Coffin Nails???

[~blood raven~]

I recently had a friend ask me where she could get coffin nails for a spell. This worried me none the less. Why whould she need coffin nails? and where in the world would you purchase them? She said she really didn't want to go to a cemetary to get them..... If you have ANY answers to this please let me know..... :hmmmmm:

[Dio]

I just did a quick 'google' and found many places you could order coffin nails online.

Your friend can do whatever they want as far as spell work is concerned. It shouldn't really concern you. Unless you are worried that your friend is planning something against you, I don't see any reason for worry.

Of course, you could always *ask* your friend what they are going to do with them. It's probably not as big a deal as you think.

[~blood raven~]

Thank you..... I was just curious what kind of spells involve coffin nails..... I had never heard of such thing. sorry.

[PoisonIvy]

Coffin nails just add potency to spells,that's all. Don't worry!

[~blood raven~]

Okies.....thank you Poision Ivy......

[Lunacie]

My first thought was that we used to call cigarettes "coffin nails". :lol:

[Luminessence]

She said she really didn't want to go to a cemetary to get them.....

I don't see anything wrong with using coffin nails in spells, but going to the cemetary and taking them out of people's coffins is... icky. :imout:

[~blood raven~]

:bubbles: hehehe.....that would be funny if she was asking about cig's.....

[~blood raven~]

I agree Luminessence.....that would be very strange!

[BlueMoon13]

Coffin nails are GREAT additions to protection spells _travolta_

[Silverfire Darkmoon]

You can also use coffin nails for some rather nasty and unpleasant spellwork if that's your wont. The only one I can call directly to mind is one entitled 'to kill with sorcery' which involves the ashes of burned Bibles and ground human bone as well as coffin nails....but yes. They can be used for good or bad, like all other magical apparatus.

[9-2-2]

Hmm. They're not really useful unless you charge them with energy... but their use is, being in such close proximity with the dead, they'd pick up a more negative / deathlike skew. They don't come enchanted, and enchanting is more powerful. However, it doesn't have to be that way... you can easily cleanse away its natural skew, and make a coffin nail flowery and happy. You can use them in just about anything... candle magick, building an altar, using them in a crazy binding, in poppet magick, etc...

If you build stuff with sturdy coffin nails, say, like a house, it will be energetically sturdier, more magickal, more protected, etc. I reccomend against building an entire house with them, though, it'd probably fall apart. Just hammer some into a few key places that won't do damage.

Remember... all tools you'll ever find has multiple purposes. Coffin nails can as easily add to a spell or working of harm, and it can add to the strength of anything built with it. :)
Just be creative!

[Teresa]

Hmm. They're not really useful unless you charge them with energy... They don't come enchanted, and enchanting is more powerful.

Remember... all tools you'll ever find has multiple purposes. Coffin nails can as easily add to a spell or working of harm, and it can add to the strength of anything built with it. :)
Just be creative!
Very well said and once enchanted or charged they add great power to protection type of spells .I have used them in candle magic also.

[dr_zeus440]

hmm, i think if she was looking for coffin nails, the best way to get them is by going to a cemetary and getting them for herself. i agree wholeheartedly with Dio's post.

is adding potency all they do for you, poisonivy?

[cheddarsox]

I don't do any sort of ritualistic magick of this sort, so I have a question for those who do. Why are things like coffin nails, cemetary dirt, ground human bones, basically anything associated with death held as having special power? A "pagan" shop near me sells cemetary dirt in little bags over where the resin incense and herbs are sold.

I have a human skull. She is in my bedroom. Haven't noticed any special protection or anything etc since she joined the family.

Does the power come from the emotions evoked in us because we know where these items come from?

cheddar

[Antoninus]

but going to the cemetary and taking them out of people's coffins is... icky. :imout:
Its also quite illegal

[ShamanFeather]

. They don't come enchanted, and enchanting is more powerful. However, it doesn't have to be that way... you can easily cleanse away its natural skew, and make a coffin nail flowery and happy.


I just had the vision of someone with some coffin nails and a faery dress dancing around saying with a high voice "I bless you with my happy blessed coffin nail! Peace and JOY with the happy blessed coffin nail" While tapping them with coffin nails or have them daggling with strings from a toy magic wand with a shiney star on the end.\

:floating: