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Naraka

Naraka is the underworld in both Buddhism and Hinduism. It is similar to the western interpretation of hell in that upon death people who have done bad deeds are sent there to receive punishment. One of the main differences between Naraka and hell is that the punishment is not eternal, though it may last for a very long time.

Like the hell depicted in Inferno by Dante Alighieri, there are many different layers to Naraka. There are eight hot narakas and eight cold narakas each having 16 departments which total 272 subdivisions. The entrance and exit of Naraka is guarded by Gozuki (Cow-head) and Mezuki (Horse-head).

## Eight Hot Narakas

### Children's Limbo

The place where the souls of bad children go before they are reincarnated.

### Kalasutra

Hell for thieves.

Thief Mauling Hell.

Hell for those who made huge profits from telling lies. Embezzlers, tax evaders, fraudsters

### Samghata

Mortal Hell

Where people who commit sexually driven crimes are sent. It is used to torment sex offenders, the depraved, and the generally wicked. Examples of such crimes are stealing someone's underwear. Contains mountains of needles with attractive woman at the top to force prisoners to climb it.

### Raurava

Animal Cruelty Hell

The hell for those who have tormented or killed animals.

### Avici

Located at Hell's lowest layer, this is where the sinners with the heaviest sins fall. Here they receive every torture and pain of all the hells combined one thousand fold.
Raphael

*The Lord’s Healer*

**Also Known as**: Rafael; Israfel; Afarol; Afarof; Afriel

Raphael, Regent of the Sun, is the archangel of healing. He is the star of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, in which he performs miraculous cures and explains how to vanquish powerful Demons. Raphael is the angel of joy, love, and compassion. He vies with Michael and Gabriel for title of Most Loved Angel.

* Raphael is among the seven angels who surround the Throne of Glory.
* Raphael is the Guardian of the Tree of Life.
* He may be the angel with the flaming sword who guards the gates of Eden.
* He may be the Guardian of the Holy Grail.
* Raphael is guardian of those born under astrological air signs—Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.

Although his ally Michael is the warrior angel who routs Lucifer, Raphael is an acclaimed Demon-banisher, too He commands, compels, and banishes even the most formidable spirits.

* Raphael terminates Ashmodai’s reign of terror in the Book of Tobit.
* Raphael is the angel delegated by the Creator to restrain and chain Azazel.

Raphael possesses the power of the Ineffable Name. He is invoked to banish wicked spirits and to break malignant spells. Raphael allegedly protects anyone who calls upon him and invokes his name. As the archangel of healing, he can potentially heal any illness, ailment, or condition. His specialities include vision problems (literally or metaphorically). Raphael soothes and heals mental illness. He banishes nightmares.

**Favoured People**: Lovers, pharmacists, physicians, healers, health inspectors, travelers— especially young people leaving home for the first time

**Manifestation:** Raphael is a being of blinding light, but in the Book of Tobit, he is able to make himself appear sufficiently innocuous so that Tobit, the central character, is unaware that Raphael is an angel despite close contact.

**Iconography**: Raphael is portrayed as a handsome young androgynous man with a traveler’s staff and a fish.

**Attribute:** Fish, traveler’s staff, flask

**Element:** Usually identified with air, sometimes with water

**Planet:** Sun, Mercury

**Direction:** East or west, depending on opinion and tradition

**Colour:** Usually blue and gold, but some southern Italian traditions recommend pink and purple.

**Jewel:** Emerald

**Day:** Tuesday (Yezidi tradition)

**Feast:** 24 October, but in 1969, Vatican reforms reassigned feast days so
that archangels Gabriel and Raphael now share Michael’s feast: 29
September.

**Offerings:** Frankincense and myrrh; fish-shaped amulets and fish made of silver

**See Also:** Ashmodai, Azazel, Gabriel, Michael, Obizuth, Peacock Angel, Prometheus

## Appearances in Modern Media

in Age of Ishtariain Kamihime Projectin Monster Strikein Force of Will
## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Naga Kanya

Cobra Woman

**Origin:** India

Naga Kanya, famous Naga goddess, is a benevolent spirit who bestows treasure of all kinds (material, romantic, spiritual, and esoteric). Naga Kanya is petitioned for rain during drought, and happiness when that is in short supply.

There may be one Naga Kanya, or Naga Kanya may name a class of snake Fairies. Naga Kanya is identified with Lakshmi. Because she has a positive relationship with Vishnu, she is considered apart from other Nagas who have a tense relationship with his mount, Garuda. Naga Kanya is also venerated by Buddhists who perceive her as a guardian of the Dharma and a Tantric goddess.

**Manifestation:** Naga Kanya is a winged woman from the waist up and a cobra below. She wears a five-headed cobra headdress.

**Attribute:** Conch shell

**Number:** 5

**Flower:** Cobra lily (Arisaema costatum)

**See Also:** Eight Dharma Protectors; Fairy; Garuda; Lakshmi; Naga

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Neith

**Pantheon**: Egyptian

**Title**: Weaver of Fate

## Smite Lore

When time began, there was only endless black waters. Yet, from water comes all life, and from this primordial force was born the first of Goddesses, Neith.

