How To Cast Protection Spells Using Bones?

Bone magick is a ancient form of witchcraft that uses animal bones for various purposes, including protection, divination, and healing. Bones have long been associated with death, spirits, and supernatural power, and are believed to be able to commune with the dead and harness otherworldly forces. For modern witches, bones can be a powerful tool, and understanding their applications in the craft can lead to a deeper, more profound practice.

Ritual adornments such as fins, shells, small bones, claws, or feathers can be used for protection, luck, shamanic practice, or in ancestor work. Animal spirits inhabiting bones can act as mediators, messengers, and guardians during ancestral work or spellwork. Bones can be incorporated into spellwork, used for divination, cut or carved into magickal items like wands or talismans, displayed on altars, used in ritual practices or outfits, and more.

Bones hold spiritual power and can be utilized in various rituals and practices. Incorporating earth, air, fire, and water into an altar can represent the fifth element of bones. Bones can also be ground down into bone powder and used in candle spells or spread discreetly.

Bones have three main uses: “lucky bone”, which involves finding a newly dead animal, and display them on altars as sacred objects. Bone magick often uses animal bones for talismans, charms for protection, divination, and healing. Bone throwing or osteomancy is an ancient form of divination utilizing bones, charms, and natural items.

In conclusion, bones are a powerful tool in witchcraft and magick, with their protective energy and spiritual power being revered for centuries. Understanding their applications in the craft can lead to a deeper and more profound practice.


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What emotion is stored in the bones?

The bones in the body store various emotions, such as grief, stubbornness, self-confidence, and sexual abuse. If any bone is weak, so is the rest of the body. The marrow in bones produces blood that feeds every cell, and if a negative emotion is stored within a bone, the marrow continues to produce blood that circulates that emotion to every cell. This can lead to weaker white blood cells that protect against illness or even attack the body, as seen in cancer and immune diseases. This is why certain emotions may appear over and over again, even years after they are believed to be healed. Addressing these bones may help tackle the core issues of physical and emotional health.

What do you do with animal bones?

Bone has been used in various primitive tools, from needles for sewing clothing to larger prestigious items like harpoon heads, arrowheads, and axe heads. In Britain, we have limited access to smaller bones like hare, fox, and deer, which are not very large. However, in other parts of the world, bone has become a valued resource and integral to survival. For example, the hunter-gathering cultures of Polynesia, such as the Maoris of New Zealand, used bone as an abundant resource for hunting large sea animals. Woodworking tools like chisels, axes, and adzes were often made from bone, demonstrating the importance of bone in various aspects of life.

How to do a wishing bone?

The bone should be set aside to dry, either on a low heat in an oven or by holding the bottom of one of the bones with the forefinger and thumb of one hand.

What is bone magic?

A form of magic based on bones may be utilized by users, thereby providing access to esoteric, mystical, and magical bone-related abilities or the ability to cast spells using bones, which may enhance their abilities.

Do bones send signals to the body?

The skeleton is not just a set of mechanical supports; bones constantly remodel themselves to respond to the body’s needs and communicate with other parts of the body. Bones play a crucial role in daily activities, such as eating yogurt, exercising, and emptying the bladder. It’s important to appreciate the role of bones in responding to microbial signals, communicating with muscles, and preventing the loss of phosphorus supplies.

How to bless bones?
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How to bless bones?

Bones hold powerful energy, similar to plants or crystals, and can be used in magickal purposes such as protection, love, money, and more. The part of the body a bone comes from can also play a role in its purpose. For example, fangs from a coyote are useful for protection spells, while the penis bone of a racoon is favored in spells concerning sex and attraction.

Bones should be honored by incorporating elements of earth, air, fire, and water into your altar, representing the fifth element of spirit. By surrounding the bone with special candles, flowers, or lighting incense, you can create a relationship between the spirit of the bones and your own, enhancing your witchcraft in new ways.

