What is a witch ball?

 A witch ball is a beautiful, hand-blown hollow sphere of glass, traditionally used as a protective charm.

These colorful orbs originated in England (with roots tracing back to the 17th–18th centuries) and were commonly hung in cottage windows to ward off evil spirits, witches, curses, the evil eye, ill fortune, and negative energy.

How They Were Believed to Work

According to folklore, the witch ball’s shimmering beauty and reflective qualities would:

•  Attract malevolent spirits or witches (who couldn’t resist the mesmerizing colors and light play)

•  Trap them inside — either by entrancing them with their own reflection, dazzling them with refracted light, or ensnaring their energy in the internal strands/swirls of glass

Many early examples had a silvery, mirror-like interior (made with mercury or similar coatings), giving them a magical, almost hypnotic appearance

Modern Witch Balls

Today, witch balls are still popular as both decorative items and protective talismans. You’ll find them in gardens, windows, or as hanging ornaments — often in vibrant colors that catch the light beautifully:

They’re especially striking when sunlight hits them, creating dancing rainbows around the room — a lovely blend of ancient superstition and modern home decor!

So in short: a witch ball is part folk-magic protective ward, part gorgeous glass art — with centuries of charm and mystery packed into a single shimmering sphere

How to make a witch ball

Making your own witch ball is a fun, magical, and accessible craft project! Today, the most popular and beginner-friendly way to create one is using a clear glass (or shatterproof plastic) ornament as the base — this gives you that classic hollow sphere look while being much easier and safer than traditional hand-blown glassmaking.

These modern DIY versions are filled with intention-setting ingredients like herbs, crystals, and charms, then hung in a window to catch light, repel negativity, and bring protection, prosperity, love, or whatever energy you desire

Materials You’ll Need

•  1 clear glass or plastic DIY ornament (3–4 inches is a great size; available at craft stores or online, especially around holidays)

•  Small funnel (or rolled paper) for filling

•  Dried herbs, flowers, spices (e.g., rosemary for protection, lavender for peace, cinnamon for prosperity, bay leaves, rose petals)

•  Small crystals or stones (e.g., black tourmaline or obsidian for protection, rose quartz for love)

•  Optional extras: glitter, salt, tiny charms, feathers, pinecones, or protective symbols

•  Ribbon, twine, or cord for hanging

•  Hot glue gun (optional, for extra sealing)

•  Incense, sage, or other cleansing tool (for energy prep)

Step-by-Step Instructions

1.  Set Your Intention
Decide the purpose of your witch ball (e.g., home protection, attracting abundance, self-love). Hold the empty ornament and visualize or speak your intention into it.

2.  Cleanse Everything
Use smoke from sage, incense, or sound (like a bell) to purify the ornament and all your ingredients. This clears any old energy.

3.  Prepare the Ornament
Gently remove the metal hanger/cap from the top (it usually pops off with a little pressure). Set it aside.

4.  Fill with Magic
Using the funnel, add your ingredients layer by layer. Start with a base (like salt or herbs), then add crystals, spices, flowers, etc.

•  Fill it halfway to three-quarters full so items can move and catch the light beautifully.

•  Speak or think your intention with each addition.

5.  Seal & Finish
Replace the metal hanger/cap (snap it back in place).
Add a drop of hot glue around the edge if you want extra security.
Tie a pretty ribbon or twine around the top for hanging, and attach any extra charms.

6.  Activate & Hang
Hold the finished ball, charge it with your intention one last time (moonlight, sunlight, or visualization works great).
Hang it in a sunny window where it can sparkle and “trap” negative energy while spreading positive vibes!

Making a witch ball is both a craft and a spell — personalize it completely to your needs. It’s a wonderful way to bring a bit of folk magic into your London home! If you’re feeling extra creative, you can even make themed ones for different seasons or intentions. Happy crafting!

Protect yourself and your craft online

Why you should be careful when posting your Altar, Spells or rituals online.

Ask yourself a question. Would you be happy if someone barged in on you whilst you were doing a spell or ritual? 

Would you let strangers watch over your shoulder?

Then perhaps you should think about this when posting yourself and your Craft online to complete strangers.

If you think we are being overly dramatic or cautious or that we are telling you what to do then that’s fine. You do as you please. But if things go wrong for you then there may not be a way of restoring your balance or correct the situation.

Here’s a practical, no-nonsense guide to digital privacy tailored specifically for witches, occultists, conjurers, and anyone who does real magic (not just the aesthetic kind).

Core Principle

Treat anything you put online the same way you would treat handing a physical photo or personal concern to 10,000 random strangers—because that’s exactly what you’re doing.

What NOT to post (ever, if you’re serious)

•  Active altars with personal concerns (photos of yourself/target, petitions, hair, bodily fluids, handwriting, birth dates, etc.)

•  Spirit vessels, pakets, dolls, or anything that is “alive” or feeds from you

•  Sigils that are currently charging or active

•  Your real full name + magical name in the same place

•  Your exact home address or easily recognizable background (window views, street signs, house numbers)

•  Photos taken inside your actual temple room or permanent working space

•  Anything you have been told by spirits, gods, or elders “do not photograph”

Acceptable compromises (if you must post)

•  Use a completely separate “craft” account that is in no way linked to your legal name, main e-mail, or phone number

•  Create a second “pretty but fake” altar just for photos (90 % of big Witchtok accounts do exactly this)

•  Photograph only after the working is finished and dismantled

•  Crop, blur, or digitally alter anything that could be used against you (faces, handwriting, tags, etc.)

