Bleik is the handmaiden in charge of purification. Her name means “white” and detoxification of wastes in the body is her specialty. This includes the functioning of the liver (Well of Plenty), kidneys (Well of Water), bladder (Great Saltmarsh), gallbladder (Salt Spring), and the skin as a waste organ. As the handmaiden in charge of purity, she understands about all the different ways to cleanse the body – with fire, with water, with plants, with breath, with fasting, with many other things. In this day and age of mass pollution in every part of our environment, Bleik is more important than ever.

In northern shamanic healing, purification can be done as preparation for a treatment so that the body will be more receptive to it, as the treatment itself, or as an aftermath to the treatment in order to remove excess chemicals. Bleik can be called upon to find the right purification for the body in question (there is none that are right for everyone), and to coax the body into giving up its acquired toxins. She also understands impurities in the blood, from infection to disease, and helps to cast them out. One of her talents is to make blood-cleansing herbs and medications stronger. She does not, however, think much of antibiotics; she finds them clumsy and destructive. (Don’t even ask her what she thinks of chemotherapy.) One would be better off talking to Aurboda about such drugs.

Bleik’s color (as you might well expect) is white, and the world-energy that she works with is that of Ljossalfheim, the land of the “light” elves. Ljossalfheim energy at its best has the light, airy, clean and clear feeling that one gets after a cleansing treatment that works appropriately for one’s body. A magic charm pouch to invoke Bleik might have liver and gallbladder herbs such as Milk Thistle, Yellow Dock, Dandelion, and Barberry, or skin cleansers such as Burdock, blood cleansers such as Yarrow or Garlic, diuretics such as Juniper, or general cleansers such as Nettles. You can also add clear quartz or white stones, and pieces of clear glass.

If you need help in detoxing, light a candle for Bleik and then go to the Offerings page and make an offering. She will lead to the most appropriate method, but you have to actually do it.

Prayer to Bleik by Nornoriel

White Lady,

you are purification,

cleansing of the body from toxicity,

cleansing of the mind from negativity,

cleansing of the spirit from futility.

You clean out all that harms,

you are the purging one.

Hail Bleik,

paleness of death,

whiteness of clean.