Heathens, Pagans and Witches discussion

What is the oddest 'tool' you've used in your practice or a spell.

Magazine advertisement cutouts would be my oddest.

What do you use them for?

I would say rub on tattoos are mine.

If an ad evokes a certain feeling (the color, the setting, the person) I will cut it out and keep it for spellwork. Maybe a model is dressed to seem really animalistic and I am doing something along those lines. Or, I want a peaceful focal point for a meditation focus. Or, the picture includes items in it I could use as metaphors for some paper-burning spell - I will write onto the advertisement key words below the different items on it.

That's a great idea.

Some people find it odd I use blood. Does that count?

I think it's common...but that might just be me.

I thought it quite common, too, but I was surprised by comments I got from others. Then again, I've also had comments about using things I find in the gutter, on the street, or in the woods.

I would think it would not be uncommon, Ancestral, so I guess I am suprised, too. Especially if the response was from women: one would think a woman would (at some point and under some circumstances) see the benefit of menstrual blood in ritual/spellwork.

i have only been studying for about 3-4 years
n i dont know anything that i have used that is odd n i have used flowers, branches etc
but then my family thinks that i am completly odd

Your family aren't pagan?

no
but they r not religios either
so they r not botherd in what i believe in
n they give me as much support as possibul :D

You are very lucky

yhea i read that other people have not been sp lucky
what about u?

My family isn't pagan. One half is LDS (mormon) and the other isn't anything at all. I don't get a lot of encouragement in my interests or beliefs but I also don't get harassed for them, so it's not too bad.

if u say so
okay

Any day you aren't getting harassed is a good day.

yhea
i gess

Okay, so I wouldn't call them tools, but I have a circle out in the pasture. So, if I have a fire going and am out there, the goats, horse and cows join in. Definately brings up more energy.