Just A Bite

How to make a Vampire

Ingredients:

Step 1: Blood (obviously)

Step 2: Sacred Clay

Step 3: Healing dirt

Step 4: Herbs

Amyris: for the woodsy sweet aesthetic and heightened sense of smell

Benzoin: for it’s sweet vanilla smelling healing properties

Myrrh: to heal wounds and heighten sensual awareness

Sacred Chamomile: for it’s sleep properties

Valerian: to prevent aging and for it’s ability to soothe

Step 5: Water (a lot of it, see calculation chart)

Sketch/ Photo (see also checklist)

Dead body optional

Possible other items (see also checklist)

***Note: see spell for specific instruction.

For the ceremony

1 witch (and the spell)

1 Handwritten poem

2 black candles

2 white candles

3 red candles

Sage /Palo Santo

Lavender

Rose petals

1 large tub

Full Moon

Secret ingredient

The wind whistled with a beautiful chill through the trees in the old, abandoned cemetery. Celeste, a young aspiring Witch stood in the center of the cemetery with all the ingredients for the spell. The full moon above her would soon reach its apex, at which point she would start the spell. She had dragged an antique cream-colored tub with gold trim into the crypt last night. The only ingredient she had added in preparation was the required amount of water, as it was to bask in the moonlight for a full 24 hours before the spell could commence.

Earlier, Celeste had prepared the secret ingredient. That particular ingredient she had sitting on an alter in the crypt opposite the tub. She had carefully prepared it. She hummed while she prepped and swayed around the kitchen slowly. That recipe required several ingredients as well. Those she had gathered a week ago. Most items she found growing locally. Others she had been gathering for months.

Off in the distance there was faint thunder. Silent lightning lit up the sky to the East. There was a soft fog in the woods surrounding the cemetery.

It was time.

Celeste walked slowly and confidently into the crypt and closed the gates behind her.

She carefully placed all the ingredients around the alter and following the spell, placed the candles where they needed to be, positioned around the tub.

Waving her right hand gracefully over them, she lit the candles with ease.

Directly in front of her was a very old black coffin covered in cobwebs. She did not need the coffin and had opted not to use the body. She did however feel like it was disrespectful to relocate the corpse and still use its home for her ritual. So, she asked its blessing and invited it to join her in celebration after the spell was complete.

She took a deep breath. She was ready to begin.

She lit her sage and lavender mixture and kept it burning in the center of the alter next to her secret ingredient.

Celeste mixed all the ingredients into the water following the spell, humming sweetly while she did so.

After all the items were in the tub, she took a large stick from a particular royal tree and began to mix clockwise as she recited the incantation. She lit the stick on fire and it started to drip sap and ash into the mixture.

The mixture then began to swirl on its own.

She finished reciting the spell.

Taking the center red candle with her, she then went over to the alter and retrieved the poem.

And waited.

The mixture was simmering. At times there were embers from the dissolving stick glowing but quickly fading.

Celeste was both excited and a bit frightened. This was her biggest spell yet and she wanted it to go right. Not like the last one, which had turned into a huge disaster; but she did not want to think about that now.

Soon she would meet her vampire.

It was now just about midnight. She had been waiting for almost 3 hours for her vampire to rise. She had read the poem three times and lit the Palo Santo, walking around the crypt as she read out loud. Those had been the steps while waiting for her spell to fully transpire.

Suddenly she heard the ravens cawing loudly outside.

The wind howled shrilly through the trees.

Celeste suddenly felt the presence of the spirits watching.

The candles flickered out and the thunder boomed above the cemetery. The lightning filled the cemetery with light as if to spotlight her creation. At that very moment the vampire slowly rose up, arms crossed over its chest and eyes aglow.

She gasped. It worked!

“Hello...” she began.

Suddenly the vampire was standing next to her. Towering above her.

He did not speak but instead stared intensely into her eyes.

She instantly started to feel mesmerized in his presence.

Then she remembered she had to finish the ritual to seal it.

Celeste still entranced by the vampire reached over to the center of the alter. With out removing her eyes from his she held the secret ingredient in front of her.

He finally moved his eyes to her hands,

“Cake?” she asked.

The vampire looked at the decadent chocolate cake dripping with blood red icing,

“Just one bite.” She said, as she took a piece and extended her hand to his mouth.

With a low growl he exposed his beautiful white fangs.

The next thing she knew he had devoured the piece in her hand and the entire cake on the alter.

He stared back at her. She gulped. His eyes glowed brighter red than they first had.

Her hand.

He was looking at her hand.

She suddenly realized her hand was dripping.

The vampire growled deeply now.

“Blood!” he bellowed, as he exposed his fangs once more.