Monique Joiner Siedlak - Blood Magic

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Introduction

Blood magic, you guessed it, is performing magic with blood as the primary factor. It involves casting the most powerful kind of spells. Blood magic is an old tradition whose history firmly predates creation.

Using blood in a ritual or spell is about much more than a witch just cutting themselves. The origin of the blood is one of the most significant elements.

Blood use is equivalent to every facet of witchcraft because of its tremendous power. Blood sustains us all. Without blood, survival would never be conceivable. Apart from providing us life through nourishment, blood connects people from a spiritual and sacred means. It draws on the donors nature and personality, acting as a mystical fount for the magic that follows, preparing it, and giving it purpose. Thats what makes it such a potent factor.

Where the body has is cut is likewise significant, and how the witch stores and uses the blood has profound symbolic significance. They frequently refer to these three items as the origin, the cut, and the process.

When practicing blood magic spells, treat blood with absolute respect while handling it with care. Keeping the blood pure and free of sickness is whatll make the blood magic spells effectively. Blood serves as the spirit of a person. Therefore, it can manipulate their energy when added to spell casting. You can use your blood or that of someone else depends on the structure of your spell. For the latter, youll be required to get a clean sample of the subjects blood before beginning with your spell casting. Blood magic spells are among the most potent spells in witchcraft. Meaning that if you can accurately cast a spell, your chances of obtaining whatever you wish will be very high. Make sure youve worked the spell over and over so that your chances of messing up are between zero to nothing. If you are a beginner, requesting advice from an accomplished witch or spell caster is very much suggested.

Blood magic is more straightforward than more complex practices. Whether it looks like a vulnerability of the belief or strength depends on a witchs attitude to magic.

As with all magical customs, witches do not have to use blood magic if they dont want to. Blood magic is a metaphysical framework that witches can adopt to add significance to their rituals. It is not on a standard list of components that will make a ritual fail if they do not add them.

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Why Use Blood in Magic?

Blood Magic, also recognized as Blood Sorcery, is an ancient and severe kind of magic. This mystical but forbidden magic is used to cast spells and charms. Curses created with blood, the very bodily fluid, which is the influential strength and the essence of life in the working of magic, are potent. It may be a representation of a sacrifice. Still, it may also be the loss of life that sustains the spell. Blood magic is also generally practiced in Blood Rituals.

Some blood may be made to be more potent than others. Common types are human blood, the casters own blood, the blood of royalty, an extraordinary family lineage, a youths blood, or a virgins blood. Sometimes simply a particular individuals blood has power, and any other blood is ineffective.

Every participant has the natural strength within their blood to feed the magic. This is an ancestral perspective that predates word-based magic and is thought by some to be more powerful. Blood Magic is sorcery based on blood usage, a significant ingredient in many rituals, spells, and other supernatural nature situations.

The first point you need to understand about blood magic is that its not naturally evil. Some people incorrectly assume that using blood in magic is mysterious or somehow only linked with malicious intentions. This is honestly not true.

The negative undertones begin back to that fear of blood. Fear of our own mortality, fear of authority, etc., are the kind of driving factors behind a fear of blood. Indeed, if you are afraid of blood, you might prefer to bypass blood altogether. Its not for everybody.

But blood is like any item you would need in magic. Its a potent tool, but a tool nonetheless. Its neither compassionate nor malicious in its own right. You could use it for whatever goals. Like any other object or tool, its not advised to use it for unethical purposes.

Blood magic works because of the link between an individuals living blood and their fundamental nature. While conjurers argue over the specific nature of this relation, whether or not it expresses a persons spirit or something less metaphysical, what is undeniable is that the blood carries a mystical tie to a persons fundamental elements. When blood is spilled, it is conceivable to produce the magic that takes on that individuals essential aspects and form mystical bonds with them.