7 - Letters To A Witch
"Everything happens to everybody ... sooner or later ... if there is time enough ..."
(George Bernard Shaw)
People always want to know something about themselves, their future, the answer to their problems. Too often, however, they want to be impersonal about it. They think that for two dollars anyone can tell them about their future. I would never bother. I couldn't care less for that type of personality. The world is full of loneliness, and sadness resulting from mixed-up lives. I can become very moved with the idea of sadness in people, but I can't always do anything about it.
Letters come to me by the hundreds, usually right after I have made a broadcast appearance. They tend to either ask for advice, information on how to cast spells, or, in some cases, just friendly correspondence. The friendly ones sadden me: Their reaching out towards a total stranger touches me. It must mean they have no one else to turn to.
As I exhibit a psychic ability on television shows and on two-way radio, people assume that I want to be a fortune teller! I do know things in advance, and I could be a fortune teller, but not every psychic is involved in fortune telling. There are people from all walks of life who are psychic - politicians, lawyers, doctors, businessmen, actors - but no one would dream of asking them for a reading - and surely not for two bucks.
When strangers write to most psychics they get some kind of form letter back, signed, "Friend," and for so many dollars they will mean it! But to me that is the least friendly thing that can be done to lonely people, troubled people. I am friend enough to the strangers to leave them alone. I have enough respect for them as human beings. I'd rather the letter writer assume that I was a lousy person for not answering his letter than send a sickening-sweet form letter.
Difficulties arise in every life. But I don't think anything is all bad. There's some value in almost everything that happens. The thing is to find out where it fits. I really don't believe there is ever a wasted situation. Everything that ever happened to you did something for you. You got something out of it! You gain some kind of insight, even from terrible burdens. To control a problem and compensate for it, you excel in something else. If some people didn't have a little handicap, they wouldn't be what they are. I think everybody is great. Each individual is alive and unique and can offer something of value that nobody else can.
People write to me and many times use the letter to clarify their own thinking. There's nothing wrong with that if it helps them solve problems by spelling them out to a stranger. There are many problems beyond the care or practice of a witch. Why should legal cases, medical problems and financial advice be sought from a witch? Why not contact the proper authorities in the field?
I knew a prostitute who kept calling me for several years. She always wanted her fortune told and the question was always the same: "When is 'Mr. Right' coming for me?" I liked her. She was kind of delightful, charming, naive, and pretty. Like many prostitutes she began her career when she was about twelve or thirteen years old. She had a strict, religious mother and an alcoholic father. She wasn't very smart. She kept having children. She was the kind of prostitute who would go to a party and get maybe one hundred dollars for the night, but there might be fifty guys to service. She always told me how she fell in love with every man she met outside of her work.
She was always ready and waiting to fall in love, and every year she wanted to know if Prince Charming, who would love her for herself and want her to quit her line of work, would show up. But every man she met took advantage of her and would either knock her about, or put her to work for his own profit. A long line of no-good guys. Everybody took advantage of her: queers, pimps, convicts, everybody. She was constantly beaten up and abused. The poor girl was looking for true love, but in the wrong place, in the wrong world. She was never going to find it, never. She was unbalanced and psychiatry didn't help. How could I tell this girl that she was never going to meet a man who was the answer to her dreams?
But there are some answerable problems, questions dealing with witchcraft and common human problems that are typical of any cross section of America. These I can try to answer, even though I sometimes get impatient with the writers. These are real people who write to me, either as a result of television appearances, two-way radio broadcast programmes, or through my syndicated newspaper column, "Sorcery, Spells, Symbols and Stars."
Dear Scorpio,
You may not be, as you stated so clearly in your letter, "enough Josephine for his Napoleon," but you should be credited with a gold star and a capital E for the effort. Yes there are ways to determine emotional compatibility within the frame work of Astrology, but I am afraid I am at a loss to deal with this situation. According to Astrology the position of Mars and Venus in the two Horoscopes may be used as a basis for comparing the Male and Female qualities between the partners. However in the relationship you have outlined it is difficult to determine where one's Josephine leaves off and one's little Corsican begins. One cheering note: The Moon in your chart is in the same sign as the Moon in the other gentleman's chart, and this would suggest that at least you do both have the same idea about women. Good luck.
Dear May 23, 1926
You neglected to explain if the straying male is your lover or husband. There are many spells that might be used to control the situation ... but these vary depending upon the existing conditions. You might serve your lover and/or husband a parsley and zuccini soup seasoned with Mint leaves Basil. Some Witches say this works.
Dear F.R.G. in Venice,
Since you only suspect that the woman has taken some of your personal belongings, I suggest you begin with just a simple spell ... just in case she might be innocent. Each day for nine days mail to her a bird's blue tail feather dipped in olive oil. However ... if you ever discover her guilt for certain ... call the City Attorney. If you still are not able to recover your possessions: Let a green candle burn for seventy-seven days.
Dear Stan in West Los Angeles,
The fact that you have belonged to a Nudist Association for the past seven years is not going to help you get into a legitimate Witches Coven. Why do you stress that your interest in Witchcraft is not sexually motivated? And then find the need to brag that you are considered "pretty good." Since your letter states that you are twenty-two years of age ... it seems to me that your attitude about your abilities stems from your emotional partners no doubt being rejects of some tired seventy year olds. Cool it baby. Cool it!
Dear May the 4,
I do not understand why you should have fainted while trying to cast the Emotional Bondage Spell. Before continuing with the herbs and incense perhaps you had better contact your doctor. Rosemary and Thyme are not known for their intoxicating fumes. It could have been that the candle snuffed out the oxygen in the small enclosed area. Where were you anyway?
