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I moved to a new house. I want it to be haunted.

11:45 / 02.08.02

Without having to kill someone in there, what do you suggest?

12:24 / 02.08.02

Really??? Then announce through invocation your desires to the mischievous entity you'd like to have around, go watch a good Hollywood serial-killer thriller movie, call for a delivery pizza and enact all the steps of the movie with the poor chap until he gets convinced you are a murderous psycho and his stamina and brains are blown out (and the entity is pleased), then you say "Cheers!! Joke of the day pal!! Here is a champagne bottle for you to celebrate with your loved ones how beautiful life is, and free cinema tickets for the movie you choose at any time the next week!! Have a grrrreat day!!".

Of course, you'll have to do that in a regular basis.

Don't be surprised, I presently believe it happens every day in modern urban life. Just take the subway or any public transportation and you'll see. Or go get an office job.

I suppose the next poster will come with the real good tip on servitor building. The web is full of them. Bear in mind you have to literally program the purpose of the servitor, unless you do want a ghost like those form old Algernon Blackwood stories, which -if you have anything to do during your hours at the new house- it can turn really annoying.

13:18 / 02.08.02

Heh. Easy. Haitian voodoo knows all about this sort of thing, and I'm wearing my Guede rag today

Pull out a Ouigi (sp) board, and have at it. When you get a good one on the line, invite them to come live with you. Work out your terms. When its settled, take your hands off the board without dismissing them. That will allow them to enter the world (proabably through you, mind you, which might tickle, speaking as one who's done this trick). The unbanished spirits will tend to hang around you until they settle in somewhere in your house. Build them a place to live, a little alter, and leave them bits of food and such to keep them fed. Leave a bowl of still water on there as well, as a good means to talk to them through. Ideally, keep an alter with a fettish for each spirit upon it to keep them tied to this place. Decorative bowls work well as little houses for them, though you could use anything appropriate. If you work things out well, they'll tell you what kinds of foods they like so you can cook them for them. That gives the best results in feeding spirits. Ghosts like to eat. Keep them fed and they'll stick around and maintain a good relationship with you.

16:42 / 02.08.02

trivia for the day: it's Ouija, spelled as if Yes Yes in French and German.

19:33 / 02.08.02

I did not enjoy my experiences in the last haunted house I lived in. But if you want ghosts, have at it.

19:56 / 02.08.02

I want a friendly ghost. But not a wuss like Casper. But a servitor might do the job, as long as he keeps bumping into things at night and making doors n windows slam, just to freak out the visits.

20:41 / 02.08.02

You know, haunted houses are great places to visit but you really wouldn't want to live there. especially if you're going to be practicing magick on the premises. It will create interference, dilute or even absorb energy being manipulated and distract both yourself and whatever entities you're trying to work with.

If you insist, it's always possible to summon bunches of spirits at random and never bother to banish. Odds are they might lie about who they are and decide not to obey your house rules, though. As others have said, it would be a lot easier and safer to create your own servitor and program it to perform regular theatrical manifestations. Although, unless you get a lot of visitors you want to impress or scare, it seems a bit like a waste of energy. You could always incorporate these functions into a servitor with a broader home protection role. Eh, you could even have it feed itself from the emotions generated by people witnessing the manifestations.

Something which is a lot more fun is to cause a public place in your neighborhood to become haunted by inventing a suitable background story for it, spreading it around, getting people to believe in it and supplementing that with appropriate magick work at the site. You get to hear the stories but don't have to live with it everyday.

p.s.: Cusm, I am curious: can spirits "domesticated" in the manner you explained do anything useful? Or do they just hang around and keep you company?

21:23 / 02.08.02

Ghosts... Spirits... Servitors... They may come from different places, but in effect they are much the same. What a "tame" ghost can do for you depends on the ghost and your relationship. The difference is that in this case, you have a more mutually beneficial arrangement than the strictly binding one of a servitor. Mostly, they're good for advice or otherwise "contacts" on the spiritual plane. Most can't interact with the world much outside of cold breezes and the occasional possession. Though they can make fine spiritual guardians if you work things out well with them. Especially if you manage to dig up an actual ancestor of yours.

13:42 / 03.08.02

Well, things are dying all the time, everywhere around us. Does the ghost have to be human?

