22nd Black Pullet Talisman: undoing evil acts

What the Black Pullet talismans are

The rings and silk embroidered talismans from the Black Pullet Grimoire are each hand made with the proper materials. Athena does not use an engraving machine for this, since it would take away much of the magic. That statement, repeated across the Black Pullet line, is the foundation for understanding any single talisman in it, including the twenty-second. A Black Pullet talisman is not a printed copy of an old design. It is a hand made piece, in the proper materials, for a specific purpose named in the grimoire.

That is slow work, and visibly slow work. Every stitch shows, and the maker cannot hide haste in it. A talisman made in that way carries its making in its surface, in a way a printed or machine-made copy does not. A practitioner who holds such a talisman knows, by touch and by sight, that it was made by a hand, over time, for a purpose.

Undoing is not the same as retaliation

The twenty-second Black Pullet Talisman is for undoing evil acts. That purpose deserves careful thought, because undoing and retaliation are easily confused, and they are not the same work. Retaliation adds a new act on top of an old one. Undoing seeks to take an act apart, to loosen its hold, to return a situation towards the state it was in before the act was done. The talisman is made for the second kind of work, and a practitioner should be clear, before working with it, which kind they actually mean.

That clarity matters for the working itself. A petition for undoing that secretly wants retaliation will be a divided petition, and a divided petition is hard to read afterwards, because its result, whatever it is, will not match either half cleanly. Write the aim down, in one sentence, and ask yourself honestly: am I asking for this act to be undone, or am I asking for someone to suffer for it? Both are human wishes, and neither needs to be hidden from yourself. But only one of them is this talisman's work, and the working should be shaped for that one.

Undoing also has limits that should be faced plainly. Some acts cannot be undone in the ordinary world: words spoken cannot be unspoken, losses cannot always be restored, and time cannot be run backwards. A talisman for undoing evil acts works within that reality, not against it. It may loosen a hold, open a way to repair, or change the ongoing effects of an act, even where the act itself cannot be erased. Naming what can actually change, and what cannot, is part of preparing the working honestly.

Naming the act to be undone

Before working with this talisman, name the act. Not a general sense of wrongness, not a whole relationship, not a period of bad luck, but a specific act, or a specific pattern of acts, that you are asking to be undone. A general complaint makes a general working, and a general working is hard to judge afterwards. A specific act makes a specific working, whose result, or lack of result, can be observed.

Being specific about what you want is not about controlling the outcome. It is about knowing what you asked for, so you can recognise an answer, a partial answer, or no answer, honestly, instead of reshaping the request afterwards to fit whatever happened. If the act is a curse, a binding, a theft, a betrayal, or a harm done through magic or through ordinary means, say which one, in your own words, and in your record. The record is where the specificity lives after the working is over, when memory starts to soften the edges.

It is also worth asking whether undoing is the right first step, or whether repair is. Undoing an act and repairing its effects are related, but they are not identical, and a working that only undoes, without any repair in ordinary life, may leave a situation technically undone and practically unchanged. If the act harmed a relationship, a livelihood, or a home, the ordinary repair of those things should go alongside the talisman work, not wait for it. Ritual work is not a substitute for apology, restitution, or practical help where those are owed.

How these talismans are made

Each Black Pullet talisman is hand made with the proper materials, and no engraving machine is used, since it would take away much of the magic. The talismans of the line are hand embroidered silk thread onto coloured silk squares, made in the proper way for each purpose. For the twenty-second, that making is directed to undoing evil acts, and the talisman should be understood as a piece made for that purpose, not as a general protective object that happens to carry the number twenty-two.

The set as a whole also matters. The twenty-second talisman is one of a series, and each talisman in the series has its own purpose: to conjure powers, to find treasures, to be invisible, to reverse a curse, to undo evil acts, and others beside them. A practitioner who owns only the twenty-second is not missing something essential, if the twenty-second is the working they need. But a practitioner who owns several should keep their purposes distinct. Undoing evil acts is this talisman's work. Let it do that work, and let the other talismans do theirs, rather than asking one piece to carry the whole set's purposes at once.

