"Infernal Love" with Miss Scarlet Dear Miss Scarlet, I am having some severe troubles in bed of late. I have contracted some sort of venereal disease but the local healers are baffled how to treat it. Not only have I gone impotent but I am covered in rashes and sores, I toss and turn all night and it feels like I am walking on broken glass every where I go. No concoction of herbs or medicines has been able to touch it. The worst part of it is that my wife doesn't even seem to care! She just gets this smug look every time I mention how bad it is! Do you have any experience with this? -Signed, Suffering in the Jade Lotus Dear Suffering, I find that often our woes are our own faults in the end. Perhaps you should stop cheating on your wife with that geisha at the tea house and your troubles will resolve themselves. Dear readers,
Miss Scarlet's advice and reputation was recently impinged by none other than Aigie Ryder, Headmistress of the Cabbalan College of Obscure Arts, in her letter to the editor on the subject of my recommendation to Jilted in Jade Lotus. First of all, on the subject of my bona fides, let me state that Miss Scarlet is well versed in matters of the arcane, and has been serving up spells and hexes for quite some time and to great effect. Readers can trust the veracity of any such advice offered. Second, as to the nature of the hex recommended, it did not come from any Ogre's cookbook, but rather from the Books of Shadows of many a hedge mage, witch or warlock. The particular recipe offered is known as a Jar Hex or Witch Bottle and is a time honoured technique used for centuries upon centuries by practioners of the Craft. The witch bottle may be used as either a curse or as protection from one, depending on its contents and intent, and is a very basic example of targeted manifestation. It is often the first such hex or ward learned and, due to its exceedingly simple construction with readily available items, can be affected by very nearly anyone. I do agree with Miss Ryder that there are more powerful curses with better ratios of input to output but such was not my intent to arm the readers or Mrs Jilted with them. Curses such as a fetish doll are easy to unintentionally take too far especially in the hands of a novice motivated by the unfaithfulness one's husband. I submit that a Jar Hex with it's reliable but generalized effects and innocuous appearance is the perfect recipe for revenge to be offered to a jilted housewife of limited experience and means. Thirdly, decorum prevents me from impugning the reputation and credentials of Miss Ryder in a public fashion as she has so readily done to me. I would offer the advice that if she wishes to dish on the subject of magic in such a fashion perhaps she might be better served by securing her own column with the Multifarious Monthly Review which I am sure would be welcomed by the editors. Comments are closed.
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