You can not cast a spell that makes you become a mermaid, temporarily or permanently. I suppose you could try lucid dreaming if you wanted to be a mermaid, so you are under the illusion you are a mermaid.
But the basics of writing any spell is research, getting the right ingredients/herbs/crystals, and anything else that is appropriate. You also need belief.
I have a question for kenneth: how do you get on this website believing god is real? I used to be a christian-in fact my dad is a priest- and christians shun witchcraft
There are such things as cristians who practice magic, although some Christians can be indulging in seething hatred for magic to the point of banishment from their lives.
A lot of witches have used Christian influence in their magick! The renaissance was full of it!
The famous Levi was a denounced catholic priest! And he became an occultic icon! His books have a lot of Christian thinking incorporated into them.
Italian witchcraft to this day is steeped in Catholocism.
Gypsies were/are also very Christian, usually Catholic. Very few are not.
Voudun priests and priestesses (ie: voodoo, hoodoo etc) are a mix of Christianity and African paganism.
Once settlers came to America, they taught the indians about Christianity. So most "medicine" aka magick that you find today is a mixture of their old ways and the Bible.
Many of the old scripts were translated by Christian monks, who replaced pagan deities with Christian archetypes. So the oldest spells can be reformated back to a pagan text by simply switching the words "Christ" "God" "Mary" or "Holy Spirit" with a guess at the original pagan archetypes.
The belief in magick for many, is that once we open ourselves up to magick, we can open ourselves up to the divine Will. Once someone accomplishes that, they become deeply connected with the source of existence (call it what you may). And they believe that their actions are then an extention of the divine Will itself. That's why I say that no religion is wrong! They all have truth! Why? Because although they all have a different idea as to what that "divine will" is, they all have one. (Unless of course you are athiest).
Magick is a very personal way of life, and although it mixes very closely with our religious faith, magick itself has no set faith. Magick, however, NEEDS belief to work, so people find it easiest to incorporate their own "belief" aka faith into their magick to further fuel the connection they have. But some people, such as athiests, use science as their belief.
