Child in honey, child in light’ TO CONTROL A STUBBORN CHILD. All the psychological strategies you can think of are often powerless against the wiles of a wilful child. They seem to embarrass us effortlessly at social occasions and sometimes prove a danger to themselves, too, as they career towards some impending catastrophe. YOU WILL NEED A small photo of your child; a jar of lavender or clover honey; sealing wax; 1 metre of white ribbon PERFORM THIS SPELL ON A THURSDAY, WITH A WAXING MOON. Before you begin, spend a few minutes in your child’s room soaking up the feeling of the child: breathe in their smell and their aura, and imagine you can hear their laughter. Take the best element of your child’s behaviour with you in your mind, and go to your protection altar to make your spell. All the while you are working, think of your child cocooned in a spiral of white light. PLACE THE SMALL PHOTO INSIDE THE JAR OF HONEY, SAYING: ‘Child in honey, child in light, Let your cares take elfin flight; Smooth your thorns, be gone sour moods, And witness sunshine interludes. Stamp your foot no more from hence, Nor show you such indifference. Speech is silver, silence gold – Now you must do just as you’re told! With love.’ SEND ALL YOUR LOVE TO YOUR CHILD, AND RESEAL THE JAR. Add sealing wax around the rim, and secure with a white ribbon. Place the jar on a high shelf or cupboard, out of the way but not somewhere dark. EVERY SO OFTEN, TOUCH THE JAR AND REPEAT THE WORDS TO RECHARGE THE POWER OF THE SPELL.
Hardie, Titania. Hocus Pocus (p. 51). Kindle Edition.