Before you mess up your karma by cursing or hexing someone, try one of these safer, more elegant options instead.
If you just searched “How to curse someone,” or “How to hex someone,” read this first.
I mean, I get it. Someone hurt you. Someone did you wrong, and it is so, so, so infuriating and unfair.
It seems your options for doing something about it in the physical world are so painfully limited, you feel almost irresistibly compelled to direct your considerable personal power toward causing them harm.
Believe me, I’ve been there. And I’ve even done that. And I don’t recommend it.
In my regrettable experience, karmic backlash in response to curses and hexes is a real thing. And it’s just not worth it.
But, hey listen: you have options. Whether you want to hex your ex, a neighborhood bully, your boss, or anyone else, the five alternatives below will provide valuable magical recourse without endangering your own energy, sanity, and general wellbeing.
Each and every one of them is spiritually and karmically safe.
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Hex/Curse Alternative #1: Reflect All Energy Back to Its Source
A traditional feng shui cure for dealing with challenging neighbors involves nothing but a mirror. It can be any mirror, of any size. Even a postage stamp-sized mirrored tile will do.
The idea is to place the mirror so that the reflective side is facing the neighbor’s house, and then simply set the (completely neutral) intention that the mirror reflect all energy – good, bad, or in between – directly back to its source.
Sending negative energy right back to its source is quite a bit tidier and more efficient than a hex or a curse. And karmically, it couldn’t be safer.
Usually the mirror is placed outside of the house, but apartment dwellers can place the reflective side against the wall, and hide it behind a picture or a sofa. If your issue is with your downstairs neighbors, you can place it reflective-side down on the floor, perhaps under a piece of furniture. If the upstairs folks are bothering you (and you want to employ this tactic), you would need to figure out a way to attach it to the ceiling, reflective-side up.
This same practice can be adapted for the workplace, or you can even wear a mirror pendant and set the intention that it reflect all energy back to a specific source.
The important thing is the intention. It doesn’t matter what size or shape the mirror is. It can be as big as an entire wall or – like I said – as tiny as a mirrored tile.
Hex/Curse Alternative #2: Cast a Protection Spell
When it comes right down to it, you are the one you most want to take care of in this situation.
And a hex or curse can have the unfortunate side effect of tying your energy to the person or people you most want to protect yourself from.
Luckily, there are plenty of spells that work wonderfully for protecting your physical and energetic wellbeing, without spiritually yoking you to someone you’d rather be rid of. (Although, as a common sense warming, let me remind you that it’s still important to take safety precautions in the physical world, such as locking your door and not getting in the car with strangers.)
Here’s a simple and effective spell for protecting your energy without taking on any energy from the person or group you’d like to protect yourself from:
Ingredients:
An Archangel Michael candle
Dragonsblood incense and incense holder
A lighter or matches
Essential oil of frankincense
Sunflower oil
A small bowl, shot glass, or saucer
Light the candle and incense. Say:
Archangel Michael, I call on you and invoke your protection. Please keep me completely safe in all ways, at all times. Please surround me in your fiery divine light through which no negativity may enter. Thank you.
Feel gratitude for Archangel Michael’s sure and steadfast protection as you place a tablespoon or so of sunflower oil in the small dish. Add one drop of frankincense essential oil and combine. Then lightly anoint your forehead, throat, heart, belly, and wrists with the oil.
Envision blindingly bright, fiery light completely surrounding your energy field and keeping all negativity at bay.
Finish by picking up the incense and holder and safely wafting the smoke around your body (and home if applicable).
Place the incense back near the candle and allow it to burn all the way out. Extinguish and re-light the candle when you can attend to it properly (as needed for fire safety purposes) until it’s burned all the way down.
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Hex/Curse Alternative #3: Neutralize Someone’s Power Over You
In truth, no one has the power to cause you harm: legal, physical, financial, or otherwise. If it seems like they do, I want you to remember that it’s only an illusion.
Even if they’re your landlord, your boss, your ex, or your mother-in-law, once you remember how powerful you actually are, the other person’s seeming power over you will fall away.
Think of it like waking from a nightmare. This spell will act as your alarm clock.
Ingredients:
Sea salt or Himalayan pink salt
The other person’s business card, photo, or full name written on paper
A jar with a tightly-fitting lid
Fill the jar part way with sea salt. Hold the identifying paper in both hands and say,
[Name of person], you have no power over me.
What once seemed like power is now erased.
It’s erased yesterday, it’s erased today, it’s erased tomorrow.
It is null and void. It was never even there in the first place.
It now completely dissolves, dissipates, disappears, and returns to its native nothingness, now and forever, in all directions of time.
Place the card, photo, or name in the jar and completely surround it with sea salt by pouring it over the top and filling the remainder of the jar. Seal the lid. Feel your own power returning and remember how magical you actually are.
Keep the jar on a shelf or in a cupboard until you feel you no longer need the magical reminder.
Hex/Curse Alternative # 4: Bind Someone from Causing Harm
In addition to being spiritually and karmically safer, a binding spell is often much more appropriate than a hex or a curse anyway.
This is especially true if someone is behaving like a bully (in any sense of the word), and you simply want to stop them from causing harm. Here’s a blog post I wrote featuring three ways to bind a bully without harming your karma in the least.
Hex/Curse Alternative #5: Activate Swift Justice
Perhaps the person you wish you could hex or curse is actually doing something illegal, or has done something illegal. Lucky for us, there are divine helpers who just love enforcing swift and appropriate justice. The Norse god Forseti is a personal favorite to call on for the purpose.
