If you are a woman and you prefer, you can use your menstrual blood rather than pricking yourself.Well of Suffering requires 36 Ritual Stones : 4 air, 16 water, 8 fire, 4 earth and 4 dusk.Ī Well of Suffering does 1 point of damage to every entity within a 6 block radius including and centered on the Master Ritual Stone 11 block diameter. More than a couple of teaspoons can cause haemochromatosis and potentially do some serious organ damage. A good implement to have for blood magic is the prickers that diabetics use to test their blood sugar. So what stops me? The fact that I am an ethical person who has no interest in hurting others. I have access to fire, which can be a very powerful destructive force if I so choose. I see blood - like any object or component you would use in magic - as simply a tool. Looking at this from a more objective perspective. Indeed, if you are homophobic or haemophilliac, you might want to avoid blood altogether. The negative connotations stem back to that fear of blood I spoke about earlier: fear of our own mortality, fear of power, etc. Those few drops can add power to a magical working in any number of ways. Blood magic is the use of a few drops of blood during a spell or ritual-usually your own blood, but if you are casting for someone else you could use theirs with caution and permission, of course. This would be all kinds of wrong, not to mention illegal, and is not at all what I mean when I talk about blood magic. Your blood contains your DNA-a blueprint not just for you, but your complete ancestral line. Whatever little microscopic bits are floating around in there contain the very essence for all that you are.Ī scientists can illegally clone you if they had just a drop of your blood. It courses through your body delivering oxygen and nutrients to every part of you.īlood is energy-when you push yourself, your heart pounds and your pulse races as your blood flows even faster. If your blood is tainted, you will wither. If you lost too much blood, you would grow weak and die. The sight of that bright red fluid - whether it was coming from an enemy or friend, your prey or yourself - got immediate attention. Fear and awe of blood goes way back to our earliest human ancestors. But fire can also be dangerous, and yet no one would think to tell you not to use it to cook your meals! You just have to learn how to use it safely and properly.

Yes, blood can be dangerous - both magically and mundanely.

As usual, fiction is much darker and more stirring than the reality of it.

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