Bones need to be cleansed to clear unwanted energy from them. If a bone has been handled by many people or the animal it came from died a traumatic death, it may have energy attached to it that will hinder your workings. Clearing and blessing bones can be done by letting them sit under the light of the full moon, passing them through incense smoke, or rinse them with water while visualizing your intention.

Bones represent something much larger, as they contain the DNA of every one of its species that ever lived. They are also a direct conduit to the spirit or archetype of the animal and all it represents in the natural world, mythology, folklore, and the collective unconscious. Animal remains are not for everyone, so it’s okay if bones creep you out.

There’s no need to hurt an animal in magick; you can find bones from deceased animals on your own or purchase them online. Some are reclaimed after natural deaths due to predators and environment, while others are leftover from hunting.

Home Protection Skulls, whether real or illustrated, are often a warning symbol, deterring unwanted influences from entering your space.

Can animal bones be used as weapons?

Bone-based weapons are typically employed for piercing or bludgeoning purposes, given their inherent deficiency in edge retention.

What is the power of bones?

The bony skeleton is a vital organ that serves both structural and essential functions. It provides mobility, support, and protection, and acts as a reservoir for essential minerals. During childhood and adolescence, bones undergo modeling, allowing for the formation of new bone and removal of old bone. This process allows individual bones to grow in size and shift in space. The remodeling process, which involves removal and replacement at the same site, occurs throughout life and becomes dominant by the time bone reaches its peak mass. Most adult skeletons are replaced about every 10 years, demonstrating the organ’s dynamic nature.

What can bone be used for?
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What can bone be used for?

Bone was used in various tools, including spoons, knives, awls, pins, fish hooks, needles, flakers, hide scrapers, and reamers. Bone was also used for musical rasps, flutes, whistles, toys, hair combs, hair pins, and pendants. Antler was used for flakers, points, knives, and hair combs. Teeth and hooves were also used for decoration on clothing and necklaces.

Bone tools often do not survive archaeologically, but under the right conditions, they can be recovered from various locations worldwide. Some traditional peoples and experimental archaeologists continue to use bone for making tools. The oldest excavated bone tools are from Africa, dating back about 1. 5 million years ago. The Blombos Cave in South Africa is a famous excavation of bone tools, with 28 tools recovered from 70 thousand-year-old Middle Stone Age levels. Careful analysis of these tools reveals that formal production methods were used to create awls and projectile points.

What is the spiritual meaning of bones?

Bones are powerful symbols used in religious and spiritual practices, often carved or painted as talismans to bring good luck or ward off evil spirits. They are also used in many cultures to create jewelry and honor ancestors. In some communities, bones are collected and used to reduce waste and conserve resources. Craftsmen use bones to create unique and beautiful items while reducing their environmental impact. Bones also serve as a medium for artistic expression, allowing artists to create sculptures, masks, jewelry, and other items reflecting their personal vision and creativity.

What is the ritual of using bones?
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What is the ritual of using bones?

The Mistassini Cree and Naskapi Innu peoples believed that all animal remains were to be treated in accordance with taboos, blurring the distinction between ritually or religiously significant remains and secular uses of the remains. Rituals involving the divination of animal bones have been found on sacred sites of the Naskapi Innu and Eastern Cree peoples, with bones hanging in trees often displayed near encampments or slaughter sites. Respectful treatment of the bones was of utmost importance, and both tribes treated the remains with a degree of reverence.

The Naskapi inhabited the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula, a region populated sparsely with native timber forests and flora but largely consisting of snow tundra. The native Algonkian speaking peoples are related in their common use of scapulimancy (mitunsaawaakan), which was used concurrently to predict future weather events, personal health status, and were essential in religious practices.

Scapulimancy was used to aid in hunting caribou to ensure communities had a sufficient supply of meat to sustain them through the winter. Associated divination rituals were performed prior to scapulimantic reading, often including sweat bathing and percussive music performed on deer-skin drums or rattles to induce a dream state. After awakening from their dream-state, the scapula harvested from previous hunts were used in a pyromantic ritual to direct hunters to the location of the deer herd envisioned in their dream ritual.


