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The following is a case study on curse removal that two Witches of Coven Rochester effectuated within one week. It is an example of how these things can be dealt with quickly and efficiently when there is knowledge and power present.

Miss Q recently confided to Mrs. B (not knowing Mrs. B was of the Wicca) that she had been having nightmares every night for the past 10 years. These nightmares were very violent, and caused Miss Q to wake up screaming. Read that again: violent nightmares and waking screaming every night for the past 10 years. She did not want Mrs. B to think she was crazy, but she believed that she was under a curse.

Miss Q related a history that Mrs. B found credible: Miss Q had traced the start of the nightmares to an abusive relationship with a boyfriend ten years prior in another state. She had actually been forced to move away from him to escape the relationship. While they were together, Mr. BF started cutting Miss Q's hair while she was sleeping and, every time she awakened, her hair was significantly shorter. Miss Q could not understand why she was not waking up while he was cutting it. Mr. BF's mother was a "psychic reader" and involved in occult matters. Mr. BF kept telling Miss Q that he was "trying to remove her demons." Miss Q started feeling like she was being stabbed by needles periodically and would feel a strange sense of wetness on her ankles.

Mrs. B found the account credible enough to perform divination to determine whether Miss Q was under a curse. This was Mrs. B's investigatory astrology chart, which she asked me, as her Magister, to check. And, if the chart was positive, she asked me what could be done to help Miss Q. But first, the chart:

Mrs. B's investigatory astrological chart: Is Miss Q cursed?

Miss Q is Lord 7: JUPITER.

The potential curse/curse is the turned 12th from the 7th, or radical Lord 6, MARS.

Radical Lord 12 can sometimes be in play, instead, but that's Venus here, and she's being well-behaved. Moreover, there are a couple of things highlighting to us that we should use Lord 6, MARS: The South Node is somewhat close to the 6th house cusp, and the Moon is just about to oppose the 6th house cusp. Plus, Mars is behaving very badly toward Jupiter.

The curse, if any, was cast upon Miss Q 10 years ago. Therefore, we are looking for a past aspect, not something recent. And we've got just such a past aspect.

Before the Moon changed sign (likely an indication of Miss Q moving across the country after the curse was cast on her to escape Mr. BF), the last thing that the Moon did was translate the light of Jupiter to Mars. Mars, the curse/curser, has tremendous power over Jupiter inasmuch as Jupiter is in Mars's sign. What does Mars do with that power? Mars is in the sign of Jupiter's detriment, so Mars uses its power to HARM Jupiter.

Therefore, the chart is positive for the presence of the curse.

I gave Mrs. B my opinion, which supported her own analysis, but added my thought that the curse could be broken easily. Mars is in 29 Gemini. So it has been detrimenting Jupiter for a long time. But Mars is just about to enter Cancer, where it will cease detrimenting Jupiter, and that was the sign that the curse would be broken.

And so it was. I first heard word of the case on Friday. By Tuesday, I had analyzed the chart and told Mrs. B how to break it. On the next Friday, Mrs. B easily broke the 10-year curse. Being clairvoyant, Mrs. B was able to locate the energy of the curse in Miss Q's body and shift it into the energy lines where the curse had entered Miss Q's body. From there, Mrs. B extracted the curse energy and sent it deep into the Earth, where the Earth Mother maintains her Fires, so that the energy could be transmuted. This, by the way, is why the Earth Mother is associated with curse breaking and protection magic. It is the Goddess in that form, and not in Her form as Lady of the Moon or the Queen of Heaven, who is the Great Protectress and the Great Purifier.

As Mrs. B disposed of the curse, she felt the old anger of Mr. BF's mother well up in her . . . the anger that, for reasons unknown, motivated the curse.

Immediately after, Miss Q felt lighter. Mrs. B checked on her the next day and Miss Q reported that she had enjoyed sleeping through the night without any nightmares. It was the first time in 10 years.

So mote it be.

