being appears within his summoning circle, staying only long enough to block any legitimate patrons from coming through. After the fifth or sixth time this happens despite Tony’s attempts to prevent it, Tony has had enough.

He spends long hours into the night reading and researching and practicing his spells and incantations. If this seemingly powerful being doesn’t want him to make any pacts with other patrons, he’ll prove to his bothersome guest that he’s worth making a pact with.

This time when the mysterious voice appears to block his summoning, Tony acts quickly, casting a revealing spell instead of trying to trap or banish the creature. For a moment nothing happens, then a sudden, blooming burst of light physically knocks Tony off his feet.

Landing squarely on his ass, Tony grunts and squints up at the light, trying to see what caused it. Standing in the remains of his summoning circle is the most ethereal being Tony has ever seen in his life, eyes so blue they hold literal skies within them, golden hair blowing in a wind that doesn’t exist on Tony’s plane of existence.

This time it’s the being that swears, in the same voice that Tony’s heard again and again over the past several full moons.

“You’re no demon,” Tony says accusingly.

“And you are not meant to be a warlock, Anthony Stark,” the ethereal being says, his voice clearer and more heavenly than before. It nearly makes Tony want to weep. “You are too important to be bound to some demon who would use you as its pawn.”

Tony picks himself up from the floor, shaking dust from his cloak.

“You could have said that at the beginning, you know.” He feels like he should be afraid of this--man?--but after spending months cursing the guy as some irritating lesser demon, he feels less like a cowering mortal and more like a ticked off neighbor.

Tony licks his lips, looking up at the too beautiful man, not one to back down just because he’s one sentence away from a huge mistake at all times.

“You’re clearly powerful. Something divine, right? And you want me on the path of righteousness and all that?”

Slowly, the being nods.

“So be my patron. I’ll work my magic how you see fit. I just want to know.”

“Know what?” the being asks, a low rumble that sounds like thunder in the back of Tony’s head.

“Everything.”

The unearthly man studies him, his gaze a physical weight on Tony’s shoulders, but Tony doesn’t buckle. Then he holds out his hand to Tony, sparks of lightning dancing across his skin.

Tony reaches out and takes it.

#thunderiron #tonythor #thortony #thor odinson #tony stark #thor x tony #mcu #alternate universe #2020 nano challenge #my fic #hope you enjoy a very loose interpretation of both the prompt and dnd lore! #also i've gotten some very very nice comments on my previous fics and i wanted to say thank you!! #the comments and reblogs are deeply loved and appreciated ;3;

[emberedmoon-blog]