Dear Potential Witch (July 19, 1933)
Witchcraft is a discipline activity. When casting spells rituals must be followed exactly if they are to have a powerful effect. You must use a copper bowl for the "Full Moon Ring." A pyrex dish will not do!
Dear H.D. (November 12, 1934)
From what you have written concerning your illicit romance, I am led to believe that you consider yourself to be a pawn and the innocent member of the love partnership. Perhaps ... indeed ... you are a 'victim,' but I would say more a victim of your own emotional and sensational appetites than of anything else. Why not try the Sex Watchers Plan and see if you can control the intake a bit ... for the sake of appearances.
Dear Pisces (March 8, 1922)
All Witches and Wizards do not participate in Orgies. And yes, you are right... I won't give you a list of the ones planned for the Roodmas Festival in April ... And NO ... you can't become a Witch. Witches are female!
Dear November 26, 1928
Thank you for the lock of your hair. I do not feel like casting a spell in order to win back [your] lover ... and so don't expect any improvement in that department to come from my direction. There is a way that you could attempt the project on your own. Try Head and Shoulders.
Dear Desperate Scorpio,
I am surprised that a sexy Scorpio like you has to resort to cry baby tactics. The Emotional Bondage Spell has worked for others ... perhaps your error was in eating the head of garlic rather than wearing it. And please go easy with the red candles, they are very potent. Readers have written in that your spell ... has been affecting their relationships. Try Coral or Pale Pink.
Dear Passionate Pisces,
When a reader writes in that they are never able to find emotional partners ... despite their fascinating attributes ... I question the validity of their gifts. Perhaps True Love Tea would help you ... but I doubt it... and frankly ... I couldn't care less. However ... good luck!
Dear Louise:
I cast your "Sex Seduction Spell" on this guy I liked. Those spells work beautifully. Now he won't leave me alone. Tell me: Is there a way to remove the spell? I still like him, but I want him to love me for me and not for the spell, and I was wondering if I could cast spells for someone else. Is this possible? I'm not a witch but I've had psychic experiences. My birthdate is March 1, 1950. I hope you'll answer my letter soon. This guy is driving me crazy.
Sandy J.
Well, I think Sandy, you're just thrilled to death that he's driving you crazy. You seem to like to be driven crazy. He does love you for you, and not for the spell. You cast the spell. What the spell did was accentuate what you are, and it is you that have done it. All you did was plant the essence of yourself in his subconscious, and he reacted to it. He liked you. So it's you; he's not being deceived. I'd recommend the unwanted lover spell, but that's not what you really want.
Dear Louise:
Can the powers of witchcraft be used to make money? For example, I know a man who is very rich, and I'd like to make him give me a $100,000. Is there any special way I can go about this? He lives 400 miles away. Just exactly how can you live without working? You must have some way of making money. I'm a believer. So help me, I'm not evil-minded - just a groovy, all-turned-on person. I was born Jan. 6, 1948.
William S.
First of all, I guess that if you wanted to cast a spell that psyched you up into believing you were influencing someone to give you money, then were so energetic that you could project your thought, I believe that you might be able to accomplish this. Whether or not you are able to do it is something else again. I doubt that you have that kind of dynamic personality that would enable you to project that. You're not strong enough. If you were so completely turned on to yourself, you wouldn't need a $100,000 gift - you'd have made it yourself. I think one can cast such a spell, but the situation would have to allow for it. You do not seem to me to be the person who could perform this money spell and make it work.
Dear Louise:
My fourteen-year-old son has developed a psychological problem, and I am hoping you can give me some advice on the approach and possible outcome. He is highly intelligent, they say, but extremely withdrawn. His birthdate is November 22 and mine is December 5. I am in the process of arranging special schooling and counselling for him.
The fact that you've written to me, a witch, indicates that you still wish what's happened, whether it's a physical thing or environmental thing, was not your responsibility. You're writing to me to hear that some other thing has caused it, like a hex, some evil spell. But you're starting counseling and are beginning to face up to the fact of what really made this happen. All of your family is involved. I feel you are writing to me because you want a mysterious reason why this kid is the way he is, rather than accepting the responsibility that this is something that took place in your family. Turn to a psychologist, in this case, not a spell.
Dear Louise:
1 want to use the "Sexual Seduction Spell" on a certain girl. I can't say that I love this girl, but I will say that I want her, and I'll do anything to get her. I want to know if there are any spells that could be used. Will you assist in any way you can? Also I would like to learn more about witchcraft, about practising it. I'd like to know if you can make up your own spells or if they have to be set patterns. I was born May 19, 1950. Please don't take this letter lightly. I'm very serious about the whole thing.
Bob M.
You do not love her, so what you want to do is over power her to feed your ego, which is on very shaky ground. The first thing you should do if you want to use witchcraft is to start casting spells on yourself so that you will not need a situation where you must overpower someone. She will come to you because you are so absolutely devastating that it's the only course she can take. If you remain sick and inferior, casting spells won't bring any luck.
The first spell you have to cast is the one to strengthen yourself. The spells are of equal intensity. It's you who should become stronger. You can make up your own spells if you are experienced and powerful through witchcraft. They don't have to have a set pattern, but you have to have a constant pattern once you establish it. Figure out a spell and stick to it. But that's not for novices.
