~Poppets~
A poppet is a doll. It is the shape of a human that is used for magical purposes.
They are used in spells to help either you or someone else.
These dolls can be made from wood, cloth, clay, paper, or fabric.
To make a fabric poppet cut a human outline from two pieces of fabric with their right sides together. It does not need to be detailed. You can keep the hands and feet rounded. If the poppet is to represent you, use a piece of fabric from some of your old clothes. Sew most of the figure with right sides together. Leave a small area unsewn.
Turn it right side out and stuff. You may stuff the figure with batting, tissue, straw, paper, or whatever is handy. You may add herbs, a lock of hair or other personal effect. Sew the hole. You may add button eyes and decorate to personalize.
Do not make poppets of other people unless you have permission. Do not destroy the poppet. If it represents another person, give it to that person to keep it safe.
If it was made for binding, bury it.
MAKING A POPPET
Clay or cloth Personal items of the person
Red candle Holy water White linen
In the doll, add anything you find that is personal to the person (nail clippings,
written paper, blood on a Band-Aid, hair left on a brush, etc.)
Bless all of the items you are using to make our doll, be it clay or cloth
and proceed to make the doll. Get a clear mental image in your mind as you
concentrate on the persona while you are making the doll.
To reinforce you concentration keep repeating the following affirmation:
"(name), as you I see
(name) you represent to me."
Continue this chanting and visualization until the doll is completed.
Lay the doll on the altar with a red candle. Place both hands over the doll and
will your energy to flow as you chant 3, 5 or 9 times:
"Though separate you are, you are linked as one. As (name) your life has begun."
Pass both sides of the finished doll through the flame of the red candle saying:
"With fire do I consecrate this doll as (name)."
Sprinkle both sides of doll with holy water and say:
"With water do I consecrate this doll as (name)"
Pass both sides of the doll through the incense smoke as you say:
"With air do I consecrate this doll as (name)"
Keep the doll wrapped in clean white linen until it is ready to be used in the ritual.
BANISHING SPELL
1/2 ounce olive oil 15 drops pine oil 12 drops rue oil 7 drops pepper oil 10 drops peppermint oil
flower: crushed black peppercorns
gem: obsidian or black onyx
Be careful though as most of the oils called for are skin irritants.
Make a poppet out of black cloth, stuff it with cotton balls or batting and tobacco.
Add hair and/or nail clippings.
Sew it closed and staple a picture of the person to the front of the poppet.
Carve the person's name into a black candle and add the runes Thurisaz, Isa, Eihwaz, Dark Moon, Widdershins and Bars. (Dark Moon is a filled-in circle; Bars is a tic-tac-toe with 4 lines up and 4 lines across; Widdershins is a counter-clockwise spiral with a an arrowhead at the end.)
Anoint the Poppet and Candle with Banishing Oil (if you can't make the oil, a single oil with banishing properties can be used). Cast a circle, invoke the elements and the God or Goddess you are working with (I'd use The Morrigan, but she can be rather volatile).Light the altar candles.
Light the black candle and adjust the mirror so that the flame is reflected in the glass.
Hold the poppet out in front of you and say:
"Creature of cloth thou art,
Now creature of flesh and blood you be.
I name you (name of the person you are binding).
No more shall you do me harm,
No more shall you spread false tales,
No more shall you interfere in my life, nor in the lives of my loved ones.
By the power of the Gods and by my will,
So mote it be!"
Draw an invoking pentagram over the poppet.
Take a red ribbon and begin to wrap the poppet like a mummy, leaving so space unwrapped. Say:
"I bind your feet from bringing you to harm me.
I bind your hands from reaching out to harm me.
I bind your mouth from spreading tales to harm me.
I bind your mind from sending energy to harm me.
If you do so continue, let all negative energy be cast and reflected directly back at you!"
Tie off the ribbon and hold the poppet in front of the mirror while you visualize all negative energy this person has sent to you being reflected back to them.
Wrap the poppet in black cloth and tie with another length of ribbon. Say:
"Great Mother, I have bound this person
from harming me and my loved ones.
By the powers of three times three
By Earth and Fire, Aire and Sea
I fix this spell, then set it free
'Twill give no harm to return on me
As I will, so mote it be!"
Let the candle burn out while the poppet sits at its base, then take the poppet and the remains of the candle far from your home and bury it deep in the ground or toss it in the ocean and walk away without looking back.
Author's note: This spell is very powerful and works quite well. I've never had the need for a different binding spell. Sometimes binding spells work in unexpected ways.
The person you are binding may suddenly decide to move away, they may have a change of heart and turn into a decent person after all, they may go through a horrible streak of bad luck and learn their lessons the hard way. There is an outside chance that if they are projecting enough negative energy, they might end up hurt. Be assured, they were only caught in the backwash of their own negativity.
HEALING WITH POPPETS
There are various forms and types of this magick, and listed below is a basic guide and some tips on how to enhance your poppet spell. Poppet magic is extremely powerful and should be used with care.
Most people associate poppet magic with Voodoo and perceive it as harmful.
In most cases the poppets used in Wicca are used for positive effects such as healings, love, happiness and they can also be used for bindings.
You should stuff the Poppet with the herb appropriate for the person's ailment. If ever in doubt as to what to use, stuff the Poppet with Calendula (also called Marigold, Marybud, Holibud--Calendula officinalis), which is a cure-all. You should name the Poppet (as in love-magic, to symbolically represent the person who is to benefit from the healing spell), sprinkling and censing it, then lay it on the altar.
Should you be working for someone who has had surgery, then make an incision in the Poppet in the appropriate place. Then, taking it up from the altar, concentrate on the healing and direct your power into the patient as you sew up the incision.
You can do Auric and/or Pranic healing using the Poppet in lieu of the actual person.
Once you have named and consecrated the Poppet, then anything you do to it, of course, you do to that person.
GOSSIP STOPPING POPPET
Using black felt, a needle and thread, and stuffing, make a simple poppet to represent the offender. Cut a slit into the fabric for a mouth and stuff it well with slippery elm.
Sew the mouth shut with a six-stranded piece of purple embroidery floss. As you sew, say:
"Your mouth is closed. You cannot speak
To gossip, slander, or havoc wreak.
Your mouth stay shut, but only 'til
It speaks of friendship and good will."
Place the poppet in a box. Stuff the box with paper to force the poppet's face into a corner. Leaving the poppet as such removes the offender's urge to gossip.
A POPPET SPELL
First you will need to form a bond between the person and the doll.
Use this simple naming ritual:
"Little one, I made you and now I give you life
I name you (persons name)
Her body is your body
Her breath is your breath
Her passion is your passion
Her blood is your blood
Though separate you were
Now you are one."
POPPET HEALING SPELL
Take a poppet and sprinkle it liberally with blessing oil.
Rub a perfume oil all over your hands and hold them over the dolls head, palms open and say:
"You are very ill-be healed
You will recover-be healed
Heal! Heal! Heal!"
Now blend equal amounts of Rosemary perfume oil, Violet perfume oil, Voodoo oil
and Damnation powder. Mix thoroughly until you have a paste.
Completely coat the doll from top to bottom with this mixture and repeat the words given above. After several times, carefully wrap the coated doll in a piece of red cloth and hide it away, it must not be seen for several days. Then take the doll and burn it and scatter the ashes to the wind.