Gods/Goddesses: Anu, Anubis, Apollo, Artemis, Astraea, Athena, Bran the Blessed,  Forseti, Hecate, Hera, Itztli, Maat, Nemesis, Nereus, Osiris, Owein ap Urien, Pao Kung, Tactica, Taranis, Themis, The Morrigan, Thor, Utu, Zeus, The Horae (Eunomia, Goddess of legislation and law; Dike, Goddess of moral justice; and Eirene, Goddess of peace - Once Eunomia has consulted Law and Legislation, and Dike has made a moral judgement based on it, Eirene brings peace and amnesty to all parties) 

Colours: Deep Purple, Dark Blue

Incense/Oil: Cedar, Carnation

Stones: Amethyst, Sapphire, Lapis Lazuli

Plants: Shamrock, Clover, Oak, Betony, Dandelion, Fir, Meadowsweet

Wood: Cedar

If you are feeling uneasy, nervous or threatened, try repeating this chant quietly to yourself.

Hecate Justice Chant

Hecate, Dark One, hear my plea.
Bring justice now, I ask of thee!
Right the wrongs that have been done,
Avenge me now, Oh mighty one.
Turn misfortune back to those
Who cause my problems and my woes.
And heap upon them karmic debt
Lest they all too soon forget
Their wrongful actions, words and deeds
Don’t let them get away scot free.
Bring them forth from where they hide
Bring swift justice-wield your knife.
Hasten, Dark One, hear my plea, do what it is I ask of thee.

~   From Everyday Magic by Dorothy Morrison

Incense to burn: frankincense, pine, lilac, or rosemary.

This chant is to be said very forcefully many times over:

You will Need:

• a glass jar
• honey
• sugar
• water
• wooden popsicle stick
• permanent marker

Put a mixture of one third honey, water, and sugar in a glass jar with a screw top. Take the popsicle stick and write the name of the person who is creating problems through negative thoughts or actions on one side. Place stick in the jar and at least once a day, shake the jar vigorously.

The person who is having negative thoughts will have an improved ability to relate to those persons or things he didn't like before.  If this person is someone who is causing you a specific problem, when you shake the jar say:

Sometimes things can be smoothed over. If you believe this is possible, try this spell!

You Will Need:

• 3 candles -- white, blue and pink
• Love Oil
• a Pin

Anoint each with love oil. Carve the names of yourself and the person you wish to reconcile with in the blue candle. Invoke Cerridwen and Pan.  Light the white candle and say:

Cerridwen, Mother, blessed be
I light this white candle to remove hostility.
Light the blue candle and say:
Mother and Father, blessed be
Bring between (name) and I tranquillity.

Light the pink candle and say:

Pan and Eros, blessed be
If there is still love between us, let it be.
For the good of all and harm to none, as I will, So mote it be!

Let the candles burn down.

This is to be done on a rainy night outdoors. Stand in the rain and let it touch you - do not wear heavy clothing to protect yourself from it. Call the rain and draw it down harder. Cast no circle, lest the pain stay trapped within it.

When the downpour becomes heavy, begin. Say the incantation charged full of emotion and let it come from the heart.

Rain, take the pain.
Rain, take the pain.
Rain, take the pain.
Rain, take the pain.
Rain, take the pain.
Rain, take the pain.
Rain, wash away my pain.
Cry for me and take away my tears.
Rain, wash away my pain.
Cry for me and take away my fears.

Hold palms open to the sky and let the rain fill them. Wash your face and eyes with it. Repeat this three times. Let the tears fall, with the water, into the earth, into the rock. Let the pain go, release the energy. Let it wash away. Imagine it leaving you and entering the earth bound by rock.

A Ritual for the Dark Moon

Begin by setting up your altar as you normally do for ritual, making sure you have a black candle and wine or water in your chalice in addition to anything else you use. You will also need a cleansing, purifying incense and a censer or some kind of container which can be carried around your home. It is best to set your altar on the floor for this rite, but you may do it however you feel most comfortable. Cast your circle as you normally do. When you are through, kneel before your altar and light the black candle. With your arms held, palms upward, at your sides, call Hecate by saying three times:

Hecate, beautiful Crone of Night
I call you here to put things right.
Transform the negative thought and pain
And help my life be whole again.

Close your eyes. When you feel the presence of Hecate and know she is there to help you, open your eyes. Bow your head to her to show your reverence, and then take the chalice, saying:

Lady of the Dark Moon, Share with me this wine.
Bring your protection to Flood this life of mine.
May the waters of your eternal womb Bring change most divine.

Sip a small amount of the wine (or water), envisioning it as liquid energy, flowing to effect a positive change within and outside of you. Leave the rest as an offering to Hecate.

