Protection
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covenrochesterAlthough we are currently the custodians of the four-volume Hexopedia for intellectual and historical purposes,
On the Shelf
Volume IV, entitled
we are very loath to engage in any curse work whatsoever. There are other efficacious methods for dealing with negative people or experiences. On the top of that list: protect yourself. You have a right to do so and, if others depend on you, a responsibility to do so.
A victim of false and malicious gossip? It's been a problem for thousands of years. There is a very popular ancient Greek spell that is still used to this day. Let the person prattle on. The spell turns the prattler into a cassandra. He or she might be heard, but his or her false statements will be thought mad and not believed.
OMGs, You Can Do Better Than That
My old Witch Mother once asked me what I would do, magically, if a person were aiming negative energy at me. Either just in day-to-day nastiness or as a formal curse. I think I replied with something elaborate and brainy. She sighed and, in a grandmotherly hand-patting gesture that seemed to say, "oh, my stupid little child," told me what a Witch of the old persuasion would do: make a poppet. In modern days, it can be stood in front of a cheap mirror. In the old days, it would be suspended in a tree, by neck and legs, face down, over still water (a pond or old well). Either way, anything evil coming from the person would immediately be reflected back to him.
Different cultures seem to make their poppets in different ways. Cloth dolls seem popular amongst southern Witches. My old Witch Mother did not mind working in wax. In the Northeast US, a popular style is fallen sticks, pine boughs, and yarn.
Of course, making the poppet is just the technical part, not the magical part. It is the conception of the spell, but not its birth. Your Witch Mother (or Father) will tell you what to do over the next couple of days. You have to be a bit patient. Babies are birthed in their own good time, and so are poppets. But, once the poppet has been magical-ized (for want of a better term), the rest is child's play. And long, long, long lasting.
The boss of one Witch was terrorizing the Witch at work. The Witch made a poppet for protection. The boss suddenly retired two weeks later, out of the blue. The friend of another Witch was being cyber-bullied. "Come bring these things . . . (A, B, C, X, Y, Z) . . . and I will show you how to protect yourself." The bullied friend last reported: "The spell is working. Magnificently."
There is an old Witches' Proverb: Never banish something that may be freed by a blessing. A similar thing applies here: Never curse another when simply protecting yourself does the job.
So mote it be.
*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.
* Copyright to Coven Rochester
On the Shelf
Volume IV, entitled
we are very loath to engage in any curse work whatsoever. There are other efficacious methods for dealing with negative people or experiences. On the top of that list: protect yourself. You have a right to do so and, if others depend on you, a responsibility to do so.
A victim of false and malicious gossip? It's been a problem for thousands of years. There is a very popular ancient Greek spell that is still used to this day. Let the person prattle on. The spell turns the prattler into a cassandra. He or she might be heard, but his or her false statements will be thought mad and not believed.
OMGs, You Can Do Better Than That
My old Witch Mother once asked me what I would do, magically, if a person were aiming negative energy at me. Either just in day-to-day nastiness or as a formal curse. I think I replied with something elaborate and brainy. She sighed and, in a grandmotherly hand-patting gesture that seemed to say, "oh, my stupid little child," told me what a Witch of the old persuasion would do: make a poppet. In modern days, it can be stood in front of a cheap mirror. In the old days, it would be suspended in a tree, by neck and legs, face down, over still water (a pond or old well). Either way, anything evil coming from the person would immediately be reflected back to him.
Different cultures seem to make their poppets in different ways. Cloth dolls seem popular amongst southern Witches. My old Witch Mother did not mind working in wax. In the Northeast US, a popular style is fallen sticks, pine boughs, and yarn.
Of course, making the poppet is just the technical part, not the magical part. It is the conception of the spell, but not its birth. Your Witch Mother (or Father) will tell you what to do over the next couple of days. You have to be a bit patient. Babies are birthed in their own good time, and so are poppets. But, once the poppet has been magical-ized (for want of a better term), the rest is child's play. And long, long, long lasting.
The boss of one Witch was terrorizing the Witch at work. The Witch made a poppet for protection. The boss suddenly retired two weeks later, out of the blue. The friend of another Witch was being cyber-bullied. "Come bring these things . . . (A, B, C, X, Y, Z) . . . and I will show you how to protect yourself." The bullied friend last reported: "The spell is working. Magnificently."
There is an old Witches' Proverb: Never banish something that may be freed by a blessing. A similar thing applies here: Never curse another when simply protecting yourself does the job.
So mote it be.
*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.
* Copyright to Coven Rochester
