The description “doll spell” tends to invoke images of stereotypical “voodoo dolls.” However the use of dolls in magical spells is incredibly ancient and fairly universal. I have a few doll spells that I sometimes offer to share with my wedding couples. Dolls are used for hexing but they’re also used for healing, protection, fertility, and romantic spells. The piercing of wax figures with pins goes back at least as far as ancient Egypt, however those pins weren’t meant to cause bodily injury. Instead they were intended to stimulate pangs of love and desire from whatever part of the body was pierced. Methods of piercing are frequently more inventive than just sticking needles into the doll.
Binding Spell
- Create two small dolls from hard materials: roots, wood, or bone.
- Embellish the dolls: decorate with beads and fabric.
- Anoint with love oils and with any available sexual fluids.
- Bind them together with red cord, creating knots.
- Hide them safely, for as long as you wish the romance to last.
More Than a Fling
To turn a sexual relationship into something more:
- Cut out dolls to represent each party from an unlaundered bed sheet, stained with sexual fluids.
- Personalise as much as possible. Embroider or draw names onto the dolls if secrecy isn’t an issue.
- Fill each poppet with love-herbs: roses, rosemary, orrisroot, heartsease, and vervain.
- Bind the dolls together, face to face, belly to belly with scarlet ribbons.
- Wrap the dolls in red or black velvet.
- Slip this packet under the mattress on the side the other party usually sleeps on.
Pinned through the Heart
- Make a doll from malleable materials, such as wax, clay, dough, or similar.
- Personalise it: if you possess any intimate items, incorporate them into the doll. Otherwise, decorate as you please. Scratch a name onto the doll or pin a name-tag on it.
- Push a brass pin or an ornamented hat-pin (especially one with a romantic motif) through the heart. This pin is thought to open the heart and induce love for the maker of the doll.