•  Never geotag, and strip EXIF data (use an app like Scrambled Exif or ImageOptim)

•  Post with a 24–72 hour delay so the photo isn’t tied to the actual timing of the spell

Device & account hygiene

•  Use a burner phone or cheap tablet only for witchy social media

•  Separate e-mail (ProtonMail or Tutanota) that has never had your real name on it

•  Two-factor authentication everywhere (preferably with an authenticator app, not SMS)

•  VPN on public Wi-Fi (ProtonVPN free tier is fine)

•  Never log into craft accounts on your work or family computer

•  Password manager (Bitwarden is free and open-source)

•  Turn off “people you may know” suggestions on all platforms

Photos & videos – specific tricks

•  Never let your real face and your altar be in the same frame

•  Flip the image horizontally (breaks facial recognition)

•  Add slight color filters or overlays (again, defeats most recognition algorithms)

•  If you show hands, remove rings, scars, tattoos, or anything distinctive

•  If you speak in videos, use a voice changer app (many free ones exist)

Also be aware of any personal

Photos, documents, certificates etc. that are in your photo or video. 

Special warnings for certain practices

•  Hoodoo / rootwork: never show the inside of a working mojo bag, doll baby with concerns, or nation sack

•  Goetia / grimoire spirits: most texts explicitly forbid showing the actual circle or triangle while work is active

•  ATRs (Vodou, Santería, etc.): many orishas and spirits prohibit being filmed; initiatory items are oath-bound secrets

•  Pact or blood work: posting evidence can literally give others leverage over you or the spirit

Damage-control if you already posted too much

•  Mass-delete old photos (use browser extensions like “Image Delete” for Instagram)

•  Make accounts private or delete entirely and start over with a new handle

•  Do uncrossing + protection work focused on digital spaces (some people use mirror boxes with screenshots of the old posts)

•  Change your magical name or sigil if it’s been widely linked to your face/legal name

The witches who move the most in real life are almost never the ones with 300k followers and perfect altar pics. They’re the ones you can’t find online at all.

Keep your real magic off the timeline.

Post art, aesthetics, book reviews, lore, or heavily staged setups if you want community—but treat your actual power like the nuclear launch codes. Because to someone who knows what they’re looking at, that’s exactly what it is.

Whatis The Evil Eye?

What the Evil Eye Actually Is

The “evil eye” (Malocchio in Italian, Ayin ha-Ra in Hebrew, Nazar in Arabic/Turkish, Drishti in India, etc.) is one of the most universal magical beliefs on the planet. At its core it is unintended (or intentional) harm caused by envy, covetousness, excessive praise, or strong desire directed at a person, animal, crop, business, or object.

It is not always a deliberate curse. In most cultures it is considered something ordinary humans do accidentally every single day just by being jealous or by over-admiring something.

How it works (folk model, not New-Age fluff)

Someone looks at you, your child, your new car, your money spell result, your beautiful altar photo, your thriving garden, etc.

They feel envy or excessive desire (“I wish that were mine” or even unconscious resentment).

That strong emotion shoots out like an arrow or ray from their eyes (hence the name) and “hits” the target.

 The target then experiences sudden misfortune: sickness, accidents, money loss, relationship fights, spell failure, milk drying up in nursing mothers or animals, crops withering, etc.

In places where the belief is strongest (Mediterranean, Middle East, Latin America, South Asia), people will literally stop themselves mid-sentence from complimenting a baby too much without adding a protective phrase.

Intentional vs. Unintentional

•  Unintentional – by far the most common. Someone just admires or envies too hard.

•  Intentional – an actual curse. The person stares with hatred and consciously wishes you harm. This is much rarer and usually requires a lot more force (or ritual) to stick.

Classic symptoms people recognize cross-culturally

•  Sudden unexplained headache, especially at the base of the skull or behind the eyes

•  Lethargy, yawning uncontrollably, feeling “drained”

•  Babies crying for no reason, refusing to nurse

•  Strings of bad luck that feel “too coincidental”

•  Spells or altar work that suddenly stops producing results

•  Feeling like you’re being watched or that “something is sitting on you”

Why social media is the modern evil-eye superhighway

Every time you post a photo of:

•  your new money-drawing altar

•  your glowing skin after a glamour spell

•  your partner who “finally committed”

•  your bank account balance after a prosperity working … you are inviting thousands of strangers to look with desire or envy.
Even the positive comments (“OMG queen!!!” “This is goals”) carry emotional charge that can hit you. In traditional thinking, excessive praise without a blessing is almost as bad as hate.

Traditional protections (a quick list)

•  Nazar boncuk (blue eye beads) – Turkey, Greece, Middle East

•  Red bracelet or coral/azabache on babies – Italy, Latin America, Jewish traditions

•  Hamsa hand

•  Spitting three times (or pretending to) when someone compliments

•  Saying specific phrases: “Mashallah” (Arabic), “Che sarà sarà” or “No evil eye” while making horns, “Tfut tfut” + spitting (Jewish), etc.

•  Cascarilla or salt in corners of photos before posting

•  Covering active altars with a cloth when not in use

•  Never accepting over-the-top praise without neutralizing it (“It’s nothing, just luck,” etc.)

Diagnostic tricks practitioners use

•  Olive oil in water: if the drops break or form an eye shape → evil eye is present

•  Alum (fitkari) melted over charcoal: the way it shapes or smells tells the story (India, Pakistan)

•  Egg cleanse (limpia con huevo) – very common in Latin America

The evil eye is not superstition to the people who grew up with it; it is an observable, repeatable phenomenon.

Modern witches who laugh it off are usually the same ones who suddenly can’t figure out why their workings keep failing after they posted seventeen altar selfies.

If half the planet—from Sicilian grandmothers to Moroccan market sellers to Mexican curanderas—agrees on something for thousands of years, it’s usually worth listening to.

Keep your victories quiet, neutralize praise quickly, and protect what’s working. That’s the old way, and it still functions perfectly in the Instagram age.