Coffin Nails with graveyard dirt and dust

Iron Keys of Ending & Keeping

Coffin Nails are old square-cut iron nails, once used to seal the resting places of the dead. In witchcraft they became symbols of finality, protection, and unbreakable boundaries—iron that remembers its purpose. To hold a coffin nail is to hold the language of endings: what is closed will remain closed; what is guarded will stand firm.

These nails are not tools of harm, but of sealing and safeguarding, called upon when a door must be shut with certainty.

Magical Virtues

• binding harmful habits, gossip, or intrusive people
• protecting the home from unwanted spirits
• sealing oaths, promises, and final decisions
• anchoring warding jars and witch bottles
• ending cycles that have overstayed their welcome

Iron is a stern guardian. Coffin nails are used when soft magic is not enough—when the heart requires a lock rather than a lullaby.

Correspondences

Element: Earth & Fire-forged Iron
Planet: Saturn & Mars
Virtues: boundaries, endings, justice, protection
Spirits: ancestral guardians, gatekeepers, cemetery saints
Tarot allies: Death, Justice, The Emperor

Ways to Work With Coffin Nails

• drive into the ground at property corners for warding
• add to protection jars with salt and black pepper
• tie with red thread to bind a harmful influence
• place above doors to bar ill intent
• bury with petitions to end a troubling matter

What the nail seals, the night keeps.