Dear Louise:
I've been a widow since 1962 and I was born July 24, 1902. I want to sell this home and either move to Arizona near my sister or move near my eighty-three-year-old aunt in upstate New York. Do you see me selling this place? And also do you see me meeting a nice man companion? I wouldn't get discouraged if you say no. Also, I'd like to go back to work. I am a beautician and a good one.
Harriet H.
I don't believe you want to go live with your aunt. I think you want to go live with a man. I think you would enjoy it very much, fudging from the tone of your letter, you have reached the point where your own frustration has an effect on your direction, but my reaction is that you are about to meet a man, very soon, because that's what you want to do even though you're not aware of it; that's your next step. Try True-Love Tea.
Dear Louise:
My husband walked out. This is about the third time. He tells me he no longer loves me and wants his freedom. He has been unfaithful many, many times. All in all, I think he could be a good and wonderful person. I still love him. What do you see in the future for us? We have been married nineteen years. My birthday is January 8, 1924 and his is October 17, 1922.
Nora B.
You have obviously operated for nineteen years inside a comfortable pattern. He hurts you, then you love him in spite of it all, and it's very clear and simple to see that this is a pattern that's comfortable for you. Evidently he needs assurance that he'll be loved no matter what he does, and you enjoy the role of loving somebody who's not so nice, who's mean to you. You say, "I still love him." Well, that's questionable. I don't know what love is to you or to him, or if this is a love situation. You're not asking me whether or not you should separate, or whether or not he will change.
You are telling me: "This is my pattern. I love a man who many times acts like he doesn't love me." This is the way you want to live. You are two people who feel inferior, each one doing something that balances out the other's feeling of inferiority. If you wanted to have a different kind of partner, there are all sorts of dynamic things that can be done in witchcraft to energize that part of your psyche so that you would fund the proper partner. But you do not want the proper partner. You like him!
Dear Louise:
I am writing to you to tell you that I think your show was the most fantastic thing on the air, and I truly believe in witchcraft. I wish very much that I was born a witch (June 2, 1953) but unfortunately I am not. I think, however, I have some sort of psychic powers. I mean sometimes I can hate a person so much and wish the worst thing on them, and it will happen. It has happened so many times that it has really convinced me of having the powers. Is there any way that I can control myself? I'd appreciate any help you can give me. Is there a shop where someone can go to purchase objects for spells? I heard of such a shop from someone. Where can I purchase a Mojo? I think you are really fantastic. I hope that some day I can meet and talk with you. Can you possibly give me a spell where I can make a person like me?
Poor kid. It's pretty sad when you have to feel you must cast a spell to make somebody like you. But you strike me as a free young spirit, and it's good you are seeking inner control, especially over hate. Hate is a waste of time. Better spend it casting spells to improve your own life. Try the "Self-Fascination Spell." While you're young it works better. There are so many psychic sixteen and seventeen-year-olds today, it indicates there must be more psychic children being born. Being psychic is more prevalent in children, but by the time you're sixteen or seventeen, you may not be. Babies are intuitive, and so are small children in nursery school, but usually by sixteen and seventeen the power is gone. It gets wiped out, suppressed, conditioned out.
Dear Louise:
I have been told by many people who are knowing in the field that I am a witch. I also feel that I might be, but I can't find my powers; neither have I been able to find someone who could help me. Is there any way I can find out if I'm a witch? My birthdate is January 20, 1944. I would like to see you and talk with you. Would this be possible?
Ellen S.
I don't think you are a witch. It's not possible for you to be a witch and not know it, because when you're a witch you feel your energy; you feel your power. It may be that you could be helped with witchcraft so that you could become a more dynamic individual. A witch has nine dimples on her body. Besides dimples you must be psychic and project your emotions into your environment. Since you haven't done it, you're not a witch.
Dear Louise:
I joined your psychic experiment on television and saw a man I don't know and had never met in my entire life. I concentrated on love, and love to me is a newborn child. This man appeared on the unused television channel as I concentrated, and later he called me. My phone number is unlisted. And he says that he too saw me on his television set. I asked him what image he was trying to project and it was the same as mine, a newborn child. I described him and he described me. He was born October 15, 1948, and I was born October 15, 1948.
All males in his family are wizards and all women in my family have been witches, except for my grandmother and my mother. Yet since I was a small child, I've had strange powers. Could I be the one to begin a new cycle of future witches in my family? Also can the wizard and myself be on the same wave length mentally? One more thing I can't understand is that he called me from Paris, France.
He spoke French, and I don't understand French, but I understood every word and he understood my English. What gives? I swear all of this happened. Strange things have happened, but this thing has me scared, and it blew my mind. This is too much. I can't shake the fear growing inside of me. I am not sure how I shall handle this.
Norma T.
You are lying to me and lying to yourself. You have a very active imagination. That's delightful. But I don't believe you. I do believe that these strange things [can] happen. I had gone for years having difficulty with baby-sitters, and I suddenly realized the reason I was having difficulty in getting babysitters was because I didn't feel comfortable about leaving babies. So each time I'd have some place to go, I would short circuit the thing so that I could not go out. It was out of my hands.
The babysitter would, for some reason, not show up. Something would happen that was beyond her control and mine, supposedly. Then I faced up to my situation. I cast a spell that enabled me to get a [housekeeper]. In other words, I psyched myself into believing that from that moment forward I would not have babysitting problems, and I cast a spell to do this for myself.
Immediately, the Sunday following the spellcast, the phone rang. Wrong number. A young girl said, "Hello, Ada?" I said, "No, this isn't Ada. Are you a housekeeper?" She said, "Yes." I said, "Do you want a new job?" She said yes. I immediately went and got her and 1 had her for over two years. She had been working for someone named Ada. She'd only been working a short time. She'd gone home for the weekend, and Ada was to pick her up. She called Ada, but she dialled my number by mistake. I believe that can happen. But I don't believe a man from France called you after seeing you on his TV set.
