Hi everyone,

just wondered what experiences you have made with good luck charms and which one you think works best for you.

I just lost my beautiful Taoist charm, it had brought me lots of commercial success and I am thinking of getting something new. I realise that charms and such things are normally attributed to specific ways but I am quite idiscriminitive there - if it brings luck, it brings luck.

Cheerio,

S.

Sounds strange but charms dont seem to work for me.It seems that if i try to make or buy a lucky charm for myself,doesnt work.
How ever if i buy or make one for someone else it works for them.
Holed stones , celtic type charms and crystals seem to work very well.
Only wish they'rd bring me a little luck occasionaly.

I've got a pair of gold stud earrings and everytime I wear them things just go sooo right I now regard them as good luck charms, have loads of other earrings , but these are the special ones.

It's entirely not in the correct spirit of lucky charms on a pagan board but my little rubber Doozer is the only one I want or need. (I'm not being rude, remember Doozers? the little construction worker guys in Fraggle Rock?) He's about two and a half inches tall, sat on his lunch box drinking out of a flask. I love him to bits and he has joined me in every exam and interview I've ever been successful in, he now sits on my computer at home (where I met Thunarr) My little Doozer charm

I remember Doozers - they were really cute!!

Anything I find that I am attracted to becomes a charm for me. It generally takes the form of a particualy unusual rock or stone or feathers, which I'm always finding. Of course most of them are from Geese or pidgeons but who cares. I do find the ocassional blue bird feather from time to time or Eagle, but I think it's illegal here to collect Eagle feathers regardless where you find them.
I have quite a collection of them now and thinking about making a dream catcher.

I have a one inch tall owl I made out of clay when I was a child, and even though I've moved many, many times, lost bags, keys, wallets etc over the years my tiny owl has always been with me! S'pose he's a good luck charm though not when it comes to losing objects! Keep him in the house just in case...

Moved to general paganism as charm/talisman/amulet related

I love working with charms and magical objects, I'm much happier making an amulet than doing ritual spell work My favourites are ones I can make with lace or crochet or sewing, so I can weave the intention is as it's made. I would never buy a charm - though I might buy an object to use as the focus for one.

Never much bothered with lucky charms myself either!

Esk I remember Doozers,loved fraggle rock, got the theme tune on my mobile

Love making charms - like Woodsong, always with things I find and sewed, knitted or crochet into a form. Always for friends.

Mine are always given to me, the more unexpected the better. Finest was a lovely blue stone that worked wonderfully for the Sight ... unfortunately I didn't "see" that some bugger was going to nick it!

Never made any charms myself.
I keep a Japanse/Chinese lucky cat in my handbag and have a Turkisch dove under my pillow for giving me happy dream.
Never had any nighmares since then, but that might also be my dreamcatcher helping me out on that.

There are several bits of jewelry I never leave the house without-- a snake ring I got when I was still in the single digits in age (which fortunately waited to break until I had the silversmithing knowledge to repair it, despite being quite thin), the first ring I ever made for myself, and an ankh necklace I made for my website. Now, interested as I have always been in ancient Egypt in a dilletantish sense, I'm not particularly Kemetic. But, be it because I made the thing myself as an amulet or because of some inherent quality in the symbol (or just some neurosis in me), it seems to help when I wear it. I probably won't wear it absolutely every time I leave the house once I leave my scary car behind in a week and begin going places on foot again, but the vehicle I've had for the past year, being 26 years old and ill-maintained, has less reason to have kept working all these years than not to have, and it hasn't killed me yet. It's more a life-preserving charm than a lucky one, but I'm still glad I made it and wear it. I will definitely be wearing it during the entirety of my 20-something to 30-something hour drive back to my birthplace quite soon. (Picture of the thing at http://www.eldritchhorrors.com/amuletankh.html, if anyone's interested.)

For specific things, it's usually a stone that seems right for me, too. I've always been enamored of pretty rocks, ever since I was but a wee lad sifting through the sand in the preschool playground for neat minerals.

And Esk-- it took me a moment to realize how you might be theorizing that the term "rubber Doozer" might be considered rude. Personally, my immediate image was of a plastic one I had when I was younger, that walked when you wound a knob.

I always carry a crystal with me, my lucky crystals depend on what the luck is needed for though, e.g. job, love, money etc Im not sure if others would veiw these as charms but to me I guess they are as I only take certain ones.
Also I could not live without my lucky pen, anything important I have to write then I use that, Im a bit weird like that see
and also my gorgeous (well I thinks it is ) black cross pendant, I love it brings me luck too

Im not so sure about this, I make sachets for luck, and protection.
With diffrent herbs ect, and it works great for me, i have a bunch
all over the house, i have one in my locker at school aswell.,
Many blessings,

-W.S

Alexander

Thanks everybody for your answers.

I see that charms are something rather individual. Guess I will have to wait till I find something that feels right and lucky to me.

I shall meanwhile decorate my neck with a really cool Mjolnir (Thor's Hammer) inscribed with extra potent runes.

Cheerio,

S.

Hi.
I sometimes use a traditional "trollputa",that is a pouch filled with different objects.What kind of objects depends on the purpose of it.And of course,the same thing is known all over the world under different terms....
Äring och fred.
Håkan

Just out of interest as they have been mentioned quite often now, what is actually in those pouches? Where does this custom come from?

I was very intrigued by Stonewitche's statement that she never looked into her pouch. - If you are not supposed to see them, how do you know what to put into them?

Thanks!

S.

I have a pouch I've had for years. I bought it for positive energy from a witch I have great respect and trust in. I would never open it. I think there's lots of good magick inside no matter what else is there.

Hi.
I also collect a special plant(that I don´t know the english name of) and hang it up in my apartment dried.While collecting it I read a traditional spell asking it for help towards evil.Best night for collecting is of course midsummer night.This plant has been used for protection for centuries in these parts,so it is tested by time.And it works swell.
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