To Protect Yourself Or A Loved One Against, Or Remove Evil Influences: For Yourself First, you must bathe your entire body in salt water (black salt is best). Do not use soap or bath additives. Then, go unclothed into your ritual room. Use one of the following incense: Bayberry, Frankincense, Mulberry (best), Myrrh (best alternative), Vetivert. With the same oil as the incense you are using, anoint under your eyes, on your lips (do not ingest), diaphragm, navel and thighs. Light three black candles on a table. Hold up a goblet and breathe into it three times. Raise the goblet over your head and breathe deeply in and out three times. Then, bring the intent, influences or enemy to your mind and say Eko, Eko, Eko, Gaia, Goddesses of protection, I offer to you my breath of life that you may protect it. Eko eko eko. Then, take any herbal element and burn it in the goblet, that the evil intent or influence may burn with it.

To protect or remove evil influence on a loved one, have the person bathe in salt water, then lie unclothed on their, or your bed (or your altar, if it is sufficiently large and durable. Place three black candles on a table next to their right side diametric with the navel. Use the same incense and anointing oil as listed above. Summon Gaia or the Orishas as you anoint the person in the manner previously delineated. Voice which evil influence you wished to have banished from her or him (i.e. drug or alcohol use, habits, wayward life path, peer pressure) or the specific "hex" you wished removed, if this is the case. Or you may ask the person be protected from all evil. If you are Christian, you may also invoke the Triune (Father God Yahweh, Jesus, Son of God and The Holy Spirit). You will find no conflict, since Gaia is the Greco-Phonecian named Spiritpower protector created by God; the Orishas in Christian terms would be " Guardian Angels."

The Roman Catholic Church performs the Exorcism rite which commands the evil influence, as or from the Satan-Lucifer, to come out of the body of the possessed in the name of the Father (Yahweh), Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit. Pure water consecrated by a Priest, Holy Water, is used for the anointing of the subject. By edict of the Holy See), only an ordained Priest may perform the Exorcism ritual. In Wicca, Santeria, Voudon and The Elueshera, other rituals are used in the stead of Exorcism. In Santeria and Voudon, virgin chicken blood is used for anointing and a martyr Saint (Philomena, for one), as well as the Orishas are evoked. Wicca, the Golden Dawn and Elueshera utilize strong banishing powders and oils with intense mantra which you will learn of as you advance. The ritual is, in Eleushera, Exoclesis. If the protection rituals are not working and a situation seems to warrant an immediate remedy, for now consult a Seventh Level mystic. Know and be confident that all evil influences and intent ("hexes") can be overpowered and overcome.

(for you, "Brigid", who posted about a troubling neighbor)