Graveyard Bargains!

Graveyard Bargains:

What the Living Will Never Understand

They think a witch walks into a graveyard for theatrics — to pose by a tombstone, light a candle, maybe spook a few tourists with talk of spirits and shadows.

But you and I know better.

We don’t go to cemeteries for drama.

We go for deals.

Real witches — the old-blooded, dirt-fingered, oath-bound kind — know that graveyards are not places of rest.

They’re markets.

They’re meeting halls.

They’re banks where you barter with silence, leave offerings to the forgotten, and whisper pacts that echo through the veil.

What You Trade:

A silver coin for a soldier’s bravery

A lock of hair for a mother’s vengeance

A handful of black salt for a child’s warning

A string of black thread for a voice that tells you what’s coming before it does

Not everything costs blood.

But everything has a price.

How It Begins:

You walk in with your satchel.

Black candle. Check.

Grave dirt. Already chosen.

You don’t ask for permission — you declare your presence.

You pick the grave not by the name, but by the feeling in your gut.

If it tightens, if your skin prickles, if the air thickens — that’s the one.

You kneel.

You speak their name — if you know it.

Or their number, if the stone is blank.

You say what you need.

And then you make your offer.

What They Give:

Sight in your sleep

Protection from your enemies

Names of those who curse you

Power in your bones that lasts through moonless nights

They don’t want prayers.

They want acknowledgment.

They want to be useful again.

And if you keep your end of the bargain — they will never forget.

But Be Warned:

If you take without offering,

If you demand instead of request,

If you mock the dirt instead of honoring it…

The grave will follow you home.

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So next time someone asks what you were doing last night,

And you say “Making a deal,”

Smile just enough to make them nervous.

They’ll never guess the deal wasn’t with the living.

From DarkLady’s Cauldron

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