The Summoning Circle
There is a famous trope of witches casting a summoning spell on a spirit using three (sometimes more) articles very dear to the spirit in question - which got me thinking, if one day my spirit continues to linger on to haunt a certain somebody, and perchance a witch wanted to summon what three items would she use? I don't wear any jewellery, so this is going to be tough.Obviously, my one and only item actually would be the Internet, but since the items have to be tangible, I'm going to have to go with the following.
Item 1: A page from the Hitchhiker's Guide To The GalaxyThis is my favourite book. It's damned hilarious and philosophical. (Read about the impact this book has had on me, here.) A page from this book would summon me anywhere.
Item 2: A Playing CardPreferably, the Queen of Hearts. Besides the obvious metaphor, which I'm definitely leaving upto your more salacious imaginations (and you can also read a lot into why I haven't chosen the King of Diamonds instead), a playing card holds a much more important significance for me. One of my earliest memories of TV is watching David Blaine. And then commandeering from my father all of the magic tricks he had bought at fetes. I still have a shoe-box full of them somewhere. And then, I really got into magic. Street-magic. I'm a student of it, an ardent fan of its intricacies and all of what magic teaches us about life.
Item 3: A The Thumb-ringThe first girl to ever completely and utterly break my heart while at the same time pretty much not knowing that I existed during her ugly duckling to swan transformation phase (I'd liked her since the ugly duckling phase, don't judge me) had adopted a new habit of wearing a thumbring. In those days, I did harbour a fantasy of being close to that thumbring. And seeing as that I don't own, wear or will like wearing jewellery, and you do need one to finish this trope completely, I nominate this to be my final item. This also gives the troika of my items to be fairly unachievable and therefore a worthy quest for the hero to embrace. I do sincerely hope, though, that my spirit doesn't linger around.
Published on March 29, 2015 11:31
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