Are you wondering how to do a binding spell, or looking for an easy binding spell for protection? Take back your power and neutralize a bully’s ability to cause harm with one of these simple binding spells.
What is a binding spell? And how do you cast one?
According to author Judika Illes, the definition of a binding spell is magic performed for the purpose of “binding someone’s power, usually to prevent them from causing harm.” (Remember the chanted line in The Craft: “I bind you, Nancy, from doing harm: harm against other people and harm against yourself.”)
Merriam-Webster’s primary definition of bully is: a blustering, browbeating person; especially : one who is habitually cruel, insulting, or threatening to others who are weaker, smaller, or in some way vulnerable.
While we good witches generally do not prefer to bind other people’s power and therefore do not seek out situations that call for binding spells, there are times when it is obviously appropriate to perform one: in essence when you need to protect yourself from a bully. In other words, when you need protection from someone is “habitually cruel, insulting, or threatening to others who are weaker, smaller, or in some way vulnerable.”
If you are concerned about the threefold law (that which you send out energetically comes back to you multiplied), you needn’t be, provided you keep some things in mind. First, you must actually be binding a bully: if you’re binding someone who doesn’t deserve to be bound, you may indeed bring negative karma upon yourself. On the other hand, if someone is indeed being a bully, you have the opportunity to perform your binding as an act of sending out pure positivity. In other words, you’ll be sending out the bright, positive light of justice and protection on behalf of all those who are being threatened and unfairly treated.
As long as you’re using a binding spell exclusively for justice and protection, you will be safe from undesirable karmic backlash while performing a binding spell.
An excellent time to perform a binding spell is when the waning moon is in the fourth quarter. So that’s the last week of a moon cycle, or the week before the new moon.
No matter who the bully is, remember that they are only a human, and humans can be magically bound.
You may also like to check out my book, Little Guide to Protection Magic: Everything You Need to Know, Including Protection Spells.
Here are 3 simple, easy, powerful spells for binding a bully. Choose the one that feels intuitively right to you. Please be sure to cast a circle before doing any of these, and to open it when you are through.
Binding #1: Easy Salt and String Spell
For this binding spell, write the bully’s name on a slip of paper and place it on a table. Light a black candle. In a clockwise direction, surround the name with a circle of sea salt. With a short length of black embroidery floss, tie a knot tightly around the slip of paper, allowing it to crumple. As you tie the knot, say, “I bind you [name of bully]. You are powerless to harm other people or the planet. Your insults are powerless. Your hostility is powerless. You shall cause no harm from this day forth.” Repeat 7 more times, with 7 more lengths of black thread. Extinguish the candle. Leave the paper and string in the ring of salt overnight. In the morning, flush the salt down the toilet and throw the bound name on a fire.
Binding #2: Simple Tarot Spell
You’ll be working closely with the archetype of justice for this binding spell.
Place the Justice card from a Tarot deck on your altar. Light a white pillar candle as you say, “[Name of bully], on behalf of all those you would harm, insult, or overpower, I call on the archetypal energy of Justice. With this ancient, swift, and thorough power, I now bind all your power to harm.” Safely use the light of the candle to burn the bully’s full name and/or image on a piece of paper, perhaps in a cauldron or pot. As it burns, say, “Just as this paper is now reduced to ashes, your power to harm is now fully revoked and reduced to nothing.” When the ashes are cool, mix them with sea salt and flush them down the toilet. Extinguish the candle after you’ve opened the circle.
Bully #3: Freezer Binding Spell
Freeze out a bully and put his or her power on ice with this freezer binding spell. Obtain a picture of the bully, or just write the bully’s name on a piece of paper. Place it in a small mason jar. Pour water over it as you say, “[Name of bully], if your power to harm is like fire, I now extinguish that power completely. It burns no more.” Seal the jar with the lid. Wrap and tie it tightly with black ribbon as you say, “[Name of bully], if your power to harm is like wings, I now bind and immobilize that power completely. It flies no more.” Rotate the jar in a counterclockwise direction three times as you say, “[Name of bully], your power is now unwound. It has no momentum. It has no force. It now returns to the native nothingness from which it came.” Now place the jar in your freezer.
Remember: no one has any power over you. You have all the power over your own life. Do any of these binding spells (and indeed all your magical work) from this strong inner knowing, and you will certainly prevail.
For lasting protection against bullies and other negative people, check out my book, Little Guide to Protection Magic: Everything You Need to Know, Including Protection Spells.
Did you try one of these binding spells? Or do you have any questions about the spells in this post? Please share in the comments below.
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So someone I know is receiving death threats from an anonymous source and she is terrified. Any suggestions on how I can help her?
Yes, I would call on Archangel Michael to protect her. You can find a spell for that here: https://tesswhitehurst.com/5-karma-friendly-alternatives-to-curses-and-hexes/ – this one you can easily adapt to do on behalf of someone else.
For the salt and string spell is there a way to undo it once it is done? Thanks in advance!
Well it’s a spell to bind the person from doing harm, so do you really need to undo it? It shouldn’t bind their power in any other way.
My husband suffers from extreme anxiety, OCD and likely has undiagnosed ASD but has very little intuition about his issues. He is very critical of me and doesn’t know how to deal with difficult situations (we have two small children) without blaming. He can also be very hard on our son even though he is at his core an extremely loving father. I am not in a financial position to separate right now and just want him to stop causing emotional harm . He has almost zero intuition about his mental health issues and refuses to get on medication. I have tried to use imagery to manifest good for him – I think if he were to ever try medication the amount of relief it would bring his nervous system would incredible but he will not accept this as an option. For some reason no matter what I do, it never seems to have a positive effect. It feels like I keep running up against a brick wall. I have a good therapist and we are figuring out what I need to, figuring out financial resources etc. In the meantime I’d love to keep his negativity at bay. Would a binding spell be appropriate here ? I’d love to see him happy but he generally seems very stuck – in his own way and everyone else’s way as well. I have both your protection book and your money magic book if you think there’s something else that would be more appropriate. Thank you so much.
Hi Meghan! I don’t recommend doing a binding on someone who lives in your house and with whom you are coparenting. In this situation, I would continually call on Archangel Michael to protect you and your kids and angels in general (you could also call on the Divine in another way that feels powerful to you) to heal this situation for you as quickly and ideally as possible.
The freezer has been working for me since I was 7 years old. 💯🔮
I recently told this neighbor my EKG indicated I had suffered a myocardial infarction, age undetermined. She seemed sympathetic and agreed, I ‘don’t want to test luck by shoveling snow’. Fast forward and now it is spring. I see her yesterday, Sunday. She blurts out, ‘You have rats.’ She is referring to a a mulch pile on my property that was left for my garden when some trees were taken down. I felt my anxiety surge as she disturbed my peace on a glorious day in spring. And I feel she will do me harm. I prayed my own prayer to God and cast a spell of my own with a match stick, repelling her evil and breaking the stick at the end, wishing upon her a cerebral hemorrhage should she try to harm me. I hope it works. I hope it works because she is being paid back in 3’s for my heart attack.
Constance, I wonder why you think your heart attack was related to your neighbor? Maybe I missed something. I suggest checking out this post: https://tesswhitehurst.com/5-karma-friendly-alternatives-to-curses-and-hexes/