Cord
Knot magic
Knots remember. They also tangle. Use them for tasks and vows you can untie.
Tying a knot to hold a wind, a vow, or a love is a widespread piece of folk poetry, from sailors’ wind-knots in European lore to love-knots in ballads. The details are local and often about controlling weather or a sweetheart. We keep the memory-technology — a physical knot is harder to forget than a mood — and we drop the coercion.
Rules in this house
- A knot may remind you of a task. See the first-knot rite.
- A knot may bind your own dated promise. See self-binding, and schedule the unbinding.
- A knot may not bind another person’s love or movement.
- Hair, blood, and stolen photographs are not materials we use.
- If you cannot untie or cut it, you should not have tied it.
Witch ladders — cords with feathers knotted in, found in folk collections and sometimes interpreted as curses — are a contested artifact, not a hobby project. We do not teach curse ladders.