Hex Appeal
Nov. 9th, 2004 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyHeh. The SMH's Spike column nailed the downside for women of the popularisation of witchcraft:
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Ladies, forget feminism. It seems all you need to succeed in life these days is a few nifty spells. A copy of a new book, Hex Appeal: Seductive Spells for the Sassy Sorceress, landed on the Spike desk yesterday, and boy did it make for some interesting reading. Did you know that if you want to make your man call you, all you have to do is light incense, carve an arrow into a candle and recite the following: "Hear my will, I am in your heart, I am in your mind, I am in your thoughts, you need to call me, you want to call me, you will call me," nine times. Or then again you could just call him. The book also advises how to stop men falling asleep after sex, curb a boyfriend's bad habits, and turn an ex into a toad. Very useful.
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Wicca and Paganism can teach women the confidence to find and use power, but it can also divert us into games of powerlessness. Spells, like prayer, are only part of achieving your goals - as in the familiar story of the chap on the roof of the flooded house who refuses rescue because God will save him, or the oft-quoted Buttprints in the Sand.
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Ladies, forget feminism. It seems all you need to succeed in life these days is a few nifty spells. A copy of a new book, Hex Appeal: Seductive Spells for the Sassy Sorceress, landed on the Spike desk yesterday, and boy did it make for some interesting reading. Did you know that if you want to make your man call you, all you have to do is light incense, carve an arrow into a candle and recite the following: "Hear my will, I am in your heart, I am in your mind, I am in your thoughts, you need to call me, you want to call me, you will call me," nine times. Or then again you could just call him. The book also advises how to stop men falling asleep after sex, curb a boyfriend's bad habits, and turn an ex into a toad. Very useful.
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Wicca and Paganism can teach women the confidence to find and use power, but it can also divert us into games of powerlessness. Spells, like prayer, are only part of achieving your goals - as in the familiar story of the chap on the roof of the flooded house who refuses rescue because God will save him, or the oft-quoted Buttprints in the Sand.
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