To Attract a Lover
According to Newfoundland Witches, you must take a red apple and prick it full of holes with a needle as you recite aloud the name of your beloved. On a night of the new moon, sleep with the apple under your pillow. The following morning, wash and core the apple, mash it, and add it to the filling of a homemade apple pie, which is then given to your intended lovemate to draw him into love. (The mashed apple may also be used in numerous cookie or cake recipes.)
To Gain a Prophetic Dream of One’s Future Love
Recite the following magickal incantation as you pluck a sprig of the mystical ash tree:
ASHEN-TREE, ASHEN-TREE
I PLUCK THEE.
THIS NIGHT MY TRUE LOVE
FOR TO SEE.
Place the sprig under your pillow when the moon is full, and your future lover or spouse will appear before you in a dream.
Three Modern Witch’s Spells to Return a Lover
Spell No. 1: Prick the ring finger of your left hand with a pin of silver, and with some of the blood, write both your name and the name of your parted lover on a circle-shaped piece of white silk. With ashes of burnt basil (the sacred herb of Love), draw one circle around both names on the silk as you visualize your lover returning to you. Fold the piece of silk in half, and then fold it over one more time. Stick the silver pin through the folded silk to hold it together, and then bury it deep in the soil of Mother Earth at midnight on the third night of the waxing moon.
Spell No. 2: On a night of the new moon, nail a branch of myrtle (sacred to Venus) over the front door of your house and allow it to remain there throughout the waxing phase of the moon to magickally draw your lover back to you.
Spell No. 3: For effectiveness, the following magical love spell should be performed on a Friday night when the waxing moon is either in the sign of Taurus or Libra. (Venus, the planet of love and desire, is the ruler over these two astrological signs of the zodiac. It is also the ruling planet of the sixth day of the week.) Stick a needle through the wick of a dark red candle if your lover is a man; or a pink candle if your lover is a woman. Light the candle and visualize your lover returning to you as you recite this magickal incantation:
LIGHT OF VENUS
LIGHT OF LOVE
BURN IN (name) HEART
AND RETURN HIS/HER LOVE TO ME.
SO MOTE IT BE.
The Circle of Light Love Spell
On a night when the moon is in a waxing phase, anoint twelve white candles with rose oil and arrange them to form a circle around you, starting in the East. In the center of the circle, place an incense burner filled with African violet incense and a photograph of the man or woman whom you desire love from. Sit or kneel before the photograph, light the incense and candles, and say:
AS THIS CIRCLE OF LIGHT SURROUNDS HIS (HER) IMAGE
SO SHALL MY LOVE SURROUND HIS (HER) HEART.
AS THIS FRAGRANT INCENSE BURNS WITH FIRE
HIS (HER) BURNING DESIRE FOR ME SHALL START.
HIS (HER) LOVE FOR ME GROWS STRONGER
AS THESE TWELVE CANDLES BURN.
AS LOVE IS GIVEN, SO SHALL IT RETURN.
SO MOTE IT BE.
Gaze into the photograph and visualize a red, glowing beam of love-energy emanating from your body into the picture. As you concentrate and visualize, chant out loud the name of your beloved.
After the candles have burned down, give the wick ends to the one you desire to help him (or her) fall passionately in love with you.
The Broken Mirror Spell
To bind a lover to you, smash to pieces a small mirror into which the man or woman from whom you desire love has gazed. Take the broken pieces of glass and bury them in a flowerpot filled with dirt during the waxing phase of the moon. Place the flowerpot on a windowsill facing West, and sprinkle it every Friday with a tea made from spikenard and rainwater as you chant aloud your desired lover’s name.
To Ease the Agony of Unrequited Love
Light a fire in the fireplace on a night when the moon is in a waning phase and cast a handful of dried vervain into the dancing flames.
To Bring Back an Unfaithful Lover
Gather the root of elfwart (elecampane) on Saint John’s Eve. Powder the root and mix it with the grated rind of an orange and some ambergris. By the light of a red candle, write your lover’s name on a piece of paper, using red ink, and burn it. Stir the ashes into the powdered root mixture as you thrice recite his (or her) name, and then place it in a small box, along with a lock of his hair, a thread from his clothing, and two figures (one male and one female) fashioned from the stalks of hay. Tie seven red strings with seven tight knots around the box. Place it in a dark, undisturbed spot for seven nights, and then anonymously mail it to the unfaithful lover to cause him (or her) to return to you within seven days.
To Make a Man Want to Marry You
According to one of the most powerful and best-known spells of the Santeria Witches, you must hollow out the root of a lily and fill it with lamp oil. Over the oil, place a floating wick made of a cotton wad soaked in the man’s semen (the symbol of his manhood). Light the “oil lamp” at 9:00 P.M. every evening for one hour, and the man will soon submit himself to the will of the Witch who burns the lamp.
Cuban Love Spell
Write your beloved’s name on a yellow nine-day candle five times with your own name written across it five times. Dress the candle with a mixture of rose oil and powdered maidenhair fern. Place the candle inside a glass container, and say:
BLESSED BE WITH POWDERED FERNS
BLESSED BE WITH OIL OF ROSE
AS THE CANDLE FIRE BURNS
SO THE LOVE VIBRATION GROWS.
Place a photograph of your lover in a small dish. Cover it with a bit of honey and arrange five small fishhooks over the photo. Dip your finger into the honey and taste it. (The love-goddess Oshun will not accept any offerings unless they are tasted in her presence.) Light the candle in the name of the Goddess, and say:
BY THE POWER OF THE GREAT OSHUN
GODDESS OF LOVE, PASSION, AND BEAUTY
I CAST THIS SPELL OF LOVE UPON (name).
LET HIS LOVE AND PASSION
BURN ONLY FOR ME
UNTIL I SET HIM FREE FROM THIS SPELL.
SO MOTE IT BE.
Cuban Spell To Return a Reluctant Lover
Hollow out a pumpkin and put five toenails from a rooster inside it along with an egg, pepper, marjoram, Florida Water, a small personal article from your lover (such as a lock of hair, a piece of thread from his clothing, jewelry, etc.), and his name written on a piece of paper. Spit inside the pumpkin three times and then place it in front of an image of the love-goddess Oshun for ten days. After the time has passed, throw the pumpkin into a river and your lover will soon return to you.
Medieval European Marriage Spell
Find nine peas and place the pod on the lintel of your kitchen door to attract a husband to your house.
Witch Candle Spell
On a Friday evening, place a pink or red Witch-shaped candle on a 24″ × 24″ piece of aluminum foil, folded in half. Write the name of the man or woman from whom you desire love on the bottom