Jinxes, Hexes, and Curses

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About This Masterpost
Thicket’s Magical Masterpost

Jinxes,
hexes, and curses are all part of the same category of malicious
magic. This is magic done to harm. It may be done for the greater
good, but in general it is always offensive and always meant to hurt
another person.

A
jinx is the least damaging of all malicious magics. It is more like a
nasty trick or prank than an actual attack. Considering they serve
little strategic value in battle, I consider jinxes to be just plain
cruel.

Hexes
are magical attacks. A hex can be relatively minor or extremely
dangerous, depending on the spell chosen and how much power it has.

Curses
are not simply more powerful hexes. In my path, a curse is
life-changing. It permanently alters fate and destiny. I doubt the
majority of magical workers in the world can cast a true curse. For
this reason we will mostly be talking about jinxes and hexes, since
curses are beyond the scope of this article. The purpose of this post
is to talk about hex and jinx identification and breaking.

A
hex can have endless symptoms, from the vague to the specific. When
you are hexed, things just start to go wrong, in your body, your
mind, or your life (or all three, if you are against a wicked
opponent). When trying to identify hexing symptoms for yourself or
another, keep an eye on what is abnormal.
Don’t get what is normal twisted with what is a symptom of hexing. If
someone normally has anxiety, then don’t assume that is being caused
by a hex. Instead, keep an eye on if that anxiety worsens, changes,
or is triggered by new things.

A
few common hexing symptoms: Headaches, nausea, stomach pain, body
pain, anxiety, worry, nightmares, insomnia, sleep paralysis,
uncontrollable thoughts, strange impulses or compulsions, being
unable to keep track of time, breaking objects on accident, phobias
or fears, being in physical danger (car accidents, assaults), people
treat you differently (as if they dislike you for some reason now),
always being at the wrong place at the wrong time, positive
relationships start decaying, unhealthy people come back in to your
life, things just plain going wrong.

Now
let me slow your roll for a moment. Remember that you are looking for
abnormal symptoms. If
people haven’t liked you your entire life, it is unlikely that a
witch put a curse on you as an infant. If you have had a fear of
spiders since you were bitten twelve years ago, it doesn’t mean that
was a symptom of a spider-hex and now your natural spiders means you
are under magical attack. Be reasonable. People have headaches every
day for mundane reasons, and their “unexplainable” symptoms could
be traced back to their Oreo and Mountain Dew exclusive diet. What
you are looking for is a thread of unexplained commonality.

Remember
that people seem to have a natural and powerful inclination to blame
their problems on magic. I absolutely know once I publish this
article I am going to get many messages from many people down on
their luck asking if they have been hexed or cursed. In reality,
their inability to take their foot off the gas pedal is what’s giving
them speeding tickets, not some magical scapegoat. That being said,
if you reasonably do believe you’ve been hexed, absolutely contact
me; my point is that people often like to think they have been hexed,
when they have not.

Another
important part of identifying magical attack is figuring out where it
would have come from. A friend of mine has many common hexing
symptoms, and he knows of a magical practitioner who would have had
it out for him exactly at the time all these symptoms started. If not
for the knowledge of this person, I would doubt he was under magical
attack. So if you or a friend match a lot of these symptoms – where
did they come from? Magical attack does not spawn out of thin air.

Or
does it?

Many
of the symptoms of hexing are shared by symptoms of spirit attack.
Which can, literally, come from nowhere. There is no harm in doing a
full banishing along with a hex reversal. This is not the post to
discuss spirit attack, just be aware that you are not necessarily
being hexed even if you are under true spiritual attack.

Ask
yourself what big event happened at the time a hex was supposedly
laid upon you or another. Did they get married, possibly inciting
jealousy in another? Did they screw someone over? Did they get
promoted, move, lose their job, find a new partner, or break up?
Gather all the information you can about what was going on in this
person’s life at the start of their symptoms. This will provide clues
as to the possible source of magical attack, allowing you to build
better defenses.

