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ii hink ive heard about that. i saw a spell called knotting the wind. if you use it the wind will go away.

but it came from an uncredibal book, so....

Off topic I know, but also even when you try to manipulate the weather just where you are - it can change the weather patterns all over the world. Weird, but true.

On topic...I have never heard of "cord" magic. (goes of to google it...)
Well...maybe I have - I just never knew it was called that. When I was younger we used to buy "wish" bracelets. You made a wish when you tied it onto your wrist, then you were supposed to leave it on until it fell off and whenever it fell off your wish would come true.

I've heard of cord magick but I haven't done much of it.

I've used cord magick for protection and health spells, which are my specialty. As some have already mentioned, cord magick is used to store up energy, and can also be used for binding, as in restricting an illness or bad energy. It's a fairly straight-forward standard spell, but as such, is easily tailor fit to suit many different disciplines of witchcraft. Since you can customize the color of the cord, the length, number of knots, etc., cords can by easily worked into just about any ritual.

Using knots to store energy more huh? That's an interesting application. The main spell I've run across is a nine-knot cord spell that uses nice rhythm, meter, and rhyme. I haven't found much of detail on the subject, but that may be because it just isn't as popular as something like candle magic is. One of the interesting things is the differing opinions on what to DO with a cord once you've knotted it for a spell. When, if ever, do you untie the knots?

In one of my own healing spells, I used a green cord tied into five knots. When I was done with the ritual, I buried the cord as a way to release the energy of the knots slowly over time, thus slowly dispelling illness. In other spells, you may burn the cord afterward, to completely and immediately dash the energy stored within the knots (this, also, may speak to the intent of your work; meaning, banishing or binding). Untying the knots release the energy in such a way that things go back to the way they were before you performed the spell. For example, a love spell gone awry may be reversed, at least partially, by releasing the knots (assuming, of course, that you used a cord in the original spell). Lastly, if you were performing a spell in which a cord is tied in a loop, like a friendship or a love spell, and later wished to re-focus those energies elsewhere, you could cut the loop rather than untying the knot (the phrase "severing ties" comes to mind).

I think cord magick is more like tying knots into a string while saying a spell.