As the waters continued to form the world and everything within it, Neith's natural instinct to protect and nurture the people led her to champion the hunt. With meat she fed them and with hides she clothed them, but as the people she sought to protect grew old, or sick, or died on the battlefield, Neith's compassion forced her to change her calling.

With nimble fingers, the Goddess wove shrouds to shield the lost spirits of the dead on their journey to the underworld, leaving a loose thread she could trace as the ghosts ventured down the river. As time passed, more and more threads spread across the world, weaving an intricate pattern of fate that only Neith could see.
Poppy

poppy\_'s current profile picture

# Hey, what is goin' on everybody! poppy\_ here with a Team Fortress 2 gameplay commentary.

## Poppy joined the Landfall™ Discord server on the 15th of June 2018 in the height of "The Great TABG Boom" of 2018. He created and co-owns the TABG wiki alongside Mooob.Trivia

* Lives in Ireland.
* Toom has made multiple advances on poppy\_ and famously claimed "I'm gonna have to pound Poppy", to which poppy\_ replied ":weary:".
* Plays guitar in the unofficial unnamed Inferno™ band.
* Has a vocal range of E2 to F4.
* Started playing guitar some time in 2011 when he accidentally told the teacher that he was able to play guitar and would play in the choir at school, which was a lie.
* Isn't in the mood to talk in vc
Negra Francisca

**Pronounced:** Neh-gra Frahn-sees-ka

Negra Francisca is considered a saint in Venezuelan Espiritismo and a very prominent spirit in Maria Lionza’s African Court. Negra Francisca is a historical person, the consort of escaped Cuban slave and revolutionary leader, Negro Felipe. Francisca, of Yoruba ancestry, was born near the Venezuelan coastal town of Higuerote. A friendly, gregarious spirit, she is invoked for protection and romantic remedies.

**Manifestation:** Negra Francisca is envisioned as a beautiful woman with a red turban and large hoop earrings.

**Element:** Air (wind)

**Colour:** Red

**Offering:** Rum, beer, flowers, incense, candles, cigars, cigarettes

**See Also:** Maria Lionza; Negro Felipe

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Nang Takian

**Also Known As:** Lady Takian

**Origin:** Thailand

Nang Takian means “Lady Takian.” Nang Takian spirits reside in Takian trees (Hopea ferrea). Takian wood is waterproof and hence desired for boat building, but it’s otherwise traditionally considered a very inauspicious tree, not least because of its indwelling spirits. Once common but now endangered, Takian trees are associated with death—they are not planted near homes. According to prehistoric Thai cosmology, Takian trees are portals to the Underworld. If you cut the tree, you’ll allegedly hear its spirit shriek. Whether Nang Takian are ghosts or Fairies is unclear and subject to debate:

* They may be forest Fairies.
* They may be ghosts of women who died violently.

Although Nang Takian names a type of tree spirit, when most people refer to Nang Takian, they mean the specific spirit who shares the shrine of Mae Nak.

Nang Takian exhibit Siren-like behavior. They serenade solitary men with melancholy but alluring songs. Their voices are beautiful. When men investigate the source of this music, they discover a pretty, friendly girl. She may look harmless, but beware! If a man submits to her embrace, she’ll squeeze the life out of him like a snake.

**See Also:** Fairy; Ghost; Lady Banana Ghost; Mae Nak; Siren

## Nang Takian (2)

**Also Known As:** Lady Takian

**Origin:** Thailand

Nang Takian is the spirit who lives in the Takian tree shading Mae Nak’s Bangkok shrine. She is a unique Takian spirit, considered especially powerful because of her proximity to the powerful ghost, Mae Nak. Unlike other Takian tree spirits, this particular Nang Takian is considered generally benevolent and is beloved for her willingness to bestow winning lottery numbers. If her bark is rubbed vigorously (but respectfully and lovingly), patterns in the wood allegedly reveal numbers. She will reveal numbers for financial, magical, and other purposes, too. According to a legend popularized by a Thai movie, Lady Takian was once a mortal woman who hung herself from the big Takian tree in shame and despair after being raped. Her soul entered the tree, and she was transformed into its indwelling spirit.

**See Also:** Mae Nak

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Mushroom

Planet: Moon

Element: Earth

Energies: Psychic awareness

### Lore:

Pharaohs in ancient Egypt ate mushrooms, but the common people did not. Romans believed that mushrooms provided strength to the body.

Mushrooms, like all fungi, have long been regarded with suspicion. Their seemingly miraculous appearance overnight after a good rain, their mysterious ways of propagation, and their eerie appearance have put them into a thousand magical spellbooks and fairy tales.

Some mushrooms are delicious and quite safe to eat. Others are delicious and quite deadly. Accidental deaths still occur each year when amateur mushroom hunters pick the wrong kind of wild mushrooms to enjoy in natural meals.

Mushrooms containing hallucinogenic substances have been used for ritual purposes in Mexico, South America, Siberia, and in many other parts of the world. They remain a popular (and illegal) street drug in parts of the United States.

### Magical uses:

Add normal culinary mushrooms to meals to heighten psychic awareness.
¿Cómo reducir el lag?