Preparing for undoing work

Prepare yourself before working with this talisman, as you would for any serious working. Be clear about the act, clear about what undoing would look like in practice, and clear about what you will do afterwards if the hold loosens. A working for undoing that has no plan for what comes after is a working that may succeed and still leave you unprepared. If the act is undone, what changes in your daily life? What do you do differently? Answer that before the working, not after.

Prepare the talisman as well. Hold it, look at it, and let it be the focus of the working, not an afterthought. The guidance for seal work in this series applies here in spirit: hold the piece, carry it, and present it where the working calls for presentation, in the practitioner's own words and system. A silk talisman, in particular, should be handled with clean hands and kept flat and clean, so its embroidery is not damaged by the very working it was made for.

Prepare the space too, in the ordinary sense: a clear place, a clear time, and freedom from interruption. Undoing work is easily disturbed by a divided mind, and a divided mind produces a divided petition. If you cannot give the working your full attention, wait until you can. Waiting is not a failure of the work. It is part of doing it properly.

Working with the talisman, and after the working

Work with the talisman in the way your own practice requires, for the act you have named. Keep the working focused on that act, and do not let it drift into a general complaint about everything that has gone wrong. A focused working, for a named act, is a working you can observe afterwards. A drifting working, for everything at once, is a working whose result you will never be able to read.

After the working, keep a short record: the date, the act named in one sentence, what you did, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not only on the night itself. Note both magical observation and ordinary change: a hold loosening, a situation easing, a repair becoming possible, or nothing changing at all. If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the act was wrongly named, the working was not appropriate, or the situation needs a different approach, including ordinary action in the world.

I make no promise about the magical result. That is about the work itself, not about delivery dates for physical items. What follows from working with the talisman, in terms of magical result, is yours to observe, not mine to guarantee. That is about the work itself, not about delivery dates for physical items.

Care for the talisman after the working as you would for any silk piece: flat, clean, dry, and away from damage. A talisman that has been made by hand, stitch by stitch, deserves the same care in keeping that went into its making, and a talisman kept properly remains usable for further work in its purpose, rather than becoming a worn-out object whose embroidery can no longer be read.

Repair after undoing: the work that follows the talisman

Undoing an evil act is rarely the end of the matter. Even where a hold is loosened, or an ongoing effect is changed, something remains to be repaired: a relationship, a livelihood, a home, a reputation, or a practitioner's own confidence. The talisman's work is undoing. The practitioner's work, after the talisman, is repair, and the two should not be confused. A situation that has been undone but not repaired is a situation left half-finished, and half-finished situations have a way of closing again, in a new shape.

Repair, in ordinary life, means ordinary actions: an apology where one is owed, restitution where something was taken, a conversation where silence has done harm, or practical help where harm has left a real need. Those actions are not less magical for being ordinary. In fact, they are the ground on which magical undoing becomes real, because they translate a change in the unseen order into a change in the seen world. A practitioner who does talisman work and refuses ordinary repair is asking the talisman to do the whole job alone, and no talisman, however well made, can do that.

Repair also takes time, and it should be given time. A single working, however well done, does not repair months or years of harm in a night, and expecting it to will lead to disappointment that is blamed on the talisman, when the real fault was impatience. Plan repair in stages: what can be done this week, what can be done this month, and what will take longer. Record each stage, alongside the talisman working, so the full arc of undoing and repair can be seen, rather than only the night of the working itself.

There is also repair of the practitioner. Being the target of an evil act leaves its own effects: wariness, anger, exhaustion, or a habit of expecting harm. Undoing the act does not automatically undo those effects, and a practitioner should attend to them directly, with rest, with counsel from trusted people, and with ordinary care for health and safety. A talisman can loosen a hold. It cannot, on its own, restore a person's steadiness, and pretending otherwise leaves the practitioner vulnerable to the next harm, even after the first has been undone. Attend to yourself, as well as to the situation, and the undoing will have a person strong enough to live in its aftermath.

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