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Ever wondered what went into the making of ink? We aim to please!
Whether you chose to use a feather
quill or use a dedicated fountain pen, we have the recipes here for inks to
make.
Magical Inks are used for the writing of spells, petitions and wishes, magical requests, and the inscription of Mystical Seals. Also for writing in your own Book of Shadows (unless yours is of the computerized form)
Ink can be made from the following: (Use Gum Arabic to thicken inks as necessary) Beetroot Juice, Blackberry, Boysenberry, Dragon' s Blood, Grape Juice, Pokeberries (these are POISONOUS), Saffron plus many others.
Bats Blood Ink
Bats Blood is for spellwork: directed toward discord, tension & havoc.
2 parts dragon's blood resin
1/2 part myrrh resin
2 drops cinnamon oil
2 drops indigo color
12 parts alcohol
1/2 part gum arabic
Black Ink
Cinnabar
Mulberry Tree Sap
Rainwater
Wormwood
Vetch
Doves Blood Ink
Doves blood is typically used for writing love spells and
1 part dragon's blood resin
2 drops cinnamon oil
2 drops bay oil
10 parts alcohol
1 part gum arabic
2 drops rose oi
Dragons Blood
Ink
This ink is
traditionally used in spells relating to power and spells of strength. Gives any
magical working that extra kick
1 part dragon's blood resin
15 parts alcohol
1 part gum arabic
Hermaic Ink
Burn ingredients, then mix with spring water and use to write.
4 drams of Myrrh
3 Figs
7 Date Pits
7 Small Dried Pinecones
7 Piths of Wormwood
7 Wings of the Hermaic Ibis
Spring Water
Hopi Black Ritual Ink
Items needed:
A lump of Yellow Ochre
Gum from the Pinyon pine
3 cups of black Sunflower seeds. (The little ones)
3 Tablespoons ground Native Alum
Start by burning the lump of yellow ochre with an equal amount of the pinyon gum. This will make a nice black soot. (Catch the soot on a cool ironstone plate that is held over the burning mixture.)Save the soot. Next, take the sunflower seeds, still in their shells, and boil them for twenty to thirty minutes in 8 cups of water. Remove the seeds just after splitting open. (Do not allow them to soak in it.)
Add the native Alum after toasting it in an iron pan. Stir and simmer so that the Alum is completely dissolved. Simmer the liquid until it is reduced to six cups of liquid. Dip out a cup of the liquid and scrape the soot into it. Stir until it is dissolved. Add the soot-dye mixture back into the greater dye. Gently simmer until it is reduced to a desired consistency. Use with a 'quill' pen or fine lined paint brush.
Invisible Ink
To write on paper a letter that no one will see unless the paper is heated: Take sal ammoniac and melt it by moistening it with water. Then write with this and let it dry. This will last about eight days.
Sal ammoniac is used these days to clean and tin soldering irons. It can be found at stained glass supply houses. Using hot water makes it easier to dissolve more of the sal ammoniac. To make the writing appear, the paper must be held face down very close to the candle flame.
Letters of Secrets
These cannot be read unless you know how
Take fine Allum, beat it small, and
put a reasonable quantity of it into water, then write with said water.
The work cannot be read, but by steeping your paper in fair running water. You may likewise write with Vinegar, or the juice of Lemon or Onion; if you would read the same, you must hold it before the fire.
Lampblack Ink
Using a candle of proper spell color (i.e. pink for love, green for money ect.) Hold a spoon over the flame until black soot forms on the spoon, this process takes awhile , up to 45 min depending on how much ink you want to make. Carefully tap or scrape the black soot off the spoon into a bowl. Add enough water to dissolve the soot and then add enough Gum Arabic to form a thinker ink.
Magical ink I
10oz Gall nuts
3oz Green Copperas
3oz Rock Alum or Gum Arabic
Reduce all ingredients to a powder and place in a newly glazed earthen pot with river water (doesn't say how much, enough to moisten I would guess). Make a fire of sprigs of fern gathered on St. Johns Eve (Midsummer)and vine twigs cut on the Full Moon in March. Add virgin paper to the fireand set the pot over it. When the water boils the ink will be made. I would guess baring everything else the ingredients boiled with some water would yield some sort of ink.
Magical Ink II
Frankincense "smoke"
Myrrh "smoke"
Rose Water
Sweet Wine Gum Arabic
* you get the "smoke" by holding a spoon over burning resin until blackening gathers on the spoon*, then tap spoon carefully into a bowl, this stuff is light to go easy. Mix the "smoke blacking" in a bowl with a little rose water and wine. Add enough gum Arabic to make the mixture thick enough to write with.
Magical Ink III
Fresh Pokeberries when crushed produce a purple ink. Again add some Gum Arabic to thicken the liquid to ink consistency. The seeds are poisonous so keep this ink out of your mouth. There are no measurements to these recipes as they are supposed to be from the 1600's but it suggests that you add water very very gradually especially when working with soot, maybe with an eye dropper.
Oak Gall Ink
Gather oak galls. Not always as easy as it sounds. Look for small knobs (about 1/2v or so) on branches. They may be easier to find in late summer or autumn. A scant handful is all You'll need. Put your galls and a rusty nail into a small glass jar (a baby food jar is ideal) and cover them with water. Let your ink sit in a sunny windowsill, and shake it whenever you happen to think about it. The timing isn't critical. The mixture has a tendency to separate out, leaving almost pure water at the top. Drain this off with an eye-dropper. Also, the ink may have a thin oily film on the surface. Strain the final product through a kitchen strainer to remove what is left of the galls and nails. Add a bit of ground charcoal or soot to the end product, or leave it as is.
Persian Recipe
An old recipe, once used by Hassan, a Persian Scribe.
Ingredients
500 g water
5 g salt
250 g gum arabic
30 g gall apples, grilled and powdered
40 g iron sulphate (a.k.a. copperas or vitriol)
30 g honey
20 g soot for stage 3
Directions
Mix the six first ingredients. Leave them on a slow fire for two hours and stir now and then. Then add 20g soot. Heat it for another hour.
Filter and pour into bottles.
Traditional Ink Recipe
Take a quantity of albumen [egg white] and mix thoroughly with the soot. Then add honey and mix into a smooth paste. The ink is then ready to use.
Traditional Ink Recipe II
Gather some 'lawyer's wig' mushrooms ( Corprinus comatus ) or some fungus known as 'Shaggy Ink Caps' and place in a glazed pot or small cauldron. Leave somewhere warm for several days to allow the mushrooms to deliquesce. Pour off the liquid and either use it as it is or boil until it is about half its original volume for a blacker. ( Note: this ink is less permanent than some of the others, but is easy to produce. )
Typhonian Ink
Red Poppy
Artichoke Juice
Acacia Seed
Red Typhonian Ocher
Quicklime
Wormwood
Gum Arabic
Rain Water
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