Si tienes problemas de retraso con el bloqueo de Tanki Online mientras juegas, debes seguir los pasos escritos a continuación para mejorar tu experiencia de juego.

# Retrasos de FPS ~

Este tipo de problema es de tu parte, ya que depende de las especificaciones de su PC. Si su PC no cumple con los requisitos mínimos, lo más probable es que sufra retrasos de FPS. Aquí hay algunas soluciones que puede probar, pero la mejor opción es actualizar las especificaciones.

* Usa el modo de pantalla completa.
* Limpia la caché de tu navegador. (Cómo borrar la memoria caché de su navegador )

* Limpia tu registro.

* Intenta actualizar la página usando F5, en tu teclado. (Si usas un navegador).

* Intente cambiar su navegador.

* Limpia archivos viejos e inútiles, cachés y similares usando programas especiales. (Por ejemplo, intente usar este programa: CCleaner ).

* Aumenta tus FPS ( F rames P er S segundo). ( ¿Cómo aumento mi FPS? )

* Intenta jugar a través de http://fix.tankionline.com/ (o pon cualquier otra palabra (subdominio) delante de ".tankionline", por ejemplo, tu apodo; esto inicia el juego en un estado nuevo y fresco.

# Ping Lags ~

El retraso de este tipo depende completamente de su conexión a Internet. A continuación se muestran algunas soluciones que puede utilizar.

* Elimina todas las descargas que hayas realizado mediante torrent, limewire, etc.

* Apaga todas las aplicaciones que utilizan el ancho de banda de la red.

* Apaga el antivirus que podría ralentizar la conexión.

* Verifica tu conexión a Internet, (Por ejemplo, intente visitar este sitio: SpeedTest ). Si tu velocidad de descarga es baja, los archivos se cargarán lentamente. Recomendamos una velocidad de conexión mínima de 256 kbps

* Si usas una computadora portátil con conexión inalámbrica, intenta usar un cable Ethernet para aumentar la velocidad de conexión.
Mnemosyne

Memory

**Origin:** Greece

Mnemosyne, daughter of Gaia and Uranus, lay with Zeus for nine nights in order to conceive nine Muses. She and Achelous are sometimes considered the parents of the Sirens.

According to legend, prior to Mnemosyne, memory didn’t exist. She may be invoked to help preserve memory and to access past-life memories.

**See Also:** Achelous; Muses; Sirens; Zeus

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Minceskro

**Origin:** Romani

Ana, Queen of the Keshalyi, distraught that she was the source of monstrous disease Demons, asked her son Melalo how she could become sterile. He advised her to bury herself in a dung heap. She did as he suggested, but a dung beetle slipped inside her body. Ana conceived and gave birth to Minceskro, her eighth child, a female Demon who causes blood disorders and illnesses characterized by blood abnormalities (anything with elevated or lowered white blood cells, for instance). Minceskro married Lolmischo. Their children cause red diseases: measles, smallpox, and scarlatina.

**See Also:** Ana; Keshalyi; Lolmischo; Melalo

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Myth

Myth, the root of *mythic* and *mythology*, means "sacred." *Mythology* technically means "sacred story" or "sacred study." In modern casual language, myth is often used as a synonym for *false* or *untrue*, but that usage itself is what is not true. *Myth* is not used in that sense on this wiki. Myth doesn't mean "it didn't happen." It means that what is being discussed is sacred, not mundane.

Myths are complex narratives that can be understood on many levels. Myths may or may not be literally true (some are; some are not), but that does not mean they are false or do not contain truth. Spirits and the mysteries of the universe cannot be reduced to simplistic terms. Myths are stories intended to nourish human souls: they have something of the same nature as dreams and may best be interpreted in the same way that one interprets dreams.

Myths are symbolic stories, a means of expressing something whose meaning may transcend language, something too profound to be conveyed by words. Myths serve many functions. Epic myths explain the creation of the world or the afterlife, but others explain traditions: why people do whatever it is that they do.

Myths are the sagas of spirits. It is a rare myth that does not contain some sort of spirit. (This is the traditional dividing line between myths and legends: myths involve sacred characters, while legends are not required to do so.) Myths tell us who spirits are, what to expect from them, and how best to behave in their presence.

Myths are our earliest stories, dating back to primaeval times, but until relatively recently in the scope of history, myths were not written down. Many have been lost or suppressed. In some cases, only fragments survive.

Sometimes one spirit possesses many myths. Sometimes these multiple myths are complementary, but often they are contradictory. All of the following is told of Aphrodite:

* Aphrodite is born from the merger of blood from Uranus' severed genitals and sea foam.
* Aphrodite was conceived when Uranus' blood impregnated the sea spirit Thalassa.
* Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and his wife Dione.
* Aphrodite is a West Asian spirit, similar to Astarte, Anat, and Inanna-Ishtar, who was later incorporated into the Greek pantheon.
* Aphrodite *is* Astarte incorporated into the Greek pantheon.

Analyzing myths and exploring the asserted relationships between spirits can be very revealing about spirits and humans alike. Humans and spirits share historical circumstances. Human history is often encoded in myths. The reluctance of so many Greek goddesses to wed may preserve information about human gender relationships of the time when those particular myths were born.

