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Protection Spells
Warding a threshold, turning aside ill will, and putting a thing down for good.
What a ward is, and what it is made of
The fundamentals, and the materials the old practice keeps reaching for.
The First Ward: What Protection Magic Can and Cannot Do
The hall light is off, and you have been standing at the bottom of the stairs longer than you meant to.
Shielding: Holding a Boundary You Cannot See
The bus is full past the point where anyone is still pretending to be comfortable.
The Salt Line: What It Holds, and Where It Does Harm
At midnight the line is a clean white stroke across the doorway, poured from the corner of a cardboard cylinder.
Black Salt: Making It, Keeping It, and Where Never to Put It
The jar sits at the back of the shelf, and the color inside it is the color of a cold grate.
Iron at the Door: Nails, Scissors, Horseshoes and the Old Metal
The horseshoe over the barn door has been there long enough to have written itself into the wood.
Rowan and Red Thread: The Old Protective Bindings
The hedgerow has gone over into October, and the light is the flat gray that does not change all day.
The home and its edges
Doors you own, doors you rent, and the nights you sleep somewhere else.
A Ward for a Rented Room: Protection When You Cannot Change the Door
The room is eight feet by ten, and the last tenant's posters have left gray squares on the wall above the bed.
The Fence Line: Warding a Garden, Yard or Boundary
The back gate at dusk, and the latch is cold enough to be unpleasant in the hand.
The House While You Are Away
The bags are by the door and the hallway has gone quiet in a way it never is when somebody lives in it.
After Someone Has Been In Your House
The door is standing open about a hand's width, and you know before you know.
A Bed That Is Not Yours: Warding a Room for One Night
The room is on the fourth floor, it is eleven at night, and the air conditioning has just cycled on again.
Out in the world
The walk home, the car, the desk, the screen, the child's school bag.
A Spell for the Walk Home in the Dark
The last streetlight stands at the corner, and after it there is a gap of about two hundred paces before the next one picks you up.
Warding a Car: A Charm for the Road and the Long Drive
Five in the morning, and the car is a gray shape under frost.
The Desk You Do Not Own: Protection at Work
The desk is still warm from whoever sat at it before you.
The Shield Before the Room: A Working for Walking In
The corridor has that carpet, the gray-blue kind with flecks in it that every building of a certain age buys by the roll.
A Charm for the Child’s School Bag
The bag is by the front door where it always is, slumped against the wall with one strap twisted.
Warding the Screen: A Practice for a Life Lived Online
Two in the morning, and the phone is throwing a pale rectangle of light onto the ceiling.
Protection Without Anyone Seeing
The bathroom is the only door in the house with a lock on it, and everybody knows how long a shower takes.
When a person is the problem
Your own footing, never their will.
Your Own Footing: When Someone Will Not Let You Go
The phone is face up on the kitchen table where you left it, next to the mail you have not opened.
When Your Name Is in Someone Else’s Mouth
You come into the kitchen and the conversation stops.
The Mirror in the Window: Turning a Look Back the Way It Came
The mirror is a small one, the kind that comes out of a compact, and it is propped against the window glass at an angle.
The Feeling of Being Watched
The lot is half empty, and your car is the third one along, and you have crossed this asphalt four hundred times.
Keeping and unmaking
Renewing a ward that has gone thin, and taking one down on purpose.
When a Ward Goes Thin: Renewing What You Set
You lift the mat to sweep under it and find the line you laid there in September.
Taking a Ward Down: Unmaking What You Made
There is a jar at the back of the cupboard, behind the vinegar, and you have not looked at it in three years.
Where to Put a Finished Working: Earth, Fire, Water and the Bin
The candle went out somewhere around two in the morning, and what is on the plate now is not a candle.
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