Hi  One of my friends who i have not seen for a few years now,had a very unhappy marriage with a man who treated her very badly and she also had seven children.

She told me that one day she could not take his cruelty anymore and she decided to make this wax doll and in this doll she put some of his hair and some of his nail clippings.

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Ah, the "Law of Contagion" as it relates to the "art"(?) of
witchcraft.
When I was in college, a good friend of mine thought
he was a "witch." Filled me in on the theory of spell
casting, ect. (I took it with a whole BAG of salt, mind
you.)
Wouldn't it be neat though, if it WAS true?
I might be able to get a hand-written autograph of
George W. Bush say, or maybe Karl Rove. I'm sure
there'd be a few microscopic skin flakes on it, or
dead cells or what have you... thus creating the
physical link I'd need.
(That's when I'd get some beeswax and needles, make
a "poppet" or two, and wait for their next big (live) T.V.
speech..!)
Fun to THINK about, anyway!

B-wiz

P.S. If you're a Christian, this sort of thing is a BIG
no-no, Juditha. ("Occult"="Satanic", yadda yadda...)
But I'm sure you knew that already, right?

But Matthew if this really works so well then why aren't we taking hair and nails and putting them in to wax dolls and using the dolls to relieve pain? Surely if you can cause pain then you can relieve it (must be a reversible process). or maybe more people do that and I don't know aboutit.

Hi Lucy, Juditha - I'm with Doc on this one. Anything that can focus your "life forces", which means the intention, the tendency to act in accord with that intention, and the way one handles the physical situation that is part of the whole thing, all taken together lead toward an outcome. The "sympathetic magic" idea comes from the concept that every object shares its existence with every other object, so by taking bits of hair and nails we are more or less "extending" the body of the person in question to our lair where we can work of magical wiles. And, as Doc says, that's a really poor idea.

In clinical work a very simple, but quite similar technique is to ask a person to consider their issues, then to visualize them, to locate them in some part of their body and tell what color they see - this focusses intention and awareness on producing the same kind of embodiment of the problem. Then it's usually easy to call for a White Light or sometimes a Healing Green Light (you learn to speak in capital letters after a while) and to allow the healing light to burn out the problem stuff, and leave a healed area. I use this very frequently with people who have past life injuries - the last one being a guy who fell on his sword after being too late to save his companions from a massacre, just last week. It generally gets rid of the discomfort etc. The last step (since you asked) is to determine whether there's any other reason to have the injury, discomfort, or whatever - and if not, we're done. If so, then we do it all over again.

You have the right idea Lucy, but we don't need the physical parts to make a doll. People generally arrive with all of that stuff ready to be relabeled and repaired.

B-Man -  I think that there's so darned much voodoo going around DC already that any psychic intervention would be superficial - but maybe a little pile of gunpowder and some symbolic drawings and utterances ... or is that how we got into this thing in the first place?  Maybe Washington provides the negative karma in advance.

d

Eeek.