Dear Louise:
Could you tell me if my life will ever be happy, and my love life. I have been thinking about a man I've known since I was sixteen, and I love him deeply. The last I heard from him he is in Los Angeles. I would like to find if he is right for me. His birthdate is about March 15, and mine is July 12, 1933. Please tell me what the future holds for me. Right now I need someone to care for and someone to care and love me. I'm a very lonely old lady right now. Life is not worth living sometimes.
Helen P.
I note the fact that you are thirty-six years old, not an old lady but an adult, and you answer your question yourself. At first you say that you have been loving this man since you were sixteen, and you are an adult, full-grown female. Here you've loved someone since sixteen and don't know if he's the one for you. On the other hand you let us know right away that you do NOT really love him.
What you want is to be able to love someone, and it doesn't matter who. I think that you have never learned to love yourself, to feel yourself or know yourself. If the man were even interested, I would caution him against the relationship because you really don't know what love is. You want somebody to end your loneliness, instead of looking to yourself and generating some excitement inside of yourself.
No, I would advise you to first make yourself over into a person who could have a love experience with someone else. I think that's the whole thing. When you're able to love somebody, then, because you give love, you get love in return. Only when you are completely involved with yourself, love yourself, and are aware of yourself, can you know what love is and offer it to somebody.
Dear Louise:
This year I had to leave my full-time job because of health reasons, mostly emotional. I was born August 28, 1930, and I have three children. My leaving work at this stage was beneficial as I eliminated quite a few problems. I spent too much time on other people's problems and tended to neglect my own family. Only now I find myself picking on my husband and throwing his faults up to him, which is the exact thing I want to avoid.
I am very impatient with him lately, and I try to hold back, but I get an overwhelming urge to bawl him out. Right now we are not speaking but I know we will be tonight. We are both very forgiving and adore each other. I just feel very ornery lately because I finally realized my bad points. I changed them but I am still the same way.
Greta L.
I don't believe you changed your bad points because you continue to react in the same way. 1 don't feel the question is whether or not you've changed. I don't believe that's the point. I think the interesting point is that right now you are not speaking, and I think that "right now" has been like many other times when you haven't been speaking. You want to avoid facing life. I think the first step between you is not to look to who's wrong in the situation but how you are going to operate as a team. How are you to operate effectively?
I don't believe in the negative approach. You spend tremendous energy bickering back and forth after what's already happened, what's already been said, and who is at fault. All of that energy should be converted into a dynamic situation, to make tomorrow happen. There is a tremendous dissipation that takes place in wallowing in misery.
I don't know what the problem is, but I think you could spruce up your relationship by completely stopping and beginning new. I don't think you should drag on the burdens of before. Sever them completely. Try the "New Life Spells."
Dear Louise:
Long 'before now I have wanted to meet a witch and have been thoroughly fascinated by the supernatural. I do have the unfortunate problem of not being born a witch. I was born November 4, 1952. I was wondering if some people are more or less receptive to spells and psychic powers than others. I am clinging to the thought that hidden forces are at work somewhere in the universe, and I believe that occasionally I can pick them up.
The main reason for this letter is to inform you of a reaction to the Hollywood Bowl "Sexual Vitality Spell" you and all the audience tried to cast on the population. I was shocked. From July until September I experienced a sexual hunger so powerful and furious that it was frightening. It had never happened before except those months in such an overwhelming way. I thought you might be interested to know that your experiment was a success on me, for I don't know what else could have caused it. But very definitely it had an effect on my behaviour. I even lost a boy friend because I was becoming too possessive. Sexual starvation is a horrible feeling.
It's very irritating. I hope this is the kind of reaction you were looking for. I wish you would write to me and let me know if I really have any basis for my belief that it was your spell. I don't think it would be wise for me to try your "Sexual Seduction Spell" because I have enough problems with that subject without adding a spell to it. However, it sounds beautiful and maybe I'll get my salt and candle out. I am a terribly ambitious person and am wondering if you know anything I could do to insure my success. How much of witchcraft can a normal, average American rely on?
Maria G.
Well, first I would like to say I am surprised and of course pleased to hear that you are a normal, average American with an overwhelming sex starvation. We didn't cast a spell for people to become sexually starved but sexually vitalized. It probably worked. You probably are tuned in to psychic forces and are quite able to practise witchcraft, but I don't know just by your letter whether or not you yourself are psychic, but I think you can turn-on well. As much drive as you've got is going to make a dent in your society.
Dear Louise:
I am one of your fervent followers. I want to know if there is going to be any change in all the bad luck I have had since 1968. 1969 was bad so far for me likewise. I sit here writing you with a broken ankle which for some reason doesn't seem to want to mend in a hurry. I was born September 30, 1921. I love people and I go out of my way to help people, yet I cannot for the life of me figure out how a person who is so compassionate, who spends many hours praying for others as I, a true born-again Christian, can possibly draw so much bad luck towards themselves.
Is there any possible change for me in the near future? If I had any idea that it stemmed from my unhappy childhood I would surely try to seek out the best-known hypnotists and find out from my subconscious mind all that could possibly be blamed for all this unhappiness in my life. If you have any suggestions to this view of mine, please tell me what you think. I am a person with a good mind and a willingness to take other persons' views. I only hope and pray all the misery will end and happiness will soon smile down. For I love all people, for I know they are God's servants. God bless you again. I remain God's servant.