Against hexes, curses and jinxes

Jinxes, Hexes, and Curses About This Masterpost
Thicket’s Magical Masterpost Jinxes, hexes, and curses are all part of the same category of malicious magic. This is magic done to harm. It may be done for the greater good, but in general it is always offensive and always meant to hurt another person. A jinx is the least damaging of all malicious magics. It is more like a nasty trick or prank than an actual attack. Considering they serve little strategic value in battle, I consider jinxes to be just plain cruel. Hexes are magical attacks. A hex can be relatively minor or extremely dangerous, depending on the spell chosen and how much power it has. Curses are not simply more powerful hexes. In my path, a curse is life-changing. It permanently alters fate and destiny. I doubt the majority of magical workers in the world can cast a true curse. For this reason we will mostly be talking about jinxes and hexes, since curses are beyond the scope of this article. The purpose of this post is to talk about hex and jinx identification and breaking. A hex can have endless symptoms, from the vague to the specific. When you are hexed, things just start to go wrong, in your body, your mind, or your life (or all three, if you are against a wicked opponent). When trying to identify hexing symptoms for yourself or another, keep an eye on what is abnormal. Don’t get what is normal twisted with what is a symptom of hexing. If someone normally has anxiety, then don’t assume that is being caused by a hex. Instead, keep an eye on if that anxiety worsens, changes, or is triggered by new things. A few common hexing symptoms: Headaches, nausea, stomach pain, body pain, anxiety, worry, nightmares, insomnia, sleep paralysis, uncontrollable thoughts, strange impulses or compulsions, being unable to keep track of time, breaking objects on accident, phobias or fears, being in physical danger (car accidents, assaults), people treat you differently (as if they dislike you for some reason now), always being at the wrong place at the wrong time, positive relationships start decaying, unhealthy people come back in to your life, things just plain going wrong. Now let me slow your roll for a moment. Remember that you are looking for abnormal symptoms. If people haven’t liked you your entire life, it is unlikely that a witch put a curse on you as an infant. If you have had a fear of spiders since you were bitten twelve years ago, it doesn’t mean that was a symptom of a spider-hex and now your natural spiders means you are under magical attack. Be reasonable. People have headaches every day for mundane reasons, and their “unexplainable” symptoms could be traced back to their Oreo and Mountain Dew exclusive diet. What you are looking for is a thread of unexplained commonality. Remember that people seem to have a natural and powerful inclination to blame their problems on magic. I absolutely know once I publish this article I am going to get many messages from many people down on their luck asking if they have been hexed or cursed. In reality, their inability to take their foot off the gas pedal is what’s giving them speeding tickets, not some magical scapegoat. That being said, if you reasonably do believe you’ve been hexed, absolutely contact me; my point is that people often like to think they have been hexed, when they have not. Another important part of identifying magical attack is figuring out where it would have come from. A friend of mine has many common hexing symptoms, and he knows of a magical practitioner who would have had it out for him exactly at the time all these symptoms started. If not for the knowledge of this person, I would doubt he was under magical attack. So if you or a friend match a lot of these symptoms – where did they come from? Magical attack does not spawn out of thin air. Or does it? Many of the symptoms of hexing are shared by symptoms of spirit attack. Which can, literally, come from nowhere. There is no harm in doing a full banishing along with a hex reversal. This is not the post to discuss spirit attack, just be aware that you are not necessarily being hexed even if you are under true spiritual attack. Ask yourself what big event happened at the time a hex was supposedly laid upon you or another. Did they get married, possibly inciting jealousy in another? Did they screw someone over? Did they get promoted, move, lose their job, find a new partner, or break up? Gather all the information you can about what was going on in this person’s life at the start of their symptoms. This will provide clues as to the possible source of magical attack, allowing you to build better defenses. Basically when it comes to breaking spiritual attack, there are a few basic steps you will want to take. Protect the person as best you can. If someone is under a true spiritual attack, there are two basic options. Either their opponent has hexed them once and forgotten about it, or the attack is ongoing. If the attack is ongoing, it means that any steps to break the hex may be noticed and be met with redoubled efforts by the opponent. You will want to lay personal protections on them, as well as creating a safe haven in their bedroom or home/apartment. If you are going to be helping yourself, check your wards and put a lot of solid energy in to them. But don’t rely on them – after all, they did not prevent the attack from coming through the first time. Question where your protections are lacking and how you can reinforce them. Uncross the person very thoroughly. An uncrossing is a way to remove magical hexes and bindings. It is simple but powerful magic. Uncrossing spells will be given at the end. [Cleanse] the person and their home thoroughly, to remove any residual energies. Bless the person and their home, to restore a