Light the purifying incense in the censer, cut a door in the Circle, and, beginning in the eastern-most corner of your home, smudge your home, going clockwise. Go into every closet, the bathroom, and the garage - make sure your entire house is smudged. As you go, chant:

Come back into the Circle and visualize your entire house and yard bathed in a peaceful blue light. Since you have created a void by banishing the negativity, you will need to fill that void. Ask that good, protective spirits come into your home and that positive energies replace the negative ones that have just been banished. This is an important step, because if you don't fill the void with something good, the negativity will come right back.

Thank Hecate.

Meditate if you wish, visualizing your life free from negative happenings and feelings and full of love, prosperity, and happiness. Feel how She has changed your home and your life.

Close the Circle and know that it is done.

Loosely bind a dark feather with a thin thread to a tree and say the following, (or something similar):

From stress and heartache free me.
From all the chaos of the day free me.
From stagnant thoughts free me.
From idleness and feelings of helplessness free me Wind, free me.

Walk away. When the wind tugs the feather from the tree, you will be freed.

Have you ever met a person who just seems to hate you at first sight and does his or her very best to ensure that your life henceforth is miserable? What is really amazing is that you think you would really like that person if he or she didn't hate you so much. Take a brown clay or enamel bowl or jar and fill it with brown sugar. Sprinkle the top with basil (known to cause sympathy between warring factions). Write the person's name on a piece of paper and bury it in the mixture. Draw a solar (equal - armed) cross in the mixture and put a brown candle in the middle.

Thy cussedness I will overcome
In days of nine with the setting sun
I'll have thy friendship in my hand
Through thick and thin it will stand.
I choose not to harm but to heal the wound
Love comes now by the Witches' Tune!
So be it!

From: angelic_dragons@worldnet.att.net (Angelic_Dragons)

This is used to stop people who are bullying or upsetting you and hopefully to make them friends.

You will need:

Chant the following spell 4 times. Every time you say the spell add 1 of the 4 drops to your bowl of water. Put the blossoms in the water but so they float on the surface of the water. Then put the pinch of sugar in. After you've done the spell, put the blossoms that were in your water in a circle and pour the solution (water) over the flowers.

You Will Need:

• small piece rhodonite
• assorted flowers
• cauldron filled half-way with water (preferably spring or filtered)

Before the spell begins, decorate your altar with fresh cut flowers in a manner that will allow them to witness your work. Call upon you're the appropriate deity/spirit of your tradition and ask them to witness your spell. Place the stone in the centre of the cauldron with water. Open yourself and allow yourself to feel peaceful. When you are relaxed, take a step back and while concentrating on the quarrel say:

The time has come for his quarrel to end.
Let anger be released and begin the mend.

Repeat this until you can feel any anger or hurt about the argument floating away. Collect the flowers and put them in a vase using the water from your cauldron. Keep them in a place in your home that you go to often and allow then to remind you that all will be well soon. Give the stone to the other person as a gift. Try to resolve your differences rationally and if you feel yourself getting angry repeat the chant to yourself. Your argument should be well on it's way to being over by the time the flowers wilt.

You Will Need:

• Peridot -To dispel jealousy and let the light of the sun burn through illusion and show reality;
• Rose quartz - For learning to love yourself and soothing to your soul.
• Amethyst - to bring you good experiences and prosperity and joy.
• A pouch to carry these stones with you or wear them.
• Bowl of distilled water
• Sea Salt (about a teaspoon)
• Distilled water

Soak stones in the bowl of distilled water and sea salt for 24 hours, then rinse with plain distilled water. Set in the light of the sun and moon for 3 days to charge, then hold the stones in your hand and say:

Each year in February the Romans celebrated the Day of Tacita (February 20), the silent Goddess who averted harmful gossip. Since malicious, negative gossip can destroy careers, marriages, and lives, one should consider petitioning Tacita for protection from such harm and ask her to help you avoid causing such harm to others.

You will need:

• three candles (a black, a magenta, and a green) and holders for your altar.
• a knife or pin
• success incense, or wisteria or heliotrope.
• patchouli, mint, and rose oils.

If you are dealing with a specific gossiping person, carve his or her name in the black candle with a knife. If you don't know a name, carve "all gossip." Anoint the black candle from the end to the wick with patchouli oil. While anointing it, concentrate on the removal of all damaging gossip from your life. Don't specify how this is to be done, but place your trust in the Goddess and God for the correct solution. Place the black candle in the holder in the centre of your altar.

Anoint the magenta and green candles from the wick to the end with mint and/or rose oil. If you like, you could use rose on the magenta candle and mint on the green one. While anointing them, concentrate on positive energies coming into your life. Place these candles on your altar, the magenta to the left of the black candle, the green to the right.

