Dracos Return

Hello everyone,
I am sorry that I have been absent for so long. I had planned my trip about 2 years ago but at the spur of the moment I had the means to go.

Well I first want to start with saying that I am thankful that you all have been pataint with Angel and I. I know that there is alot you all want to learn. As well you should.
As far as our coven spell book, I have not recieved any new information as to when it will become available to use yet. I know this is some what disheartning, but I am strongly thinking about posting some lesser spells and rituals that you all can begin practicing and mastering until we get our Shadow Book.

Take in mind that there will be material that you will need to familerize yourself with befor hand. This does not mean you have to remember it all off the top of your head. I recommend that it be printed off and hand written in your own personel spell book.
It is never wise to spell cast by the seat of your pants and from memory alone, visual aid and research material is a neseccity in the craft. Even though witches whom have came before use feared to do so an memorised their spells. Hince the reason many spells rhyme all the time...lol.

Alright now back to buisness!
My trip to Turkey was very succesful. I was able to bring forth the demon I was insearch of. Luckily I was informed ahead of time from one of our gifted coven members (whom will remain annoymos, unless she wants to step forward and take the credit where credit is due), that something unexpected would happen when I summoned this demon (whos name will remain unsaid).

Along with me was a student in the craft whom I have tutored for about 5 years. He has acceled tremendously in the craft and in his knowledge of demonology. Our coven member warned me of a secondary demon that would be summoned with out my knowledge and would quite possible harm me for I would be unawer that he was even there.
This does happen from time to time, demons have been know to for lake of a better word "hitch a ride", while one is crossing over. Demons and other entitys are drawn to energy and powerful life forces. And well this one was a nasty little bugger.

Before we started we had to fast for 3 days without food, this is done to clear your mind and body. (Recommended for powerful summonings and rituals). Once out in the desert we casted our protective casting circle along with secondary and a third circle of incarseration. These are for the holding of powerful demons.
Once the main demon was summoned in his designated circle the other circle filled with activity of which I have never seen before. Keep in ming that all casted circles I use are on concrete, we spent two days pouring them before hand.
The secondary incarseration circle filled with a whirlwing of sand, kinda like a dust devil for anyone who might live in the midwest of America.
The night sky was very clear, no strong winds not cloud coverage, but this area was like a minature hurricane in a bottle. Lightning, screaming, the works.
Feeling over confanate that I out witted and succesfully incarserated this second demon I put all my attention to my primary target for the answers I needed. This was ongoing for nearly two days. Needless to say I was begining to become fatige and imparied in my thinking ablities.
Before going on my trip I copied the pages I needed for my ritual from my shadow book on loose leaf paper, I did not want my spell book to get stolen, lost, or damaged on my trip.
And just before day break the wind in the area we were casting at picked up, along with several pages of my ritual. I was such a idiot, not thinking about what I was doing I quickly went after my pages befor they went out of our protective circle. I was able to grab all but two before they blew out of the circl and becuase they were so close to me and I was not thinking I reached out with my left arm to grab them.
Before I knew it David, my student yelled something and grabbed my robe and tried to snatch me away from the circle edge. But as he pulled so did something else from outside the circle. I felt like I was the middle of the rope in the game tug-of-war, which continued for nearly fifteen minutes. During this time Parts of my arm was appering to be sand blasted, and a great deal of heat engulfed my arm. This was very painful and hurt like hell. But the what ever had me released and I was pulled to the safty of the circle. I could not continue the ritual and David had to do the banishing rituals alone without my help.

Back in the motel we packed my arm down with ice becuase it looked as if I had third degree burns all over it. Eventually I did fall asleep, I think I passed out from the pain but the next moring I woke up with no pain and no injury to my arm at all. But when I took my shirt off to take a shower I saw the markings. There were three very distinctive finger imprissions in my left shoulder and what appears to be 2 tatoos. But not from ink these were burns. One was a scopion, and the other was in a a form of runes. This word in runes translated into "Sineater". I do not know what this means or what if any signifagance it holds but I have been branded by a dark force.

I was not possesed but for some reason this hidden demon whom hitched a ride branded me with a mark and a name. If anyone here within the coven knows the signifagents of the scorpion in the magical community or the name or word sineater please notify me immediantly.

