[Tutorial] A Guide to Curse Jars and Bottles

[Evara]

The following is a draft from my book:


Many materials have veil resonance. That veil resonance can be translated into an instruction. And that instruction can be captured and held by an object. A staple of many witches and magicians; jars and bottles are incredibly versatile tools in both black magic and warding crafts. The veil reads them as semiprecious containers; slightly fragile, but given weight by their contents. They are vessels with internal logic... if sealed, what’s inside is meant to stay inside. That’s what makes them ideal for cursework, binding, and soul entrapment.

Oh, and do not use plastic…

Size matters…
Jars (80–240ml): Good for rooms, altars, or small spaces. Wide area of effect.
Bottles (15–40ml): Ideal for personal, portable or targeted curses. Sharp, precise, easy to anchor.

The veil gets the picture at a certain point. Bigger doesn’t always mean better; expect diminishing returns after a small mason jar.

Seal with Wax:
All jars/bottles should be sealed after being filled. If there’s a cork, push it all of the way and slightly past the lip. Fill wax in that little indentation.
If it’s a metal lid, seal around the space between the lid and the jar/bottle (that includes the top of the mason jar). Wax closure locks in the symbolism and signals to the veil that containment is intentional and permanent. Use black, red, or white wax based on the curse type (chose what resonate the best.)

If the seal is ever broken you can reapply the wax.
Just… don’t open the jar unless you want to end the curse and release everything it was holding.


1. Soul Trap Jars
These aren’t just decorative little hexes; these are spiritual booby traps. You build these to lure parasites and hostile spirits into a trap they can’t walk out of. They function as spiritual death pits. This allows them to capture weak parasites in localized spaces by triggering on proximity or veil motion.

Curse Card:
Add a curse card before you start filling your jar. This card acts like a false door. Simple text is fine, but a glyph helps. Charge the curse independently.

Possible text:

• “May the enemies of the Sacred gather here.” (Choose this one if you don’t know what to write.)
  
  
• “May those who wish to harm me or those I love enter here.” (Leave hair or nails in this one.)
  
  
• “If a soul carries rot; this is their entrance.”

Or you can have a jar set aside as a soul trashcan that says:

• “May the parasites that I banish enter here.”
  
  
• “May the rot that flees from me become entrapped here.”

Possible Ingredients:
Pick and choose based on your intention. The goal is to create hostile terrain that confuses, cuts, attacks and dissolves anything inside.

• Herbs – Rue, thistle, pitcher plants (Nepenthes). Anything that devours is fair game.
  
  
• Industrial Debris – Rust, glass shards or powder, metal filings, rusty nails or screws, mirror shards, metal chips/swarf, barbed wire, charred materials.
  
  
• Minerals: Salt (of course), black salt, obsidian shards or powder, crushed iron ore.
  
  
• Biological: Spider husks, wasp carapaces, nest or mound, webs. Anything mean with an exoskeleton and 0 opinions is fair game. (Avoid nice arthrapods… I <3 bees.)
  (Avoid vertebrates or larger animal remains… They deserve better than eternal agony in a spiritual glue trap.)
  
  
• Personal Charge: Spit, hair, nail clippings. (Only if you’re charging the jar to use for yourself or for someone close that you love.) Otherwise, charge with breath.

My favorite mix is: salt (dissolve) + metal chips (cut and mangle) + broken glass (slice and distort) + nepenthes dead mouth piece (digestion trap) + glass powder (recursion and confusion)

It’s basically a trap where the target tumbles endlessly through tight spaces whilst getting sliced up, dissolved and digested until there’s nothing left. Quite rude.


2. Prison Jars
Prison jars are containers for binding harmful entities, parasites, or rogue veil constructs
They’re useful if you are suspicious that something might be harmful but aren’t quite sure. This can act like a holding cell.

Curse Card:
Add a curse card before you start filling your jar. This card acts as the prison logic.

Possible text:

• “May those who align against the Sacred that I cast here be imprisoned.”
  
  
• “May the rot that I send here be bound and trapped.
  
  
• “May the souls of those that I send here be imprisoned until my death.” (Useful for half corrupted sacred souls that just need a timeout. Just don’t forget about them…)
  This is the best option but also carries more responsibility.

You can add a shock collar to the prison.
This lets you… “help” half corrupted sacred souls… or torment parasites.

• “May those who strike in rage twist upon themselves until they exhaust, collapse and rest.”
  
  
• “May the inhabitants stare into a mirror of themselves and are forced to confront their own rot.”

Possible Ingredients:

• Confinement: Barbed wire, pins, needles, rusted nails, knotted cords, thorns, concrete debris.
  
  
• Reflection: Mirror shard or tiny mirror inside facing inward (placing on the bottom is fine).
  
  
• Containment: Black salt, dry graveyard dirt, ash.
  
  
• Oath Binding: Sealing wax inside the jar, personalized sigils keyed to the target.

Prison Key
Include a threshold key: An object that weakens the seal if placed nearby. Used for temporary release under strict conditions.

Mark an old key with wax and drip the same wax inside the bottle.
Write an incantation on a curse card along the lines of: “May this key when pressed against the side of this prison allow me to release a chosen inhabitant. All others remain caged.”

Burn the card and add the ashes to the jar before sealing.


3. Resonance Bottles
These are self anchoring containers that stabilize your myth, echo your alignment, and ground you when veil currents get choppy. Especially useful when away from your altar and operating under psychic pressure or assault. If your soul body is injured; it can aid in recovery from veil trauma or fragmentation.