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

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The earliest entries of The Hexopedia are comprised of a substantial collection of spells called The Book of Ancient Curses. The other day I mentioned that The Hagstone Curse is not a curse, per se, and that got me to thinking about other spells from The Book of Ancient of Curses. Many of them are not curses at all, but are more like protection spells. The purposes of ancient book curses is so that the book will not be stolen or defaced. We have more recent spells for that, but we use the language of protection, instead ("Safe From Harm" comes to mind). Being cheated, getting framed or blackmailed, having your stuff stolen, your family unjustly withholding from you your mother's bequest in her will, woodchucks eating your whole garden, the supercilious and oppressing arrogance of so-called noble persons. All of these situations were handled by spells that the ancients called "curses," although we probably would not use that same word today. Those spells still work today, ancient though they be.

I started recommending use of ancient spells---not curses---many years ago. The methods still work. About 10 years ago, a very sensible, reasonable person, but in a strange bout of ill health, came to me complaining that she believed she had been cursed, but did not know by whom. There are several spells to uncover a bewitching enemy. The Hagstone Curse could be used. There is a spell for such, too, in the class of spells "This Knot I Tie, This Knot I Knit" (a bunch of string and knot spells starting with those lines, but which have many different purposes). But the one that is reputed to be the quickest (in 24 hours) is the boiling of one's first morning urine (and a couple of other ingredients) in a pan on the hearth. This may also be used to summon the bewitcher of one's cattle, but the morning milk is boiled, instead. The woman was game to try, and I gave her instructions written up in the 17th century.

And that summoning spell worked. That day, unexpectedly, two women---coworkers she knew---came "to visit to see how she was doing." The two women came at separate times, with each visit unbeknownst to the other. The meaning, of course, was that the two women had worked a spell together. This was later confirmed by a third coworker who, several days later, overheard the two women talking to each other about the spell victim, with one saying to the other: "I can't believe it worked."

That spell now holds a pride of place in my heart and in my spellbook, and I often include it in spellbooks I write for other people, under the title: "To Unbewitch Men and Cattle: From the 17th Century"

I will leave for another time how the curse was dismantled and sent back. That had to be done in this case. If the spellcaster is not admitted to the house, the curse will be broken as soon as the spellcaster is turned away from the door. In this instance, the afflicted woman let in both coworkers for a short visit of a few minutes. And so, the spellcasters were found out immediately, but the curse had to be broken another way.

This is the great danger of published material on spells and whatnot to be accessed by unsworn cowans and fakes. Their danger is only increased, too, if they come up against a real Witch, who will boomerang their work right back to them. Sorry, not sorry.

Anyway, wasn't that a lovely break from your day?

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

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This is the eighth and final section of the current spellbook I am making for someone. It includes the following:

To Remove Someone From Your Life

Dealing with Obnoxious People at Work

Salt and Pepper Magic

The Coffin Stone

The Pinched Glove: An old-time curse, included for historical purposes. Even if you *could* secure the urine of a black cat, are you really going to carry your cauldron to a graveyard? No. You are not. What is important about this curse is that it has its own traditional countercurse. Not every curse does.

Red Pepper Strife

To Silence a Gossip

The House Hex

The Hagstone Curse: Not everything called a "curse" is actually a curse. And conversely, some things *are* curses even when they are called something else. The Hagstone Curse is one of those noncurses. It uncovers mischief makers. Is some petty thief breaking into cars in your neighborhood and stealing change or other items? Got a saboteur, embezzler, or corporate spy at in the office? Is Jolene trying to take your man down at the corner bar? This old spell will make those mofos trip up and get discovered.

The Deep Freeze: I've known this one since junior high school. Be careful with it, though. It's easy to break. For instance, if someone put me in the Deep Freeze, I would break the freezer and that would break the spell.

The Selinontios: An ancient Roman spell, with Cassandra-like effects. Everyone will think that the subject of the spell is spouting gibberish. Good against gossips, false witnesses, and sociopaths.

The I Don't: When your boyfriend or girlfriend breaks up with you and then marries someone else in, like, two weeks. Yep. You've probably been had. Idk . . . you might also use it when a 19-year-old model/waitress/actress convinces your wealthy 90-year-old grandpa to get married.