Basically
when it comes to breaking spiritual attack, there are a few basic
steps you will want to take.

Protect
the person as best you can. If someone is under a true spiritual
attack, there are two basic options. Either their opponent has hexed
them once and forgotten about it, or the attack is ongoing. If the
attack is ongoing, it means that any steps to break the hex may be
noticed and be met with redoubled efforts by the opponent. You will
want to lay personal protections on them, as well as creating a safe
haven in their bedroom or home/apartment. If you are going to be
helping yourself, check your wards and put a lot of solid energy in
to them. But don’t rely on them – after all, they did not prevent
the attack from coming through the first time. Question where your
protections are lacking and how you can reinforce them.

Uncross
the person very thoroughly. An uncrossing is a way to remove magical
hexes and bindings. It is simple but powerful magic. Uncrossing
spells will be given at the end.

[Cleanse]
the person and their home thoroughly, to remove any residual
energies.

Bless
the person and their home, to restore a sense of peace, security, and
safety.

Blast
the opponent, if necessary. If you have found yourself caught up in
an ongoing spiritual attack, sometimes the best way to handle it is
to cripple your opponent through your own offensive measures.

Posts on protection,
uncrossing, and blessing will come later. Read about cleansing
[here].

Let me encourage you not to
handle hexing cases alone. There is no shame in reaching out when
someone is actually attacking you, you know? It’s not something you
have to handle alone. Just make sure you don’t incite your friends to
mob mentality violence. That’s not cool, either.

Let’s take a moment and talk
about blasting, owl-blinking, nightmaring, and hexing – on your
side of the fence. Hexes and curses get thrown around like cheap
Halloween candy on Tumblr, and most of them are radically dangerous,
written by teenagers and young adults who are out for vengeance no
matter the price.

Well, screw that mentality.
You do not have to sacrifice yourself using dangerous hexes in
order to get back at someone. I’m not going to touch the issue
ethically, you are your own person and you get to choose who to hurt.
I am going to brush up against this issue magically, to try and teach
how to cast a safe hex. Incidentally, I don’t believe in the 3fold
law, for those of you who asked me.

Hexing someone is like
dragging a bucket of shit through your house in order to dump it on
your cheating boyfriend. That nasty energy is going to get
everywhere. When I cleanse, I feel light and refreshed,
because that cleansing energy has rubbed off on me. When I cast a
love spell I hit up my boys afterwords because that love energy has
rubbed off on me. When I cast a hex, I feel angry, violent, and raw –
because that same energy has gotten in to my system. When you cast
a spell, part of that spell stays within you.

The nasty energy starts when
you start thinking up the most vile things to throw at someone. As
you feed that anger, you also feed the hex growing within yourself.
But that energy doesn’t exist to hurt one person, it exists to hurt
everyone – including you. As you dwell on your anger and hurt and
plans to hex, that energy builds and builds and starts to overflow on
to your personal energies and life. Ever notice how people who spend
a lot of time hexing also seem to have shitty things constantly
happening to them through pure coincidence?

When the hex itself is cast,
that bottled up energy explodes out in one direction, towards your
victim. But just as a gun fires a bullet, that gunpowder residue also
explodes and gets all over whoever fired the gun.

But wait! There’s more. That
energy is going to follow a pipeline to your enemy – your astral
relationship pipeline. When no pipeline exists, a taglock such as a
photo, hair, or nail clippings are used instead. This is how a witch
with no personal investment can hex someone. But this relationship
pipeline isn’t reduced, damaged, or cut off when a hex is sent,
leaving you free from this person’s influence. The pipeline reacts
exactly how it is supposed to react when a huge amount of energy is
sent through it: it gets stronger. Ever notice how you can hex
someone ten times and your relationship seems to get deeper and more
complicated and shitty every time, leaving you in a swamp of shit
when you just wanted to hex someone and get them out of your life?
Yeah.

