Fog Ward

You will need:

• a white candle (or a taper, whatever you have)

• three small stones from above the tideline

• a length of red wool

• something of yours that the fog has not yet touched (a ring, a coin, a tooth, we don’t judge)

Timing:

During the fog only. If the fog clears, abandon and start again when it returns.

1. Light the candle in a room with the window shut. Do not open the window.

2. Lay the three stones in a line on the sill, touching. They must touch.

3. Hold the personal item in your left hand and the red wool in your right. Tie nine knots in the wool (3×3, same as always).

4. Speak to the wool. Not to the fog. Not to whatever is in the fog. To the wool. Tell it what you are owed and what you are keeping.

5. Thread the wool through the stones and hang it in the window — on the inside, not outside. This is important. Not outside.