So yesterday, I took a very interesting class taught by my friend Hovik about Spell Crafting with Food. He’s a very talented witch and chef, and if you’re interested in any of his witchy works, you can find him on Periscope here, on Twitter here, and on Instagram here. He also works at a local pagan supply shop, The Green Man Metaphysical Shoppe and Apothecary, and their website can be found here.
I’m gonna break this down as well as i can, and I apologize in advance to Hovik if i missed some key points. Sorry man, but you talk really fucking fast!
Lets start with tools.
Tools in The Kitchen
- Kitchen Twine can bring knot and number magick into your cooking
- Measuring cups/spoons can be used/represent abundance and multiplication
- Scales can bring justice and balance (i.e. you’re making cookies for an event with someone, in which you have the opportunity to gain something for yourself/the greater good. So, you may make your cookie weigh more so that the odds are in your favor when speaking to whomever about thing XYZ, while making sure the difference isn’t too obvious)
- Pot/Cauldron is the belly of everything. It brings forth creation, form, and can also aid in protection and bringing forth prosperity.
- Spoons can either banish or bring things in, depending on the direction you stir it. (Generally, clockwise is to bring things in, counterclockwise to banish things. What you are banishing or bringing in depends on your personal intent)
- Kitchen Knives can be used to cut shapes into your food. For example, you can cut uniformly to bring control/order into your life, roughly chopping things can help one to bring relaxation, heart shapes for love, etc.
- Forks can be used for uncrossing, removal, and anger related issues
- Whisks bring in air, and can assist you in incorporating rhyme, song, and bringing spirit(s) into your work.
- Sifters/colanders are good for protection. If you hang one on near an entryway, it prevents evil spirits from entering the space and getting into the food.
Food Correspondences
- Broccoli and cauliflower- abundance, protection
- Cucumbers, bananas, pineapple and other long, phallic-looking foods- male fertility, prosperity
- Bulbous, round foods, clams- female fertility
- Pies- consider them little delivery systems for spells. Put intention while preparing the ingredients, carve sigils into the dough, bake and boom! You’ve got a spell all prepared for ingestion.
- Apples- protection, banishment, prosperity, fertility, love, lustful energy (it depends on how you cut the apple, or what you do with it, there’s so much info on it that I would need to put it all into a separate post)
- Eggs- cleansing, protection, banishing, prosperity, binding, fertility
- Chocolate- prosperity (specifically money), love
- Milk- beauty, purification, excess abundance (most effective when you use full fat milk)
- Pasta- uncrossing
- Honey- attraction, healing, business, employment
- Oranges- wishes, prosperity, productivity
- Lemons- wishes, prosperity, productivity, uncrossing, breaking things apart
- Salt- amplifies the effects of your workings, expels, purification
- Black pepper- banishing, removal
- Tomatoes- uncrossing, mellow things out magickally
- Pork- good luck, prosperity, intelligence
- Pomegranates- ancestral work (really excellent as an offering to your ancestors!)
- Walnuts- intelligence
- Rosemary- memory (can also be used as a replacement for most other herbs in spells)
- Grapes- luxury, sexual energy
- Chicken- assists in getting to the root of a problem, also good for uncrossing
- Fish- good luck and wishes (I will elaborate more below)
- Salmon- endurance, bringing someone home (or back to their roots), safety while traveling,
- Crabs- uncrossing
- Calamari- changes
- Shrimp- abundance, love magick, fertility
- Shellfish for protection (more specifics below)
- Oysters- good luck
- Clams- stopping gossip, making people less stubborn, bringing forth the truth
- Muscles- cleansing
- Apricots and cherries- aphrodisiacs
- Almond cookies- helps make people speak kindly of you, see you in a better light
- Hazelnuts- wisdom
- Brazil nuts- sexual energy
- Clear spirits (alcohol)- cleansing, having the truth come out, vessel for healing
- Brandy/cognac- communication and calming things down
- Wine- love magick, celebration, bringing things out (dark wines aid in relaxation, white wines aid in celebration)
- Cow tongue- truth, true wealth, abundance
- Duck- aids in sleep (possibly sleep/dream magick?)
- Ostrich eggs- protection
- Beets- purification, cleansing, communication, longevity
Gods, Goddesses, and Saints associated with the kitchen/home
- Hestia- goddess of hearth and home
- Saint Martha- patron saint of cooks and homes
- Saint Laurence- patron saint of cooking
- Apollo- god of wine, among many other things
- Demeter- goddess of agriculture, the harvest, fertility of the earth
- Brownies (fairies)- assist in moving things alone, and keeping your food fresh
- Hathor- goddess of joy, feminine love, motherhood, abundance, and nurturing
- Freyja- goddess of fertility (among other things)
Directional Correspondences with food, cooking method, etc.
These directions are based on Wiccan teachings, so if your practice has different meanings for the direction (i.e. Earth to the east or what have you), please feel free to change this to suit your practice.
- North, Earth- root vegetables, baking, freezing, prosperity, love
- East, Wind- herbs, leafy greens, poaching, communicative issues, issues
- South, Fire- spices, oils, sautéing, grilling
- West, Water- liquids, boiling, frying, alcohol, meat, ancestral energy
Methods of Cooking
- Boiling- banishing
- Sautéing- quick action
- Frying- protection, grounding, communication, transformation, prosperity, good fortune
That’s all I’ve got for now, I’ll try and update this as I learn more.
Blessed Be my witchy brothers and sisters!