I imagine a room full of fly-ghosts and spider-shades, feeding on the expired dustmite essences of the room, developing a hivemind, growing in consciousness...

remind me why you're doing this.

23:21 / 04.08.02

Just a thought if you go the Servitor route; how about putting it's fetish (or physical base) inside a nice, ornate, wooden box with a hinge lid. Program the Servitor to act all "bump-in-the-night" when the lid is opened and to go dormant when it's closed.

Just a suggestion.

02:59 / 05.08.02

You could kill someon.....er..
nah..

02:29 / 17.08.02

Pull out a Ouija board, and have at it.

Does a Ouija board work for one person?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:56 / 24.08.02

Yes, but I wouldn't reccommend it. You never know who might drop in; could be something you don't want to be alone with.

04:53 / 25.08.02

You could always just move to Adelaide, South Australia. We have an overcrowding problem when it comes to ghosts. In fact, does anyone have a ritual for Express Posting ghouls?

Tryphena Absent

13:40 / 25.08.02

so is your house haunted?

00:13 / 10.04.04

i want a spiritual visit.any ideas?also where can I get a ouji board

00:17 / 10.04.04

where can I get an ouija board?

09:58 / 10.04.04

Just make an oiuja board do it yourself style if thta 's yer bag.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

00:43 / 11.04.04

I assume you want semi-friendly spirits. If you want antagonistic ones, get some centipedes and let them loose in the walls. Those things fast breed antagonsitic spirits like nobody's business.

If you want to attract ghosts/spirits, and I have no idea why you'd want a haunted house to begin with, just act like its haunted. Leave a saucer of cream out on the doorstep at night along with bread baked with stones and bugs. At midnight walk backwards through the halls closing all the doors, knocking on them three times, and opening them again. Talk to the walls whenever something odd happens. Build a pair of second front doors and nail them open. Write some Latin on the doorstep inviting them in.

::shrugs:: That's the best I can think up at the moment.

The Eternal Salvation

02:17 / 12.04.04

Hmm, what a question, wanting a haunted house. Like my associates have said there are many ways, murder is of course a good one, the bloodier and more violent the better Id say. Of course acquiring yourself a good spirit is always a good choice, just as long as the dont rebel against your leadership, and possibly kill everyone you know and love, its happened, believe me it has. If you were one of the Necromatic arts then raising a spirit would be of little consequence, though I doubt you are well versed in such things, as few people are. I would say try to purchase a low cost highly efficient Japanese spirit, Japan makes some very useful servitors, well they dont make them, they are the spirits of their people, well anyway, thats my advice. You could always call upon Satan, he is usually pretty useful.

The Eternal Salvation

02:22 / 12.04.04

My apologies to any Japanese I may have offended, I was merely commenting that on average they are a far more industrious people than many other cultures, I was not trying to be racist, I thought it was a statistical average, though Ive never actually researched it, though I suppose I should keep my generalizations to myself. Well to any Japanese folks out there, my deepest apologies, and I will be sending out my positive mental thoughts to all of you.

15:30 / 12.04.04

Get a really jumpy cat. She'll stare at nothing, pounce at nothing, knock things over, hide in the hallway and grab your ankles as you walk by...

15:40 / 12.04.04

You could invite an emotionally disturbed adolescent to live with you.

When I was 7, my sister (14 and psychotic then) actually generated a full-blown, pretty nasty poltergeist. Unfortunately, it stayed even after she left for college. I did not enjoy my experience with this thing--what a way to grow up.

I think incredibly strong feelings of any kind, sustained for a long period will do it.

Good luck!

The Tower Always Falls

04:21 / 15.04.04

I assume you want semi-friendly spirits. If you want antagonistic ones, get some centipedes and let them loose in the walls. Those things fast breed antagonsitic spirits like nobody's business.

Bit've threadrot, but I would love to hear some more evdience about this (be it anecdotal or scientific, if you're comfortable with that...)

09:51 / 15.04.04

You can have my ghost if you want.I moved to a haunted house,it's not a very exiting ghost.You must be bored if you want a ghost,yes buy yourself a quija board and invite a few spirits in if you want to be thrilled and amazed by phemonona!