So there are two basic
problems when it comes to hexing. The first is that the hex energy
gets all over you and fucks you up, and the second is that hexing
someone makes your astral relationship grow stronger, not weaker.
Fortunately taking care of these problems is easy.

If you’ve made up your mind
to be a hex-witch, you need to build up your natural protections and
fortifications before you get deep in to the attack magic. This will
help guard against all that nasty energy hurting you. Engage in
regular cleansings – more than someone who doesn’t do hexes. Rip
hexes off like bandaids. You don’t need to feed a hex for weeks and
weeks before you cast it. Go deep, cast it hard, then cleanse
thoroughly. Use your most powerful cleansers on yourself, your home,
and the area you did the hex in.

After you are aware that the
hex has been delivered (through social media, hearing about that
person’s troubles, or magical sensing) cut the bond between the two
of you through any regular spell. Check out my post on bindings for a
little more info on breaking a relationship bind.

Then, release. Release that
anger. Release your need for justice and vengeance. The spell has
been cast, your work has been done. The more you hold on to it, the
more you give room for those shitty energies to build back up in your
life. Do a magical ritual. Burn your memories of that person. Burn
what they did to you. Let the ashes blow away in the wind. Recover.
Treat yo’ self. Hanging on, and casting hex after hex after hex just
to punish a person, is dragging yourself down with them. Eventually
your job will be done. (I will also argue that if one hex doesn’t cut
it, then two won’t either)

Anyway, let’s focus on some
hex-breaking spells.

Simple
Candle Buster

Take
a black taper candle. The next best colors are red and white. Any
color taper will do in a pinch. Carve away the bottom end of the
candle so that the wick pokes out. This reversal symbolizes, well,
reversal. Coat the candle in any of the hex-breaking oils or waters
listed at the end. Surround the candle-holder with the hottest
peppers you have access to. Charge these peppers with the intent to
burn and shred any spell attached to you. Once your candle is set up
with the peppers, speak to the spell. Ask it to utterly destroy and
terrorize any malicious
spell cast upon you. Ask it to send the spell back to its creator.
Allow the candle to burn down fully.

Egg-xit
My Aura

Take a whole egg. Fresh is
best if you can get it, otherwise it doesn’t really matter. Rub the
egg all over your body or have someone else do it for you. Start at
the feet and go upwards. You do not have to be nude. Chant, “Egg,
egg, take away all the shit that’s in my way.” Vividly imagine that
every curse and hex placed upon you is consumed within the infinite
depths of the egg. Throw it away outside of your home. Do not break
it.

You’ll
Rue The Day

Take a very long and
enjoyable soak in a bath filled with rue, angelica, or any other
curse-breaker you know. Avoid adding chili peppers to the bath, for
obvious reasons. Ensure that you charge the bath with hex-breaking
properties. As you bathe, feel the plant spirits washing over you and
consuming the hex placed around you, both ethereally and astrally.
This is not for pregnant or nursing women.

Doll
Hex-Breaker

Craft a poppet of yourself.
Coat it in any hex-breaking oils that you see fit. Allow it to soak
in Four Thieves Vinegar overnight, in moonlight if possible. In the
morning, coddle the doll and coat it with uncrossing, protective, or
beneficial oils and waters. Keep the doll safe until it dries fully.
Undo the poppet magic (remove all traces of its association to you)
and store until you wish to use it again, or discard it.

Flying
Devil Powder

Create a blend of black
pepper, cinnamon, dragon’s blood, patchouli, and vetiver. If not all
ingredients are available, use what you have. Add anything else
intuition tells you you should add. Burn this substance on a hot
charcoal and stand within the smoke. It makes the devils fly away.

Lemon
Lime Bath

Take as many lemons and
limes as you have. Squeeze them in to the bath water and include the
rinds. Add nine bay leaves. Bathe thoroughly.

War
Water Bath

Add war water to the bath.
Bathe. Imagine that iron weapons spring from the bath and mutilate
any malicious spell placed upon you.

