Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina: Egg Cleansings Explained

Lynn, a psychic medium and “a traveler in search of truth with gifts of a seer,” would never “use the ‘great egg trick’ to scam innocents of their hard working money.” But she has witnessed quite a few bad egg intentions on her journey. Many of which she added to her Book of Shadows.

“The power of the egg is like one’s true character, what is done behind the velvet curtain,” Jackson says. Who hits the chicken embryo is much more powerful a vehicle for magic than mere interpretation. “Can I capture a soul through an egg? I would say yes. What is a soul? The soul is the mind, the consciousness, a person’s thoughts. It is not only magical, but very psychological.”

But be warned, the gypsy doesn’t think magic, spells, and potions are only mental trickery. “I love to manifest whatever I desire to happen to my enemy into an egg yolk and bury it outside and just watch,” Jackson admits with a smile. Eggs can occasionally be used to cause harm. Some traditions believe if you put some eggs in a couple’s bed they will fight, probably over the smell of raw eggs in the bedroom. A spell using a buzzard’s egg reportedly can keep a philandering spouse at home. Rubi hasn’t tried to use an egg can to send a hex back to the source by itself, but says “It will wash away any bad juju including the evil eye.”

An egg can be used to initiate hexes. In both Ukrainian and Mexican traditions, “it is customary to decorate eggs with symbols of the blessing they want to attain,” says Korvina. “As the egg represents new life, it was viewed that the blessings would be part of the gift of the new life ahead. The most common way to create a hex is to somehow reverse the working.” The practitioner does this by “simply using baneful symbols instead of ones for blessings.”

“These cultures are also known for making decorated eggs that are also hollowed out and either left empty or filled with confetti, a hex egg could conceivably be filled with a hex powder, i.e. gris gris, that is then thrown onto the subject or, more likely, the front door or home or other area where the subject will cross the path,” Korvina adds. The alchemist points out that besides “being a lot less conspicuous and violent. Ideally you want the egg to break on impact and people just tend to be too soft, unless you hit bone. As with all spells, there’s always a ‘creative element’ that comes from the being in the moment and the witch’s own intuition so you know, you’d have to play with it to see what felt right for the occasion.”

The Egg as Occult Messenger

Belinda Sinclair’s Conjuring Room, less than a block from where Madame Blavatsky first brought theosophical teachings to New Yorkers, hosts A Magicienne Among The Spirits. The show basically tells the history of magic through card tricks, but the enchanting croupier doesn’t limit herself to the arts of prestidigitation. Sinclair also deals out anecdotes of the diabolical sciences like the story of Italian scholar and polymath Giambattista della Porta. During the Scientific Revolution-era, della Porta founded the scientific society Academia Secretorum Naturae which studied the “secrets of nature.” He came up with such radical ideas like you can’t curb magnetism with garlic.