How would a Bard cast a spell? They would compose a song. Having to have a clear form, they used specific rhythms, and they had rules about spoken as well as implied connections. Rhyme. The structure of a Bard song would rhyme the word describing an object with other words they meant to transform it with. Is this where magic words came from? Yes. The words would be related to each other in a structure, related by either sound or place in the rhythm of both. Syllables mattered a lot. They did have a numerology, and would later come to… Seek More
You can even practice divination with Bardic magick. Ever notice when you are relaxed and maybe talking to yourself a little bit, you will sometimes say something you didn’t expect to say? And learn something from it? That’s Bard magick, just a bit sloppy, stifled. Singing makes you loosen your control of that. When you pick up the inner rhythm the insight flows more smoothly. Maybe spontaneous humming is it trying to get through? Yes. My own methods are not Bardic. To describe my own in the Bardic tradition, I would be a changeling. Someone who looks like a man… Seek More