Possible Ingredients:

• A copy of your true name, sigil, or path.
  
  
• Your personal myth (in 3–5 sentences).
  
  
• Salt, charcoal, small mirror (for clarity).
  
  
• Personal item: A ring, lock of hair, beloved token.
  
  
• Spiral of silver wire; symbolic of soul continuity.

Linking your Altar
You can make two bottles and link them by symbolically pouring the content back and forth between the two during construction. Leave one at your altar and carry the other; the veil will read this as a bridge and let the current of your altar bleed through.


4. Tripwire Bottles
These bottles are designed to go off under very specific conditions. They can hold personal blessings or curses, but you need to create logic for when they activate.

Suggested Uses:

• Delayed curses set to trigger on events (betrayal, planetary alignments, proximity).
  
  
• Posthumous rituals (for ancestors, guardians, or future lives).
  
  
• Binding oaths with built in checks.

Curse Card:
Add a curse card before you start filling your jar. It needs to explain: trigger condition, target and what is being delivered.

Possible text:

• “If _______ betrays me; may they stare into a mirror at their own rot and shatter.”
  
  
• “Should ______ come near me; may they be blind to my presence and I be alerted so that I may slip away unnoticed.”

Possible Ingredients:

• Ritual herbs or ash.
  
  
• Candle wick, fuse or knotted cord.
  
  
• Whatever you’d burn in the standard curse… but bottled.

5. Mirror Jars/Bottles
Mirror jars are defensive tools that bounce energy back to its sender. They can act as passive warding and/or reflect hostile intent in shared spaces or rituals. Intercept and deflect cursed energy without absorbing it.


Possible Ingredients:

• Tiny mirrors, reflective gemstones, obsidian mirrors (or high polished pieces).
  
  
• Moon water (made with rainwater).
  
  
• Personal Sigil encased in a circle on a curse card with text that says, “May harmful intentions that target me be returned back to its source.)
  
  
• Small bell or charm sealed inside to ring when touched by spiritual interference.

Final Warning
Curse jars and bottles are permanent until properly unbound. The veil reads them as closed loops of intention. Once set, they do not “fade with time”. Unless you intervene, they will continue doing exactly what you told them… forever (or until they break or their contents are scattered).

Treat them like loaded weapons. Respect the spirits and currents they trap. And for the love of all that is holy, don’t forget where you buried or hid them.

 

[Angelkesfarl]

The Vessels of Ensnarement: Harnessing the Dark Alphabet
The Arabic Esoteric Alphabets: The Seven Shades
In our tradition, the power of the Arabic language is methodically divided by the energetic charge of its letters. This division is crucial for determining the nature of the spirits and forces one can attract and command. We utilize a system based on four main septenaries (sets of seven letters):

The Seven Luminous Letters (Intense Light): Dedicated to the highest Illuminated Entities (Isrâqiyyûn).

The Seven Luminous Letters (Lesser Light): Assigned to planetary forces, the Sun, and similar celestial bodies.

The Seven Smoky Dark Letters (Dukhāniyya): Associated with corruptive, shadow forces.

The Seven Intense Dark Letters (Shadīd al-Iẓlām): These are the key here. These letters possess the intrinsic power to attract and control all forms of adverse, malevolent, or corrupting forces—be they dark entities, evil spirits, black sorcerers, or ruinous enchantments from any source.

The Ritual: Crafting the Curse Jar (Jarr al-La'anāt)
The Vessels of Ensnarement are exceptionally potent tools in our practice. We procure a jar—either dark glass or, ideally, a vessel of baked clay (terracotta).

Preparation: We place specific sublime incenses (Bukhūrāt Sāmiyah) within the jar, chosen meticulously to suit the targeted entity or the nature of the current operation.

The Binding Command: We utilize the seal of one of the Seven Great Planetary Angels or any other spirit seal we currently work with.

Execution and Containment: Upon the completion of the core rite (al-Ṭaqs), the command is issued: the entity is tracked, summoned, and ordered to be imprisoned within the jar. The sorcerer knows the containment is successful either by seeing the spirit as a visible object inside (like a fly) in a clear vessel, or by feeling a significant, unmistakable heaviness in the clay jar.

The Seal of Darkness: The jar is sealed with black wax—ideally wax sourced from a funeral or a death ritual. Upon this wax, we impress a seal using one or all of the Seven Intense Dark Letters.

Consecration (Taqdīs): The consecration process is vital. Knowledgeable practitioners understand the power latent in residual energies, such as remnants from authentic Church hymns, Islamic gatherings, or Jewish festivals—specifically the consecrated water or oils used therein. This is the Secret of the Takhwīl (Empowerment), known only to the seasoned masters (al-Mukhaḍramūn).

The Final Burial: The jar is then securely buried in a designated, prepared location.

The Negotiation: Extracting the Oaths and Service
Sometimes, the kin—the families of the imprisoned Jinn or Satan—will approach the practitioner, demanding the release of their relative. You must never listen to their pleas immediately.

The Oath of Longevity: Release should only be granted after a comprehensive oath (Tahlīf) is extracted, stipulating that the entity will never interfere with the lives of the sorcerer or their loved ones for at least ten thousand years.

The Professional Exchange: If you are truly a master in the Arts of Spirit Negotiation, you can leverage the situation to extract a specific number of services that the family must perform for you in exchange for the release of their kin.

I extend my sincere wishes for your endeavors to yield genuine results and happy conclusions.