![]() ![]() First I traced the pattern from the back of the book. The hands-on crafting comes in between these stages. Silver describes three birthing ceremonies you can use for this. To specify the poppet’s purpose, you write your intention or create a sigil on a piece of paper and pop that inside the doll before completing the stitching.Īfter you have finished making a poppet, you awaken it to magical life. The photo at the bottom of this post shows my craft supplies on my altar before being cleansed, blessed and dedicated – always a good thing to do with any objects you are using for spellwork. You can see my finished doll on just one volume of my BoS in the photo below and to the left, but I am sure she will be capable of guarding the lot.Īs you would expect, Poppet Magick describes techniques for empowering magical dolls as well as making them. ![]() It includes numerous notebooks, folders and box files - and takes up an entire shelf. Actually, my Book of Shadows is considerably more than one journal these days. Being flat, it is designed to put between the pages of your Book of Shadows as a little guardian spirit. The witch is intended as a protection doll. The filler layer is cloth from an old pair of my black leggings, to give a personal connection to myself. I chose black felt with a silver web pattern for the outer layers, because felt doesn’t fray. Silver describes this technique as a “sandwich doll”, because it is made from three layers of fabric. In the end I decided to make the little witchy intent dolly you can see in the photos on this post. My only problem was which one to choose, as the book has so many delightful designs for poppets, spirit dolls and magical animals. However, once I started reading it, I was so captivated by the pictures and patterns for magical dolls, that I decided I had to make one and blog about that as well. I was originally just going to write a review of Poppet Magick by Silver Ravenwolf after I was given a copy for my birthday.
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