Thank you,

-Coven Shadow Craft-
High Prist Draco

sineater means sin-eater read this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sineater

sineater look what happens when we separate the word in half sin-eater read this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sineater
maybe that demon absorbed all your sins instead absorbing your soul

Emad,
Any explaination to the branding of the word 'Sineater' would be greatly appreciated

iam glad to have you back in one peace :-)

Draco,
I am glad to hear that you are alright as far as health. You got some balls I must say. Summoning two demons at once! Any way I am just glad that you are back home safe.
As far as the markings you were left with,
1) The Scorpion:
Constellation Scorpius, Girtab, meaning the Seizer, or Stinger and "Place Where One Bows Down".

2) Sineater:
The term sin-eater refers to a person who, through ritual means, would take on by means of food and drink the sins of a deceased person, thus absolving his or her soul and allowing that person to rest in peace. Sin-eating is a form of religious magic, part of the study of folklore.


This practice was said to have been practiced in parts of England and Scotland, and allegedly survived until modern times in Wales. Traditionally, it is performed by a beggar and certain villages maintained their own sin-eaters. They would be brought to the dying person's bedside, where a relative would place a crust of bread on the breast of the dying and pass a bowl of ale to him over the corpse. After praying or reciting the ritual, he would then drink and remove the bread from the breast and eat it, the act of which would remove the sin from the dying person and take it into himself


Although the figure of the sin-eater has had various references in modern culture, the questions of how common the practice was, what regions of the world in which it was most common, and what the interactions between sin-eaters, common people, and religious authorities were, remain largely unstudied and in the realm of folklore.


Tlazolteotl, the Aztec goddess of earth, motherhood and fertility, had a redemptive role in the religious practices of the Meso-American civilization. At the end of an individual's life, he was allowed to confess his misdeeds to this deity, and according to legend she would cleanse his soul by "eating its filth".


A local legend in Shropshire, England, concerns the grave of Richard Munslow, said to be the last sin-eater of the area:
"By eating bread and drinking ale, and by making a short speech at the graveside, the sin-eater took upon themselves the sins of the deceased". The speech was written as: "I give easement and rest now to thee, dear man. Come not down the lanes or in our meadows. And for thy peace I pawn my own soul. Amen".


The 1926 book Funeral Customs by Bertram S. Puckle mentions the sin-eater:
"Professor Evans of the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, actually saw a sin-eater about the year 1825, who was then living near Llanwenog, Cardiganshire. Abhorred by the superstitious villagers as a thing unclean, the sin-eater cut himself off from all social intercourse with his fellow creatures by reason of the life he had chosen; he lived as a rule in a remote place by himself, and those who chanced to meet him avoided him as they would a leper. This unfortunate was held to be the associate of evil spirits, and given to witchcraft, incantations and unholy practices; only when a death took place did they seek him out, and when his purpose was accomplished they burned the wooden bowl and platter from which he had eaten the food handed across, or placed on the corpse for his consumption".


Howlett mentions sin-eating as an old custom in Hereford, and thus describes the practice: 'The corpse being taken out of the house, and laid on a bier, a loaf of bread was given to the sin-eater over the corpse, also a maga-bowl of maple, full of beer. These consumed, a fee of sixpence was given him for the consideration of his taking upon himself the sins of the deceased, who, thus freed, would not walk after death.'"


A cached page of a LoveToKnow Project, a reference project based on the the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, states:
"A symbolic survival of it (sin eating) was witnessed as recently as 1893 at Market Drayton, Shropshire. After a preliminary service had been held over the coffin in the house, a woman poured out a glass of wine for each bearer and handed it to him across the coffin with a 'funeral biscuit.' In Upper Bavaria sin-eating still survives: a corpse cake is placed on the breast of the dead and then eaten by the nearest relative, while in the Balkan peninsula a small bread image of the deceased is made and eaten by the survivors of the family. The Dutch doed-koecks or 'dead-cakes', marked with the initials of the deceased, introduced into America in the 17th century, were long given to the attendants at funerals in old New York. The 'burial-cakes' which are still made in parts of rural England, for example Lincolnshire and Cumberland, are almost certainly a relic of sin-eating".

Now please correct me if I am wrong, but did you not say that you studied Necromancy and are very proficiant in this aspect of the craft?
If so maybe this demon was not out to hurt you but was actualy there to present you with a unique gift??

Council Baphomet

yes from my study of the name >sineater< i got the same as Baphomet

Unfortunatly runes will not type on the forum, but yes I have done a thurogh research on their menings. Several translations and yet same outcome with a few slight pronunciation and grammer deferances