Icelandic Magic (13 page)

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D
ÚNFAXI
(D
OWN
M
ANE
)—T
O
W
IN A
L
AW
C
ASE
(D
AVÍÐSSON
VII)

If you want to win a law case, carry this sign with you, if you believe in it. It is called
Dúnfaxi.
Carve the sign on a piece of oak wood and hide it on your person before you go to where the trial is to be held.

8
 
 
T
HE
S
ILENCER
(
G
ALDRABÓK
43)

If you don't want someone to talk about you, take this stave,
Homa,
^*15
and visualize it infusing the person's entire being; he or she will not be able to reveal anything. Also have this stave at your breast for as long as you require discretion.

To charge the signs say: “For this help me all the gods: Þórr, Óðinn, Frigg, Freyja, Satan, Beelzebub, and all those who inhabit Valhöll. In your mightiest name: Óðinn!”

V. PROSPERITY

One of the most abiding motives for magicians throughout history has been the gaining of prosperity. The Icelandic approach is very pragmatic and realistic. It presupposes that the individual is actually working toward prosperity but just needs a bit of help to get some advantage.

1
 
 
D
EAL
-C
LOSER
(
K
AUPALOKI
)
(D
AVÍÐSSON
III)

Draw this stave on parchment and carry it in the center of your chest and you will have success in both buying and selling.

2
 
 
T
O
H
AVE
S
UCCESS IN
B
USINESS
(L
BS
2413 8
VO
32)

Write this stave on parchment or carve it into oak wood. Keep this stave in your hand when doing business. You will have success.

3
 
 
A
NOTHER
K
AUPALOKI
(D
AVÍÐSSON
VIII)

Cut this sign on a piece of beech wood or draw it on parchment and you will have success in business deals.

VI. LOVE

One of the other abiding interests of magicians historically has been the acquisition of lovers. The galdor-stave magic of the Icelanders is rich in such operations.

1
 
 
L
UCK IN
L
OVE
(
G
ALDRABÓK
8)

While fasting, make this helm of awe with your spittle in the palm of your right hand when you greet the person whom you want to have.

2
 
 
T
O
E
NCHANT A
W
OMAN
AND
W
IN
H
ER
L
OVE
(
G
ALDRABÓK
34)

If you want to enchant a woman so that she can find her way to no one except you, make a hole in the ground where she walks over it and put in etin-spear blood [semen] and draw a ring around the hole and carve her name and these staves: mold-
þurs
[
] and
maður
[
] inverted threefold, that is,
,
bjarkan
[
],
nauð
[
],
homa,
and
gapaldur,
and read the following conjuration.

“I look at you and you feel love and affection for me with all your heart. You can't sit anywhere, nor stand to be anywhere without loving me. This I ask of Óðinn and of all those who know how to read women runes: that you can neither endure nor thrive unless you love me with all your heart. So it will be as if you were burning in your bones and even more so in your fleshly parts. It will be allotted to you to be unmarried unless you love me, you shall freeze in your feet, and never get honor or happiness. You'll sit as if burning, your hair falling out, your clothes torn asunder, unless you want to have me, you easygoing woman.”

3
 
 
T
O
W
IN THE
L
OVE OF
A
P
ERSON
(
G
ALDRABÓK
15)

You should write this on parchment and have it with you always, and people will love you very much.