Gladys S.
First of all, I am a witch and I have very strong and definite reactions to people and situations and letters. I dislike Gladys intensely. My initial reaction is that she loves no one, and that anything that she might do for someone is a compensation in order to prove to herself that she really loves them. If you love people, you don't have to do a damn thing for them except glory in their presence. You don't have to be giving of yourself to prove that you love them; you love them and you know it. So right there I react to that sentence about how she loves people and will go out of her way to help people. I do not think she is loving. Nor God-fearing.
She is an unhappy woman who never, ever thought to get out of herself, and she is attracting bad luck, creating it like a complete and total loser.
Dear Louise:
I have been waiting for some information on my ancestors from my grandfather. He said all he could tell me was that every few generations the women in our family are psychic because they're cursed, and then a break in the cycle occurs and not one woman will be psychic in any way for three generations. It's every three generations, never more nor less, that a very unusual thing happens to one of the women. It's strange. I was born May 30, 1951. I got your lucky charm but I'm afraid it will take quite a bit more.
When I want a man, someone in the family warns him that I'm cursed and that scares every man away. I don't have one real friend to talk to, male or female. I've thought of death and suicide but that's not for this kid. It would cause a lot of pain for my people. I don't like to see people hurt, but why can't guys open their eyes and know this of me, that I never cause any harm or pain to anyone. Oh yes, the charm almost worked once until he looked into my eyes, and after that he made a hasty retreat.
If he had walked any faster he would have been running. But eighteen years of age and have had not one date, not even a school dance. I'm lonely. To quote my sister: "You'll never get a boy friend; face the facts, you'll die an old maid." I could write a thousand pages about my feelings. My grandfather says that it's really a grand gift instead of a curse an ancestor placed on my family. By the way, she was burned in England for being a very evil witch.
Lisa G.
This is a very interesting letter because, number one, you're eighteen and already an old maid, then, number two, you had a very evil ancestor who was a witch, yet you're writing to another evil witch for help. Right there is a contradiction in what you expect to have happen from evil witches. It's obvious that you have emotional problems that may be inherited along with any possible psychic powers. You need to seek some sort of counselling. When people believe that a curse has been put upon them, it often is they who are cursing themselves. I cannot advise any charms, spells or anything except getting some psychiatric help. Immediately.
Dear Louise:
You seem like such a nice, friendly person from the television. I have two questions I would like to ask you and it would be great if you could answer them for me. I was born December 8, 1947. Can the "Sexual Seduction Spell" be cast on two persons who aren't present as the spell is being cast, and what changes in the spell, if any, are needed for this? Two, I make belts and wristbands out of leather on consignment through a shop. Is there a spell I could cast on the things I make that will charm people into buying them?
If there is such a spell, would you tell me what it is and how to cast it? My things attract a lot of attention, and people admire them and say they are good, but only a few buy. If I could charm my goods in such a way, maybe people would buy instead of talk. It would really be great if you could help me get moving faster. I'm getting hungry and I need money and some more leather.
George G.
You're a little bit timid, George. You've gone out of your way to tippy-toe around me and say the nicest things so that I won't react to you unfavourably. Now what you really need to do is cast a spell in order to be a more forceful and dynamic individual. Automatically your goods will begin selling. Regarding the "Sexual Seduction Spell" for two other people, I cannot understand why you're casting sex spells for other people, unless you're a broker.
If you cast a spell, and you've got enough emotional energy going, you can project this thought out into the air waves. The spell can work without the people there. If you're casting a spell for two people, the whole point is that you are putting an idea in somebody's subconscious. But, timid George, if you can't move your leather goods as quickly as you would like, yet still have enough power to get two other people involved sexually, I'm kind of interested in your technique. I suggest first you sell your leather goods, and then bother about casting spells for other people. You haven't yet got any energy to spare.
Dear Louise:
Perhaps I was not born a witch. I am sure if I were I would be already aware of it. But I am quite psychic about my friends and what amazes me more than anything is that I pick up vibrations and thoughts from other people. My mother is also this way. She has premonitions and dreams enough to scare you. However, I'm sure you get many letters from people telling you how fantastically psychic they are.
That is not my reason for writing. I want to know if you could recommend any reliable books on how to develop the powers of my mind. Anything you might suggest would be appreciated, and if you have any moments with really nothing much to do I would really love it if you could send me a few procedures for magic spells. Especially the recipe for "True Love Tea." I can't quite say I believe in magic when it's practised by anyone. If I believe in something strongly enough, it will come true, and I suppose that is magic in a sense of the word, don't you think?
I may not be making much sense but I hope you know what I'm talking about. All I really want is to improve my powers of concentration and strengthen my psychic side. I was born March 10, 1954. About all I can tell you about myself is that I attend school, I am fifteen years old, and I may sound normal, but you can be assured that I am not. I've been told many times that at least I'm definitely not normal according to average American standards. Perceptively yours.
Barbara H.
What good luck you had to have been born to a mother who would encourage this side of your mental behaviour. To have reached that much insight at fifteen about what makes yourself tick, I think maybe that you are a witch in the true sense of the word. The fact that a fifteen-year-old girl has such a good healthy relationship with her mother is a very nice thing for me to read.
Dear Louise:
My husband has had an affair with another woman, and she gave birth to a child. I still love him and am willing to forgive him. I still want him back. He was born August 22, 1934, and I was born June 6, 1934. Should I take him back and will he end his straying if I do? He says he loves me.
Will our marriage last?
Janet K.
