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I think I can fit almost all of this on 10 pages of a big spellbook gift.

To Reverse Bad Luck
To Bring Peace and Purity to a Home
To Remove Blockages Holding You Back
The Dog of Defense Invocation
To Return a Psychic Attack or Negativity
The Wicked Shall Decay (19th century, Devon, England)
To Protect an Item from Theft
The Comfrey Root Talisman
To Burn Away Evil or Negativity (Roman/Latin)
To Break a Curse (Maori)
A Curse Breaker (Babylonian)
A Protection Bottle
Herbal Hexbreakers
-- To Purge a Love Hex
-- To Counteract a Hex Delivered in Food or Drink
-- To Send a Curse Back to its Maker
-- To Purify the Home of a Hex
-- To Avoid Impending Evil
-- To Purify a House of Ill Luck
The Iron Key Amulet
To Break a Curse by Fire
The Circles of Light
To Unbewitch Men and Cattle (17th Century . . . still works great!)
The Turnabout Bottle

Breaking a curse by fire is fairly easy. There is also a great cursebreaker done by fire and water, and I will tell you about it now.

There are many curses that require that the curser leave something at the house of the person to be cursed. Perhaps a poppet, perhaps a carved apple, a beef tongue splashed with ghost pepper sauce and pinned together by nails, maybe just a piece of paper, maybe a letter mailed to the house with some stuff in it (sometimes as simple as a few grains of salt and pepper, or dirt from another state or country), the stump of a burned black candle, a cairn of shame made of small rocks. I've seen it all. Whatever you find, go get a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid that will fit the object. As small a jar as will be serviceable, mind you. Wearing gloves, pick up the item and put it in the jar. Fill the jar 50% to 75% with water. Add a tablespoon of vinegar. Add to it nine pins, nine needles, and nine iron nails. It would be lovely if you could get the iron nails from a working blacksmith. His art of shaping and reshaping by fire and water has made him half-magical, himself, and he will understand that other magical people sometimes need a bit of iron. Make sure the jar is lidded tightly. Let it sit for three days to marinate and rust.

During the day, build a small campfire somewhere safe. Wear thick boots. Bring work gloves. When it is burning nicely, set your sealed jar in the fire, and then clear out, preferably very well shielded and blocked. The sealed jar, of course, is going to explode and, when it does, it is going to send pins, needles, and nails flying everywhere. When you hear the explosion, you will feel a release in your heart or solar plexus. Feel free to say a phrase of your own making: "Thus I send the curse back to whence it came!" or "The curse is deadT" or "It is done!" or "So mote it be!" or "Take that, you knucklehead!" Whatever you like. After the explosion, put out the fire or let it die out. Clean up as best as you can. Throw any remains in the garbage.

This is not used much anymore, I have to say. Apart from finding a safe place to set off a glass grenade filled with pins, needles, and nails, it is very difficult to clean up. It is unlikely you will get all the glass and sharp objects. Who knows whereunto they might have exploded off to? and that means you will be leaving a bunch of sharp stuff around in nature. Which isn't very nice.

Still, it is worth telling the story and knowing the technique. If you ever need it, perhaps your own ingenuity will suggest a safe way of accomplishing the same effect. Throwing the jar down the caldera of a volcano, then running like heck? Maybe.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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