Banishing Evil Eye – Romani incantation
Incantation for Banishing Evil – The “Evil Eye” romani Incantation
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This is an incantation with deep roots in cultural collective, grandmothers whispered to us. and to her, her grandmother whispered it, and so on, from mother to daughter. It’s for when you feel “deocheat” (romanian word for afflicted by the evil eye), meaning you’ve received a bad glance from someone, a negative energy that makes you feel unwell, weak, or brings you bad luck.
How it’s done
Take a few (preferably three) extinguished embers, and place them in a bowl of clean water. The one performing the incantation (usually an older woman) takes the bowl in hand and, with the thumb of her right hand, makes the sign of the cross over the water, then sprinkles the afflicted person three times with the water.
Words of the Incantation
Recite in a low, but firm voice, looking into the water:
“Evil eye, evil eye
Where you have been,
There you shall return!
From green eyes,
From brown eyes,
From blue eyes,
From black eyes,
From any evil eye,
From any hateful thought,
From a heart of stone,
From a bitter soul,
Come out,
Go down the river,
Go into the sea,
Break into a stone!
From [Name of the afflicted person],
Go away, Do not return!
Let the water carry you,
Let the wind scatter you,
Let the earth swallow you!
Amen! Amen! Amen!”
What happens
As the incantation is spoken, the pieces of charcoal in the water move, break, or even sink. If they sink, it’s a sign that the evil eye was strong and has been banished. The water is then discarded in a place where no one walks, preferably at the root of a tree.
The following is an “extension” of this banishing spell and it is not so popular because it involves a sacrifice.
As you can notice the Amen which closes the banishing is an adaptation used by some of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and is used as “it is true” “let it be so” or “may it be so” with a sense of certainty, as affirmation.
In the modern version, the water is returned to the earth, roots of a tree or back to a river but in a more “obscure” practice, in the bowl of water a black hen is dipped in and sacrificed as it took the negative energy.
Going even deeper into the practice, the water from the bowl was returned to the flowing river and the performer had to wait for an animal to drink water from the river, trapped and sacrificed before the change of the veil meaning before the 3rd sing of the rooster around 4 in the morning.
But due to contemporan adaptations and commodity, the sacrificed animal was brought as offering by the one who experience the manifestations of evil eye. Remains of the offering were left near the river for the wiled to consume.
Some romani magic practitioners also use the bones in various divination practices because they carry a specific energy.
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