Grind
It Up

Take three of the hottest
dried peppers you have. Name each pepper, “you are the curse placed
upon me.” Grind the peppers together. Whack them a whole bunch with
the pestle, too. As you do so, imagine that the curses are being torn
to shreds. Take the ground up seeds and chili skin. Add it to a new
protective charm and wear it in addition to your other armors.

Salted
Lemons

This is a more complex one.
You will need a lemon, some salt, and some holy water. Light one
black, one red, and one white candle. Light uncrossing incense (rue,
cinnamon, hyssop, bay leaf. Whatever you have). Pass a knife through
the incense smoke. Hold the blade in the flame of each of the three
candles, then sprinkle the blade with holy water. Using this knife,
slice the lemon in to three sections. Dip each section in to the holy
water, then in to the dish of salt so they are completely coated.
Leave the lemon slices out on a paper towel. When they are completely
dried, the hex is thoroughly removed. If the lemon slices start to
rot, the hex has not been removed. To negate the hex, use holy water.
To return the hex, use war water.

Mesopotamian
Incantation

This useful hex-breaker
reaffirms your value to the universe, elevating you above the spells
mean to harm you. Begin chanting:

“I am pleasing, I am
pleasing

Heaven takes pleasure in me

Earth takes pleasure in me

The ocean takes pleasure in
me

The sky takes pleasure in me

The gods take pleasure in me

The sun takes pleasure in me

The moon takes pleasure in
me

My mother takes pleasure in
me…

Continue on in this manner,
naming every good and wonderful thing you can think of. Your
significant other, your dogs. Whatever gives you power and strength,
affirm that it takes pleasure (loves you and wants you to be safe) in
you. Continue on for as long as you desire. Then, end with this.
Shout if necessary:

“Many any evil magic on me
be dispelled

May any evil magic on me be
removed!”

Second
Mesopotamian Spell

Chant
the following:

“Evil
man

Evil
Eye

Evil
mouth

Evil
tongue

Evil
spell

Witchcraft,
spit, saliva, evil deeds, evil thoughts

Get out of the house now!”

Four
Thieves Vinegar

Uses:
Highly purifying and protective, also healing.

Obtain
the best possible red wine or apple cider vinegar. Peel and crush
garlic cloves and add them to the vinegar; the more garlic, the
better. Choose four of the following ingredients to add: Black
pepper, whole chili pepper, coriander, lavender, mint, rosemary, rue,
sage, thyme, or wormwood. Allow to sit for four days, shaking once
daily, before using.

Glory
Water

Uses: Drives away ill
fortune, draws success. Perhaps very useful for your self care.

In fresh water, combine the
following: Orange blossom water or neroli hydrosol. Frankincense
resin or essential oil. Essential oil of bergamont. Orange blossom
water/neroli is essential and cannot be substituted or replaced.

Pollution
Water

Uses: Clears pollution, aids
in banishment

Grind ashes, salt, and red
pepper in to a fine powder. Add this powder to spring water. The
product is intensified if the ashes are from burned holy verses or
prayers of protection.

Crown
of Success Oil

Use: To bring success unto
its wearer.

Combine bay leaves,
frankincense, sandalwood, and vetiver in to sunflower, olive, or
jojoba oils. Essential oils may be used instead of the dried plant
matter. Wear regularly as part of your self care. Something tells me
Joobs may like this one.

Fiery
Wall of Protection Oil

Use: Protection

Blend powdered dragon’s
blood resin and sea salt together. Add frankincense and myrrh. Add to
castor oil. If necessary, include olive oil to reduce thickness. Wear
as a perfume to protect yourself, or add to a jar and carry as a
talisman. If you choose to add cinnamon and ginger, it cannot be worn
on the skin.

Flying
Devil Oil

Use:
Banishment

Blend red pepper and/or hot
chili peppers in to olive oil or baby oil. This spicy mix will drive
away unwanted spirits and spells.

Stay safe everyone