Also called mirror magic, bagua mirror, mirror box, black mirror
Mirror magic uses a reflective surface either to turn harm back outward, to look inward or into the unseen, or to work on yourself. It ranges from the Chinese bagua mirror over a door to the dark scrying mirror and the modern self-love mirror spell.
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Take care: Handle mirrors carefully and wrap a cracked one before throwing it away. Never use a mirror spell aimed at a specific person; the protective form here sends back harm without naming anyone.
A small mirror framed by the eight trigrams is hung outside, above the front door or a window, to deflect 'poison arrow' energy from sharp corners, roads or unlucky buildings opposite. Practitioners warn against aiming it at neighbours.
A black polished surface is gazed into in dim light to see images. The Elizabethan John Dee is linked with an Aztec obsidian mirror now in the British Museum.
During shiva, mourners cover mirrors so they focus on grief rather than appearance, and many European households also covered mirrors after a death, from the belief that a soul could be caught in the glass.
Mirrors have carried power for as long as people have made them. Polished bronze mirrors were buried in Chinese tombs, and in Chinese practice the bagua mirror, framed by the eight trigrams associated with Fuxi and King Wen, is hung above doors and windows to deflect harmful influences. In Europe, Renaissance magicians gazed into dark mirrors and crystals, and John Dee, adviser to Elizabeth I, is associated with an obsidian mirror brought from Mexico.
Folk belief also feared mirrors. Jewish families cover them during shiva, and many European households covered mirrors after a death or turned them during storms. Modern witchcraft uses mirrors for 'return to sender' protection boxes and for self-love work, where the mirror becomes a tool for seeing yourself kindly. These newer uses are mostly twentieth- and twenty-first-century developments built on the older sense that a mirror reflects more than light.
A blue glass eye bead hung in the home or worn on the body so that envious or admiring looks are caught and reflected before they can do harm.
A reflective protection spell that uses a mirror, turned outward, to bounce any ill will or bad luck back toward wherever it came from. It names no one: the mirror simply refuses to hold what is sent.
A hollow glass sphere, often colored or silvered and sometimes filled with glass threads, hung in a window to catch, dazzle or trap evil spirits and ill wishes before they enter the house.
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