Spend a few moments breathing in white light and expelling darkness with each breath. Hold the palms of your hands toward the candles and chant:

Gossip does not harm or bind me.
Evil words come not near me.
I am light. I am truth. I am love.

Repeat these words nine times. Feel their positive meaning sink into your subconscious mind. Know that you are building a shield of protection around you, a shield built out of positive energy so strong that negatives can't get through.

Leave the candles in a safe place to burn out. Dispose of the wax.

from: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/4997/Spells.html

Simply sit in a darkened room and write the offender's name on a piece of paper. Prop the paper up against a black candle which has been placed in the middle of the floor (so you can walk completely around it), light the candle, then circle it ten times, chanting:

             What goes around comes around

Now burn the piece of paper in the flame and snuff out the candle. You can sprinkle the ashes of the paper in the person’s path for added "oomph, " but don’t let anyone see you do this.

~ Author Unknown

This spell is for dealing with someone who is more of an annoyance than a threat, someone who really gets on your nerves or stresses you out by intruding in your life or violating your space. It is for someone you have already asked to stop but who persists in bothering you. It is not a spell to use on someone whose actions you object to within their own life or space.

You Will Need:

• a small inexpensive box
• two heads of garlic (or more, if you are using a big box or dealing with a group of people)
• herbs of protection
• a photograph of the person, or their name written on a piece of paper

Put everything in the box. Cover the box and give it a good hard shake, mentally yelling at the person to modify the behaviour that annoys you. Put the box away, in a drawer or up on a shelf. Take it out and give it a hard shake, yelling at them, every time they annoy you. After the first week or so you should seldom need to shake the box. Throw the box away in a few months, when the garlic begins to spoil.

©Eileen Holland - www.open-sesame.com

You will need to have ready:

• An empty cup
• A Ziploc bag
• A Red Candle
• A small piece of paper
• A pen
• Two cups of water

Open the Ziploc bag and place it inside the empty cup, so that it stays open.

Light the candle. Greet the deities and state the nature of your problem.

Write the name of the person you have the problem with in the centre of the paper. Write (in a spiral fashion, beginning on the outside edge of the paper) what you want from this person. Say these things out loud as you write.

YOU CANNOT WISH THEM ANYTHING BAD. This spell works better if you wish them good things, as well as what you want to see. Continue writing, overlapping and on both sides of the paper if needed, until you’ve run out of things to say. Fold up the paper as small as you can and place in the Ziploc bag in the cup. Pour the water into the bag, squeeze out the air, and seal the bag -- MAKE SURE IT’S SEALED. Place this bag in the freezer. Thank the deities and put the candle out.

Forget about the bag, but leave it in the freezer until you feel confident this person is out of your life, or no longer a threat.

You Will Need:

• paper
• black pen
• an airtight container
• water
• magical herbs - clover, lovage, lilac, garlic, basil or pepper
• black string or thread

This must be performed during a waning moon.

On a piece paper write the name and birth date of the person you are wishing "away". Now fill an air-tight container (like a baby food jar or Tupperware container) with water. Add a pinch of one or more of the above magical herbs.

Take the paper with the name on it and fold it three times. Tie a black string or thread around it and drop it in the water. Seal the container up and bury it in a safe spot in your garden, yard or flower box. Once the person has left you alone or no longer poses a problem to you, open the container and empty it to the earth.

In a dark-coloured bowl (suitable for scrying) mix one part olive oil to four parts water.

Stir the mixture with your finger of power, charging it with intent. Set the bowl before you, and light a white, violet, or blue candle.

Dim the lights of the room and say:

Water, oil, and candlelight,
Bring my enemy to sight.
Let me see all I need to know,
To protect me from this foe.

Scry into the mixture, and watch for any shape that might be a clue to you. When finished, spread the mixture around your home for protection.

On Monday night of a waning moon , burn a black candle. While the candle is burning, meditate on your problem, ask the deities for help, and then repeat this verse 9 times:

Let these fools be silenced
May their babble be cancelled
May peace be mine, now and evermore

Have a moment of silence, thank the deities and then snuff out the candle. Do this for nine nights, and on the last night let the candle burn down completely. Dispose of the wax by burying it.

Take a black feather and clean it lightly in water. On a new moon, hold the feather to the sky and say:

Give the feather to the liar or place in a personal space of his or hers, and say:

Here is the balance,
Here is the true.
Conjure with my hurt,
I bring it here to you.
Don't conceal it.
Now reveal it!

The truth will come out.

Source: The Little book of Hexes for Women by Sophia

Write the name of the person who is spreading lies about you down on a piece of white paper. If you don’t know their name just write down "whoever is slandering me". Place on your altar with a charcoal burner, and burn a little bit of powdered cloves in the morning and a little bit at night saying:

Do this for seven consecutive days and nights on the last night burn the piece of paper with the cloves then cast these ashes into a living body of water.

