🎄What are Witch Balls? 🎄 (Patreon)

Let’s talk about the magic of Witch Balls! Many use these as ornaments for their tree, but there’s many places you can hang them, too. These can be used all year round as well. Have you made a Witch Ball before? Sources for the articles in this post listed below.

For over three hundred years, the superstition behind Witch Balls has traveled from England to New England. The magic of a Witch Ball is to ward off evil spirits, witch's spells, and ill fortune by capturing them in the hollow interior. As the spirit is mesmerized by the ball's color and reflection, it enters the ball and is caught by it's web like inside. Our glass Witch Balls are made from recycled glass in the Carpathian Mountains; the land of superstition, old world mystery and storybook folklore. As the ball is molten hot, the glass is formed, the ball is rolled into colored glass granules to provide the design. With this process each of our Witch Balls are uniquely handcrafted and no two are alike. Let the magic of our Witch Balls decorate your home. Each Witch Ball is handcrafted and unique...no two are exactly the same. Witch Balls tend to be heavier than Friendship Balls, and can have a slightly irregular surface, caused by the formation of the strands inside. Color patterns and saturation vary from piece to piece, as one would expect from a completely handmade glass art piece.

Witch balls are highly decorative, and sometimes contain different ingredients for extra magickal oomph. Their sparkly patterns and bright colors were believed to attract and mesmerize evil spirits. The bad guys would be drawn to the ball like moths to a flame, and when they touched it, their energy would be absorbed and trapped inside forever. Think of it like a witchy Venus fly trap.

Even now, people still hang witch balls outside of their front door, on their porches, at their windows, or throughout their home to trap negative energy. And why not? They look cute, too!

Here's how to make your own witch ball

Take a clear tree ornament (like this one) and remove the decorative metal cap and hanger.

Carefully fill it with ground-up herbs or spices (like sage for protection, cinnamon for good fortune, or lavender for soothing energy), and/or crystal shards (like black tourmaline, jet, or labradorite, all of which have protective properties), or even ground-up seashells.

Add some sparkly thread, ideally knotted and looped, to act as the trapping device for the bad vibes. Think of it like a sticky spider's web, and the negative energy is the fly.

If you'd like to, paint the ball in any way you wish. Blue is associated with serenity and tranquillity, so it's a popular color choice, but you're the boss!

As you assemble the ball, think about the protective energy you are trying to create and imagine it glowing with mesmerizing powers, ready to draw in whatever negative vibes are out there. Imagine the ball as your protector, helping keep you and your home safe.

Of course, you can also buy a witch ball!

Hang your ball up wherever you feel it will work best, whether in your window (pandemic worries?), above your desk (toxic boss?), or over your bed (bad dreams?). When it starts looking tarnished, cloudy, or dull, that means it’s getting full of bad vibes. If that happens, simply empty it, clean it (you can let it rest under the light of a Full Moon for an extra ~glow up~, just like charging crystals), and fill it up with new herbs/crystals/seashells/etc.

There you go! You've found some magickal protection you can use year-round—and it looks pretty, too.

Sources:

https://sports.yahoo.com/wtf-witch-balls-christmas-ornaments-172600761.html

https://www.kugelhouse.com/amp/witch-balls/