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  • I have a cow skull from a cow that was raised, tormented, and butchered on a farm. The skull was left outside for a year, returned to Mother and then I took it. To me it symbolizes the pollution and conditioning of civilization surrendering to mother. It represents her children, who have gone and done destructive things but have returned to their natural state. It symbolizes my desire to peel away my blockages, my conditioning, my self-inflicted limits, and to return to my true state and find my wild soul.

  • Your description of the witch or wise woman really resonated with me…dirty hands, long days, candles and bones. I could see her perfectly in my mind. So dark and primal. That speaks directly to my soul and reminds me of how I see the Crone, which is how Goddess usually appears to me. I use animal parts, bones, fur, and feathers, in my practice, too. My craft is instinctive and shamanic and using these parts deepens my experience. I have a coyote skull and coyote fur, which is my totem animal, on my altar, and also a crow foot and feathers from a variety of birds. Some parts were found, but the skull and fur were obtained from cruelty-free, ethical sources. Working with these parts is an honor and not one I take lightly. This was an awesome article, Owlvine. I feel incredible grateful for having discovered your website. Many blessings upon you.

  • I have the most perfect story, when i started doing inner travelling as I call it, the fox became my spirit guide which in itself is another story lol, but anyway, the week this all happened I stumbled upon a fox curled up and dead under a Hawthorn tree, my witch tree at the time, i took photos she looked like she was just alseep. Over time, I visited her and got her fur, a branch from the tree, hawthorn berries attached to the now hawthorn wand. And eventually i went and retrieved her skull, i would say a 2 year span. The connection there is just mad, and she still is there everytime I inner travel. I feel like its her spirit and the body was hers and she was showing me where she lay.

  • I use blood, bone, feathers and other animal parts in both pagan ritual and in my craft. I feel this is natural and right for me, and it fits in with the way I live my life at large. This is one of those things were each person needs to find their own way, I think. I feel frustration that it has become so taboo so thank you for talking about this so openly and helping to shed light on the practices

  • I come across bones often since I started a shamanic path. I look at them as a gift from nature…I exchange an offering in thanks for the gift and cleanse them (of course asking the bones if they would like to come with me) most end up on my altar space and I believe they add power of the animals spirit and Mother Earth to my practice.

  • I just bought a gemsbok horn from a local “natural history” shop. Their business focuses on taxidermy, specimens and bones. They also sell some crystal. I havent been compelled to purchase more than crystals until recently. I got some cowrie shells for divination purposes. The gemsbok horn spoke to me. I was reticent due to the price, but felt that it was a fit for me energetically. I did have a moment of concern of how the horn came into being in the shop, but I will never know for certain. What I can do is honor the life of the animal that produced it, and use that Ase for good purpose. Thank you for your insights!

  • I’m brand new to this entire witch thing. I’ve done lots of research and reading, but only two spells this far. A few days ago, I picked up my first piece of bone from outside. I first discovered the skeleton of a young moose in a marsh a year ago, and I haven’t been able to forget about it since. So I went back, and it was still there. The moss had grown around most of it, and I had to wiggle the skull to get it loose. It was like the bones was melting back into the earth. But one piece, I think hipbone, hadn’t. It was like the earth was pushing it away. So I couldn’t not pick it up. And I carried it with me home and now it’s in a cleansing bath. I’m experiencing a lot of those feelings you described, the feelings of taboo, of shame. A tiny voice in the back of my head going: “This is wrong, you shouldn’t do this, you’re crazy, you’re a terrible person!” But I hope that voice is wrong. And perusal your article is helping me feel better about it. To be honest, I don’t know what to do with the bone. I feel like a tool has been placed in my hands, which I’ve got no idea how to use, I haven’t been taught how to, and now I need to find the instructions. If there even are any. I don’t know. But – and this sounds so strange – my gut is telling me that I’m supposed to have this bone.