Others in the Community will soon see these people for what they really are.

You Will Need:

• white paper
• red pen
• powdered Cloves (about ½ cup)
• a small bowl or short glass
• a censure
• charcoal

On a small piece of the white paper with the red pen, right the name of your accuser or libeller BACKWARDS, nine times, in a list. Roll up this piece of paper very small and place in the small bowl, then pour the powdered cloves over top. The paper should be completely covered.

Every morning and evening for seven days, take a pinch of the cloves and burn them (be careful not to uncover the paper), inhaling and watching the smoke while envisioning and meditating on the accusations or libel against you or your loved one also "going up in smoke." Start your morning this way, end your day this way.

On the seventh night, burn all of the remaining cloves and the paper with the writing on it. Feel that the libel and slander is done, that no one will believe these false statements and that it has all turned to ashes for the one against you.

When the ashes have cooled, dispose of them in living water, a river, stream, lake, the ocean. If you do not have a source of living water near you, down the drain works in a pinch. Remember to always know that you are telling the truth, and the truth will prevail.

You Will Need:

• purple candle
• pen and paper
• vegetable oil
• fireproof dish
• cayenne pepper

Inscribe the candle with your name, then draw the infinity symbol (a horizontal figure 8), both above and below your name. Anoint the candle with vegetable oil and roll it in cayenne pepper.

Write a brief description of the situation on the paper and place it under the candle holder. Light the candle and say:

Wax and herb, now bring me power
That grows with every passing hour.
Bring control back unto me.
As I will, so mote it be!

Let the candle completely burn down, then burn the paper in the fireproof dish. Flush the ashes down the toilet, or bury them under a tree.

You Will Need:

• a brown human shaped candle
• a pin
• paper and a pen
• honey
• athame

Do this during the waning moon.

Scratch the person's name on the front and back of the candle. On a small piece of paper, write:

From now on,
[name] will say nothing but sweet words about me and to me.
By the power of Aradia, so mote it be!

Put a drop of honey in the middle of the paper and roll it into a ball. Heat your athame, make a gash in the candle (in its mouth, if it's an image candle) and stuff the paper ball into it. Let the candle burn a little while every night for an odd number of nights, to a maximum of nine nights. Throw the remnants into flowing water, but save some candle drippings or ash to sprinkle in the path of your oppressor.

from Z. Budapest's 'The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries'

You Will Need:

• Purple Candle
• Pin
• Vegetable Oil
• Rue
• Clove
• Cinnamon
• Bay Leaf
• Basil
• 3 inches of red ribbon or yarn
• 3 inches of white ribbon or yarn
• 3 inches of black ribbon or yarn
• Cloth Pouch

Inscribe the candle with the petitioner's name and birth date, then anoint it with vegetable oil. Roll the candle in a mixture of powdered rue, clove, cinnamon, bay leaf, and basil, while chanting:

Herbs mix and mingle well,
Add your power to this spell.

Put the candle in the holder and place it on the altar. Gather the ribbons together and tie a knot at one end. Braid them together while chanting:

Maiden, Mother, Crone All Three,
From all abuse [name of petitioner] is now free.

Tie a knot in the loose ends so the braid doesn't unravel, then tie both ends together to form a ring. Place it around the candle to form a circle. Sprinkle the remaining herbs around the braid, and visualize the circle growing stronger and stronger until it forms an impassable wall of protection. Then light the candle and say:

From hurts and bruises [name of petitioner] is free,
As I will, so mote it be.

After the candle burns all the way down, gather the braid, herbs, and candle drippings, if any, into a cloth pouch. Give them to the petitioner to keep on her or his person as a protective measure.

You Will Need:

• a black candle
• a piece of black cord 13 inches long

Light the candle and petition the deities you wish to work with. Explain your problem carefully, and then take up the cord. Tie nine knots in this order as you say the following:

1-----6-----4-----7-----3-----8-----5-----9-----2

By knot of one the spell’s begun
By knot of two my words are true
By knot of three it comes to be
By knot of four, stop slandering me
By knot of five, the spells alive
By knot of six, my problem is fixed
By knot of seven the answer’s given
By knot of eight I meld with fate
By knot of nine peace is mine.

Arrange the knotted cord around the bottom of candle holder. Thank the deities for the help they will give you, and let the candle burn itself out.

Take the cord and the remaining wax and bury it where it will not be disturbed.

"Stay Away" Binding Spell

To be done on a Saturday night during the Waning Moon

You Will Need:

• A picture of the intended
• Black cloth
• Black thread or cord
• A picture of yourself
• White candles

Place the candles about your altar. Cast the circle and try to relax your mind and concentrate on the work to be done. Take the picture of the intended in your hands and say:

[name], Stay away!
You are not welcome, this I say!
[name], Go away!
You cannot harm me in any way!

