To Summon A Faery
TO SUMMON A FAERY
This is a traditional method of calling to the Faery realm. There are several versions of this ritual, yet this is probably the first to be recorded.
It comes from the Bodleian Library (MS. Ashmole 1406). It was also contained in a 17th-century magickal manuscript.
The language is a bit hard to understand, but not impossible. The herbs and flowers are readily obtainable, yet unless you already have Faery consorts, the last instructions may be difficult...
To Summon a Faery
An excellent way to gett a fayrie, but for myself I call Margarett Barrance but this will obtaine any one that is not all ready bound.
First gett a broad square christall or Venus glasse in length and breadth 3 inches, then lay that glasse or christall in a red clothe 3 wednesdayes or 3 fridayes:
then take it out and wash it with holy aqua and fumigate it: then take 3 hazle sticks or wands of an yeare groth, pill them fayre and white, and make soe longe as
you can write the spiritts name, or fayries name, which you call 3 times, on every sticke being made flatt one side, then bury them under some stone hill
whereas you suppose fayries haunt, the wednesdaye before you call she, and the fridaye followinge take them uppe and calle she at 8 or 3 or 10 of the clock which be googe plannetts and howres for that turne:
but when you calle, be in cleane life and turne thy face towards the East, and when you have she bind her to that stone or glasse.
An unguent to annoynt under the eylidds and upon the eylidds evninge and morninge, but especially when you call, or finde your sighte not perfect.
Put sallet oyle into a Viall glasse but first wash it withe rose water, and marygold flower water, the flowers be gathered toward the east, wash
it til the oyle come white, then putt it into the glasse, ut supra, and put there to the buds of hollyhocke,
the flowers of marygold; the flowers or topps of wild time the buds of younge hazel, and the time must
begathered neare the side of a hille where fayries used to go oft, and the grasse of a fayrie throne,
there, all these putte into the oyle, in the glasse, and sett it to dissolve 3 dayes in the sonne, and thou keep it for thy use; ut supra.
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