I don't believe in forgiving when the person who is in a position to forgive probably contributed to the act in the first place. If you are forgiving your husband for reacting to something that you did to cause him to seek sex and affection elsewhere, well, who is forgiving what? Will your marriage last? It hasn't lasted. It is on the rocks. Try the potion for infidelity; then figure out what the other woman might have given him that you did not, and serve generous portions of that, too. And if he alone is to blame, cast a spell to change him.
Dear Louise:
I am dating two men who, strangely enough, have the same birthdays, April 18, 1942, and a lot of other similarities. Physical attraction is strong in both cases. I am twenty-six, born June i. What is my outlook for marriage and financial life in the next two years? Generally speaking, if you see any flaws in my personality, or any attributes and talents I should develop, please let me know.
Celia G.
I'm amazed: You need a stranger you never met to point out if you have any serious flaw in your personality? And if I said you had some talent you'd automatically start developing it? All I know about you is that you apparently can write English and are twenty-six years old. Yes, Celia, I'm afraid you've got a flaw: not knowing that you have one.
Dear Louise:
An astrologer did a chart for me (birthdate June 9, 1917) and nothing that was predicted has come true for this year. In fact, everything I attempt turns wrong. I've been going downhill in every way, shape and form. It's a nightmarish roller-coaster. To name just a few: Each record of mine that came out was a still-birth - not one single play, and my writing partnership was dissolved after four years, which means that I am a lyricist without a melody writer.
My lifetime of attempts have come to naught. To finally face the reality that my lifetime has been in vain, and I am not one to kid myself, is hard. No male entered my life as the astrologer said. My health has been poor. In fact, the whole year that I had looked forward to so much has been terrible.
There has been no bursting with creativity, no financial gain, no legacy. I'm baffled and sick at heart at the way everything happened to me just the opposite of what the astrologer forecast. To not have even one of the good things happen and each day to see something else go wrong - I don't get it. I just don't understand. I am in tears.
Andrea G.
You have the same birth date and astrological conditions as hundreds of persons who have been very successful. You obviously went to some astrologer and paid him to figure out what the planetary positions were at the time of your birth, and what these positions might mean by way of influence - what the conditions were.
The planetary pattern indicated a period when you [could] meet men successfully, but only if you got out of the back room and into the sunshine outdoors! The planets won't shove him through the door. If you were looking for a man and a burst of creative energy at that time, you shouldn't have just sat back and waited on the skies. You can't blame a chart for not making your life happen. Positive action through witchcraft would be better, but even this requires you to act.
Dear Louise:
I'm not complaining, but it has been a very, very lonely life. Is there anything you can tell me that would help ease this life of loneliness? I am seventy-seven years old, and so poor that I live on less than a dollar a day. I've had very, very many readings during my lifetime and enjoyed them all. I was born January 13.
Margie M.
You are living on pennies a day, yet you admit spending what must have been many precious dollars for psychic readings and probably astrology charts and fortune tellings. It's your amusement; more than that you probably get friendship and a fantasy that things are going to be better. You feel you can buy friendship and hope from astrologers and fortune tellers. You don't want to know anything about the future; you know it is not going to change. You want somebody to tell you things that will be the things a friend would tell you to cheer you up, if you had a friend. My advice, find a friend. Don't buy fortunes.
Dear Louise:
I am a widow, sixty-four years old come next November 14. I have had a rare friendship with a chap many years my junior, of eight years duration, which was broken up by a third party last year. I still have contact with this young man, who was born January 18, 1938, but the old basis, which included his driving my car in which we spent delightful hours enjoying scenery, has been disrupted. My question is, will this companionship ever be restored?
Esther F.
How the hell should I know? And why should it? Thirty-three years difference between you? I would be embarrassed to have a man that much younger, because I'd know that it wasn't my great sex appeal or charm that brought him to me. I'd figure it was a wet diaper! It's a sick combination. Why would you want to renew it? He smartened up; after eight years, you should. Some astrologer or fortune teller will tell you that you and this "chap" are fated lovers who met in a previous existence and will meet again and be happy in the next. Baloney! Try True Love Tea and a senior citizen's club.
Dear Louise:
I have met a girl, a Pisces, who has a strange influence on me. I am Capricorn, January 5, 1947. She is not my type at all. Good looking in a way, but not the kind that arouses me sexually. I wasn't the least interested in her at first. Now I keep calling her all the time and trying to date her. I want to go to bed with her. It is strange because most of the time I don't care the least then all of a sudden I've got to have her. Could she be a witch? Has she put a spell on me?
John W.
It's not easy to tell from what you say. It could be a witch if you meet someone, and there is a disturbance, and you feel haunted by them later. Of course that could also be called love. But if it did happen the way you say, there's a chance that the person you've met is a witch. A witch walking out of a room hasn't really left the room, and when that attitude still hangs there, you can be sure it's a witch. There will be a strong reaction one way or another. Whether you like this disturbance or not will depend whether or not you are repelled or enjoy this being. There's an energy. A lot of times it is mistaken for love. It's a psychic thing. However, it could also be that you and your subconscious don't agree on what's sexy.
Dear Louise:
My husband and I talk openly on anything and everything. We praise each other, and we don't compete, as we each have our separate abilities, he with his electronics and me my art. We have our arguments - seldom - but in the next breath we carry on as though it never happened, and let it die a natural death. We love each other and understand each other, after ten years married. He caters to my desires and to my cycles, and when I see him bending backwards to please my moods, I am gratified to have such a thoughtful man and tell him so. There is one question in my mind though that I would like to know. We are both Leos, he born July 16, 1912, and I July 31, 1918. Can two of the same Zodiac sign be compatible?