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle (1627–1691) was an Irish physicist, chemist, and alchemist. Robert Boyle was of noble birth, the 14th child of the Earl of Cork who owned Lismore Castle in Ireland. Boyle enjoyed a privileged upbringing and education that included Eton College in England and extensive travel on the Continent.

Unlike most alchemists who carefully guarded their experiments and knowledge, Boyle believed in the free sharing of information. He associated with a group of intellectuals known as the Invisible College, which eventually became the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge.

Boyle especially disliked the deliberately obscured language of alchemy and considered it an obstacle to scientific progress. He sarcastically said that the most open statement ever made by an alchemist was “ubi palam locuti sumus, ibi nihil diximus” (“where we have spoken secretly, there we have said nothing”).

Boyle accepted the conclusion of Jean Baptisa van Helmont that water was the Prima Materia for plants, but he rejected Helmont’s extension to minerals and inorganic materials.

Boyle’s most famous work is The Sceptical Chymist (1661), in which he offered a new definition of the elements to replace the Aristolean Concept of four and the Paracelcianconcept of Three. Rather, he described elements as “certain primitive and simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies; which are not being made of any other bodies, or of one another,” and which were of varying sizes and shapes. These independent bodies mixed together to form the “One Catholic Matter” or the Prima materia.

Boyle believed in the transmutation of base metals into gold and spent years in experimentation of that. In 1676, he presented a paper to the royal society about his work with a special form of refined mercury that he believed had great powers of transmutation. He also said that he transmuted pure rainwater into white earth through a process of distillation. He reasoned that the agitation of the water caused a sticking together of particles that formed knots and sank to the bottom in a “powder,” or white earth. Boyle further reasons that the same principle applied to the transmutation of base metals into gold. His theories were an inspiration to Isaac Newton.

Boyle’s interests in transmutation led him to persuade parliament to repeal a ban on “multiplying gold” that had been in force since the days of Henry IV.

## Information Source

The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy Written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Medium

A medium is any person who serves as a conduit to the spirits. It is a relatively general term. Various techniques exist. Mediums may or may not be shamans or engage in ritual possession. Some deliver messages in trance, others while completely awake and conscious. Mediums may use tools such as divination devices, automatic writing, or planchettes. A person presiding over a séance is called a medium.

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Ra

**Pantheon**: Egyptian

**Title**: Sun God

## Smite God

Without the sun, there would be no light, no warmth, no life. Without Ra, there would be no sun.

Ra is a guardian, the keeper of Ma’at - order and truth, and master of the sun. Each day he sails across the sky in a golden ship, and each night traverses the underworld, bringing light and warmth to the dead beneath the horizon. For those in the scorched South, Ra was the first God, creator of earth and sky and father to all other Gods.

But Ra’s time is fading like a twilight sky. His descendants have grown in power and prominence and seek to replace him as the figure of authority. His own granddaughter, Isis, cleverly poisoned him by secretly summoning a viper under his feet. When he stepped on it, the serpent’s venomous bite poisoned him. Isis promised to heal Ra if he revealed to her his True Name. At first, he refused, for knowledge of his True Name would give Isis unparalleled power over him, but as the pain mounted, Ra was forced to relent. Isis kept her word and Ra was healed, though the cost may have been too high.
Natosuelta

The Meandering Stream; The Winding River

**Origin:** Celtic

Nantosuelta is a mysterious goddess of fertility and abundance who was once extremely popular in Burgundy, the lower Rhone Valley, Luxemburg, and the Rhineland. After Christianity became the official religion, Nantosuelta was almost completely erased from history; thus her present elusiveness may not be inherent but instead derives from a simple lack of information.

Nantosuelta was venerated without a consort in Eastern Gaul, but alongside the Celtic deity Sucellus elsewhere. Together they presided over Burgundy’s wine harvest. Their iconography depicts them with barrels of wine.

**Manifestation:** She has thick, curly hair and was depicted wearing a flounced skirt and massive torc, emblematic of her power and importance.

**Attributes:** A small house (like a doll’s house) atop a long staff, a bowl of apples

**Bird:** Raven

**Creature:** Dog

**Offerings:** Burgundy or Rhine wine, fruit, honey, honeycombs

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Mictlancihuatli

*Lord of Death*

**Also Known As:** Tzontemoc

**Origin:** Mexico

According to Aztec cosmology, there are thirteen celestial levels and nine Underworld levels. Souls of the dead must pass through each lower level until reaching the very last, Mictlan, during an arduous journey that takes years to accomplish.

Mictlantecuhtli is Lord of Mictlan, the Aztec realm of death. His wife and partner is Mictlancihuatl. Those who die uneventful deaths enter his realm. At the beginning of this world, Quetzalcoatl went to Mictlan to gather old bones in order to create a new race of people. When Mictlantecuhtli wouldn’t give them to him, Quetzalcoatl stole them.

In Javier Hernandez’s comic book El Muerto: The Aztec Zombie, Mictlantecuhtli seeks the return of traditional Aztec religion.

**Manifestation:** Mictlantecuhtli, a bloodstained skeleton, wears paper clothing, owl feathers, and a collar made of eyeballs. (Paper clothing was a traditional offering to the dead.)