Wrap the black cloth around the picture and bind it with the cord or thread. Say this:

You who would harm, You who would maim,
If you proceed, You'll face the same.
With cloth and cord, Of darkest night,
I've bound your deed, With shining light.
You cannot harm, So stay away,
I am protected, Both night and day.

Put the package into the freezer until morning, and then throw it in the garbage somewhere away from you and your property. Leave without looking back. Carry the picture of yourself on your person, knowing that you are now protected from their harm and that they will bother you no more.

You Will Need:

• a large white candle
• a picture of person to be bound
• a pin
• sea salt
• protective herbs
• red or purple ink
• black thread

Pin the picture to the candle then make a ring of sea salt around it. Make a second ring with protective herbs.

Fill the rest of the altar with images that represent what you are binding the person from: pictures of your family, keys to your house, legal documents, whatever. Papyrus, or paper made from cotton or linen work best for this.

Use red ink if you are angry, purple ink if you are sad.

Wrap the candle and the image with black thread (linen, if possible). Say out loud what you are binding the person from. Light the candle and leave it burn until the wax begins to drip over the thread and image. Burn it every day for a week, until the image is thick with wax. Use this as a meditation device to direct your will to binding the person. Bury the candle remains after seven days.

You Will Need:

• 3 black candles
• black thread
• black pen
• a piece of paper
• an empty glass jar

This spell will not hurt your bully, it will just make them leave you alone. Do this spell at midnight on a Saturday of a waning moon

Set the candles in a big triangle shape, big enough so that you can sit in the middle. Light the candles.

Write the bully's name on the paper, and draw an "X" over it. Fold it three times. Say:

I bind you [say their name]
so that you cannot hurt me anymore,
both physically, and emotionally.
Get out of my life, leave me alone.
I bind you [name] I bind you.

Then tie the thread around the folded paper, and pop it in the jar. Screw on the lid. Snuff out the candles. The next day, bury the jar off your property, or you can hide it in a closet where it will not be found. If the black candles you used are small enough, you can put them in the jar before you put the lid on. If not, burn them later until there is nothing left of them.

Author Unknown

Draw the face of the slanderer, or cut their image from a photograph. Write their name across the forehead of the image.

Light a red or black candle, and allow five drops of wax to fall upon the mouth of the image. Recite a line of this charm at each drop of wax:

Seal your lips to lies
Seal your lips to spite
Seal your lips to wrath
Seal your lips to hate
Speak no evil against [your name]

Cut an X into the wax across the lips of the image, saying:

Conceal the charm in a safe place. It is done.

This is a spell to send bad vibrations back to their source.

You Will Need:

• small hand mirror
• black candle
• incense
• black string
• bell

Call the Spirits to witness the rite using the bell. Say:

I am immune to their hate, their malice.
I will not accept their guilt or their intolerance.
Their words and thoughts are no bane to me.

Hold the mirror behind the candle and say:

As this mirror reflects back the light of this candle
so shall these things be reflected back to their sender(s)
and as the mirror neither adds or detracts from the reflection
I shall add no malice to nor subtract any from that which I send back.
As it comes to me so shall it return to them.
Tie the black string in three knots. As you tie each knot say:
With this string I bind this spell, As I will it, So mote it be.

Dismiss the spirits. Let the candle and incense burn out on their own. Place the string in a special box set aside for spells and leave it there always.

You Will Need:

• a small round mirror
• a wide-mouthed glass jar
• ashes
• vinegar
• a knife or something else sharp like a razor blade or piece of broken glass
• an apple.

After sundown, set the jar before the mirror and place in it some ashes. Fill it up about 2/3 of the way with vinegar. Take the apple and carve into it something that will represent the person or the negativity which follows or attacks you. Try and make it as clear as you can-while you carve, infuse the apple with all of the negativity you perceive around you. Raise the apple above the jar and say:

Evil send must come to rest
Reflect it back to who knows best
Energy spent for evil and bane,
Go back now from whence you came
Far away I send you this hour
May all your attempts to harm turn sour!

Place the apple in the jar. For best results do this spell for three consecutive nights.

You will need:

• 4 pieces of black tourmaline (small sticks work very well)
• 1 large piece of paper or cardboard with a big pentacle drawn on it
• 5 short white candles
• 4 small reflective pieces about ½" in diameter
• 1 small standing mirror (such as an old compact mirror)
• 1 marker that will write on glass
• 1 short black candle
• 1 pin
• 1 handful of a protective herb such as witchbane or belladonna
• 1 white plastic bag

Take your black tourmaline and place a piece in each of the four directions, if necessary taping it directly to the wall in the room where you’re going to work your spell. Place your pentacle in the centre of your altar. Cast your circle.

