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16:08 / 21.11.01

What was the scariest most fucking horrible thing you've used magic for? You can tell us

16:30 / 21.11.01

It wasn't done willingly and it might've been a coincidence but... who's willing to take the chance?

Wrote "Ode To Cthulhu" for school by ripping off "Ia! Ia! Chtulhu Ftagn!" and some of the spells from Simon's Necronomicon. Read it out loud. On the way to school.. Some lady opens car door, hits bicyclist who falls beneath the hind wheels of our van.

So we didn't get to school and the poor guy died.

Ouch.

16:42 / 21.11.01

Oh, impulsve what a question. I guess a part of revealing is it can help to keep the ego in check.
Here it is then...
As a diliberate magickal act I cast a curse on my parents (of all people), when I was only fourteen years old. They had upset me because they locked me out of the house. I broke into the garage and sat in my father's new car . I was livid and I performed a small but powerful curse.

The next day my mother woke up with a very sore throat that turned into laryngitis. She couldn't scold me for a week! My father's new car, (also the next day) had two out of four tires just blow up, right on the highway! There was no apparent reason for a new car to do this. And no, they was never recall on those tires!

I was devastated at the results of my blind rage and I have never been intentionally bent on hurting someone with magick since. I was lucky I didn't cause more damage. I think I wasn't aware at that point in my young life what exactly I was dealing with. You could say I was shown that day.

-May Tricks

[ 21-11-2001: Message edited by: May Tricks ]

17:43 / 21.11.01

I have been known on occasion to curse people to get exactly what is coming to them, and being purposefully unspecific on that part. I'm afraid asking Maat to do her job is about as close as I'll get to that sort of thing. That's usually plenty enough. It also covers my tracks in case I'm wrong in my anger.

But man, have I been tempted at times.

18:06 / 21.11.01

Trust me, impulsivelad, you just don't want to know. I will tell you this: Marilyn Manson was indeed involved.

Mordant Carnival

18:35 / 21.11.01

Couple of minor (and richly-deserved) curses when I was 14, 15. I know at least one of them worked- nothing terrible happened to the recipient, he just suffered a run of annoying bad luck which culminated in his car being totalled. By a flood. (He wasn't in it at the time.)

Some anti-corporate stuff, which I stopped after 9/11 (the better to concentrate on fluffy peacenik-y things).

I also seem to have this "autocurse" facility which I have no control over and which doles out minor and not so minor inconveniences to people who fuck with me. (Has to be quite nasty for it to work tho'- real stuff, not just ego-denting) It's got so I seldom even get that pissed off at people who do pissoffable things at me anymore- I'm too busy feeling sorry for them. It's a family trait.

19:10 / 21.11.01

Billy suffered enough for his deeds...I mean sleeping with Courtney Love and that bad haircut and all...

19:11 / 21.11.01

ex-girlfriends in the past, who have fucked me over have a nasty habbit of going insane or become hores wate mabey thay wher insane and hores to begin with

but to be honest with you i have done some truly shity thing's and in the end i have learnd just to help people get wuht thay are looking for. i have found that at the end of the day we all get whuts coming to us stronge and hard. i don't wont the bad karma on my head.

21:13 / 21.11.01

Absolutely nothing. Okay?
Absolutely nothing.

I mean if people who give me shit at work just happen to go nuts and get fired, or develop phobias of the office that lead them to take unnecessary days off, or fuck up important presentations, it's...

just a coincidence. Of course, of course.

21:29 / 21.11.01

Mordant Carnival that autocurse stuff really hit a nerve thats one of the things that got me into magick, when I was younger and someone pisssed me off strange things would start to happen to them, I think unconsciously I created a servitor that was pretty protective of me...it did however once go a little too far (I think)

Mordant Carnival

19:58 / 22.11.01

Well, I'm glad it's not just me spreading misery and ingrown toenails.

20:48 / 22.11.01

Well, seeing as how I was the one to ask, I might as well jump in too.
I put a love spell on some girl I didn't love (I know I know, I'm already sorry, May Tricks!) But I figured out it was a problem in word use so I fixed it with a *just-friends* spell.

Also, and I don't know if this is bad or what but, I cast a sigil on my friend's abusive father for him just to be happy and leave his family alone... 3 weeks later the guy blew his brians out

oops.

Mordant Carnival

09:01 / 23.11.01

I think I should point out at this juncture (and this is particularly aimed at poor old Lionheart and impulsivelad) that, whilst stuff may happen coz we big scary magickians make it happen, stuff sometimes just... y'know... happens. In other words, it may not be your fault, people.

10:26 / 23.11.01

And maybe he was happier without his Brians, anyway.

17:35 / 24.11.01

All thing's tend to run there course. you have to becarefull on how you word your spells

18:53 / 24.11.01

quote:Originally posted by cat likes fish:
All thing's tend to run there course. you have to becarefull on how you word your spells

uh huh...

I bow before your superior experience, oh enlightened one...

12:38 / 25.11.01

Had I the ability i would probably have fucking killed a few people by now.

Which in itself begs an interesting question - is there maybe a tendency to become less inclined to want to fuck with people when you're heavy into the magick/ego-dissolution thing?
I was asking this question recently of the guy I learn tai-chi from and he was like 'pfff! You'll be lucky!' - he lived in China for years and knows a lot of people involved with martial arts- 'angry meditators' as he calls them. Ego loss, and the equanimity of manner you'd expect to come with it, is all very well in theory but it seems a surprisingly rare trait in martial arts people, for one.

21:44 / 26.11.01

Ah. The strange phenomenon of Unfluffy Hippies. Met a few of those in my time... like the herbalist who refused medical help for his wife when she was giving birth, then sued the hospital for not relieving her pain...

Never done any agressive magic meself. Backlash happens quite often enough on benign magic as it is!

10:43 / 27.11.01

I once had a T'ai Chi teacher with a ridiculously overblown sense of self-importance and a stupidly short fuse.

Not surprisingly, every time he started a new series of classes, the size would dwindle each week:

'Okay. So we're supposed to learn how to chill out and dissolve our egos...from you.'

the moral of the story? Er...The screaming dove cannot be arsed to fly.

Or something.