**Attribute:** Skull

**Direction:** North or south

**Time:** The eleventh hour

**Animals:** Dog, bat, spider

**Bird:** Owl

**Offerings:** Once upon a time, the Aztecs buried loved ones with valuable gifts to be presented to Mictlantecuhtli upon arrival in Mictlan.

**See Also:** Mictlancihuatl; Quetzalcoatl; Xolotl

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Myrrha

**Also Known As:** Smyrna

**Origin:** Phoenicia

Either Princess Myrrha or her father, king of Assyria or a Phoenician kingdom, aggravated Aphrodite. As punishment, she compelled Myrrha to conceive an incestuous passion for her father. Myrrha plied her father with liquor and seduced him. They had rapturous sex for twelve nights, at which point one of two things happened:

* Myrrha repented and ran off to hide in the forest, vowing to kill herself.
* Dad repented and chased Myrrha around with a knife, vowing to kill her.

Either way, Myrrha ended up transformed into a myrrh tree to preserve her life. Most versions have Aphrodite affecting the transformation. In the meantime, Myrrha had conceived Adonis.

In the original Semitic version of this myth, Adonis is the product of a virgin birth. The later story may have evolved after veneration of Adonis spread to Greece. The back story involving his scandalous conception suited the Greek cultural need to establish paternity. The shame of incest would explain why the story had previously been secret.

Myrrh trees weep resin, These are traditionally understood to be Myrrha’s tears.

Many scholars perceive the origins of Christianity in veneration of Adonis and his mother. Myrrha and Mary may be variants of the same name. Both are associated with virgin birth and resurrecting sons. Myrrha may be a suppressed great goddess. The myrrh is not just any tree, but is traditionally an emblem of primal womanhood, mercy, and fertility. Myrrh incense is associated with Isis and Hathor, the great goddesses of Egypt. There is no reason to assume that Myrrha is a lesser goddess. Myrrha may be accessed via the fragrance of myrrh incense.

**Offering:** Myrrh

**See Also:** Adonis; Aphrodite; Hathor; Isis

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Spells

This is a list of various spells that I have come across in my studies.

For Information on Charms

## Banishing

Banishing Spell for a Home

Candle Banishing

## Binding

Braid that Binds

Spell to Freeze Enemy

Protection Binding Spell

## Love

Ivy Love Spell

Sand and Ice Love Spell

Love-Drawing Spell

Seven Day Love Spell

Full Moon Love Spell

Smoke and Fire Love Spell

Candle Ritual for Love

Candle of Love Spell

## Money

Gold Money Magic

Waxing Moon Money Spell

Fairy Garden Money Spell

## Prosperity

Dragon Prosperity Spell

Three Candle Joy Spell

## Protection

Black Cat Protection Spell

All four elements protection spell

Gypsy Protection Spell

Hair Protection Spell

Herbal Protection Pouch

Iron Protection Ritual

Protective Crystal Ritual

## Wish

Fireplace Magic

Fairy Wishing Spell
Waxing Moon Money Spell

Items needed: One silver candle, 1 tsp. ground allspice, almond oil.

On the night of the waxing moon, inscribe the silver candle with the exact amount of money you need. Rub the candle with the almond oil as you chant the following:

As the moon doth wax and grow

So to me doth money flow

Once you feel the candle is thoroughly charged with your wish, roll it in the allspice and light. Allow the candle to burn for one hour and then extinguish. Repeat this spell each night, at the same time, until the moon is full. On the night of the full moon allow the candle to burn out.
Pretzel

Planet: Sun

Element: Fire

Energies: Protection

Lore:

Pretzels have a long magical history. According to legend, the winter solstice was observed with a special bread in Europe during the Middle Ages. This bread was circular, in honour of the sun, but twisted at the centre to form an equal-armed cross symbolic of the four seasons. This was called a “bret-zel” or “pretzel,” and was a familiar festival food denoting the rebirth of the sun in European folk religion. Our pretzel is the direct descendant of these early breads. Its shape reveals Pagan origins, although it has been slightly altered. The salt seems to be a later addition.

Magical uses:

Though pretzels can be enjoyed at any time, eat them on the winter solstice in honour of the sun. Also, pretzels are appropriate to protective diets due to their planetary ruler, the salt, and the bread’s twisted shape.
Nobunaga Oda

**Origin**: Japan

Nobunaga Oda is arguably one of the most important figures in the history of Japan. He is also quite infamous for his actions during the Sengoku Jidai for his actions which earned him the title of 'Demon King of the Sixth Heaven'. It is for his actions during the Sengoku Jidai and his strategies that are the reason for his veneration for Warfare.