  • This was so so beautiful. Beautifully spoken and beautifully written. ❤️ My own collecting began with fossils and shells and one day, I found in the forest sitting on top of a huge stump where a tree had fallen or been cut, was a bleached small bone. Just sitting there as if it had been waiting for me. I found another there as well, just sitting daintily in between the pieces of wood on the edge of the stump as if it were on display. I knew as soon as I saw them that they were meant for me. That they were a gift. After some time passed, maybe a few months in which I had collected a few more pieces from various places, I moved a trash can away from the wall of my house by my garage and found there a perfectly skeletonized hummingbird. Completely intact. How many times had I passed by that spot and not spotted it? How many times had I stood there watering my plants? Now, after just a few months after that, I was walking to my mailbox and beneath a bird’s nest that’s my five year old and I have been observing with much excitement over the last several weeks, I found a baby bird. I looked perhaps as if it had fallen from the nest or been knocked and died as a result. It was small but fully formed and had just the beginning of what would be feathers if it had been given the opportunity. Somehow, I felt as if I could not bear to just leave it and walk away. I knew that just because it had been taken away from its mother, didn’t mean that it shouldn’t be cared for. I couldn’t bear the thought of not bringing it into the fold so to speak.

  • Does this mean anything . It’s odd and weirds me out . I found a large t bone steak bone on ground o. My property line I threw it on trash . Days later another one showed up same place and again I discarded it . Months later I just found the same kind of t bone steak bone stuck in my wooden privacy fence on the top . Point of bone facing up . It is obvious it was purposely put there . I’m freaked out . What does this mean if any thing . Any help Or thoughts are very appreciated. Please help .

  • I’m vegan (almost 6 years) and I use bones, because I just called to it because I am a spirit witch and I only work with spirits for the past couple years now, when I switched from gods and goddesses to spirit and spirit guides. But near my house there’s not really good places to find bones or anything so I was trying to find ethical chicken feet or ethical bones but I still find buying it makes me uncomfortable but still idk 😐

  • I haven’t practiced witchcraft before nor do I know much about it but I’ve been interested in learning what it is and other information in the topic. Idk, it’s just something about the practice and spirituality that catches my interest. I just like to learn about different cultures and practices as of lately. Glad that I came across this article and your website 🥰

  • Oh Wow, this really couldn’t be a coincidence as I’m setting up for Ostara. This was a really great article as I enjoy working with some animal bones and totems as well. I believe, you’ll find what I have to say in my Ostara altar article which will be up one of these very interesting. Great job in this article !!!

  • a stray cat (very) recently passed near my home and i intend to keep a few pieces after cleaning them up nicely, but i have lots of questions. What parts should i pick? how long do i need to wait before taking them? am i able to speed up the process of decay or is there a way i can ensure it will stay in the same place until it is ready to be cleaned? my practice is extremely new, so should i wait until im more experienced?

  • I don’t eat a lot of meat. I will eat Rump but is about it. When people eat lamb I think of the little lamb that could be been alive and wondering the land.. I also eat back and chicken and I don’t like fish. When it comes to good friday I would just have toast and vegemite and cheese. I eat the vegies I like.

  • I have enjoyed many of your article’s, but must confess that this article is very upsetting to me, as I disagree on the use of animal products being used in pagan rituals.. As a pagan, I feel a deep connection to the earth and it’s animals, but also feel very protective of non-humans, as someone needs to speak-up for them… If you find feathers, snake skin and so on in nature, then yes, I have no problem with using these items, but I noticed that you have the feet of a crow, which is my spirt animal, and doubt these were just found on a nature walk… Yes, I am a vegan, but taking these tortured, murdered animals and using them in your rituals seems very disrespectful.. Please think about where your animal parts come from and please don’t pay to have these creatures murdered for you….

  • I’ve snatched that book the second it came out and I love it!! I found on line when I looked up craft stores around where we’ll be living and it’s about an hour from our house that sells Animal bones and stuff like that and I haven’t yet gone to check it out yet, but am planning on heading out there hopefully before mid Nov. YAY for coming out with a article about this. This subject doesn’t come up to often and glad you’ve talked about it. 🖤

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