A Spell to Gain Spirit Sight
Secretly collect a bit of water from a churchβs font or grotto. If you do not have access to a church with such water, water from a north-flowing stream or your preferred blessed water will also work. Go to the graveyard, choose a gravestone [2], lay down a coin or other offering, and recite three times while covering your eyes.
Bless me, O Spirit! Lend me your sight!
By the scythe and gallows.
By the peace of the grave.
By the fog of the Land of the Dead.
Take, in exchange, this coin and my blessing,
For which I bid you stand up now and anoint my eyes.
That I, too, may better see all that is Hidden.
Using the ring finger of your left hand, anoint the eyelids with the water[3]. Say:
Grant me, O Spirit, the Uncanny Sight of your eyes.
Grant me sight beyond the veil.
Grant me sight of the Kingdom of the Dead.
By the power given to you
In peace of death.
When you feel that the work is complete. Leave the graveyard and return home without speaking or looking back over your shoulder. You may, if you wish, light a candle on your altar or give some small offering to the spirit once you have returned home.
[1] Adapted from a historical working found in MS #271.601 LΓ€ karbokf (Elsa Halmdahl, Stockholm, 1929); included as item number 103 in βTidebast Och Vandelrotβ (Thomas K. Johnson).
[2] For this working, it is generally considered better if the gravestone belongs to an ancestor or someone you know. However, folklore suggests that different individualsβ gravestones may be used for different types of workings.
[3] If you are using water from a natural source, I recommend anointing the middle of the forehead instead, symbolically anointing the Inner Eye or Witch Eye
