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Peace spells

26 traditional workings for peace, from many traditions — each with what you need, how to do it, when, and where it comes from.

26 spells

ChristianityAngel of God: The Guardian Angel Prayer and Its HistoryLatin Christian devotion; Angele Dei traced to the 11th–12th century; feast of the Guardian Angels from the 16th–17th century; Orthodox evening prayersProtectionBlessingsPeaceSimple IslamAyat al-Kursi at Bedtime and the Guardian from GodSunni and Shi'i devotional practice; hadith of Abu Hurayra in Sahih al-Bukhari (9th century); Qur'anic teaching on guardian angelsProtectionPeaceSimple

Vodou & HoodooChalk Cross and Psalm 23 for a Protected ThresholdAfrican American hoodoo and Protestant folk piety, southern United States, 19th–20th centuryProtectionHome & hearthPeaceSimple

ChristianityCompline Psalms for a Quiet Night and Peaceful SleepChristian monastic night prayer, Rule of St Benedict (6th century), with Jewish bedtime parallelsPeaceDreamsProtectionSimple

Indigenous & Ancient ReligionsDay of the Dead Ofrenda: Building a Home AltarMexico, colonial period to the present, joining Mesoamerican and Spanish Catholic customsBlessingsPeaceHome & hearthModerate

HinduismDiya Lamp Offering and a Simple Hindu Home PujaHindu domestic worship (pūjā), classical period to the presentBlessingsHome & hearthPeaceSimple

Vodou & HoodooFlorida Water Spiritual Cleansing of Body and RoomMurray & Lanman's cologne (New York, 1808), used in African American, Caribbean and Latin American spiritual practiceCleansingBlessingsPeaceSimple ChristianityFour Angels Round My Head: The Old English Bedtime PrayerEnglish popular devotion, recorded by Thomas Ady in 1656 and probably medieval in origin; related 'evening blessings' in German and other European languagesProtectionPeaceBlessingsSimple

ChristianityGaelic House Blessing from the Carmina GadelicaGaelic-speaking Scottish Highlands and Hebrides, collected 1860–1909BlessingsHome & hearthPeaceSimple

Herbal MagickHerbal Dream Pillow with Lavender and HopsEuropean herbal sleep pillows, 18th–20th century; modern witchcraft and herbalismDreamsPeaceSimple

Vodou & HoodooHoney Jar Sweetening for Harmony at Home or WorkAfrican American hoodoo, southern United States, 19th–20th centuryPeaceHome & hearthModerate

BuddhismHow and When to Hang Tibetan Prayer FlagsTibetan Buddhist and Himalayan folk practice, medieval period to the presentBlessingsLuckPeaceSimple

ThelemaLiber Resh vel Helios: Crowley's Four Daily Adorations of the SunAleister Crowley, A∴A∴ instruction published in The Equinox, vol. I no. 6, London, 1911BlessingsPeaceSimple

BuddhismMettā: The Buddhist Loving-Kindness Blessing for All BeingsTheravāda Buddhism; Pāli Canon (c. 1st century BCE in writing) and Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga (5th century CE)BlessingsPeaceLoveSimple

HermeticismPicatrix Astral Image: Making a Talisman of VenusArabic astral magic of al-Andalus, 11th century; Latin Picatrix (1256) and Marsilio Ficino (1489)LuckPeaceSuccessAdvanced ChristianityPrayer to the Archangel Raphael for Healing and RecoveryBook of Tobit (c. 3rd–2nd century BCE); Catholic and Orthodox devotion to St Raphael; Jewish angelology of the TalmudHealingPeaceSimple

JudaismPsalm 91 for Protection in Jewish and Christian PracticeRabbinic Judaism (Talmud, Shevuot 15b); Sefer Shimmush Tehillim; Christian monastic ComplineProtectionPeaceSimple

BuddhismReciting Om Mani Padme Hum with a Mala of 108 BeadsMahāyāna Buddhism; first attested in the Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra (c. 4th–5th century CE), central to Tibetan devotionPeaceBlessingsProtectionSimple IslamReciting Surat al-Waqi'ah at Night for Provision (Rizq)Sunni and Shi'i devotional practice; a report attributed to 'Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud (d. c. 653), recorded in hadith collections of the 10th–11th centuriesProsperityPeaceSimple

New ReligionsRose Quartz and Rose Petal Bath for Self-LoveContemporary New Age and witchcraft practice, late 20th–21st centuryLoveHealingPeaceSimple

ChristianitySmooring the Hearth: A Gaelic Night Blessing of the FireScottish Highlands and Hebrides, recorded in the Carmina Gadelica (1900)Home & hearthPeaceProtectionSimple

HinduismSri Yantra Meditation: Contemplating the Sacred DiagramŚrīvidyā Śākta Tantra, South Asia, c. 9th–12th century onward; open contemplative use in modern HinduismWisdom & studyPeaceModerate JudaismThe Bedtime Shema and the Four ArchangelsRabbinic Judaism: Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 4b–5a and 60b; angel formula from midrashic tradition, found in medieval and later prayer booksProtectionPeaceSimple

High MagickThe Middle Pillar Exercise of Israel RegardieIsrael Regardie, after Golden Dawn teaching; Chicago, 1938HealingPeaceWisdom & studyModerate

High MagickThe Rose Cross Ritual of the Golden DawnHermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Second Order teaching, c. 1890sProtectionPeaceModerate

HermeticismVenus Talisman for Harmony and Friendship, after AgrippaRenaissance astral magic; Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia (1533)PeaceLoveHome & hearthModerate