Ask the countless slumber party tweens who’ve played the Bloody Mary game.Īs a final thought, a black mirror or any sort of magic mirror, doesn’t produce magic of its own accord. Black mirrors are generally preferred to regular mirrors for magic uses, though many of the same effects can be achieved with regular mirrors given the right kind lighting.
Mirrors are commonly used for divination, in glamour and beauty spells, truth spells (magical spying), and as a means of gaining insight into the underlying factors in play in a complex situation, just to name a few applications. There is wider acceptance for black mirrors as a general scrying device in the context of most any sort of magic practice. An image of the temple layout is also given in several of the source manuscripts, here in cleaned up modern graphics:īlack mirror scrying has proponents and detractors as a tool for Goetic evocation. The grimoire known as Goetia details the evocation procedures and lists 72 spirits, describing their origins and powers, and a spirit-specific seal by which each may be controlled. What is relatively unique to the Runyon/White/Kraig exposition of the technique was its specific application to Goetic Evocaiton, a type of Medieval magic defined by calling forth and commanding spirits, for self-development and/or to achieve practical goals. Kraig cited White in Modern Magick, but that book enjoyed much wider circulation than Secret Magic Reveled. Popularization of the technique in modern times traces more to Kraig’s book more than to White’s. It’s a fair bet that many contemporaries have and continue to use the technique without knowing about their work.ĭonald Michael Kraig and his important work, Modern Magick, bears mention here as well. While it’s fair to attribute the modern variants of the technique to Runyon and White’s work, the visual effects at the root of it are quite discoverable by dabbling with mirror magic. The technique was first described in a booklet called Secret Magic Revealed, authored by Nelson White and his Wife Anne. The two reportedly worked together in the 1960’s and 70’s. The black mirror facial reflection-distortion technique is derived from literature attributed to Carroll “Poke” Runyon and his affiliate Nelson White.
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