Saturday 24 July 2010

Curse The Tax Man

Curse The Tax Man
MOGOSOIA, Romania - A person curses the tax man, but Romanian witches hurt about having to pay up for the crest time are measures to use cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the rule and direct. Each among Romania's most modern taxpayers are destiny tellers - but they maybe want grasp seen it coming. Superstitions are no laughing material in Romania - the land of the medieval autonomous who romantic the "Dracula" word - and grasp been part of its culture for centuries...Romanian witches from the east and west drive lead to the southern plains and the Danube Allow on Thursday to foreshadow the direct with spells and spirits in the function of of the tax law, which came within effect Jan. 1. A dozen witches drive plunge the injurious mandrake work on within the Danube to put a hex on direct officials "so evil drive come about them," theoretical a witch named Alisia. She accepted herself with one name - everyday among Romania's witches. "This law is idiotic. In the same way as is submit to tax, being we unimportant earn anything?" she theoretical by cry out Wednesday. "The lawmakers don't bite the bullet at themselves, at how extensively they make, their tricks; they pinch and they come to us asking us to put spells on their enemies." The new law is part of the government's aspiration to bring together higher return and tap down on tax prevention in a mess that is in recession. In the outer, the less nothing out of the ordinary professions of witch, oracle and destiny whisperer were not lay aside in the Romanian roll along recipe, as were group of embalmer, clean and bucketing literary. Relations who worked group jobs hand-me-down their lack of registration to stall paying annuity tax. Out cold the new law, comparison any self-employed quantity, they drive pay 16 percent annuity tax and make gifts to health and pension programs.Slightly struggle the law drive be rough to disturb, as the expenses to witches and astrologers when all's said and done are finished in money and somewhat near to the ground at 20 to 30 lei (7-10) per phone call. (1)

In Pullover, of course, witches and astrologers are licenced under the Cryptogram and Events Law, and pay assessment comparison everybody moreover. But wouldn't it be wonderful if someone put a hex on the Treasury Priest for putting up GST, so that all his hair roll out out? Perhaps they at what time did?

Indeed, modern neopaganism in Western culture, such as Wicca or modern Druidry, frowns upon curses.

Utmost Wiccans are against baneful magic - that is, to go away harm to latest put away magical method, or to spy with another's free drive.

One of the recipe arguments that Wiccans use is that in the so-called Wiccan Rede:

Supervision the Threefold Law you want,

Three mature bad and three mature good.(4)

or acknowledged as:

Customarily Supervision The Give orders Of Three


Three Grow old Your Acts Reappear To Thee

This Just Thoroughly, Thou Prerequisite Acquire

Thou By yourself Gets In the same way as Thee Dost Result in

This, very memorable as the "law of return" says that if you do an evil spell, it drive return or glance off to you threefold, time a good act drive very do so.

This is a far cry from Romania, or the drab cunning folk traditions of Pullover and Guernsey, being curses possibly will be resolved substantially, in what amounted to what amounted to a friendly of magical protection cry. An good example of this comes from Stephen Dewar's catalog on "The Contemptibility Eye in Guernsey:

In 1914, Mrs Puddle was charged by the Constable with destiny evocative, interpreting dreams. Mrs Outen had asked for control protection at what time a spell had been cast on her by Mrs Puddle condemning her to die unless she rewarded a assured sum (allegedly a fee) to Mrs Puddle. A control hunt by PC Lihou revealed mystifying six packers of powders cool as a cucumber of flour, unhappy starch, salt and burning powder.

It transpired that the very last October, Mrs Outen's pigs had died and gone to Mrs Puddle who revealed (by divining tea foliage in a tea cup) that her pigs and her partner had died from witchcraft, and she was in fact under a spell. Powders were resolved to her to overthrow as a counter-spell. Mrs Puddle was charged not with witchcraft, but with "rowdy call together". The Constable was amazed that everybody possibly will suppose such possessions in this day and age.

And yet credulity is on the pull out. Clear bite the bullet at the sections for Tarot, destiny evocative, Wiccan spells etc in odd book sellers - from a near to the ground stand up tucked outdated in bookshops in the 1970s, it now takes up a celebrated invoice of space within book shops. But occasion submit grasp been adherent demonstrations against GST increases, I grasp yet to see any friendly of action in Pullover comparison that taken by Romanian witches.

In all probability 13 speed want chant and move around the Magnificence Set to rights being the States is present, in the function of they by a long shot couldn't overthrow less unearth than they overthrow of adherent demonstrations or petitions.

Now is a faint incantation they possibly will use, which I understand was hand-me-down at a coven in Wiltshire, between May 22 to June 19 in 1971 by the presiding legitimate, a Holy woman who had a prediliction for the dark arts, a be adjacent to Mr Magister:

Ymar dah a elttil bmal!

Sti eceelf saw etihw sa wons!

Dna ereh wyreve taht ymar tnew!

Eht bmal saw erus ot og!

Links:


(1) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110105/ap on re eu/eu romania witchcraft

(2) http://wicca.timerift.net/curse.shtml

(3) http://wicca.timerift.net/laws/credo.shtml

(4) http://www.mystikgarden.com/Ethics.htm