{"id":39853,"date":"2023-05-01T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/witcheslore.com\/?p=39853"},"modified":"2023-05-01T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:40:08","slug":"protection-against-the-dark-a-ritual-to-ward-off-evil-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/spells\/protectionspells\/protection-against-the-dark-a-ritual-to-ward-off-evil-spirits\/","title":{"rendered":"Protection Against the Dark: A Ritual to Ward Off Evil Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The spell wards off evil spirits and protects the individual and their environment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Items needed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A white candle<\/li>\n<li>Salt<\/li>\n<li>A bowl of water<\/li>\n<li>Sage or palo santo<\/li>\n<li>Protection stones (such as black tourmaline or obsidian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ritual:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Begin by lighting the white candle and placing it in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>2. Sprinkle a circle of salt around the candle and sit within the circle.<\/p>\n<p>3. Place the bowl of water next to the candle.<\/p>\n<p>4. Light the sage or palo santo and cleanse the space by waving the smoke around the area.<\/p>\n<p>5. Hold the protection stones in your hands and close your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>6. Visualize a bright light surrounding you, protecting you from any negative energies or evil spirits.<\/p>\n<p>7. Repeat the following incantation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;I call upon the divine light,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Protect me from harm and all fright.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Evil spirits, stay far away,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Only love and light may stay.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>With these stones, I am fortified,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Negative energies now subside.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>8. Place the stones in front of the candle and leave them there to continue protecting you.<\/p>\n<p>9. Spell complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spell wards off evil spirits and protects the individual and their environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5450,5451],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witcheslore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}