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Defixiones... The Curse Tablet

Defixiones which means to BIND or to CURSE and thus these are also known as the curse tablets. Usually made in lead with high tin content. The material is batted and flattened in rectangular sheet. The use of tin is more as it enables the sheet to be written on. It makes the surface soft and a stylus kind of thing is used to write on the sheet. After the curse or the prayer or the matter is written on to it, it is folded in such a way that the written surface is inside and then either it is kept in this state or is nailed to the coffin of the dead. Horrifying.. what has the dead to do with the tablets? This was a tradition practiced in the ancient Greco-Roman civilization as a part of some magic to bind, curse, destroy, pray for any person, business, place, love, emotion and almost everything. These tablets were found buried in the graves or nailed to the coffin or also sometimes found hanging from the old temple walls. The temple wall tablets where usually prayers for someone to...

The PENTACLE....

                              The Pentacle: Is a five pointed star, encircled. It signifies variously the circle of the earth. The five pointed pertain to the 5 sacred elements Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit. It is worn around the neck in the same fashion with the single point facing upwards. When it is pointed downwards means the two points upside, its a banishing symbol used basically by the worshiper of the Satan. The pentacle is the most common symbol that's used by Wiccan, Pagans and Neo- Pagans in there practices and rituals. It is said that the completed cosmos is made up of these 5 elements. Even the human body is a composition of these 5 elements. Any disturbance happening in these elements shows up as some physical/emotional disturbance in the human body and this points is well documents in the ancient yogic texture of Ind...