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Listen up, y’all—take a look at the context of this blog before you leave comments asking me for advice on witchcraft. This is a student travel blog about a semester in Cardiff. The post is about cool trivia I learned at a charming small museum in Cornwall.
While I’ve been enjoying the fact that this post is, somehow, the single most popular thing I’ve ever unleashed online, I’m not a witch, and what follows represents the sum total of my knowledge about, and interest in, witchcraft.
Enjoy. Don’t try this at home. Or if you must, make sure the person you try it on deserves it.
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Here’s the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle:
It was founded by a scholar who was himself a self-proclaimed practicing witch. As he observes in his exhibit notes, witchcraft (with which he loosely encompasses Wicca, magic-workers, Cornish pellars and ‘cunning people,’ New Age religions, New Druids, and so forth) isn’t just one solid block of dogma—in fact, for many of its practitioners, the lack of unified structure, its openness to personal interpretation, is one of its appeals.
I’d always thought of witchcraft as an archaic superstition, but one of the things that struck me about the MWM exhibits was how many of them are modern. Witchcraft is very much still practiced.
Here are some highlights:
No one knows much about this—a Victorian death-mask grafted onto a taxidermied fox:
The exhibit notes speculate that this is the death-mask of a witch who wanted to be joined with her spirit animal, a fox, after death.
Many of my favorite highlights were from the display case on curses. I’ll let the actual exhibit card explain this one:
Here’s another form of curse. The caption says: “To the accompaniment of an involved and noisy ritual, a goat’s skin is prepared and a right hand cut from it. This is then pierced and teased with a needle and red thread. Finally the hand is nailed on the door of the victim’s house:
Red thread seems to be an essential ingredient in many of these curses. Here’s the recipe for another curse:
“To ill-wish a person and cause misfortune to cross their path, first get from a witch a hurting needle and red thread. Next by some subterfuge obtain from the victim one left shoe. Secretly drive the needle under the sole of the shoe to its full extent and withdraw the red thread. Next capture a black cat and loosely tie the red thread around its neck. Release it and return the shoe.”
(If it makes you feel any safer, one of the generally agreed-upon limitations of cursing is that the curse will only work if the victim deserves it.)
Here’s another charm, two bird skulls tied to a bunch of garlic stuck through with black pins:
And here’s a Cornish piskie, one of the few breeds of fae that works no serious harm on those who offend it (not that you’d know it to look at him!):
How to put a curse on someone who got you kicked out of your house and how to make your landlord give you the deed to the house that you were kicked out of. So you can move back in it without changing your address
I’m right there with you! I’m same boat right now after actually helping ppl who had nowhere to go begging me to stay so I gave them a roof over their heads and they used me til they all got what they wanted and took everything away from me.. My home, my vehicle they trashed so I lost my job and I’m temporarily separated from my dogs right now. Got treated so badly and they got mad at me when I wouldn’t keep my name in bills or get a vehicle for them with my name. I’m very hurt and also mad at myself right now but I promise I will pull through this and the big guy above has my back. I’m already working my way up and have no choice because I have 3 dogs that need me but this went to far and I was only doing the right thing
Kys
How to curse Bydoine?
How to return the negative energy from a co worker who’s trying to get you fired because she’s jealous
There i give you a list of mantras that works against negative energy. (that i have found to be working really well) You can listen or learn them by yourself., anyhow they are powerful.
Narasimha Kavacham
Narasimha Sahasranaamam
Lakshmi Narasimha Karavalambam
Hanuman Kavacham
Vishnu Sahasranaamam
Narasimha Maha-Mantra
Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra
Narasimha Ashtakam
These are the great mantras to keep any curse what anyone does against you down and off. Narasimha Ashtakam worked once for my friend who got bullied by his work mate. That his work mate met the same thing as he did to my friend really fast and gone silent.
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How to curse some one who scam you for your money
How to put a curse on someone so they will never find someone else and will only wanna be with you, to stop other people from falling for them
Sounds like you need to find someone that likes you for you…
My boyfriend cheated on me many times and is obsessed with pornography! What really is that is sex drive would stop, then he might become a human being!!!! I would be much happier it his thing would not go up again
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My ex-girlfriend, who is the relationship with me For five years. Watching a movie with my best friend are you in the house one day she lied and said I had a gun I was gonna kill her for no reason She lied, and my best friend sister please remove me from the house, moved in the next day. They stole all my possessions; Destroyed my life with rumored that were lies.
There’s nothing I can do to get my stuff back for the love of my life turns out laughing. Because they have me on a civil protection order For three years. I think it’s Very rotten, but they keep getting away with things. I like to see Them crumble someday get in a big Fight -ANd she come running back to me’ So I need a curse. And I need it now
I need help that’s all… I felt in love with a guy who’s love me and another woman but this women like to play dirty… she don’t know my roots it’s New orleans so I know about this… I want her to suffer slowly before I take him back
To put a curse on a police officer who planted drugs in My car and so I can maybe prevent him from doing it to somebody else or taking it to another level it wasn’t his first time and probably ain’t his last he needs to be stopped
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I need to put a curse on my apartment and the new owner of the building who’s kicking myself, my kid and my dog from our home. Been here for 28 years but greedy b…. wants us out to raise rent