sense of peace, security, and safety. Blast the opponent, if necessary. If you have found yourself caught up in an ongoing spiritual attack, sometimes the best way to handle it is to cripple your opponent through your own offensive measures. Posts on protection, uncrossing, and blessing will come later. Read about cleansing [here]. Let me encourage you not to handle hexing cases alone. There is no shame in reaching out when someone is actually attacking you, you know? It’s not something you have to handle alone. Just make sure you don’t incite your friends to mob mentality violence. That’s not cool, either. Let’s take a moment and talk about blasting, owl-blinking, nightmaring, and hexing – on your side of the fence. Hexes and curses get thrown around like cheap Halloween candy on Tumblr, and most of them are radically dangerous, written by teenagers and young adults who are out for vengeance no matter the price. Well, screw that mentality. You do not have to sacrifice yourself using dangerous hexes in order to get back at someone. I’m not going to touch the issue ethically, you are your own person and you get to choose who to hurt. I am going to brush up against this issue magically, to try and teach how to cast a safe hex. Incidentally, I don’t believe in the 3fold law, for those of you who asked me. Hexing someone is like dragging a bucket of shit through your house in order to dump it on your cheating boyfriend. That nasty energy is going to get everywhere. When I cleanse, I feel light and refreshed, because that cleansing energy has rubbed off on me. When I cast a love spell I hit up my boys afterwords because that love energy has rubbed off on me. When I cast a hex, I feel angry, violent, and raw – because that same energy has gotten in to my system. When you cast a spell, part of that spell stays within you. The nasty energy starts when you start thinking up the most vile things to throw at someone. As you feed that anger, you also feed the hex growing within yourself. But that energy doesn’t exist to hurt one person, it exists to hurt everyone – including you. As you dwell on your anger and hurt and plans to hex, that energy builds and builds and starts to overflow on to your personal energies and life. Ever notice how people who spend a lot of time hexing also seem to have shitty things constantly happening to them through pure coincidence? When the hex itself is cast, that bottled up energy explodes out in one direction, towards your victim. But just as a gun fires a bullet, that gunpowder residue also explodes and gets all over whoever fired the gun. But wait! There’s more. That energy is going to follow a pipeline to your enemy – your astral relationship pipeline. When no pipeline exists, a taglock such as a photo, hair, or nail clippings are used instead. This is how a witch with no personal investment can hex someone. But this relationship pipeline isn’t reduced, damaged, or cut off when a hex is sent, leaving you free from this person’s influence. The pipeline reacts exactly how it is supposed to react when a huge amount of energy is sent through it: it gets stronger. Ever notice how you can hex someone ten times and your relationship seems to get deeper and more complicated and shitty every time, leaving you in a swamp of shit when you just wanted to hex someone and get them out of your life? Yeah. So there are two basic problems when it comes to hexing. The first is that the hex energy gets all over you and fucks you up, and the second is that hexing someone makes your astral relationship grow stronger, not weaker. Fortunately taking care of these problems is easy. If you’ve made up your mind to be a hex-witch, you need to build up your natural protections and fortifications before you get deep in to the attack magic. This will help guard against all that nasty energy hurting you. Engage in regular cleansings – more than someone who doesn’t do hexes. Rip hexes off like bandaids. You don’t need to feed a hex for weeks and weeks before you cast it. Go deep, cast it hard, then cleanse thoroughly. Use your most powerful cleansers on yourself, your home, and the area you did the hex in. After you are aware that the hex has been delivered (through social media, hearing about that person’s troubles, or magical sensing) cut the bond between the two of you through any regular spell. Check out my post on bindings for a little more info on breaking a relationship bind. Then, release. Release that anger. Release your need for justice and vengeance. The spell has been cast, your work has been done. The more you hold on to it, the more you give room for those shitty energies to build back up in your life. Do a magical ritual. Burn your memories of that person. Burn what they did to you. Let the ashes blow away in the wind. Recover. Treat yo’ self. Hanging on, and casting hex after hex after hex just to punish a person, is dragging yourself down with them. Eventually your job will be done. (I will also argue that if one hex doesn’t cut it, then two won’t either) Anyway, let’s focus on some hex-breaking spells. Simple Candle Buster Take a black taper candle. The next best colors are red and white. Any color taper will do in a pinch. Carve away the bottom end of the candle so that the wick pokes out. This reversal symbolizes, well, reversal. Coat the candle in any of the hex-breaking oils or waters listed at the end. Surround the candle-holder with the hottest peppers you have access to. Charge these peppers with the intent to burn and shred any spell attached to you. Once your candle is set up with the peppers, speak to the spell. Ask it to utterly destroy and terrorize any malicious spell cast upon you. Ask it to send the spell back to its creator. Allow the candle to burn down fully. Egg-xit My Aura Take a whole egg. Fresh is