## Notable Battles

* Okehazama
* Inabayama Castle
* Kyoto
* Kanegasaki
* Anegawa
* Odani Castle
* Nagashino
* Kizugawa
* Honnoji

## Notable Events and achievements

* Promoting Hideyoshi and allying with Tokugawa Ieyasu who would lead to the unification of Japan
* Openly friendly and tolerant to foreigners who at the time were unwelcomed in Japan
* Outsmarting superior forces on many occasions
* Implementing rifles into tactical manoeuvres leading to the downfall of the Takeda cavalry
* Being responsible for putting the people who would eventually unify Japan into positions of power
Sir Fish

**Also known as:** Ca Ong; Mr. Fish; Grandfather Fish; Lord Fish

**Origin:** Vietnam

Sir Fish is not exactly a fish: he’s a whale. Sir Fish, King of the Sea, is a guardian deity in the form of a whale. He is the patron of fishermen whom he protects out on open waters. Sir Fish is widely venerated along the central and southern coasts of Vietnam. Festivals are held in his honour. He may be an incarnation of the Lord of the South Seas. Sir Fish is associated with prominent Vietnamese male military or naval heroes and may be enshrined alongside them.

Whales are Sir Fish’s sacred messengers and must be treated with immense respect. (Disrespect directed toward his messengers is the equivalent of disrespect directed towards Sir Fish.) The first person to catch sight of a whale carcass is considered as one of Sir Fish’s elder sons and must arrange and observe appropriate funeral rites for the whale. The whale carcass must be respectfully interred. In return, the man will receive blessings of good fortune from Sir Fish.

**Favoured people:** Fishermen and men in general; Sir Fish is a men’s deity.

**Sacred sites:** Whale bones that have washedashore are enshrined in his many temples along Vietnam’s southern coast.

**See Also:** La Baleine; Dragon Kings of the Sea

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Namtar

**Origin:** Sumer (Mesopotamia)

The name Namtar means “death” or “destiny.” Namtar, death spirit, is responsible for creating illness in general and for directing it toward specific people. He is the chief minister and messenger of Ereshkigal, Ruler of the Realm of Death.

**See Also:** Ereshkigal

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Nehalennia

**Origin:** Celtic

On 4 April 1970, fishermen, working off Colijnsplaat, an estuary of Holland’s East Scheldt River, recovered three fragments from two altars eighty-five feet below the surface. In the process, they also recovered the forgotten goddess to whom those altars were dedicated. Further exploration recovered over one hundred twenty altars and sculptures. Inscriptions identified the goddess as Nehalennia, which has been interpreted as “leader,” “pilot,” or “steers woman.” Extremely popular during the early centuries of the Common Era, Nehalennia’s riverside temple was submerged by the North Sea when the shoreline receded at the end of the Roman era.

Nehalennia possessed at least two substantial shrines on Holland’s North Sea coast. (If there were more, they have not yet been recovered.) Based on what’s been recovered, Nehalennia was not a goddess of the starving masses but matron of the wealthy and entrepreneurial. Surviving altars include information regarding donors. Nehalennia’s shrines were well-endowed, patronized by the prosperous.

Nehalannia is a goddess of well-being and prosperity; her successful devotees were a living testament to her prowess. People traveled great distances to visit her shrine. Devotees included Celts from every corner of the Celtic world as well as Roman citizens and those of Germanic derivation. Nehalennia sponsored and protected North Sea traders and travelers. Many devotees were merchants, the ancient equivalent of business travelers.

Nehalennia’s emergence from under -water obscurity may indicate that she is actively back in business and ready to receive new clientele.

Virtually always portrayed with a large hound who sits beside her, Nehalennia’s pooch is consistently a big, friendly companion dog rather than a fierce or aggressive guard dog. Celtic deities closely associated with dogs tend to be associated with healing, death, and/or the afterlife, so Nehalennia’s canine companion leads to speculation that, in addition to being a protective goddess of prosperity, she is also a goddess of healing and/or death.

**Iconography:** Nehalennia is depicted as a youthful woman wearing distinctive clothing (small round hat; short shoulder-length cape). She is portrayed with a dog that gazes up at her or touches her knee with his nose. Sometimes she is enthroned beneath a shell-shaped canopy. She’s sometimes portrayed in the company of Neptune. Nehalennia sometimes stands in a ship’s prow in similar manner to Isis and some Black Madonnas.

**Attributes:** Boat, rope, rudder

**Element:** Water

**Creature:** Dog, dolphin

**Altars:** Nehalennia’s altars are decorated with marine motifs

**Sacred Sites:** Two temples have been found in what is now modern Holland:

* Colijnsplaat
* Domburg on the island of Walcheren

**See Also:** Ailinn; Black Madonna; Isis

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Mullo (Romani)

**Also Known As:** Mulo; the plural is Mulé

**Origin:** Romani (Gypsy)

In the Romani language, Mullo literally means “dead one” or “one who is dead.” Theoretically everyone becomes a Mullo at death, but the average Mullo who rests quietly in peace isn’t the stuff of legends.

* The word Mullo may be used to indicate a fetch or spirit-double.
* Mullo names revenants who return to haunt loved ones and relatives left behind.

A Mullo may be protective, benevolent, dangerous, or malignant. Some return to protect loved ones. A Mullo may simply long for the presence of its loved ones and do no harm (or at least not intentionally). Others are hungry ghosts, lusting for sex, vitality, the essence of life, or yang energy. The Mullo may vampirize the living, not by drinking blood but by absorbing their aura or life-essence. A Mullo may return every night to have sex with former partners. Although not necessarily intended badly, this may ultimately have a debilitatingly vampiric effect, drawing out their life essence.

