(05-15-2024, 01:57 PM)GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote:(05-15-2024, 01:29 PM)FlickerOfLight Wrote: I believe that last part with all my heart. I think the situation would have lead someone to hex granny despite the repercussions.
I'll divulge.
This is back in the late 1940's and 1950's this was going on.
Apparently my grandfather had been sleeping around with all the town women. Even getting them pregnant and having nothing to do with them.
Many homes and familys were destroyed.
We all now what happens when a "woman is scorned."
There were many scorned women involved.
Granny and her entire family became the community's public enemy number 1.
Backtrack some of this and their were known witches involved. Apparently gran-daddy liked a "bad girl" and was an severe adulterer.
Back in the 40's and 50's this was highly frowned upon. Granny became divorced. Thats when everyone really excommunicated her and her entire family. They were chased out pitch fork and torch style pretty much.
My granny was an innocent in all of this from what I gathered. Faithful wife, and good mother to 5 children. Her husband was an adulterer.
Theres more but you all deserve some of the meat of this.
To any young reader, things were very different back then.
Apparently this shit got real ugly. They had to move out of state because of this.
That explains a lot! Sad for your granny but times were different then.
It is really unfortunate that so many women target the innocent in their vindictiveness rather than the person who really deserves their ire. Sounds like your grandpa was a scoundrel! Somebody wanted granny and kids out of the way so she could have grandpa to herself but I highly doubt it worked out that way. My guess is that either she didn't "get her golden goose" or if she did he treated her much, much worse than he ever treated granny much to her regret. That's where that Law of Three comes home to roost!
(05-15-2024, 05:33 AM)Schmoe Wrote: I'll look into the Law of Three, but since I know nothing about witchcraft, I'll pick your brain a bit if you don't mind.
What do witches believe in, or do they have different sects with different beliefs?
Different sects, different beliefs, as varied as any other religious system. Nowadays the concept of the "coven" isn't as important anymore just as many Christians do their own thing rather than attend a formal congregation. You can follow an established path or you can create your own path.
The Law of Three could be compared to karma for lack of a better term, though rather than the results of karma manifesting in one's next incarnation the results come fast and hard. Whatever you do on this plane returns to you threefold. If you do good it comes back to you three times as much as you give, the same with bad but often times the multiplier is much more than three and it seems that the return of bad is much, much faster than the return of good.
I find it very interesting that the laws of karma are the same no matter which religious goggles you look through.
Thank you, GHLd.
Hell, there are some people who use "Christianity" for evil. There are people who use "giving" for evil. I've seen "love" weaponized
The intention of the heart makes all the difference.
The constant adultery of my grandfather, who was very well off at the time, ruined so many families and home. An entire community cast, not only him out, but his family as well. He was found to have two families going; one in secret, and on public. The company that he worked for even fired him. My granny went to his job and begged them not to fire him. Blamed it on herself, and he was allowed to keep his job. His family was looked at as pure evil. Even the church, that they had been life long members of, cast them out. The town folk were constantly vandalizing their property. The kids in school were no allowed to play with my moms family; and because of wicked parenting and evil gossiping, even the children ridiculed, beat up, chastised and cast aside that family.
My granny gets pregnant with my mom in hopes of keeping her husband and saving her family at this point...
My grandaddy leaves my granny. Before mom was even born. My grandmother is now pregnant with her 5th child (my mom).
My grandfather leaves them and goes to his secret family....and lives out his life with them....and never has anything to do with his wife or children ever again.
Things got worse for granny and her family.
Attacks from all fronts.
A certain family decided they wanted that family dead.
Many attempts were made. There was even a suspicious "suicide" that sounds like a covered up murder of one of the cousins who had come there to protect the family.
Things were stolen constantly.
This is where granny turns to any help she can get. They eventually move out of state very soon after this.
I'll end here.
Someone somewhere along the way put a curse or hex on them. To what degree I do not know. From what I can tell looking back, and what has happened to my family since all of this, my guess is it was a powerful spell.
That's from all the things I've seen and learned.
Thanks for reading, RN.
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