Using the pin, carve the name f your ill-wisher into the black candle. Place in the centre of the pentacle. In each of the four points have a white candle with a small mirror attached facing the black candle. In the fifth point of the star have a small standing mirror to which you have added sun, moon and star symbols.

Light the first white candle saying:

I call forth the light from the (direction)
and with this light I repel any darkness that might be reaching me from [ NAME ]
And with this mirror I invoke the law of three reflecting back to him/her
any energy he/she may be sending to me thrice multiplied.

Light the remaining three candles, repeating your verse each time. With a fifth candle call forth the center, above and below saying:

By the light of the sun, the moon and the stars
I repel any darkness that might be reaching me from [ NAME ]
And with this mirror I invoke the law of three reflecting back to him/her
all energy he/she maybe sending to me thrice multiplied.

Set the fifth candle behind the mirror, light it and then say:

[ NAME ], by the seven directions, by earth, air, water, fire, sun, moon, and stars
you now find all that you would send out to others reflected back to you.

Light the black candle

You exist but your thoughts touch none outside your circle
and as this candle burns down all influence,
all woe that you have worked, wanes into nothingness.

Let the candles completely burn down and watch them very carefully, seeing that they do not set fire to the paper or make a mess with the wax off of it. Remove the sand-up mirror if and when it becomes necessary. As the candles melt, burn a handful of protective herbs and keep the ashes. When the candles all go out circle the melted wax with the ashes of the herbs and say:

Your influence has waned to nothing and you are limited
and defined by a circle of ashes.
Your power reflects back upon itself and cannot harm anyone
outside your circle of ashes.
I call the guardians of the watchtower to witness that
I stand outside your circle of ashes and therefore beyond your ability to work woe.
Any coils of darkness around me have been burned away as the candle has burned
and now by the light of the sun, moon, and stars I stand free.

Fold or roll up the paper carefully, enclosing all the wax, ashes and small mirror pieces. Place in the plastic bag and tie it off. Take it out and put it in the garbage several blocks away from your home.

Alternatively, you can roll up the paper as above and build a bonfire over it, destroying it completely

Author Unknown

You Will Need:

• red cayenne pepper
• sea salt
• matches
• 1 small candle
• nine pennies

Empty out two-thirds of the pepper from its bottle. Fill the bottle a third full of sea salt.

Break the heads off the matches and use the heads to fill the jar almost to the top. Match heads contain sulfur, a magical element used by witches to scatter negative force. Sea salt is for cleansing and cayenne pepper makes things uncomfortable for people who try to harm you.

Write the name of the person you want away from you on a small piece of paper. (If you have a signature, even better.) Insert the paper into the jar. Close the lid tightly. For nine days in a row beginning ten days before the new moon, shake the bottle as many times a day as you feel inclined to do so. Visualize this person moving away from you. On the ninth day rub the lid of the jar with the wax of the candle. (Any colour is okay but black is best.) Take the jar to the closest river and throw it in. Throw nine pennies over your shoulder and don't look back.

A poppet is a doll made in the shape of a human that is used for magical purposes. To make a fabric poppet cut a human outline from two pieces of fabric with their right sides together. It does not need to be detailed, and you can keep the hands and feet rounded. Sew most of the figure with right sides together, leaving a small area un-sewn.

Turn it right side out and stuff with batting, tissue, straw, paper, or whatever is handy. You may add herbs, a lock of hair or other personal effects. Get a clear mental image in your mind as you concentrate on the persona while you are making the doll. To reinforce you concentration keep repeating the following affirmation:

Continue this chanting and visualization until the doll is completed. Close the hole in the doll with thread.

Lay the doll on the altar with a red candle. Place both hands over the doll and will your energy to flow as you chant 3, 5 or 9 times:

Though separate you are, you are linked as one.
As [name] your life has begun.

Pass both sides of the finished doll through the flame of the red candle saying:

With fire do I consecrate this doll as [name].
Sprinkle both sides of doll with water and say:
With water do I consecrate this doll as [name].
Pass both sides of the doll through the incense smoke as you say:
With air do I consecrate this doll as [name].
Sprinkle both sides of doll with salt and say:
With earth do I consecrate this doll as [name].

Keep the doll wrapped in clean white linen until it is ready to be used in the ritual.

This spell is not meant to punish the person it binds, it is meant to help them. You cast it out of necessity and compassion, not in anger. It is designed to stop the person dead in their tracks, freeze them from doing harm to themselves or others and give them pause, a clear space in which positive transformation can occur.