A Mullo appears in the fifth season of the television series Charmed to deliver a warning to a loved one.

The most dangerous Mullo tend to be deceased children, especially stillborn children. The Mullo is active after dark, but it is most powerful at the exact moment of noon. According to Romani cosmology, at this precise moment, everything belongs to the Mullo, to the realm of death. It’s theorized that this is because at this moment, the shadow does not exist or is not visible.

**Manifestation:** Mullo take various forms. A Mullo may appear as an obviously reanimated corpse—akin to a Hollywood zombie—as a pale specter like a classical ghost, or as odd, disembodied lights.

**Date:** The Mullo is considered especially powerful and dangerous on New Year’s Eve, the threshold between the old and new years.

**See Also:** Ghost; Hone-Onna; Pixie; Vampire

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Mariamman

**Also Known As:** Amman

**Origin:** Tamil (India)

Mariamman, Goddess of Smallpox, a Tamil tribal goddess with dominion over wind, rain, and moisture, is among Earth’s guardian spirits. Popular and powerful, she was incorporated into the Vedic Hindu pantheon, eventually traveling around the world.

According to Hindu myth, Mariamman’s husband, ascetic sage Jamadagni, perceiving that his faithful wife had momentarily lusted in her heart for another and had thus become impure, ordered their son to behead her. The son did as told but was overcome with grief and depression. The father, feeling sympathy for the son, eventually relented. Telling his son to gather Mariamman’s head and body, he taught him a secret resurrection formula. The son, nervously hurrying, immediately recognized his mother’s head on the pile of recently executed female corpses but accidentally joined it to the body of a low-caste woman allegedly killed for committing all kinds of unspeakable (sexual, violent, transgressive) vices. The result was that Mariamman’s Brahman mind was overwhelmed by her tribal body. (Is a metaphor intended? You bet.)

Her husband expelled her from her home. Mariamman then revealed herself as a wrathful, rampaging goddess. Ravaging the region, she was unstoppable until deities seeking to propitiate her offered her dominion over smallpox. With the ability to cause and cure this dread disease, she was assured constant worship. She remains among the most popular goddesses of Southern India, the southern counterpart to northern Sitala.

Mariamman’s myth is a forerunner of horror movies like Peter Lorre’s Mad Love, in which an executed murderer’s hands are surgically grafted onto someone else, who then feels overwhelmingly compelled to kill.

In the early twentieth century, South Indian traders brought Mariamman to Vietnam where she found new devotees, mainly of Vietnamese and Chinese descent, especially female entrepreneurs, transport workers, service industry workers, and students. After several generations, she is considered a local goddess, associated with success and prosperity more than illness. Venerated outside a traditional Hindu context, she is considered a powerful purveyor of miracles.

Mariamman heals all illnesses associated with redness, heat, and rashes, including chicken pox and measles. She is invoked for virtually everything, including protection, progeny, and prosperity.

* In India, she is syncretized to Durga and Parvati.
* In Vietnam, Mariamman is identified with Ba Den and Kwan Yin.

**Iconography:** As a tribal goddess, she is sometimes venerated in the form of a stone tipped with a sharp point and/or dyed red. In Hindu context, she is envisioned as a very beautiful woman, seated on a throne or a lion; sometimes her face is red.

**Attributes:** Trident, bowl, spear, sword

**Colours:** Red, yellow

**Tree:** Neem

**Animals:** Snake, lion

**Offerings:** Incense, oil lamps, red flowers, pumpkins

**See Also:** Ba Den; Babalu Ayé; Jari Mari; Kwan Yin; Manasa; Sitala

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Onion

(Allium cepa)

Planet: Mars

Element: Fire

Energies: Protection, weight loss

### Lore:

The great city of Chicago was named for the local Indians’ word for the wild onions growing in the area—chicago. According to ancient Egyptian incantations, onions were included in charms designed to keep potentially harmful ghosts from children. Celebrants at winter solstice festivals in Egypt wore onions around their necks.

Onions also played a role in the mummification process.

Though it has often been written that the pyramids were built by onion-and garlic-fed slaves, all Egyptians ate onions in those days. Onions, bread, and beer made up the basic ancient Egyptian diet. In old Rome, the naturalist Pliny wrote that runners should eat onions daily for speed and endurance.

About 1394, an Arab writer recommended onions boiled together with green peas and spiced with cardamom, cinnamon, and ginger to create sexual desire. Three hundred years later, the English herbalist Gerarde prescribed the use of onions in weight-loss diets; their low caloric content makes them ideal for this. Even if they are well boiled, he states, onions will not lose their “attenuating” quality. In contemporary Guatemala, men eat onions to retain virility and to procreate children, even into advanced age.

### Magical uses:

This sharply scented plant has long been revered and utilized in magical ritual. In general, onions are eaten to boost our protective armour, which is created by a flow of energy from the body. They can be used in any form whatsoever for this purpose; the sharper the taste, the more effective the onion will be. Onions have long been kept in the kitchen, halved, to absorb evil. Or, as Gerarde recommended, eat onions daily as part of a weight-loss plan.
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Susano'o

**Pantheon**: Shinto

**Title**: God of the Summer Storm

## Smite Lore

Like his sister, Amaterasu, Susano was born to rule, but he was tempestuous, with a flaring anger, wicked tongue, and a penchant for destruction. Their father, Izanagi, would have none of it and decreed that Susano live in the Underworld. His mood dark at this news, Susano committed heinous acts of vandalism and murder. Acts that sent Amaterasu into shameful hiding.

