Hey Hiphopolx,
Talk about coincidence. I had a doh! moment when I realised I had left out cleansing bath in my 'what would I do' scenario. I was going to say spiritual baths will strengthen your aura, and weaken the attacks and remembered an incident involving a spiritual bath, and wouldn’t you know it, a love spell.
I was going to say how, this one time, I had become involved with a deeply Christian Nigerian man. Everything about him was an anomaly, he was the antithesis of the sort of men I date, so naturally, these red flags were the equivalent to mating signals lol, however, he was erudite enough to be free of the rigor mortis mentality that staunch Christians are known to adopt. An example of this is the first time he set eyes on my African ritual masks, the photographs of my Ancestors, an image of my Saints, another of Laxmi, and a pretty fearsome one of Mwariama, former leader of the Mau Mau.
Here is Mwariama (on the right, the loc'd man) with President Jomo Kenyatta.
He took in all these images, and must have come to the conclusion that I was an image short of being a full blown Satanist, so having mentally filed me under 'B' for Backsliding heathen, and without skipping a beat, asked if he could have tea. Actually he was more concerned that I didn't own a television. Anyway, it was around this time, that Metasaience had posed the question of 'binding' a man to me. I have never felt the need to, and by this I mean, I rarely date, and when I do, I get antsy pretty quickly. I also have unique views on cheating, so that is never a concern for me. Nonetheless, I decided to do an experiment to see if I could bind myself to him. I know this makes no sense, but as a witch on training wheels, I am always up to test a hypothesis.
I will not bore you with the details, but it involved a witch's jar, and I soon forgot about it because I ended the relationship shortly after thus I figured it did not 'take'. Unfortunately, it did. The effects of the binding started to manifest, and the only way I can describe the feelings/emotions that overcame me, is to compare them to a craving, bordering on obsession. All I did was think and talk about him; it was so dire, that had we gotten back together, he could have slapped my Mother and I would have turned to her and said 'Ma, what have I told you about talking back to my baby'.
Fortunately, I do my weekly spiritual bath, and after 6 days of madness, I was cleansed of all the effects of the binding. My unspoken pledges of undying love were reset to neutral. Ironically, all this didn’t click till I did some reflection, so even if I wanted to, I can't explain this event away as being a coincidence of sorts.
So in answer to your question, do I know love spells? yes, I do; binding, attraction and marital love spells. Are there adverse side effects to them? There can be. I know of people who have died after being given potent love potions, the luckier ones are pretty much mindless zombies (that is in Africa though, not in the Diaspora).
It would indeed be an interesting thread! I particularly enjoy hearing about attraction spells done by men, only for them to end up taking home a 'woman' with a bigger..well..
True story!
Peace,
Alexandra