best if you can get it, otherwise it doesn’t really matter. Rub the egg all over your body or have someone else do it for you. Start at the feet and go upwards. You do not have to be nude. Chant, “Egg, egg, take away all the shit that’s in my way.” Vividly imagine that every curse and hex placed upon you is consumed within the infinite depths of the egg. Throw it away outside of your home. Do not break it. You’ll Rue The Day Take a very long and enjoyable soak in a bath filled with rue, angelica, or any other curse-breaker you know. Avoid adding chili peppers to the bath, for obvious reasons. Ensure that you charge the bath with hex-breaking properties. As you bathe, feel the plant spirits washing over you and consuming the hex placed around you, both ethereally and astrally. This is not for pregnant or nursing women. Doll Hex-Breaker Craft a poppet of yourself. Coat it in any hex-breaking oils that you see fit. Allow it to soak in Four Thieves Vinegar overnight, in moonlight if possible. In the morning, coddle the doll and coat it with uncrossing, protective, or beneficial oils and waters. Keep the doll safe until it dries fully. Undo the poppet magic (remove all traces of its association to you) and store until you wish to use it again, or discard it. Flying Devil Powder Create a blend of black pepper, cinnamon, dragon’s blood, patchouli, and vetiver. If not all ingredients are available, use what you have. Add anything else intuition tells you you should add. Burn this substance on a hot charcoal and stand within the smoke. It makes the devils fly away. Lemon Lime Bath Take as many lemons and limes as you have. Squeeze them in to the bath water and include the rinds. Add nine bay leaves. Bathe thoroughly. War Water Bath Add war water to the bath. Bathe. Imagine that iron weapons spring from the bath and mutilate any malicious spell placed upon you. Grind It Up Take three of the hottest dried peppers you have. Name each pepper, “you are the curse placed upon me.” Grind the peppers together. Whack them a whole bunch with the pestle, too. As you do so, imagine that the curses are being torn to shreds. Take the ground up seeds and chili skin. Add it to a new protective charm and wear it in addition to your other armors. Salted Lemons This is a more complex one. You will need a lemon, some salt, and some holy water. Light one black, one red, and one white candle. Light uncrossing incense (rue, cinnamon, hyssop, bay leaf. Whatever you have). Pass a knife through the incense smoke. Hold the blade in the flame of each of the three candles, then sprinkle the blade with holy water. Using this knife, slice the lemon in to three sections. Dip each section in to the holy water, then in to the dish of salt so they are completely coated. Leave the lemon slices out on a paper towel. When they are completely dried, the hex is thoroughly removed. If the lemon slices start to rot, the hex has not been removed. To negate the hex, use holy water. To return the hex, use war water. Mesopotamian Incantation This useful hex-breaker reaffirms your value to the universe, elevating you above the spells mean to harm you. Begin chanting: “I am pleasing, I am pleasing Heaven takes pleasure in me Earth takes pleasure in me The ocean takes pleasure in me The sky takes pleasure in me The gods take pleasure in me The sun takes pleasure in me The moon takes pleasure in me My mother takes pleasure in me… Continue on in this manner, naming every good and wonderful thing you can think of. Your significant other, your dogs. Whatever gives you power and strength, affirm that it takes pleasure (loves you and wants you to be safe) in you. Continue on for as long as you desire. Then, end with this. Shout if necessary: “Many any evil magic on me be dispelled May any evil magic on me be removed!” Second Mesopotamian Spell Chant the following: “Evil man Evil Eye Evil mouth Evil tongue Evil spell Witchcraft, spit, saliva, evil deeds, evil thoughts Get out of the house now!” Four Thieves Vinegar Uses: Highly purifying and protective, also healing. Obtain the best possible red wine or apple cider vinegar. Peel and crush garlic cloves and add them to the vinegar; the more garlic, the better. Choose four of the following ingredients to add: Black pepper, whole chili pepper, coriander, lavender, mint, rosemary, rue, sage, thyme, or wormwood. Allow to sit for four days, shaking once daily, before using. Glory Water Uses: Drives away ill fortune, draws success. Perhaps very useful for your self care. In fresh water, combine the following: Orange blossom water or neroli hydrosol. Frankincense resin or essential oil. Essential oil of bergamont. Orange blossom water/neroli is essential and cannot be substituted or replaced. Pollution Water Uses: Clears pollution, aids in banishment Grind ashes, salt, and red pepper in to a fine powder. Add this powder to spring water. The product is intensified if the ashes are from burned holy verses or prayers of protection. Crown of Success Oil Use: To bring success unto its wearer. Combine bay leaves, frankincense, sandalwood, and vetiver in to sunflower, olive, or jojoba oils. Essential oils may be used instead of the dried plant matter. Wear regularly as part of your self care. Something tells me Joobs may like this one. Fiery Wall of Protection Oil Use: Protection Blend powdered dragon’s blood resin and sea salt together. Add frankincense and myrrh. Add to castor oil. If necessary, include olive oil to reduce thickness. Wear as a perfume to protect yourself, or add to a jar and carry as a talisman. If you choose to add cinnamon and ginger, it cannot be worn on the skin. Flying Devil Oil Use: Banishment Blend red pepper and/or hot chili peppers in to olive oil or baby oil. This spicy mix will drive away unwanted spirits and spells.

#protection