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I like fire... So Fire would probably be my focus for rituals involving lighters.

Anything can be used. Personally... I would probably use symbols. I usually use fire in rituals involving summoning because it gives the spirits I summon something to use to show influence through. The ambient energy from the flame can help.

Also trying to send influence out through flames may work. The slow smolder of the burn the release of energy in a way of your choosing.


I mean its your will you can bend anything to it in a sense. Its your will tell me what you Want to do with it. What desires you have and I can better come up with what your asking for.

Yeah. And I must admit, at least to me, the company mystique has caught me up, and I think wandering the streets at 3 am, in a trench coat, smoking a cigarette is cool, and so I have done so. Nicotine highs are kinda fun and loopy. It's just it tastes like absolute s**t and gives you a itch/tickle in the back of your throat that makes you cough a lot. So, positives and negatives. Not counting cancer.

You can get back some lung capacity after giving up smoking for a long time, actually. I keep this in mind so I can ruin myself now and heal it by the time I'm older. ninja

I don't know how many cigarettes I've smoked in my life, but if I take the average of 20 - 40 a week (my usual, sometimes it's higher) then I've smoked.... 4160 - 8360 cigarettes in my life so far. Which is quite shameful, really.

As for a Zippo? I have a silver Jack Daniels one.

I know tobacco has a few folk magic uses.

Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Powers: Healing, Purification

a) Candidates for some shamanic systems must drink tobacco juice to induce visions as part of their training.

b) South American Indians smoke tobacco to allow them to converse with spirits.

c)Tobacco is also thrown into the river when beginning a journey by boat to propitiate the river gods.

d)Burning tobacco as an incense purifies the area of all negativity and spirits (both good and bad).

e) To cure earaches, tobacco smoke is blown into the ear.

f) If you have nightmares they may cause sickness. To prevent this, immediately upon waking wash in a running stream and throw tobacco into the water as an offering to the Water Spirit who has cleansed you of the evil.

g) Tobacco is a magical substitutes for sulphur, as well as for datura and nightshade, both of which are related to tobacco.

h) Although it is regularly smoked by millions, tobacco is a very poisonous plant and can kill.

Source: Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (Expanded and Revised Edition) by Scott Cunningham.

Holy Jesus tits I didn't notice that until you pointed it out ******** damnit I lol'd.

Well, it could make sense, I guess. I mean, it seems related, just the exact opposite.

Yeah, it's funny that you can do healing magic with it, but if you smoke it you might die (early).

Correct.