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Chain Letter Magick

 
 
Tim Tempest
18:22 / 22.12.05
I just recieved a bull-shit e-mail about how if I didn't forward it to eleventy billion people in the next minute and a half, I would get terrible luck, and the girl I'm crushing on would turn out to be gay.

I thought it was bullshit, mostly because it was, but it got me to thinking...Can chain letters actually be used for magickal purposes?

To spread goodwill and cheer or mean thoughts and fear?

So, these chain letters...are they similar at all to servitors or egregores when enough people have put actual effort into reading them and passing them on, do they have any real effect or power?

And there's SO MANY of them. Everyone makes these pointless chain letters, all claiming to have a deep and profound effect on your life. It's like a damned internet gospel, except the preachers all have schizophrenia.

I really don't see much effect in the bullshit ones, like the ones I get, but if some positive sigil was to be sent out in a chain letter, would it have some massive charges?

Just wondering what some of you had to say on the subject.

(And I am in hurry writing this before I have to go back to class...So I really hope that the above was comprehendible).
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
08:52 / 24.12.05
I very very much doubt it. Where is the "juice" for the bad-luck spell to come from? If I wanted to comprehensively fuck up a single individual in the manner outlined in the average chain letter, I'd have to put in an enormous amount of work. Why bother attacking a total stranger for no reason? Right. Now multiply that effect by all the possible recipients of said chain letter, and you'll see what a daft idea that is.

As for chain sigils, positive or negative, and the efficacy thereof... I'll believe it when I see it. I've come across the idea plenty of times and frankly it sounds like typical wishful thinking. "Hey, I'll just scribble a quick doodle in paint and then sit back while all these other suckers charge it for me. Surely wealth/chicks/drugs/World Peace/Armageddon will follow in a trice!"
 
  
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