AKA El Bautizo del Billete, a Colombian ritual for knocking over cash registers.

This simple ritual, which found its way into a book of anthropology in the early days of postmodern magick, was one of the best-known tricks within the occult underground of the 1980s. If you ask around about it today, anyone who was around at the time has probably heard of it, and you may even be able to find someone who can teach it to you. If you’re not friends with any ageing occultists, you can easily find the Colombian folk version in The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, by Michael Taussig.

COST: 6 minor charges (or just 2 if you’re a plutomancer, a kleptomancer, or an appellomancer)

Ritual action: You have to be an active participant in a religious ceremony in which an infant is formally given a name. You must have a speaking role, although you don’t need to be the one who actually names the child. Throughout the ceremony, hold a banknote in your hand. Once the ceremony is complete, the banknote will have a name – the same name that the baby was given.

The ritual is completed when you spend the note (preferably someplace where it’ll be placed in a cash register), and then utter your note’s name and ask three times, “are you going or staying?”

Effect: The next time nobody is looking at your note, it’ll disappear, along with any other money that’s nearby. If all works as it should, you’ll find all of that money in the first place that you look for it.

Also, if you’ve ever used this ritual, you should get your hands on the “Snowblinding” ritual (UA2, p97), or just stay the hell away from snow. The eery revenants known to the Occult Underground as “snowfallen” are usually harmless, but after you’ve used this ritual, they’ll attack you in whatever way they can. (Taussig doesn’t mention this part in The Devil and Commodity Fetishism. He does mention something about the baby’s soul being “denied supernatural legitimacy,” but that’s exactly the sort of thing that you’d expect someone to say when a Catholic baptism is hijacked by a sorcerer.)

(Note: this really is a thing.)