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| Distant Readings |
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Gemma is available for consultations and distant readings. She employs the methods of tarot reading and scrying, using such things as ‘shew stones’, mirrors, smoke and fire.
The client will receive a detailed written transcript of their reading, along with a clear photograph of the spread. Readings are UK£20. Please contact to make arrangements to book my time, and to give any questions or details of situations you require guidance for. You will then receive details of how to make payment.
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| Household Charms |
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In Cornwall and the West Country, there exists a long tradition of household charms, created by folk-magical practitioners, called variously, Witches, Pellars, Conjurers and charmers. Such charms are provided to clients to be installed in certain places within the home. The charm, carefully created from symbolic items, each with their own body of associated lore and tradition is ritually charged and empowered by the practitioner, with the aid of potent natural forces, virtues and spirit helpers on a pertinent day, at a pertinent planetary hour and under the pertinent lunar phase. They are then to be installed, usually within the portal points of the home, hung above, or even buried beneath the doors, windows or hearth, or concealed within the chimney or upon the roof timbers. |
It is via such places that spiritual forces may gain entry into the home, be they unwanted malignant forces, such as evil spirits, or the influence of the malevolent Witch’s ill-wish, guarded against by protective charms, or desired virtues such as love, prosperity and good fortune, drawn in by charms intended to attract such things. The following are charms I currently offer include Rowan berry charm, charged horse shoe (Suitable for outdoor use), ‘snail beads’, inscribed lead and slate charms (both suitable for outdoor use), house dolls, garlic charm, ‘the lady’s tree’, Juniper berry charm, animal skull spirit houses and guardian charms, herbal charms etc.
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| Personal Charms |
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Personal charms in the West Country traditionally take the form of small square charm bags. These typically contain powders and other pertinent substances of virtue, along with traditional written charms, inscribed upon vellum with charged ink and intricately folded. These are derived from the designs held within the famous grimoires, used by magical practitioners in the West Country, in a marriage of folk-magic and ceremonial magic traditions.Such charms can be created for a wide variety of needs; many of them call upon certain spirit forces and planetary virtues each being traditionally regarded as aiding certain areas of life. |
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Please note; all charms are stock items of Gemma's trade, and all readings are strictly distant only. For tailored consultations and readings in person, she would refer you to the Village Wisewoman |
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| Magical Artefacts |
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In addition to crafting items for my own use within Traditional magical practice and Pellarcraft, I occasionally create items for fellow practitioners. When such items are available they shall appear here.
SOLD: Mandrake Root or Alraun - An anthropomorphic Mandrake Root (rare and genuine Mandragora Officinalis), wrapped in pure raw silk and housed withn a lead coffin. The lid is tooled with signs relating to Saturn, the moon, and the worlds above and below. The coffin is lined with burgundy felt, its base is protected by black felt. the root is almost exactly three inches in length. |
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Other items available:
SOLD: Human bone (genuine vintage European femur/thighbone) spirit calling trumpet or Kangling.
“Human thighbones have long precedent in the construction of spirit-summoning wind instruments. Nigel Pennick relates that the East Anglian secret society of the Bonesmen held that ‘spirits of the dead can be called up by playing a certain tune on a bone flute’ (2004), which is similar to the tantric Buddhist Kangling, an otherworldly sounding trumpet made of a human thighbone and played with the left ‘wisdom’ hand to evoke spirits.’ … ‘Herein is a certain similitude to the use of the thighbone within the conclaves of traditional witchcraft as a ‘trumpet for the calling of Souls and Ancestral shades.’ (chumbley: 2002)". Martin Duffy, Rites Necromantic, TC 138
Traditional carved spirit mirror for scrying. Similar to the example in the Museum of Witchcraft's collection, and the example owned by Doreen Valiente, which came from a Cornish family. This Mirror is smaller than both examples. £75
Traditional Cornish goose feather sweeper. Vintage goose feathers (circa 1900) bound in wax and red fabric. £30
Text by Cecil Williamson from the Museum of Witchcraft: "West country witches delight in sweeping magic in principle, this consists of either sweeping bad or good luck away from one to another place or person, or vice-versa, the witch's sweepers are formed from a wide range of natural materials. One of the most popular, having been in constant use down the centuries, is a sweeper formed from goose feathers and goose fat."
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