Tools of the Trade

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Ostanes Character Sheet

Blood Flask

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Demonic Walking Stick

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Sacrificial Dagger

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Elements of Classical Magic

  • -- Alchemy (Chrysopoeia = Ouroboros [gesture] / εν το παν (en to pan) or in English "one is the all" [spoken])
  • -- Amulets (protective)
  • -- Apotropaion -- Greek: To avert evil
  • -- Astrology
  • -- Carmen (verse)
  • -- Curse tablets (Latin: tabella defixionis / Greek: katadesmos)
  • -- Divine figurines (Hermes)
  • -- Ephesia Grammata
  • -- Evil Eye
  • -- Gemstones: Their uses in magick
  • -- Goetia (Interestingly, goetia is similar in its ambiguity to charm: it means both magic and power to sexually attract.)
  • -- Herbs & Their Magical Properties
  • -- Phylactery
  • -- Poetry / Songs (Orpheus)
  • -- Sator Square (Palindrome)
  • -- Talisman (focus for spell effects)
  • -- Teletai (mystical formulas / celebration of mysteries)
  • -- Theurgy (According to the Greek philosopher Plotinus (205–270 CE) theurgy attempts to bring all things in the universe into sympathy, and man into connection with all things via the forces that flow through them.)
  • -- Voces magicae
  • -- Wands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_in_the_Graeco-Roman_world