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Updated: April 30, 2025
As an image of the person to be bewitched was used by the workers of magic, so an image of her 'who hath bewitched me' is used by the worker of the counter-spell, with the words: 'May her spell be wrecked, and upon her And upon her image may it recoil.
The spell invokes "moderate rain and showers"; and as an additional precaution there is a counter-spell against "excessive rains and floods": the weather-faucet being thus under exact control. There are not many of the emergencies of life with which the priest is not authorized to deal; not many natural phenomena for which he may not claim the credit.
The consequences of all this seclusion to a highly imaginative and totally unregulated mind, must have been much worse than putting me to sleep in the haunted room, for in that I had my counter-spell and long use had almost endeared me to it and its grotesque carvings but this dismally large school-room, generally so instinct with life, so superabounding in animation, was painfully fearful, even from the contrast.
Thus, from the words: 'As the water trickleth away from his body So may the pestilence in his body trickle away, it is obvious that this counter-spell accompanied a ceremonial rite of the kind indicated by the words.
Their typical feature is that they include some such phrase as, 'Whoever thou art, O witch, I bind thy hands behind thee, or 'May the magic thou hast made recoil upon thyself. If the victim is being turned yellow by sickness, the counter-spell is 'O witch, like the circlet of this seal, may thy face grow yellow and green.
But there, too, is to be found the counter-spell by which that progress may be effectually checked; and it is only by mastering that secret and applying it to the future conduct of the struggle that we can hope to ward off the dangers that encompass us. Germany is like no other State known to human history.
"I am afraid of that Great Bear," she declared, eying the ball-sticks askance as he came up. Then revealing his theory of the spell that old Cheesto had wrought upon him in Tus-ka-sah's interest, Amoyah proposed a counter-spell which would defeat Tus-ka-sah. "But Cheesto can still send you trouble if you have a wife," she argued. "Ah, no," the specious Amoyah replied.
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