Yeah I know that last post about the method of breaking the Evil eye was bordering on breaking that rule. I'm really trying here to present some traditions and concepts. Personally that method I presented even if it is a historical practice isn't something I would want to do. I'd be more apt to try one of the many other methods mentioned in this thread.
Kassandra wrote:.13. Discussion of certain topics is not allowed. Prohibited discussions include, but are not necessarily limited to, blood drinking, the use of bodily fluids in spells, sex magick, using magic for revenge, using animal parts in spells, invoking evil spirits to do your bidding... and other stuff related to dark arts. While we understand that you may wish to learn about these subjects, even if you don't intend to be involved with them, we don't want to attract certain types of people to our forum by showing up in Internet searches for those keywords. It's our experience that people who are into that sort of stuff usually behave badly and end up banned from the board.
This rule is one of the reasons I haven't started a thread I was thinking about starting regarding the ethics and physical practices of folk magic vs more modern traditions of magic today as well as why I haven't started the discussion on curse breaking that I was thinking about. Some of the sample spells I was going to include for historical reference contain some of those items.
I'm sure I bordered on breaking that rule when I mentioned a counter to the Evil eye in the evil eye thread that uses spit. Yet at the same time I felt that I was providing a bit of historical and cultural context to the discussion that was important. So for me some aspects of folk magic are things that border on if they are appropriate for here.
When you think about it, the ethics of when some of these traditions were started were much different than they are in today's society. For example there was a time when it was considered perfectly acceptable within society to sacrifice an animal for a spell or ritual, while today that idea and concept is considered horrid. That is just one example out of many that I have found.
I was thinking that a thread to address how to adapt some of those practices to today's world and still keep them being folk magic would be beneficial, but again the content and context would be bordering that line. Again I want to start a thread about that, but I'm not sure how I could without breaking some aspects of that rule.
I may end up writing up the outline of the OP for the threads I mentioned I want to start and PMing them to Star to ask if the way they are presented would be appropriate, and if not how I could rework those to make them work within her guidelines. It can be difficult to discuss folk magic considering that some of the practices may not be considered "normal" in today's magical world.