About a month ago I saw a witchy tips post with all the uses of salt, mostly for protection against evil, warding, and luck.

The list was pretty basic like how salt can be used to drive away evil spirits. (This is where the superstition of sprinkling salt over your shoulder comes from) or how a circle of salt can protect against black magick and evil forces.

The tips were mostly correct until there was one for "attracting wealth" by placing your bank card (Debit card) in salt.

Please do NOT do this! This is as foolish and as harmful as smudging (with sage) when used on antique books. (smoke damages book paper and binding.) There are other non-invasive ways to cleanse used books such as with crystals.

Now with cards and salt, the salt can get into the card and damage both the magnetic strip and the microchip inside the card. You can damage your card and accidentally render it unreadable.

Incantation vs. Chant and Baby Brooms

I don't know if someone has coined a similar term before me but I've started calling the younger / online witches and witch Wiccans Baby brooms.

Now, Baby brooms, what's with the "Chants"? Back in my day... century, we called them incantations. If it's a vocal spell and you're putting your will into it, and or it has "So mote it be" in there it's an incantation. You diminish the intended power when you call it a chant.

A chant is more like "We got spirit! How about you?" at a high school prep rally.

What you are doing is an incantation. Can we please bring back to the correct terms and acknowledge that there are spells that require nothing more than a voice? Not all spells require candles, herbs, or crystals. Sometimes the power is in your own words.

The whole reason why some people cast these spells in different languages from your own or in rhyme is because it makes you focus more on the words and the intention and meaning behind them. It makes you weave your will into the words.

That, baby brooms, is an incantation, not a "chant."

It's time to leave high school and enter the Scholomance.

I find it concerning that there were so many AI generated food recipes around Halloween (mostly punches with variations of lemon / lime soda, and pineapple juice) and other recipes Christmas this year.

I feel it is only a matter of time (if it isn't already happening) before magical practitioners start trying to use AI to come up with new spells and incantation rituals for them.

I would advise NOT to trust any spell generated by AI. Edit: I already found one that used an incantation invented for the fantasy TV mini-series 10th kingdom as a curse and being revised as a helpful hair growth spell.