You Will Need:

• A poppet personalized by writing their name on it or affixing a picture of them to the poppet's face.
• 2 Black Candles
• Black Linen thread
• Copal Incense
• An image of the person, or personal item.
• A healthy, living tree, ideally inside your house or backyard
• Carve the person’s name into the candle. Light one candle and the incense.

Bind the poppet with the thread, wrapping it around and around, making knots whenever you feel they are necessary. Speak to the person as you do this, telling them specifically why you are binding them and what you are binding them from. Leave a long piece of thread hanging from the poppet. Tie nine knots in this. Drip molten wax on the bindings, to seal them.

Leave the poppet on the altar, touching whatever you are using to connect them to it, until the candle and incense have burned out. Take the poppet and use the thread to tie it upside-down to a tree.

Say:

Poppet that I hung on a windy tree,
Hung there for nights full nine;
With the spear I was wounded, and offered I was
To Odin, myself to myself,
On the tree that none may ever know
What root beneath it runs.

Leave the poppet on the tree for nine days. Recite the poem to the poppet at least once each day, sending the person strong thoughts about the changes you want them to manifest. Send them compassion, send them enlightenment. Hold a mirror up to the poppet while you recite the poem if you want them to 'see' what they have done.

Yell at the poppet if you have anger you need to release.

Take the poppet down on the ninth day, leaving it bound. Light the second black candle and drip its wax all over the poppet. Speak to the person while you do this, telling them whatever you think they need to hear. As soon as the wax sets, get the poppet out of your house and into the trash. Do NOT bury it. If the tree shows signs of growth afterward, that is a good sign the transformation part of the spell is working.

If you are certain that someone has hexed you, return it to them using the following spell; but use it wisely - if you're wrong about the hex the spell can backfire.

This must be done for three nights in a row during a waning moon just after sunset. Light three black candles, and as they burn, say the following verse:

Broken this spell, broken this curse,
By these candles, by this verse.
Reflected back, three times three,
Your hexes have no effect on me.
Curse return, by candles three,
Burn away and set me free.
Live and learn, crash and burn,
Three times three, this hex return.
With harm to none, this lesson be told;
Whatever is sent out, returns three-fold.

On the third day allow the candles to burn themselves out.

Author Unknown

Again, use this spell wisely because it can backfire if you are wrong about having been cursed.

You Will Need:

• 10 short black candles

Do this 5 nights in a row, at dusk - as the sun dies and darkness descends.

Light two of the Black candles and as they burn, speak this invocation:
In the name of the Gods and all ye spirits,
In the name of Kernunnos, and the light and the dark
and the Gods of the Netherworld,
Remove thy curse and sting from my heart and mine.
And whosoever shall be casting a curse against me,
Let he or she suffer their own curse.
Let these candles be their candles,
This burning be their burning,
This curse be their curse.
Let the pain they have caused me and mine
Fall upon themselves.

The two candles are completely burned each night.

The purpose of the spell, why you do it, is to get someone off your back. The intent is not to harm someone but to make them go away and leave you alone. This is not, however, intended for petty grievances. This is a serious spell and if it backfires it can make you go away.

You Will Need:

• Hot Foot Powder (available in occult supply stores)
• bowl to hold powder
• small jar
• 4 black altar candles (altar candles are short - about 3 inches long)
• 2 white altar candles to represent the Goddess and God
• drum or other rhythm instrument (or clap your hands)

Cleanse and purify your altar area. Set up your altar for charging magickal tools. Arrange the four black candles for lighting purposes and if you want, drape the altar in black, wear black, and otherwise dress up the area.

Pour a small quantity, about a spoonful, of the Hot Foot Powder into the bowl and place it on your altar. Get comfortable in front of the altar, you're going to be there for a little while.

Put the white candles on either side of the bowl and light them, while focussing on your grievance. Get a good rhythm going - beat that drum, shake that rattle, clap those hands, beat that floor, whatever - and make it an urgent sort of beat, the sort that makes you want to run. As you do this, chant:

You shall rise, you shall rise
You shall walk and you shall fly
Out of my life and away Onward Outward Away Begone!
And trouble me no more I give you no power
You have no power
No power Over Me!

Keep repeating this chant and get really worked up. Feel that power and anger rising up. Keep repeating the chant until the candles have burned almost completely down, then grab that bowl full of Hot Foot Powder and send all the furious energy into it. Visualize that powder just bubbling and boiling over with your emotion. When the fury is in the powder pour the powder into the small jar and close up tightly. Be sure to ground yourself before leaving the Circle.

Now, take that charged powder and lay it in the path of your enemy. Make sure you aren't seen doing this. Pour it into your hand, then with a strong puff of breath blow it over an area your foe walks over regularly. This spell is specific to one person, so don't worry about it affecting other people who cross over it. Hotfoot Powder is very fine, and if you only use a spoonful it shouldn't be visible on a floor. If it is, it will look just like dust.