Here’s a spell from my book, Holistic Energy Magic, to be used when you’re in a legal situation and you’re entirely in the right:
Call on Forseti. When you feel his powerful presence, send him gratitude in the form of visualized light. With or without words, show him the situation. You might picture the whole thing as if you’re picturing the storyline and emotions of a movie. Be sure to feel your feelings and project them to him as well. Imagine that you are illuminating the dark spaces and shining light on the true situation. Then ask Forseti to intervene on your behalf and bring you the justice that you deserve by saying:
Forseti, the presiding one,
Please stay with me till this thing’s done
Bring justice from your golden hall
Swiftly and once and for all.
I honor you with love and light
And thank you for your wisdom bright!
Feel even more gratitude, and be sure to heartily thank Forseti once justice has been served.
Don’t compound the problem by hexing or cursing someone! Take care of yourself safely and elegantly with one of these more karma-conscious options instead.
And for lasting protection against negativity of all varieties, check out my book, Little Guide to Protection Magic: Everything You Need to Know, Including Protection Spells.
You may also like The Good Witch’s Guide to Binding a Bully.
Do you plan to do one of these karma-friendly spells instead of a hex or a curse? Please share in the comments below.
For Alternative #2, am I supposed to let the Archangel Michael candle burn all the way down all at once after the incense burns out? Or can I burn the candle down over the course of several days?
You can definitely extinguish it and light it again for fire safety purposes.
Hello..I gogled how to curse sumone but I am so glad to have found this page instead!! I need help and don’t know what to do! ! My whole life I have always been the scape goat in my family! I help all of my family members and try do what I can and more to make there lives easier.sometimes making mine harder..well lately my life has been a lot more challenging.. there has been a lot of death in my family and anyone I get close to dies…I used to live with my grandmother who passed away 11 days ago. I lived with her with my two daughters and my mother. ..my family has favorites and me and my older daughter are not favorites and my mother and younger sister treat her and I very very bad… my sister is here at the home with her family or two kids and there father most of the time causing chaos and unhappiness. .my mother for some reason is to scared to hurt her or scared of her in general to say she wants them to leave. .my sister will scream and cause a scene if anyone does anything negative to her..although my mother is 2 faced and tells me all time she was her to go home. .and me like a dummy try get them to go… my sister steals everything from everyone and blames some one else…usually me and my daughter. .mostly me and my mom sides with her…she also argues with everyone..mostly my daughter and my mother sides with her..and hates my daughter. .and is not afraid to make my daughter feel like cap to the point she cried. .. since my grandmother passed away..things have gotten worse and they have been making both of us.. my daughter and me…feel emotionaly sad… so bad my stomach has started aching! !!… I just wish there was some kind of protection spell for my daughter and my self !!! Or some kind of send back negative energy to them.. I know that I have to do the foot work in regards to getting a home for us.. but it’s hard r.n..my finances are not that great! !!..well if there’s anything out there that can help us..feel free to wrote back. ..respectively. .RG
Hi R.G.! Is there a spell in this post that appeals to you? It sounds like there are several that might work for what you’re looking for.
I came here to cause vengeance on two people that have our last name, but is far from considered family by anyone in the family. My mother recently passed away peacefully in our home. When she passed, I said a prayer for to help her find her way by calling angels to come to her and guide her to her final eternal home. I feel in my heart that she made it successfully.
Now the reason I came here was to cause pain for two that have our same last name, but are anything but family. They are the purest form of greed I have ever witnessed in my life. They both were saying they cared, but when my mother passed away, these two evil souls had carried out a plan they made to steal from my mother and did so.
I was assigned to divide her belongings, but it was interrupted after finding out that these two evil persons had taken items that belong to other family members and refuse to return them. The law will not intervene, so I was looking for blood to spill. As I read through your Karma backlash It changed my mind to bring Karma down onto them. I think God and my mother will make things right with these evil souls, I just wanted immediate action I guess, but I know that they will be punished by a much higher power. I think they both have woken Karma up all on their own and will not assist Karma in doing what is right. She knows what to do because it is what she does best. Your page reading helped me to see that retaliating wasn’t the answer and I want to thank you for posting this helpful information.
Now, I still have a job ahead to try and recovery these earthly material items they have taken and ask what would be best to strengthen my fight against these evil souls. I am going to go through the court system and have the backing of family to assist, but I want that edge, so they are powerless.
What do you suggest would be best to perform as a spell to call on the help of higher powers to guide me in fulfilling my late mothers request.
Hi Brad! I’m so glad to hear this post resonated with you. I suggest spell #5.
Hi is there a spell I could use to stop my sister in law from turning their parents against him, she has been doing this since I met him due to me knowing her past, he as done nothing wrong and has always been there for everyone. She is a very selfish and nasty person and they do everything she tells them. It hurts me seeing him being treated like this by them all for no reason when she has caused so much trouble in the last 15yrs. It’s heatbracking
Kerry, this sounds like something to talk to some of your family members about directly first. Even then, it may not be something you want to get involved with magically, as it sounds like this is someone your brother (?) is choosing to be with, so it involves the free will of others. Intervening magically in this situation may not be the route you want to take because it may cause more problems than it solves.
I’m glad I found this. I wanted to place a hex on the monster that shot, several times, and killed my wonderful son on Christmas eve 2.5 weeks ago. My 23yr old has was brutally murdered and suffered deeply in the moments before he died. He died in his fiance’s arms so she is now broken and attempted suicide 4 days later. The justice system in this country try is flawed and I cant risk prison being enough or punishment being what it should be.
This is an extreme case so is once enough?
Please know this isnt a joke, I am sincere.
Jennifer, words cannot express how sorry I am to hear about your loss. I would like to recommend that you not perform a hex at this time. Your emotions are almost certainly not in the neutral place that will allow you to make that choice wisely or to perform a ritual in a way that is safe for you. The Forseti ritual in this post will be more appropriate. You can always revisit your magical strategy after a little more time has passed.