Do you throw bones by John Bertrum Ford

[Dept of PMM Artists & things]

I do actually. The acting of casting bones is very rare these days, few have the Gift and few know how to read. I was taught so. So bones are very common for me to use in my workings.

 

Depends on what you are trying to accomplish and again your tradition. Typically you use chickens, you either use 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13 chicken set. Each part of the animal skeleton represents something, so like the breast represents love.

 

Sometimes however, we incorporate OTHER animal parts and bones, like the raccoon penis bone or other bird bones such as ravens, owls (very common), hummingbird and sometimes sparrow. We use chicken because its easiest to cast, but we sometimes use budgie because they are easier to get a hold of because some say you need to kill the bird yourself.

 

Depending on the bird (usually its bird but doesn't have to be) depends on your reading so for example:

CHICKEN- is an all purpose bird, and should be a black hen

SPARROW- sometimes represents the home and also travel

DOVE- things for love affairs

HUMMINGBIRD- also used for love affairs but more towards romantic and soul mate love

RAVEN/CROW- these kind of bones are often used for things like death and also enemies

OWL- these are used to find hidden secrets

BUDGIE- the budgie is very common with marital statuses and the home.

 

So depending on what you believe, you may want to incorporate all these bones for example. Mixing bones with OTHER SPECIES is sometimes frowned upon, but its sometimes okay to mix other bones of the same general species, so birds with birds, canines with canines.

 

So how we cast it is very interesting and very elaborate. There are many ways of doing it. So one of the easiest and most common ways and good for you to use is as followed:

 

You are going to need chicken bones, a good amount of breast, wing and so forth should be taken into consideration. We are going to cast by FIRE, so you are going to take ONE bone of something that you want to know:

 

Breast- love and heart matters, also deals with friendship.

Wing- anything of the mind and thought process, also represents travel and things that are tying you done.

A general bone- so these are bones that you can't really define, so it might be a leg bone or something, and these usually are all purpose.

 

These bones are easy to get, just order KFC and than dry the bones, boil them first and wait a couple of days for them to dry.

 

So you need a fire place for this or something to burn them in. What you are looking for is the way it cracks, how long it cracks, the coloration and also the fragments. The bone will snap and break.

 

So the basic for this is, you take the bone of your intention and than cast it into the fire, first you whsiper your wish what you want to know to the bone and cast it to the flame.

 

If it breaks inhalf that's a good thing, if it breaks in many places count the pieces, the uneven numbers are what you want and mean a yes. If the bone doesn't break it means its uncertain. If it cracks but doens't shatter it means no.

 

So its really basic for you. If you want to know more I can tell you some stuff but its a whole nother topic.

 

We sometimes use other animal bones, but because bird boens are more fragile they are typically used more than the others.

 

Raccoon penis bones are used to divine love, lust, passion, people affairs and things like that.

 

Rabbit teeth and bones are used for all purpose again, but also matters of luck.

 

Serpent bones are journey, past life, new life and future events. It also helps you explore who you are as an individual.

 

Fish bones are ALSO very common along with things like crabs and their shells and claws.

 

Cat bones are ALSO very popular in hoodoo divining.

 

Dog not so much but also used.

 

The bones that I use personally are birds. That's just my personal preference, I love birds. Birds are my favorite kind of creatures, and they are considered messengers, and for that reason divination is easier using bird bones for that reason. Plus they are easier to get. I have various kinds of bones and skeletons of birds that I use for different divinations or in sequence with other bones such as:

 

Canary (love affairs) and Raven (death, magic, deceit) so together they would go good in finding out who is betraying me or if my lover is being faithful.

 

Sparrow I also use for an all purpose, but I use often for new adventures. Am I going to have a good day.

 

Owl is also a very popular bone castings I use, perfect for finding hidden secrets.

 

I mainly use black hen bones because they are all purpose.

 

Other combination I have used are Robin with Blue Jay, and also more elaborate such as Swallow, Dove and Hummingbird.