A ritual to bind those pernicious spouters of prophesy and snowstorm moaners

Background: Snowfallen–those ghosts of women who have lost their children and/or died in childbirth, have a vulnerability in that they can only manifest during a snowfall. Although not dangerous, per se, neither are they desirable to have about. This is especially true if you get your mojo in anti-social ways.

Take the case of Emilio Walters, an entropomancer who got his mojo from unprotected sex–taking chances with both disease and fatherhood. He was followed by an especially persistent Snowfallen. Nobody knows why, but you can probably guess. He knocked this together with one of the demons he summoned regularly to (at least temporarily) rid himself of the horrific pest.

Cost: 5 minor charges, 3 if performed during a blizzard

Ritual Actions: This ritual must take place during a snowstorm, or better yet, a blizzard. The bulk of the ritual consists of making a human-sized sculpture out of packed snow–in fact, the standard snowman–while loudly singing. The songs themselves don’t matter (Emilio used a medley of power metal songs from the 80’s), but the ritualist cannot break from singing during the entire process of building the snowman.

Each level of the snowman must have a garment or jewelry at its core, something worn by a woman who has given birth and which is appropriate for the portion of the snowman’s body: shoes, a skirt, or panties for the bottom, a bra, blouse, or sweater for the middle, and a hat, scarf, or earrings for the top.

Still singing, the ritualist must then fashion a mouth out of 12 holly berries, eyes from robins eggs, and a nose from a mother-of-pearl button. Once this is finished he may stop singing.

He must then shout “Lost mother I seek you! Lost mother I call you! Lost mother I bind you!” and then circle the snowman, urinating around it in an unbroken circle.

Any snowfallen in the area is immediately trapped in the snowman, mute and helpless, until it melts completely.

Supposedly Emilio developed a means of communicating with the snowfallen he had trapped, but it died with him when he was killed by an enraged lover he had infected with HIV.