Glamour
Often times I’ve heard the whispers of a victim just before death, of them wondering just how in the world they had been drawn in. I’d like to say it’s my personality, but anyone that’s ever spent more than an hour with me knows that it’s nothing to do with my personality. Anyone who sticks around for that aspect is either as twisted as I am or worse. That or they’re blind, naive, or disgustingly morally driven: hopeful that they can change me. Fix me. Make me better. Better, as if there’s anything wrong with me at all. Such idiocy isn’t even worth the eye roll it would undoubtedly cause. I know what I am, why I am, and am perfectly content with myself. More than that actually: I’m happy with the person I’ve become. Besides, there’s a difference between good and nice. People get those two mixed up just as easily as they do love and lust.
But I digress, it goes without saying that I do put things into work to draw people towards me. It’s not as mystical as one might think, just my own particular recipe for glamour. For any soon to be dead soul that’s reading this, glamour is what folk such as myself that delight in the craft use to cast an illusion on themselves. It can range from changing my eye color, to say…my skin, my voice, anything I want really that will make someone see exactly what I want them to. Charm them even. Many get this confused with shapeshifting, and while a strong enough glamour could fool the eyes enough for them to truly believe they saw the caster as some…great beast, it’s honestly not worth the energy and you’re better off just going with a whole different spell for that.
Below you’ll find everything you’ll need including the proper diagram for placement as well as a particular composition I like for this. Though this composition is attuned to my energies and the element of water and force of the ocean, so while you could take certain structure forms from the music, I daresay it would need to be reworked. For instance, if you’re aligned with fire…well actually, if you’re aligned with fire there’s no need for me to kill you for picking up this book: merely touching it has done that already. Now I’m just talking to myself.
Items Essential:
Crystals:
Amazonite: 60g raw, wand structure
Diamond: 1 carat
Ametrine: 125g raw, wand structure
Jade: 200g raw
Aventurine: 200g raw, want structure
Malachite: 150g raw
Herbs:
Rosemary: 90g
Thyme: 180g
Dogbane: 300g
Other Essentials:
Melted virgin snow: 240ml
Water collected from the crash of a waterfall: 480ml
Nautilus, both the shell and its inhabitant: 3, alive
Candles: 5, uncolored by soaked in ocean water long enough to absorb the salt
Glass Basin: 1, enough to hold your water
Following the chart below, lay out your crystals. Take care not to misplace, it’s imperative that the diamond not get lost. It is arguably one of the strongest stones in this particular ritual, but also the smallest. Jade is also essential in its placement, one wrong slip and you could have a person following you around lovesick. And while love spells, in my opinion, are some of the most evil…you don’t necessarily want a person like that trailing you. Devotion and attraction are quite good for slipping someone into your grasp, willingly at that, and it’s the main reason I use Jade at all for this.
The purpose is to make your victim not only see someone other than yourself, but to be attracted to you. Lust is not just sexual, though this can be used for that with a few adjustments, but no: lust is what keeps a person craving and wanting, having even a small dose of that woven into your glamour can work wonders. So really I should say that this particular glamour is not only for changing your appearance, but also to draw a person to you. What you do with them after you have them, well that’s completely up to you. I suggest not being wasteful.
You must be by a body of water for this ritual, and I personally suggest the base of a waterfall. The stone ways behind their crashing is dripping with power. The reflections of light against stone also aid in you keeping your focus. Beforehand, it’s very important that everything has been cleansed and stripped of any energy it might have been harboring from other rituals.
Set your candles into their proper points on the diagram and light them at the start. Welcome the life force of water into your space, and even take time to meditate to clear your own mind if you must. Pour your virgin snow into your glass basin and slowly move it with your fingers, drawing it in and feeling it move. As you focus, start to slowly add in your rosemary and thyme. Your instrument will come later, but for now as you work, start to hum the composition you’ll be using so that the air can become better acclimated to the frequencies and pitches. Go through your composition three times before continuing on.
Keep your water collected from the falls in its own separate glass container. Now comes the time for your nautilus. Start one at a time, moving the first into the waterfall’s water in its container, and using a precise knife, force the creature out of its shell. Watch as its blood taints the water, but keep a steady hand. Its death is necessary as is its pain, but duration of that is not. Once dead, clean out the shell and set aside while leaving the body and remains in the water. Repeat this step with the other two.
With the last shell cleaned, take it and move your diamond inside. Then, place it back in the spot where your diamond was designated. This is done because the last to die felt the most suffering, having died in the remains of its brethren. The first shell needs to be placed atop the aventurine, the second atop the ametrine. Now, slowly pour the nautilus and waterfall water into the basin with the snow and herbs. Just as it finishes pouring in, quickly add your dogsbane.
No more humming, no more sound. Pick up your instrument and begin to play, concentrating on your intention with eyes closed. Play through no less than three times, don’t let yourself be distracted by what you hear, smell, or feel. The crash of falls will grow louder, more chaotic, and you’ll hear quick feet sliding along the stone floor with you, but that’s what you want! Don’t let them pull you into their dance, it’s so easy to get distracted and to lose yourself to the draw of their fingers and arms. Whatever you do, finish your composition at least three times. Only then will it be safe to open your eyes.
Despite the eyes and grins surrounding you, don’t let yourself touch a single entity that has made him or herself known to you. They are there to help you, push you further, offer their likenesses to your ever expanding glossary of disguise: but they want you just as badly as you want their power. From this point on do not let go of your instrument, if you’re like me and use a stringed one then at the very least keep the body or bow on your person.
Take care not to move any of your stones or candles as you approach your basin, even as you kneel to take it in your hands you’ll hear your music continue on through their hums. Lift it up, as you do so it’s perfectly normal to hear their hums give way to wordless song, just remember yourself and you’ll be more than fine. Rise up to stand and drink down everything in the basin including the dead bodies of your nautilus. Even if it takes a while for you to do it, you need to drink every single drop. As soon as you’ve finished it, play your composition one more time.
If you aren’t doing this in the opening behind a waterfall then your ritual is complete. Keep your instrument in hand and using your fingers, snuff out each lit candle. However, if you are at a waterfall then still snuff out each candle, but the moment the last one has died you must quickly run forward and dive through the crashing falls. The raw power and energy will give longevity to your glamour, but it’s up to you if you want to risk your instrument getting damaged.
You’ll now be able to use your glamour and charm affectively however you like; bending your appearance to your will as well as draw targets in. Though it only lasts for one month. Three months if you leapt through the waterfall. Just take care to follow each step and keep your confidence. As always, keep your crystals safe afterwards. They’ll be charged for quite some time and it can be good to do a sinking with them after this so that they too can take a rest.
The shells of the nautilus should take special residence in your home…