Isobel Gowdie Charm

The charm of Isobel Gowdie is used to aid the magical practitioner in ‘fith fath’ or shape-shifting one’s spirit or Taradh (fetch) to travel within the otherworlds in the shape of a hare, car or crow, or even both depending on your own spirit flight.

To use the charm is much like using a rosary. You touch singlery or each of the three with your forefinger and thumb, and chant Isobel’s spells:

Into a hare

I shall go into a hare,
With sorrow, and such, and Mickle care;
And I shall go in the deil’s (devils) name,
Aye, until I come hame (home) again!

Into a cat

I shall go into a cat,
With sorrow, and such, and black shat (faeces);
And I shall go in the deil’s name
Aye, until I come hane again!

Into the a crow

I shall go into a crow,
With sorrow, and such, and a Black thraw(throw);
And I shall go in the deil’s name,
Aye, until I come hame again!

Then at each touch the devil charm at the bottom of the cord at the end of each chant.
If you don’t work with the devil then you can easily adapt it to some other spirit or deity of your choosing or practice.

Artwork: “for Isobel Gowdie” by Johnny Decker Miller