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Help me please, if you don't mind

Cherry Bomb

20:21 / 22.12.01

Help me find my brown cordoroy pants! I have looked EVERYWHERE for them and I don't know where they could have gone. I know this is kind of shallow but I only have two pairs of pants handy and I can't wear the red ones all the time. I know this is silly, but I am serious. If any of you nice kids who are good at magic could sigil to help me find them or something, I'd be really grateful.

Thank you!

pacha perplexa

09:43 / 23.12.01

Here in Brasil we have this egregore, a Saint who helps find lost objects.

His name is "São Longuinho" ("são" meaning "saint"). All you have to do is say (I'll try to translate it):

"São Longuinho
São Longuinho
Help me find my cordoroy pants
And I'll jump three times for you"

Repeat it a couple of times while wandering around the house, looking for the pants.

It almost always works, though it seems like a joke.

Important: when you find the pants, you must jump three times to "pay" for his services.

Good luck!

Papess

09:43 / 23.12.01

I love pacha's suggestion. I will use it myself! Thank you pacha!

May

Gus

19:00 / 23.12.01

Don't know if they're related, but in my family (and, I presume, in Quebec in general) they invoke Saint-Antoine de Padoue whenever they can't find something, and it pretty much always works. I remember being a kid and seeing my mom or my grandma look everywhere for something, then asking Saint-Antoine and magically finding it right where they looked before.

Cherry, I have some brown corduroy pants. Don't know if they'd fit you though.

pacha perplexa

09:43 / 24.12.01

quote:Originally posted by May Tricks:
I love pacha's suggestion.

Isn't it cute?

Gus, this other seems similar, though the brazillian "Santo Antonio" is an arranger of weddings, hehe. Just a curiosity: it's common to place an image of Santo Antonio upside down in a glass full of water, the poor thing, until you meet your future husband.

Ah, santeria.

grant

19:28 / 27.12.01

My grandmother used to talk to St. Anthony of Padua; in some orisha traditions, he's associated with Eleggua, the trickster.

I have an aunt who actually contracts with Anthony every time she loses something, constantly raising the amount she will donate to charity until she hits the right amount and finds the object.

cusm

19:37 / 27.12.01

Anthony is one of my patron saints, being the one I chose to take as a name at Confirmation (yes, I'm secretly ROMAN CATHOLIC!!!

)

Ahem. Anyway... My grandmother taught me a little rhyme:

Anthony Anthony look around
there's something lost and it must be found

It/he has never failed me.

Rev. Jesse

19:47 / 27.12.01

We should get someone to remote view for those pants.

I tell you what, when I get home I will throw a tarot reading to try and determine where they are.

-Jesse

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

15:59 / 29.12.01

A witch down the street from me used to always doodle a picture of whatever she was looking for, ball it up in her hand, and keep it there until she found it. Recently tried it at work looking for my ticket gun, found it not ten seconds after.

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