Would you have made this post had the thread been about de-sanctifying a christian church?
I would assume the parties involved would go through the suggested rituals for the one that speaks most strongly to their tradition and that would provide them the greatest feeling of security and comfort.
Wait – so long as we’re granting for the sake of argument that mirrors can be ‘imprinted with negative intentions’ for use as a weapon, aside from its ‘primary use of deflecting attacks,’ then we don’t really need to bring unicorns (or water pixies, or the Hulk) into this, right? Can’t we just say: “Why Not Use A Mirror?”
There are threads all the time like “How did God turn Lot into a pillar of salt?” (maybe not that exact example, but you get the idea). If it’s not addressed in the holy text, and assuming that skeptical inquiry isn’t the intent, then really, on what basis is the discussion supposed to proceed, and how would you know when it’s answered?
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I would assume the parties involved would go through the suggested rituals for the one that speaks most strongly to their tradition and that would provide them the greatest feeling of security and comfort.
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Let’s not assume. I’m asking the question. OP, if you don’t already know the right answer, how will you know it when you see it?
Faith. Discussion. Logic, of a sort. Have you ever been to a catholic mass, for example? You won’t find the schema for one in the bible, but that doesn’t stop the RCC from explaining exactly what one should and shouldn’t do as part of it.
:eek: You…are a genius!
Because two mirrors together do not annul each other, they amplify.
Yes, the OP is very much about “magic thought”. Yes, it’s Dumbo’s feather. So? If it works, let the little elephant have it! Psychiatry uses the same mechanisms, it simply wraps them in a different kind of ritual. In the end, it boils down to “for certain conditions, the healing process starts with the conviction that you can and shall get better” - it doesn’t do for ca physical illness, but for anxiety and for other emotional and behavioral problems it does.
sigh Are you being deliberately obtuse? My point is that either it exists in a canonical text (such as instructions for a mass) (which is a perfectly good answer) or it doesn’t. Either it’s not supposed to work any real effect (which is a perfectly good answer) or it is. I’m just asking the question.
That’s a stupid point. I look forward to your next argument where you postulate that either birds fly or they don’t.
And why do they appear every time you are near?
I’m still not clear if this unspecified negative affect is something that has happened and thus needs to be nullified separate from the disposition of the mirror, or if this is an effect that will go away if the mirror goes away. I mean, you could cover the affected mirror with a large black cloth but if the effects have been transferred to the victim already then that doesn’t solve the problem. Some traditions suggest that the spell can be broken if it is turned back upon the sender, either in person (by getting them to look into the mirror) or by proxy (placing an effigy or some representative object in front of the mirror). Or there’s the whole smashing thing.
Frankly, you could do worse than follow ZPG Zealot’s plan, although I’d really prefer that you not throw shards of glass into the surf where others could later step on them. Who knows - it might even work to solve whatever the hell the problem is.
I still want to know what the magic mirror’s bad juju does…again, there’s huge differences between a Mirror Accurs’ed that promotes negative ego-self actualization and bad hair days and one that transmogrifies the one who gazes upon it into a small purple toadstool.
How can we possibly give an answer as to how to make the curse reverse until we know it’s effect first?*
*props to Stephen Sondheim.
Deliberate obtuseness it is, then. Noted for future reference.
But my question to the OP still stands… you requested a “genuine answer”. Ruling out these factors:
what does “genuine” mean to you?
If someone came to me with this, I would first like to find out if they want to keep the mirror. If not, ZPG’s technique is effective, although I would recommend burrying the shards in a box, rather than throwing them in water, but it’s a small difference of Paths, and really, whatever feels righter to the person is the way to go. If they want to keep the mirror, I suggest sageing, running a flame over all surfaces, salting, soaking it in water - running water if at all possible- and then leaving it praise in the ground for a full moon cycle before finally, carefully cleaning the mirror and frame with anointing oil while visualizing a nice clean, normal mirror. I would probably come up with some banishing chant for each step, as well, but I don’t specifically know Stregga chants to be much help there. This is not a quick and easy fix, because mirrors are so very good at deflection. But a cleaning and banishment with all 5 elements and the Moon is the way this Witch would go.
Jeez, guys. What difference does it make whether the mirror is actually possessed or whether it’s a bunch of mumbo-jumbo?
It’s bugging her, and if there is something in her house that’s bugging her, she should fix the problem. Most of us would just throw it out or give it to Goodwill, but for whatever reason, that won’t be enough to ease her mind, so she wants to do something more. Is it any skin off your nose?
For what it’s worth, I don’t believe in magic mirrors myself, but I was curious about what methods people would suggest. I wasn’t going to post except you people annoyed me with your threadshitting.
But now that I’m posting–I’ll say that from a non-believer’s perspective, ZPG Zealot’s suggestion sounds best to me. Destroy that motherfucker. But please don’t flush the glass bits down the toilet. Sewage systems aren’t designed to handle that stuff.
My apologies for threadshitting. Admittedly I am obviously not a believer, but I am genuinely curious how one would choose the most correct of multiple sincere answers.
Other options include throwing the mirror out of a moving car onto the highway, scattering the shards on the Galapagos Islands, or mixing them into some muffins for the homeless.
This. But just to be safe this Witch would have 5 different people each eat 5 different flavors of Pringles and then simultaneously shit on the mirror while each chants a different cleansing spell. Then break the mirror into five different pieces and have each person take their piece to a different body of salt water and then smash the piece before tossing it in. Each piece should be destroyed and thrown in the water under a different phase of the moon.
“How should I dispose of an old mirror” is a perfectly reasonable question that I suspect would receive a very different response.
If someone asked me how to get the leprechaun in his ear to stop singing “MacArthur Park,” I’d refer him to a doctor. What I wouldn’t do is help him pore through stacks of Gaelic spellbooks just in case the leprechaun was real.
My dad was a witch for a while (really), so maybe my answer is the correct one, it could be genetic. It just came to me as I was typing, so maybe it was the mysterious powers of the earth and tides that made me write that response.
I won’t be held responsible for anyone failing to follow what was probably a physical manifestation of elemental majick using me as its vessel.
Then you could have just closed the thread.
The mirror isn’t cursed. That’s what you actually look like.