To protect your home against faeries

And evil spirits around  midsummer which can be the most dangerous

 of the year, gather:

St John's Wort, Mugwort, Plantain, Corn Marigold, Dwarf Elder, Yarrow, 

Ivy, Vervain and Orphins. 

These must be picked at dawn with the dew still on them. Fashion them into garlands 

and hang them over over the threshold to your home or alternatively burn them on 

the fire to drive off the spirits of the air.

Midsummer is the time to keep your house clean...

As nothing annoys the faeries more than a dirty home!

So sweep your hearth and set upon it a dish which holds a 

mess of milk and bread. This will please the fae and if you leave your 

shoes by the fire they will sometimes leave a coin in one of them. 

But do not speak of it or they will leave, never to return.

"Farewell, Rewards and Faeries,

Good housewives now may say,

For now foul sluts in Dairies,

Do fare as well as they,

And though they sweep their hearths no less,

Than maids are wont to do,

Yet who of late for cleanliness,

Finds six pence in her shoe?"

The Faeryes Farewell. Richard Corbet c. 1625

Faeries are active at this time of year...

So this period around midsummer is the best time to bind them to 

your service. 

One way to get a faerie:

First obtain a broad crystal of approx 3" length and breadth

and lay it in the blood of a white hen for three Wednesdays.

Then remove and wash it with Holy Water and fumigate it.

Take three young hazel rods, peel them and write the faerie's name, 

calling out the name three times as you write, bury the 

rods under a faerie hill. Call the faerie on the following Wednesday 

in the light of the moon. Keep your face turned to the East and when 

she answers your summons bind her in the crystal.