Jason Metcalf
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ABRACADABRA..., 2015
ABRACADABRA
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ABRACADA
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ABRACA
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2015
oil on hemp -
Tie forty knots in a fishing net and wear it to ward off the evil eye, 2015
fishing net, mannequin (for display)
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If you want to know which months of the year will be wet months or dry months..., 2015
If you want to know which months of the year will be wet months or dry months, cut six onions in half and scoop out the middle of them and place them in a circle face up and evenly spaced. Then take the yolks from twelve eggs that have been harvested in the last seven days and place the yolks in the middle of the onions. Let the yolks and onions rest for three days. Starting at the onion facing the most northward, going clockwise, observe which yolks have broken and which have not. The first is the current month, and so on. The broken yolks will yield rainy or wet months, and the yolks that have not broken will yield dry months, 2015
onions, egg yolks -
Salamander, 2015
oil on linen
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If you want great wealth to come to your household..., 2015
If you want great wealth to come to your household, fill the hollow of a tree with crushed honeycomb and place three coins in a cross pattern in the middle, 2015
honeycomb, coins -
In order to make sure that you don’t get the evil eye..., 2015
In order to make sure that you don’t get the evil eye, take a jar of honey that has been harvested within seven miles of your home and place forty white beans in it and seal it. Then tie a steel knife and a steel fork and a steel spoon in a hex pattern to the jar with black and red rope, and hang it from the nearest tree to your front door. Make sure the hex is pointing away from your property. This will keep away the evil eye, 2015
glass jar, honey, white beans, rope, steel utensils -
Paint something red on your property to keep away evil spirits, 2015
red paint
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To bless the guests of your home, fill the crack of the threshold of your door with red pepper, 2015
red pepper
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Seer stone and magic handkerchief, 2015 (stone of unknown age)
seer stone, handkerchief
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To keep away dark witches..., 2015
To keep away dark witches, acquire an old broom that has been charged with much energy from a special place and tie three brass keys to it with black rope. Tie forty knots in the rope and lace it through each of the holes in the keys. Secure each of the keys to the shaft of the broom six times and form an X over each of them. Place the broom near your front door, 2015
Broom, brass keys, black rope -
If you want to keep unwanted spirits from coming into your home..., 2015
If you want to keep unwanted spirits from coming into your home, take a fresh garlic clove with six bulbs in it and pierce it with six large needles, intersecting each of the bulbs and make sure that each needle goes all the way through. Then take a strand of hair from a young woman, about twelve inches long, and thread it through one of the needles, and secure it strongly with black rope. Then take a longer piece of black rope and tie as many knots in it as there are letters in the woman’s name, and tie this to the end of the strand of hair, using a square knot. Hang this on the north side of your front door and you will not have any unwanted spirits, 2015
garlic, steel needles, hair, rope -
To ward off a person or animal..., 2015
To ward off a person or animal or being you don’t want on your property, gather some clay from the earth located no more than 144 footsteps away from your place and let it dry in the sun for three days and make a poultice out of it. Then form it into a long roll, and wedge it in a crack in your front doorway. Next place six white beans in the clay, facing outward from your property, saying the name of the thing that you want to ward off while placing each bean, 2015
clay, honey, milk, white beans