Are you wondering how to do a binding spell, or looking for an easy binding spell for protection?
Reclaim 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’re 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 your own behalf, and/or on behalf of anyone else who is being threatened and unfairly treated.
As long as you’re using a binding spell exclusively for justice and protection – and as long as you hold the intention that your spell is for the ultimate good of all concerned – you will be safe from undesirable karmic backlash.
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. But sometimes, you can’t wait. So you can go ahead and follow your intuition and perform one of these spells when you feel the moment is right.
No matter who the bully is, remember that they are only a human, and humans can be magically bound.
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 any 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.
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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.
You may also like these 5 Karma-Friendly Alternatives to Curses and Hexes.
Would a binding be appropriate to stop someone from self-harm?
My daughter has been battling OCD with intrusive thoughts since she was 9. She’s 15 now and the circles and patterns of the OCD are getting worse, the self-harm through cutting and self-deprecating words are becoming all the fills the house.
She is currently in treatment programs (was hospitalized many time now for the OCD, eating disorder, anxiety, and self-harm) and has been for 5 years but it’s just not enough anymore.
I feel there is more I can do but unsure which path to take in helping her heal. It’s like I can feel it just out of reach but not enough to clearly see the next step. I would be forever grateful if you could offer any guidance. Thank you!!!
Hi! No, I wouldn’t do a binding in this instance. Does your daughter have an art form she enjoys? If she can get “obsessed” with an art form of some sort (dance, acting, painting, sculpting, or even something like web design), I’m sensing she’ll begin creating a healthier pattern of energy for herself.
Hi Tess, I’m looking for a spell to stop my husband’s parents from negatively affecting him. There’s alot of negative energy coming from them as they fight and complain a lot and we live in thier backyard and have been for the past 5 years. They have a hold on him, and they make him do everything for them. He has a very big heart and finds it hard to tell them no. I don’t want to negatively affect them, I just want to remove the hold they have on him. Will these spells do the job?
Before doing a spell, I’d move out of their backyard. Choosing to live so close to them (and possibly renting from them or borrowing space from them) and simultaneously binding them might create some tricky karma for everyone. Focus on moving first. Here’s a spell to find a new home: https://tesswhitehurst.com/spell-for-finding-and-buying-a-home/
Hello,
There is a manager at my work that is an awful person. She is very cruel to everyone and lies to make her sound better. She doesn’t allow the people in her department to talk to anybody else, they have to go through her first (these are employees that have been here 20+ years, that just try to say hello. She has been here 4-5 years.) If a mistake is made, even by her, she blames it on one of her people. Things that we were able to ask for before her is now made to feel like it is against the rules. We hate to ask for anything, even if it is for help on something because she makes it feel like we shouldn’t be asking. But if we take it to management, they will go talk to her and she says the exact opposite to them, that she could do it without any problem. She has caused workers to see therapists and have to be on medication for anxiety, just to be able to come in to work. We have tried to talk to upper management (they say they will talk to her)but they continue to let it happen. We have also tried looking for other jobs and nothing comes up for any of us. I don’t know what else to do but it’s hard to come to work, it feels like I am back in High School trying to avoid a bully but I have not choice and have to speak with her. What would be best to do?
Is there one of these spells that calls to you?
I had read in some blogs that simple mirrors work. I have bad neighbours staying downstairs in apartment who constantly bully me. I have put mirrors facing downwards under my furniture. But it is not working. Am I doing something wring. Please help me, as this has started affecting me badly and psychologically.
Diana, neighbors can be especially challenging. Sometimes when there is a persistent problem, it can be a message from the Universe that it’s time to find somewhere new to live, not just to escape the neighbors but because it will benefit you in other ways as well. Have you been feeling drawn to look around for a new place?
I have put my all savings to buy this house, have got to pay EMI for next 20 years. Not possible for me to move out even if I want to.
Hi Diana! OK, you may want to try one of the spells from this post. Or you can also take a look at this post: https://tesswhitehurst.com/5-karma-friendly-alternatives-to-curses-and-hexes/
See I’m a bit of a skeptic when it comes to “spells” I read online, but i did something similar to this a few times when I was younger and it always worked AMAZINGLY well. it was the only times I thought I was capable of real magic. The way I did it was to write the name of the person on some paper while I had a candle lit. I would have a roll of like tissue paper or something and slowly wrap it around the written name while repeating a chant very similar to the one from The Craft and focusing on the candle. I’d then seal it with a little bit of candle wax and then just kept it safe. It always stunned me how whatever the issue seemed to just diappear overnight!