Sylvia N.
You've been married to this man for ten years. With all this experience behind you, you say you talk about everything and anything and love each other. It's a phony letter. You are really unhappy and trying to brainwash yourself into thinking everything's great. You're not in love. All these great things are going for you, but none of them are meaningful. You can put up with not being compatible if you're in love, if you're drawn together. Or you can have everything just down pat, but if there's no spark, it's not working.
The trouble is, too many people are looking for the nice, neat, clean package rather than the spark. I think they're afraid to take chances with their emotions. They're not using their emotions. You're just living in a little storybook-type arrangement: You don't like him. An emotional rapport is missing. After going on and on about how compatible the two of you are, you ask me, a stranger, whether there is the possibility that the two of you could be compatible, which indicates just how much is lacking in your relationship. And why - why should [he] always bend over backwards?
Dear Louise:
I was born October 16, 1922, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Could you please tell me if I shall sell my property in the next few months? Will my health improve as I went through a bleeding ulcer operation and now my heart's giving me trouble? If you will tell me, I am not poor, and I pay you.
Myra M.
I think it's very sad, but you're one of thousands of people who don't know where to turn. First of all, the kind of questions you ask me, should not be asked of a witch. You should go to yourself, your doctor, your attorney, a friend. I'm not your friend, attorney or doctor, and I know nothing about real estate. How can I tell you anything? What can I base my counselling on? The day you were born? No one would create a horoscope to such an extent as to be able to give advice on health and money as a special service. I couldn't possibly do this logically. The time involved is too expensive for you and me.
It comes out to me that you are lonely and have no friends. Some people are braver in forming emotional relationships than with their money, and some people are braver with their money than with their emotional relationships. There's an imbalance there. They're fearful they're going to lose their security, and that alone should tell them to go get advice from the proper source. Obviously they're afraid that they're going to be destitute. Going to a witch, I should think, would be a very brave move. So, you have property, or money, and you have bravery. Why be alone?
Dear Louise:
My mother has a psychic gift of some kind. She gets very definite feelings about whether we should be careful or not in relation to certain dealings, and sometimes just in our daily activities. At first we made fun of her, but later we found out that she was quite serious, and the results happened just about the way she said they would. What I would like to know is this: Does the future hold any positive gain in monetary rewards in the near future for me. I am twenty-five and mother is fifty-two. She was born June 18 and so was I!
David W.
It's kind of a sad thing at twenty-five, because I don't think that's the age where you should be interested in establishing security, unless you just want cash to cut the apron strings. You should be seeking all kinds of keen sensations from a variety of experiences, as your primary concern, and not give a damn about the future, if there's any money coming in or not. The fact that your mother is psychic might make her a stronger impression on you than a person whose mother is not psychic. You write like a girl. I don't say you're queer, but you're not asserting your masculinity. I think if you're having a grand time with your life completely, somewhere along the line you're going to be able to make do. I don't think anybody who's having a good time is starving. The time poverty sets in is when you're not doing anything, when you're frightened and when you're hiding out.
Dear Louise:
Do you believe in turning the other cheek? My birthdate is November 4, 1942. A German shepherd of my neighbour's attacked my small daughter and myself. I got nerve damage to the right leg as a result, so I sued against the neighbour and the insurance company. The next meeting is delayed to February. My neighbour says no good person would ever sue her, no matter what, but she won't even pay the doctor bills. She thinks I'm the most evil person on earth. She swears she'll keep cancelling out until I forget about the suit. What do you think of my chances of settling my suit? I'm in pain for the rest of my life. Am I evil to sue?
Irmgarde C.
We've got a couple of sick neighbours here. The lady next door with the German shepherd is understandably not wanting to be sued and is trying to browbeat the passive neighbour into thinking she's evil. Well, witches are supposed to be evil, too, if you listen to just anybody. But if you have physical damage done to your body, and if you are wanting to know from a witch whether or not you should sue the people who caused the damage, you have some other kind of problem that needs doctoring, too. What is this difference between evil and good that people have such rigid concepts about? Is life a matter of little boxes; this is good, this is evil? It's ridiculous. There is no good; there is no bad. There's energy. And troublesome neighbours, and scars.
Dear Louise:
I am fifty years old, born July 26, 1919, and the only way that I can get close male friends is to lie about my age. So I tell everybody I'm forty. I can get away with it on looks, but I get so nervous someone will find out that I sometimes shake all over. Will he leave me if he finds out the truth?
Sheila B.
So you want to know if you can drop ten years and get away with it? Makes me think everybody's lying about their age. I was wondering why this girl who says she is twenty-seven looks twenty, until I realized the reason is that women who are thirty-five are saying they are twenty-seven, so this real twenty-seven-year-old looks twenty. Anyway, you are lying about your age because you say it's the only way you can get close male friends. What kind of closeness is that?
If you've got a close friend you can be eighty and have this thing going. You'll never get a [close] friend that way. As for the shakes, you are fifty and I'll bet you anything you're going through change of life, so if you're feeling frightened, go to a doctor. As for lying, you should never lie unless it serves your purpose.
There's nothing wrong with honesty by itself, either. I believe that anything that might enable you and somebody else to have a good relationship is necessary and anything else is none of their business. Honesty is often used as a mask, a cover-up for insecurity. But why lie if it makes you insecure? Better still, why not convince yourself, through witchcraft, that you are forty?
