SPELLS – THE SHAPE OF INTENTION
30th October 2025 by | Uncategorized
The word spell has a double meaning, one that bridges language and magic. To spell is to assemble letters into meaning — to shape thought into visible form. In the medieval world, that same act of shaping was the essence of enchantment. A spell was not simply recited; it was constructed, woven from words, herbs, gestures, and belief.
In church and cottage alike, spells existed quietly beside prayer. While the priest raised his voice to heaven, the village healer murmured Latin and English in equal measure, binding words around a fever or a failing crop. The line between heresy and hope was perilously thin.
Every spell began with intention. The charm for love, the cure for pain, the plea for protection — each demanded a clarity of will, as though the universe itself listened for conviction. The repetition, the rhythm, the rhyme: these were not superstition but structure.
To write a spell was to draw breath into being. To speak it aloud was to risk believing in one’s own power. Even now, when I whisper an old charm beneath my breath, it is not to summon the supernatural, but to remember that all language is spellcraft — that every word we utter alters the air.
by Gemma Morris-Conway
The past is never silent