Curses and Hexes

The Horn & Cauldron

Greeting’s heathens and witches,

Welcome to the Horn and Cauldron podcast…

Cursing and hexing is a controversial subject within the pagan community. The whole idea around curses being evil or giving you bad luck is not as deeply rooted in magical practice as you might think, especially in ancient times. In this episode, we explore the concept of the Three-fold Law, and the phrase "An it harm none, do what ye will" and how they came to be, and the division of ‘High’ or ‘White’ magic and ‘Low’ or ‘Black’ magic.

We go over several ancient curses, from a variety of sources—some of which dating back thousands of years! As usual, we spend a bit of time talking about our own experiences and preferences with curses and hexes.

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Book of Shadows and Grimoires, Episode 30: https://youtu.be/eI-SOxxCZ6A?si=ziHwH3tHKaMwjY4r

Pub Chat: Magical Pain Management, Charles Cordell, Magic in Media: https://youtu.be/BDscjZxzXMY?si=bqrBP2QLA4cxzzN2

Pub Chat: Magical Home Protection, Raymond Howard, Magic in Media: https://youtu.be/2Ea34XzUUtk?si=orBiyvObsW5KCRAo

Pub Chat: Astral Projection, Gerald Gardner, Magic in Media: https://youtu.be/dSXrgyssIR8?si=ZVKJkiB06n9V_ch9

Pub Chat: Craft Names, Doreen Valiente, Discovery of Witches Magic Review: https://youtu.be/9dczvgWLM1s?si=eVgc5cJbskNu6veH

Toxic Internet Witchcraft, Episode 22: https://youtu.be/BBaJ0rGufEQ?si=DCNWdIokJkFPteVp

Handfasting and Love Magic, Episode 32: https://youtu.be/1cjlaJCvDUY?si=a6Sb5v_XEthpiKfI

Intro to Modern Odinism, Epsiode 25: https://youtu.be/D2hFPkF0fw8?si=RAnGcPyowZ2nUyXy

Sources:

· https://ia600208.us.archive.org/22/items/TheGreekMagicalPapyriInTranslation/The_Greek_Magical_Papyri_in_Translation.pdf page 158

· https://www.icelandicmagic.com/products/sorcerers-screed?variant=32514479884 page 141

· https://grapevine.is/mag/2021/10/14/the-mysterious-book-of-sorcerers-screed/

· https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse

· https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinx

· https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_pharaohs

· https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Diamond

· https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_magic

· https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execration_texts