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L.A. County Official Witch
Miss Louise Huebner
c/o United Western Newspapers
Dear Miss Huebner, Please let me say first that this is not a rude letter, or a letter meant for anything but to prove in my mind that there is a slight chance of your really being a Witch. First let me say, I was surprised to hear of your being the official Witch for the County, as I have never known a 'real' Witch to consent to publicity. I have known a few, when I was in England for a few years. I got to know two gypsies quite well.
There are a lot of Witches who aren't psychic. I understand that Witches don't have to be psychic, and or if you are psychic, you don't have to be a Witch. (Peter Hurkos doesn't claim to be a Witch.) When you are not born a Witch you must be ordained at the age of seven.
Were you born a Witch or ordained at seven? If you were ... you know your heart is BLACK! (not in colour ... it is still red like everybody elses ... but it is symbolically black). And it will take three years to repent and become a someone else who isn't a Witch. Please if you don't mind, I would like to ask a few questions, if you are really a Witch you will know the answers. If you don't know the answers I would believe you could be a Witches Apprentist.
1. Who was the Circle of Corinth?
2. What is the Blasted Heart?
3. Who was Gauffridi? Charlotte Gadiere?
4. What does this mean: The Last Act of the Witches Sabbeth? and Talkmongers.
5. What is this?
and last but not least:
What does this mean to you:
Grand Bois, Carrafour, Cematiere, Damballah. These are just a few things every good Witch should know. Of course they would know the [WITCHES SPELL OF HATRED.] Most people think Witches are stupid or sick but they are neither ... They must know a great deal about spices and herbs so they can cure. Which is of course what started Witchcraft. I guess you must know quite a few cures like: What good is Mandrake? or Passion Flower? I hope that you will not be displeased with my questions.
Sincerely
Alice in Venice
P.S. I do agree with what you say in the papers about phonies and such. PEACE!
Dear Alice in Venice,
I'm so glad you explained that your letter is not rude. For a few seconds there I suspected that it might be, and I would be forced to HEX you, but then Witches often jump to conclusions and are known for their nervousness and irritability. So thanks for quieting my fears. Your surprise that a 'real' Witch would consent to publicity amuses me. Evidently you don't realize that 'real' Witches are a power mad bunch, clutching and clawing at any and all opportunities that might place them into the limelight. As to being able to be a Witch without being psychic; That is absolutely ridiculous. If a Witch can change things ... make things happen ... do magic ... then she must be able to project a tremendous energy into the atmosphere. If she can project ... she is psychic. If she can project she can receive. If she can receive she is psychic. Witches are psychic! Witches who are not psychic are cop outs ... Cop outs are phoney.
What do you mean Peter Hurkos doesn't say he is a Witch? Why should he? I for one would be terribly disappointed to find out he was masquerading in Drag. Peter so far as I am able to determine, appears to be a red blooded, true blue, virile male. Witches are generally understood to be female!
As to whether I was [born] a Witch or [ordained] a Witch at seven: I was born a Witch and am a sixth generation Witch. My mother is a Witch. My grandmother is a Witch. My grandmother's great grandmother was a Witch. I was not ordained a Witch at seven. I didn't get started on sex until a bit later.
For a minute I got a little jumpy when you said my heart was BLACK ... but was relieved when you said the colour is still red. I quit smoking six years ago and thought maybe that hadn't been any too soon! Besides BLACK is beautiful baby. Why in Heaven's name (if you will pardon the expression) should I ever care to repent three years ... only to become a someone else who is not a Witch? I like being a Witch. As a Witch I am cuter, sexier, smarter, happier, more popular, more powerful, and continuously sought after by the cutest, sexiest, smartest, happiest, more popular, more powerful males in town. I see no reason to give all this up ... just to be a someone ... who is only a someone else. I am easily bored but you do idly entertain me with your ignorant curiosity. So I shall trouble myself for a moment to answer some of your questions.
I don't know any Witch who I would want to be an Apprentice to! If you really met a few Witches in England you would have noticed they are a mean and violent lot ... and very ornery to their Apprentices. Especially to their Apprentices. Most Witches I know become Witches immediately and would never ever bother to go through the Apprentice stage. As to the two gypsies you met in England. Forget gypsies. They are dumb and stupid and have nothing to do with Witchcraft. And now to your questions:
1. I don't know who the Circle of Corinth might be ... but I could put you in touch with a couple of jazzy fellows in New York who hang around the Columbus Circle.
2. Sorry, I have heard of some faint hearts ... but never a Blasted One!
3. As for Gauffridi and Charlotte Cadiere ... I prefer to make no comment. Besides I had nothing to do with them anyway.
4. The Last Act of the Witches Sabbeth and the Talkmongers have me stumped too. But, you might check with Jesse Unruh and see what he can come up with.
5. I'd say that's the Star of David with an arrow going through it.
And last but not least ...: If it's O.K. with you I would just as soon not incriminate myself concerning the Grand Bois, Carrafour, Cematiere, and the Damb-allah. Are you sure you won't settle for the Griffith Observatory, Pershing Square, Forest Lawn and the Los Angeles City Hall?
I guess by your description I am not a very 'good' Witch! But, if what you say is true about most people thinking all Witches are stupid or sick ... then I guess you would probably qualify for the role quite easily.
Oh .. Gee ... I almost forgot! MANDRAKE: I guess he is good for something ... but I certainly wouldn't want my kid sister to marry him. And as for PASSION FLOWER: They kill whatever is growing nearby ... but are excellent for attracting fly's and things.
Hope I have helped you set things straight.
Sincerely,
Louise Huebner
P.S. PEACE!
