Coyote Top Skull

A coyote symbolizes a complex mix of trickery, wisdom, adaptability, and transformation, appearing in Native American folklore as a mischievous culture hero, a cunning trickster, and a teacher of life lessons through chaotic, often humorous tales that teach morality, resilience, and embracing life's challenges, representing cleverness, survival, and the balance between order and chaos. 

Key symbolic meanings:

• Trickster: A central figure in myths, known for being witty, cunning, greedy, and mischievous, often creating trouble but also driving change.
• Culture Hero/Creator: In some traditions, Coyote is a powerful figure involved in creation stories, bringing fire or shaping the world, showing divine or creative power.
• Teacher: Coyote stories teach lessons about life, morality, and etiquette, showing the consequences of greed, foolishness, and inappropriate behavior, encouraging learning from mistakes.
• Adaptability & Resilience: Represents survival, thriving in difficult situations, and the ability to adapt to change, reflecting themes of vitality and living in the "in-between" spaces.
• Chaos & Order: Embodies the necessary chaos that challenges established order, pushing boundaries and testing possibilities, and finding wisdom in life's absurdities.
• Playfulness & Joy: Symbolizes childlike wonder, enthusiasm, and the importance of laughter, even at oneself, as a path to growth. 

In witchcraft and folk magic, a coyote skull is primarily used as a spiritual tool to connect with the coyote's associated energies and spirits of adaptability, cleverness, and transformation. It serves as a potent focus for a variety of practices. 

Common uses for a coyote skull include:

• Spirit Communication and Altars: The skull is often placed on an altar to serve as a "spirit house," a vessel that holds the spirit of the animal. This allows the practitioner to build a relationship with the coyote spirit guide, inviting its energy into their work.
• Divination (Osteomancy): Bones, including skulls, are a traditional tool for divination, a practice known as osteomancy. Practitioners may "throw the bones" or use the skull as a focal point to gain insight, interpret messages, or foretell the future.
• Spellwork and Talismans: The skull can be used to infuse spells with specific qualities. It may be used as a talisman to promote inventiveness, intelligence, and instinct, or to help manifest new beginnings by "making a way" when things are stagnant.
• Protection and Guidance: Skulls are generally believed to offer psychic protection and insight. The coyote skull specifically can be used in shamanic work to provide protection and guidance when "traveling between worlds" or dealing with the unknown.
• Ritual Tools and Adornments: The skull itself, or parts of it like teeth, may be used to adorn other ritual items such as wands or daggers. It can also be used as a vessel in which to burn smudging herbs or incense.
• Witch Bags/Mojo Bags: Smaller bones or teeth from the coyote can be carried in a charm or witch bag (mojo bag/gris gris) to keep the animal's energy close for ongoing protection, adaptability, and trickster-related energy. 

this listing is for one top skull