Spells
Physical Spells: Those that require only one's body to enact, such as what the people of the Middle Ages called the ''evil eye'' or the hand-motion blessing of a Priest/ess. Physical spells were typically used for banishing, charming, and healing.
Verbal Spells: Often called charms, these need nothing more than your words to direct the energy. Most verbal spells rhyme (it makes them easier to remember). The word charm also means ''song'', and there's no reason you could not sing your spells if you like! Historically, charms were often used to attract love, encourage luck, and safeguard health.
Written Spells: Another very common medium. (By the way, Witches and wise people were among the first to learn to write!) Words have power, and the pattern of words, the medium they were written upon, and the aroma of the ink all shaped that power into a specific intention. Written spells were commonly used in healing arts and as part of wishes.
Component Spells: Candles, knots, herbs, crystals- all the ''tools'' in a Witch's kit may become components and focal points in his or her art. Component-oriented are among the most widely seen, in part because they offer the greatest variety of potential applications.
Visualised Spells: Typically combined with a meditative process, everything having to do with this type of spell is created in the mind's eye and carried out on the mind's stage. A simple example is the white-light bubble visualization many people use to cast a protective sphere around themselves.
Elemental Spells: Similar to component spells, these utilize a specific component (Soil, Wind, Water, Fire) as a means of empowering the spell or giving it greater focus. For example, taking a written wish and floating it on water moving away from you comes under this category, because the water bears your emotions, your wish is directed outward. Burning that very same paper releases the wish to Spirit, where the winds disperses it by smoke. Planting it helps the wish to grow, and so forth. . . .
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