Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal

by Alexander C. Irvine

black dogs. Black Shuck. Old English scucca = demon. Also known as barghest, as a death omen.

see them means you will have a death in the family.

Baron Valvasor has related of the Vampyres, said to infest some Parts of this Country. These Vampyres are supposed to be the Bodies of deceased Persons, animated by evil Spirits, which come out of the Graves, in the Night-time, suck the Blood of many of the Living, and thereby destroy them. Vampires, four hundred years ago. There are other records, even older. Peter Plogojewitz, the Shoemaker of Silesia…

there is no fixed time for their stay; for some are translated to heaven and others confined to hell soon after their arrival; whilst some continue there for weeks, and others for several years…Ebenezer Sibly

Myling. Scandinavian child spirit, also called utburd. Typically the souls of murdered children, or children who died unbaptized. They will ride travelers at night and demand to be taken to a graveyard so they can rest, but they get heavier and heavier as the graveyard gets closer, until the person carrying them is driven under the earth by their weight. This belief is derived from the practice of leaving unwanted or deformed infants out to die of exposure. Generally they haunt the location where they were abandoned, but folklore also notes their presence in the dwellings of those who killed them—usually a family member. If their remains can be located and buried in hallowed ground, they will disappear.

moan like a šaharrat-pot. January

(Arroyo Seco

Devil’s Trap from a book called the Key of Solomon. Psalm 90:13. He used charcoal to draw the trap on the wall of the spillway around the sulfur, and then I laid it out on the ground in front of the tunnel, using salt. Kosher salt, no added iodides. Bill

shorter version of the Rituale Romanum exorcism ritual. Usually, he said, you don’t have to read the whole thing. Most demons can’t hold out that long. But he wants me to copy the whole thing just in case.

first part of

expels the entity from the host.

second half of the ritual banishes the spirit back from whe...

1. Regna Terrae, cantate deo, psallite domino, qui vehitur per calus caelos antiquos!

Ecce, edit vocem suam, vocem potentem: Akinoscite potentiam dei! Majestas ejus, Et potentia ejus In nubibus. 2. Timendus est dues e sancto suo, dues Israel; ipse potentiam datet robur populo suo benedictus dues. Gloria Patri.

completion of the first part of the incantation the demon may take one or more of several forms ranging from liquid to gaseous to corporeal to any combination of the aforementioned. Great

demon upon expulsion can become very powerful without the need of a host. Beware that the spirit can enter a host through any opening in the host. Keep your eyes open and mouth shut. In Michigan, they call October 30 Devil’s Night.

Rituale Romanum, the version the exorcists like to use when they have plenty of time.

OREMUS ORATIO Deus, et pater Domini nostri Jesu Christi, invoco nomen sanctum tuum, et clementiam tuam supplex exposco: ut adversus hunc, et omnem immundum spiritum, qui vexat hoc plasma tuum. Mihi auxilium praestare igneris. Per eumdem Dominum. Amen.

EXORCISMUS

OREMUS ORATIO

EXORCISMUS

OREMUS ORATIO

VRYKOLAKAS:

VETALA:

manitou

the person who is becoming a chenoo eats snow and refuses other food. He will be ill-tempered and angry. After the transformation, the chenoo will attack and kill other members of the tribe—or anyone else. If it is killed, the body must be completely burned, or else the smallest part of it can be used to create another chenoo.

SALT Symbol of permanence, incorruptibility. The word "salvation" originates from the use of salt in sealing covenants. Jews in the Temple offered salt, still use it in Sabbath rituals. Leviticus

Spilled salt should never be picked up; the bad luck is balanced by throwing salt over the shoulder at the demons who approach because of the spill. Buddhist tradition holds that salt repels all evil spirits. Throw salt over your shoulder before entering your house after attending a funeral; will prevent spirits clinging from the funeral from getting in. Salt

line of salt is a barrier no spirit can cross. Mediums use lines to constrain movements of summoned spirits. In Japanese folklore, ghosts are packed in jars full of salt.

When destroying a spirit permanently, salt the remains or focus of the haunting before burning. "The

Scottish fishermen used to throw salt into the ocean to blind...

Dark side of salt: salt the earth after a battle so that nothing will grow, no one will live there. Can be reversed to a symbol of barrenness.

MUST BE ROCK SALT—IODIZED SALT IMPURE, WILL NOT WORK.

Hausa, an African tribe whose witches keep magical stones in their stomachs. They eat their victims’ souls slowly, causing the victim to waste away and die. Also,

Jiangshi: "Hopping corpse." Reanimated corpses out of Chinese lore that kill living creatures to feed on spiritus vitae (qi).

Séance:

At the finish of the incantation, pinch a tiny amount of frankincense, sandalwood, or cinnamon powder over one of the candle flames.

cubit

first with honey and milk, then with wine, and thirdly with water, and I sprinkled white barley meal over the whole,

Erebus—

Teiresias

Katabasis:

Katadesmoi:

Codex Ephraimi Rescriptus. St. Jerome said 616 instead of 666. 666 a triangular

Cree legend about humanoid tricksters called mannegishi. They

Vodyanoy.

double pentacle called Solomon’s seat) to

Psychopomp. Term for god or entity responsible for guiding souls to the afterlife. In Greece, Hermes. In Norse myth, the Valkyries. In Egypt, Anubis. Voodoo traditions, going back to their African roots, offer the Ghede. Irish, Ankou. In most shamanic traditions, the shaman is a sort of psychopomp both at the beginning of life and at the end. He or she was present at birth to usher the child into the world, and present at death to see the soul on its journey. Medieval legends of the scythe-bearing Grim Reaper perhaps connected to practice in some parts of Europe whereby the dead were stabbed or buried with sickles.

“black rock,” black being the emblem of death, while yellow typifies trouble.

The four succubi named in the Zohar are Naamah, Lilith, Elsheth Zenunim, and Agrat Bat Mahlat. Naamah was regarded as the inventor of divination, and in some traditions as a patron spirit of music.