The Marshmallow Hex: Getting bullied? (1) Forgive; (2) get a Marshmallow; (3) turn the bully's attention elsewhere.

Driving Away the Spotted Hag: This spell is older than some hills. Literally.

Common Post-Cursing Questions and Answers

Well, that's a wrap.

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

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I had an inquiry last night from someone who thought that he might have been a victim of a curse. In speaking to him on the telephone, it appeared that the curse had been deflected and did not take effect. Minor curses sometimes get deflected like that because a family spirit is watching over the person.

He was curious whether it could have been the work of a coven of Witches. No, not in this area. There are so few genuine covens here, and none of them would engage in such a thing. But that does not signify . . . many families have magical traditions. They are not of the Craft of the Wise, but they may have a background in African, Latin, and Afro-Carribean magic, or American Hoodoo. They are not Witches, but they can cast curses.

A curse cast intentionally by a magical practitioner is not a minor thing. It is doubtful whether a nonWitch (including the self-proclaimed and groups of same) could break one on his own. A pagan coven not of the Wica or in the lineage of the Old Religion, even working as a whole, probably also could not do it. If there is a spirit-sending involved in the curse, the person dealing with it will have to be clairvoyant and, hopefully, able to act on the astral plane. The victim will have be cleansed and sealed, and you have to know what substances are efficacious in doing that. You will not find them published in books. If it is a generational curse cast by an ancestral spirit, that spirit will have to be summoned and called to account for its behavior and stopped. It will resist. It has momentum. "Begone!" or "I banish you!" or "We break the generational curse!" will not work.

If you have no real lineage amongst the Wise, no one on the Inner Planes will recognize you as having any authority to do anything whatsoever. This is one of the great harms perpetrated by untrained and self-proclaimed people. We, ourselves, have been victimized by such people, but only to our annoyance, and not to our harm.

When an initiated Witch steps up to the plate in a cursing situation, and gets ready to raise her bat, she does not come alone. She comes sharp, cold, clear and efficient, like the tip of an iceberg. She, and everyone behind her, is on your side.

One thing that has astonished me over the years is the amount of people who think that they can be diagnosed in a cursing matter over email or, now, by texting or some other messaging system. If you are not willing to give a Witch the gift of your voice in exchange for her help, or even your personal presence if she requests it, do not even bother contacting her in the first place. A Witch can break most minor unconsciously cast jinxes in under 10 seconds if you are in her presence (she is, after all, a priestess of this whole Earth, and she has the power of absolution, like most priesthoods do). If it is an intentional curse from a family tradition from one or more practitioners, she will in all probability need to diagnose you and release you by your physical presence (it would take me about an hour to do it). If it is an ancestral spirit causing problems over generations, it is probably going to take somewhere between 3 and 30 days to get the thing resolved. Those nuts don't crack open in an hour. :D

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

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This chart was sent to me by a Geomancy student from abroad. I tend to get a lot of divination questions along the lines of "Have I been cursed?" or "Am I bewitched?" In the last 15 years of divinatory practice, I have seen only three positive cases of bewitchment in America (and yes, I broke all three of the curses). The number goes up quite a bit, though, when I consider questions I have had from Italy and countries in Africa and South America. Knowledge of cursing may be more common in those places, hence the greater number. Charts that are positive for bewitchment, whether in astrology or geomancy, are usually exceptionally clear. We do not have to peck around for affirmative testimonies. The Queen of Heaven speaks loudly here.

FACTS: A woman disclosed to the Geomancy Student that she had put a curse on a man who had treated the woman very, very badly, altering the woman's life severely and permanently for the worse. Out of curiosity, the Geomancer asked whether the woman's curse would have any effect on the Man. Although the Geomancy Student stated that she was not sure of the analysis, I think she did a remarkably fine job. My analysis that the Man was indeed bewitched agreed with her assessment, and I added only a couple of finer points.

( If You Want to Read the Technicalities )

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

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