Deborah Gray - How to Make Bad Things Happen to Awful People: Spells for Revenge, Power & Protection (Stop a Gossip, Repel a Creep, Turn the Tables . . . and More)

Copyright 2019 Deborah Gray

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted
in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,
recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission
in writing from Hampton Roads Publishing, Inc.

Reviewers may quote brief passages.

Cover and text design Kathryn Sky-Peck

Using llustrations by Lilla Blecz

Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.

Charlottesville, VA 22906

Distributed by Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

www.redwheelweiser.com

Sign up for our newsletter and special offers by going to
www.redwheelweiser.com/newsletter/

ISBN: 978-1-57174-848-5

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request.

Printed in Canada

MAR

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

You deserve
to be protected
be a winner
and be avenged!

Life is beautiful... but crossing paths with awful people can make your life a misery.

Let's face it: some people are just horrible beasts.

Why not live your life free from stresswhile getting back at that love rat who dumped you or the toady traitor who sabotaged your dreams?

Revenge may not be sweet, but it sure packs a punch against your enemies.

Don't just get mad, get even

Time to throw out the painful past and win back your pride and passion for the future.

So get yourself armed and charmed with the humorous hexes, protection spells, and banishing incantations within this book. Get your mojo back on the scoundrels who have sabotaged your dreamsthen learn to laugh out loud again while regaining your personal power.

And don't worry, while you are stirring up the hocus pocus to move things in your favor, these cheeky charms won't cause any real damage.

Actually it can be great karma to magically influence a repeat offender to wake up to their heinous behaviorbefore they go on to inflict even worse treachery on their next victim.

No horrible beasts have been harmed
during the casting of these spells

(of course, there is no guarantee that they won't feel the cold winds of change blowing around them).

Rest assured, with this level of expert witchy advice, any unforeseen journeys into the cruel, cold side of life will soon become a little easier to handle.

Hexing is not new. In fact it's a classical part of our world history. Despite going underground for a time in the middle ages, witchery has never really wavered in popularity.

The human need for rituals of revenge is as old as time itself and has been documented since the beginning of the written word.

During the times of Julius Caesar, the people of Rome took to their revered places of worship with sheets of malleable lead and scribbled upon them incantations of protection and revenge over their foes.

After sliding the softened metallic notes to the Gods into the sacred walls of their temples, they often would finish off these folk-charmed events with a celebratory banquet themed on the certainty that, despite doing nothing illegal or actually committing an act of physical violence, revenge on their personal wrongdoers was inevitableif not sooner, then definitely later.

The Ancient Greeks, centuries before the Romans, also knew that the universal forcesor as they liked to call them, the Gods of the Pantheonwere connected to our human consciousness and therefore connected to our past, present, and future psychological health.

Those old philosophers and writers of the texts of Hellenic wisdom, along with the Druid masters within all the ancient Celtic lands and many other cultures of old, allowed that rituals were a door into understanding the natural and supernatural world around us. Importantly, ritual was also a way of averting disasters and attaining a sense of control over our destinyeven if all they attained was a feeling of being in control.

Wise ones, magicians, astrologers, high priests and priestesses, all the pagan world scholars usually practiced sorcery. Being great observers of nature and human behavior, they categorized everything around them in lists of their corresponding magical and medicinal meanings. Corresponding magic is based on the belief that each plant, animal, season, and stage of the sun and moon had unique but universally aligned aspects which, if understood and directed toward a purpose, could be used as a ritual tool for hundreds of different spells of fertility, love, success, and revenge.

The philosophers and the magicians of many cultures around the world knew that human power begins in the brain.

Hexing can be great for your healthfighting back is vital!

It was essential that their minds, usually so crowded with anxious thoughts and instinctual fears, could be switched off by ritual when needed, in order to heal from the daily bumps and battles and to get on with the practical day-to-day of material life.

Hexing can be great for your healthfighting back is vital!

Holding on to resentment or allowing people to hurt you also means you are enabling them to go on hurting other people as well.

A protection spell can actually do a lot of good by speeding up important life lessons. Obsessing over the pain of treachery can lead you to become fearful of partaking in everything that life has to offer, therefore missing out on future happiness. That's where a magical dash of delicious vengeance can really hit the spot and turn any sad, tortured memories around.

As Shakespeare said,

Grief softens the mind.

Think therefore on revenge and Cease to Weep!

Of course, actually committing acts of vigilante style revenge is neither advisable nor legal. After all, what is the point of getting up close and physically angry with someone, and then ending up worse off than before? You may even lose your job or get shunned by your friends and family. So, what is the solution? This is where turning your pain around through the virtual quantum world of magic comes in so handy.

Basically you get all of the delight of the privately experienced paybackwithout it swinging back onto you.

Witches have been casting spells of love, stirring up healing potions and good-luck charms, casting astrology charts and performing readings, looking into our past and future for millennia.

The language of old magic is as varied and fascinating as the hundreds of cultures that have embraced its spell.

Sorcerers of all eras and persuasions practice magically weaving and bending time and space in their own way and to cause changes within themselves through rituals of self-exploration.

The magic within these pages is based not upon casting spells to control others or to become master/mistress over someone else's life, but instead to look at empathic connections between all of us that can be empowered and protected against when needed to create changes within ourselves and to positively affect the world around us.