Copyright 1994 by Chameleon.

• cayenne pepper
• rue
• peppercorns
• pine needles
• rosemary
• 1 ounce olive oil
• 7 drops pepper essential oil
• 10 drops peppermint essential oil
• 5 drops pine essential oil
• 12 drops of rue or rosemary essential oil

Add cayenne pepper, rue, peppercorns, pine needles and rosemary to olive oil and put in a warm place for 3 days and strain. Add the essential oils, blend together and put In a clean brown or dark medicine bottle.

Label carefully. Do not anoint yourself with Banishing oil because you could burn yourself. Wash your hands after using.

Charge the oil and focus on the person and your intent, pouring in energy and emotion.

When there is a thing, situation, person, etc. that you want to be rid of, that you want to get out of your life forever. Take a nine inch natural cord (nine being the number of the master of the self) or string. Concentrating on your situation, person, etc., intensely talking out loud or yelling as the case may be, slowly tie a knot in the cord. Before pulling it tight, make sure you get worked up with all the emotion you can muster on the subject; all the anger, pain, resentment, etc. Then tie it up in the knot. Lay the string somewhere safe and enclosed, like a box. Then go and forget about it. Get rid of the negative energy.

Take a shower/ bath, a bike ride, walk, see a funny movie, see your best friend (but don't talk about your problem), anything that will put you in a good mood and make you feel clean and powerful and refreshed. Then go back to the cord (within the same 24 hrs please), and hold it. While visualizing your trouble disappearing from your life, and saying the same, untie the knot and see it setting free and leaving. Burn the cord, preferably in a cauldron.

Be very careful with this spell. It's permanent, so don't use it unless you really mean forever.

You Will Need:

• a fireproof container
• herbs of protection
• an image of the person (photograph, poppet, etc.)
• something written in their own hand,
• a lock of hair, a piece of clothing or a personal object will also do, as long as it will burn

Put everything into the fireproof container and set fire to it as you perform the spell. Add pieces of paper with the person's name on it if you have trouble getting the fire going. It should make a very satisfactory blaze that reduces to ashes. While it burns, say the following:

By power of the Lord and Lady
I make my shield to detect thee
and deflect thee and keep thy harm from me.
By their names I cut the cords
and sever all the ties by which we were bound
and with impenetrable walls myself I surround
I banish thee forever from me
and any harm from thee to me doubles back
and tables turned thou shalt by thyself be burned
by the power of three times three
I banish thee, I banish thee, I banish thee
I am set free So mote it be!

Remove the ashes when cool and either bury them or wash them down the drain. You might also want to flush them down the toilet. Dispose of all the objects that connect you to the person: gifts, letters, photographs, etc. It is especially important to get rid of jewellery.

To be performed during the waning moon.

You Will Need:

• heat proof container or cauldron
• black or white candle
• basil and garlic (for uncrossing, protection)
• paper
• black pen

Cast the circle and invoke the God and Goddess.

Statement of purpose:

I am here to banish negative influences from my life.
Right now, [name] is exerting an extremely negative force upon me.
I ask for the God and Goddess to assist me
in banishing these forces and eliminating his/her destructiveness.

Consecrate the cauldron as follows. Sprinkle with salt-water and recite:

In the name of the Lord and Lady
I charge you to serve me within this circle.
I clear you of all former influences and energies
that you may be fit for the workings of Magic herein.

Do the same with the candle. On a piece of paper, write full name of person to be banished. Roll up and tie with black string. Sprinkle with salt water and recite:

Thou creature of paper.
By paper made, by paper changed.
Thou art not paper, but thou art negative influences in (person to be bound).
So mote it be!

Light the black candle. Burn the paper in the candle, visualizing all negative power over you vanishing in the flames and rising out of your world with the smoke.  Sprinkle basil and garlic over the flames and recite:

Blazing force of cleansing fire Help me in this rite.
By air and earth, water and fire
So be you bound With this rite,
Your power takes flight Sky and sea,
Keep harm from me
Cord go round,
Power be bound
Your negativity will no longer come my way.
From henceforth, your power over me is banished. So Mote it Be!

Let paper burn itself out while visualizing a healthy, positive relationship with the person.

Cakes and Ale Thanking the God and Goddess. Close the circle, thank the elements for their protection.

(so they don't continue to play the same detrimental roles in your further incarnations.)

On parchment or some other nice quality paper, write in red ink:

[Name] I declare our contract broken.
You no longer have power over me.
Never again will I be your servant, in this life or any other.

(you can use your own words, go into detail about how you feel you've been wronged manipulated, whatever.)

Sign your name, burn it with a black candle. Get rid of the ashes.