Cast low, Susano descended to earth on his way to the Underworld. He carried only his Ten-Span Sword, and regret for his actions. What had his defilements achieved but to envelop the world in darkness? This
was his nature, to broil like a storm, to frighten and destroy what
stood in his path.

But a storm could also herald life.

At a river side, Susano ventured upon an elderly couple, weeping and cradling their young daughter. Eight children, they'd had once, but now only one remained; seven devoured by the eight-headed serpent. Susano was resolved. To atone for his crimes, to prove his father wrong, to better himself, Susano would slay this beast.

Eight traps he laid, one for each head of the creature, with eight tubs of aromatic saké as bait. Slithering forward, the Orochi spread its gruesome heads to drink from the trapped tubs. Susano cut the rope. Gates dropped. The heads were imprisoned. One by one, he chopped the eight necks, until only the wriggling tail remained. Sweeping his blade split the reptilian hide, leaving notches in his blade but revealing a brilliant sword inside: the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi.
Narcissus

**Origin:** Greece

The Nymph Echo was deprived of the faculty of speech by Hera, who caught her in flagrante delicto with Zeus. Echo could only repeat another’s words. She wandered in the forest until one day she came upon an incredibly handsome boy named Narcissus and fell in love with him at first sight. Narcissus paused to drink from a clear pool of water but became entranced by his own reflection. He spoke to it saying, “I love you!” Echo repeated his words but to no avail. As if hypnotized, he just gazed at his own image, never leaving, eating, or drinking until finally he pined away and died. A narcissus flower sprang up where he died, and the word narcissism entered the language. Echo, too, pined away for love, leaving only her echo behind.

That’s a particularly famous myth, but it’s only half of it—and the latter half at that. Narcissus was not an ordinary mortal boy. He was radiantly handsome because he was a woodland spirit, the son of river spirit Kephisos and the Nymph Leiriope “Lily Face.” Modern mythology books emphasize his rejection of Echo, but by the time she met him, he couldn’t help himself. He wasn’t narcissistic: he was cursed.

The ancient Greeks would have recognized Narcissus’ fascination with his reflection as the motif of a horror story. For the ancient Greeks, dreaming about seeing your own reflection (in a mirror or in water) was a death omen. In modern Greek folklore, the ailing are discouraged from looking in mirrors.

Narcissus was not narcissistic, but he was arrogant or perhaps too immature to appreciate deep emotions. He mocked the sincere love that he had inspired in another, thus insulting the spirits of love, not least Aphrodite. The lover Narcissus repeatedly rejected was not Echo— whom he was too entranced to even notice— but a male suitor, Amenias. Narcissus did not reject him gently or nicely. He taunted him. Narcissus’ harsh rejection of Amenias was what originally lost him sympathy in this myth.

Narcissus finally gave Amenias a gift of a sword, a deliberately ironic gift, considering the phallic imagery. Humiliated and suffering unrequited love, Amenias used the gift to commit suicide right in front of Narcissus’ home, cursing Narcissus as he died. Another popular ancient Greek belief was that deathbed curses were particularly lethal and virtually impossible to break. Narcissus’ doom was sealed.

A temple dedicated to love was erected at the site of his death. Narcissus is invoked by those who have previously rejected a lover but would now like a second (or third or fourth) chance.

**See Also:** Aphrodite; Hera; Nymph

## Appearance in Modern Media

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## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes
Nakaq

The Liposuction Vampire

**Also known as:** Pishtaco

The Nakaq is an Andean vampire except that instead of sucking blood, he extracts fat. If he lived in the United States and if only his attacks weren’t fatal, victims might be lining up for him rather than attempting to elude him.

The Nakaq, a figure of Peruvian folklore, is envisioned as a charismatic, magnetic, mesmerizing man with a hypnotic gaze. The Nakaq is inevitably envisioned as a white man, although whether he is living, a phantom, or a ghost varies. His victims are almost invariably local Indians. He drags them to his subterranean lair, hangs them upside down, and extracts their body fat. Victims do not survive the procedure.

The Nakaq, long suspected of collusion with the Roman Catholic Church, is traditionally envisioned as a knife-wielding priest seeking human fat to forge church bells. Alternatively, he seeks fat for magical or industrial reasons, to manufacture medicines or for nefarious government schemes.

The earliest documented reference to the Nakaq was written in Spanish in the seventeenth century. Although the concept of a fat-removing monster may sound amusing to those in weight-obsessed Western industrialized nations, the Nakaq is no joke in the Andes but rather the subject of genuine dread. The Nakaq is the bane of anthropologists: lone white men who appear in Indian villages as if from nowhere, seeking to ingratiate themselves with locals (like many anthropologists do) are often viewed with tremendous suspicion. Many have been chased out of town, beaten, or worse in the belief that their true identity is the Nakaq.

**See Also:** Viracocha

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes