Sometimes I forget that there are other people in the world who say things as bizarrely retrograde as the douchebags I write about here.
Case in point: televangelist and veteran sayer-of-bizarrely-retrograde-things Pat Robertson. On The 700 Club Monday, Right Wing Watch reports, Robertson answered a question from a woman who was worried, for some reason, about her daughter posting ultrasound pics on Facebook.
The kindly old preacher offered her yet another reason to worry:
I tell you, there are demons and there are evil people in the world, and you post a picture like that and some cultist gets hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child. You never know what somebody’s going to do.
You never know.
Also, you should probably worry if your pregnant daughter develops an external womb.This is a sign that she may be breeding a small army of murderous rage-babies (see below), at least if this documentary by David Cronenberg is any guide.
NOTE: The Cronenberg movie is not actually a documentary. Also, covens of witches are not going to curse your fetus using Facebook.
Its like the old anti-abortion chestnut, “What if your mother was pro-choice?”
Uh, she is. And she chose to have me and my younger sister. And your point is?
Well, in all seriousness, if you really wanted to unload a shit-ton of hex on somebody, you’d make a wax figure representing them. You’d add to it something of theirs, preferably right off their person: a strand of hair, fingernail clippings, a snippet of their clothing, etc. Obviously you’d have to be in regular contact with them, and be able to sneak into their private rooms unnoticed! You’d mix this personal piece of them into soft warm wax, shape it into a roughly human figure, then baptize it with the name of the person to be cursed. You would call down the deities associated with vengeance. And then you could either stick pins into it wherever you wanted this person to hurt or be afflicted, or just burn it in a fire if you wanted to get rid of them altogether. And visualize them actually in pain, or dead.
A milder version of the same thing would be a binding ritual, in which the figure is tied up with string and placed in a sack, with an admonition that the person be prevented from doing anything harmful to whoever wanted them to stop. Or a banishing ritual, in which the figure might be buried or tossed into the nearest body of water with a stone to weigh it down, with a strongly worded command to go away and not come back, and harm none along the way. Again, you’d visualize them being bound by a net of light that acts like a force field, preventing them from striking anyone, or just picture them leaving and never coming back.
A wax figure of this sort might also be used for healing ritual. It’s sort of the opposite of the voodoo curse with the pins: You stick the pins into the afflicted areas BEFORE the rite, and then pull them out during, smoothing out the wax if possible, and visualizing the person in question healthy and well.
Or, failing anything else, you could just yell “FUCK YOU, [name]!” [/sarcasm]
I don’t think you need to feel particularly bad about loving a movie from the 1970s because of the shit Polanski’s done. Props to you for not supporting any new movies he makes, but as a Hitchcock and Salinger fan myself (neither did anything as horrible as that, but still, pretty, um, not perfect people), I do think it’s possible to separate the artist from their work.
That was in response to WWTH, btw.
I don’t get it, what would be in it for the witch? Seems pointless.
I’m with @suffrajitsu – it is possible to separate the artist from their work. Not always – Woody* Allen films are a little more difficult bc there he is, in them. But yeah, a great film is a great film (or book, painting, piece of music, etc), regardless of who made it. I don’t bother much with Allen’s newer stuff for various reasons, one of which being I don’t want to support him, but his earlier work, the stuff I loved before? I still love it. He can go step on poop-covered Legos though.
*Shut up, Woody.
@Tracy: Damn that was well done.
I’m all for not feeding the pockets of a rapist currently putting out new works. But since Rosemary’s Baby came out years ago and can be gotten from the public library or shown on TV, no reason to feel bad about it. (And, while Polanski and Allen are particularly noxious examples, the sad thing is so many great artists have been bad people, that metric would wipe out a lot of wonderful art.)
Bina
I actually found an interesting jar spell involving limes and nails:
I’ve also recently learned how to do sigils, and I’m having lots of fun with that. :3
Are you SURE about that? I mean, he really does look more than a little zombiefied…
Yeesh.
Has Pat Robertson ever said anything not ridiculous or hateful?
On pro-choice =/= pro forced abortion, I’ve never quite understood why people say that. “How can you have kids, I thought you were pro-choice.” ‘Well, genius , I chose to have them.’
I kind of feel like spamming this thread with animal videos.
I just had a bit of a brain-spark when I was thinking back to when we were talking about curses and Legos a little while ago!
If any of you would like to add to it or edit it, feel free. : 3 I’m still very new to spell-making so there might be some errors or bugs. : P
Hmm…Actually, in my experience, this one works pretty well. Back in the 1980’s, a few witchy woman friends and I did a binding like this, using red yarn, on a very powerful member of Reagans staff. Since the guy was an environmental nightmare, we felt pretty good about doing it. Long story short, the binding was to prevent ANY action on his part that would harm the environment. Within a month or so, he lost his job. We were SOOOO happy!
In general, I view hexing the same way I view ANY weapon – something to be used only in the extremes of self- or other-defense.
Oh, and instead of a wax figure, we made a poppet out of fabric, stuffed with chopped straw. Since we each worked on the poppet, each of us put our energy and will into it. It was one of the few group workings I have ever been involved with.
Well, it wasn’t approved from Zombie central. So if he’s post-breathing animation, it’s on his own and I am kind of creeped out…
A nice, simple spell. The important things to remember when doing any spells, regardless of what they are for, are 1) be very clear about your reasons for doing the spell and the ethical consequences, and 2) your focus, intent and belief are the most important ingredients. I have worked successful spells with little more than a candle, a bit of incense and a very clear, strong intent. Chanting is good, since it focuses you, but the magic that works best is the magic you believe in, and the best tools are the ones you most love to use. Those are the ones that you imbue with your own power.
Good lord. A little late, but related to the “pro-choice =/= rubbing hands with glee at the thought of abortions”, another The Onion article that apparently fooled a Congressman: http://www.theonion.com/articles/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex,20476/
http://literallyunbelievable.org/
All the people taking the Onion as true…
Looking at that Harry Potter article (from 2000, 15 years ago!), I gotta say, I feel like The Onion’s lost their touch somewhat :/ Clickhole (their Buzzfeed parody) is pretty funny, but a lot of recent articles feel like they were just written to support a mildly amusing headline.
Samantha
Thanks for the tips, Samantha! : D
I don’t do curses personally, but I thought it would be a good idea to make one, just in case. : I
Oh my gosh, that student film is adorable.
Oh man, that was fabulous! Seriously guys, watch that film. The greatest auteur since Aurini.
Usually I don’t care if the artist is a jerk. I’m a big Hitchcock fan and Adam Baldwin has not stopped me from loving Firefly, Serenity and Angel. But child rape is way over the line. It’s so much worse than being a jerk. I really want to see Repulsion because it’s supposed to be great, but it’s bad enough that I watched Rosemary’s Baby on Netflix last year. I don’t usually like Woody Allen movies much, but I do love Annie Hall. I’ve managed to stay away recently though.