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.
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Hi Tess,
My ex-husband was extremely abusive towards me, physically, emotionally, mentally, sexually, and verbally. I know I was not the first woman he treated this way, but I hope to be the last. I do not wish him ill but I do want to put an end to his ability and desire to hurt others. Would a binding spell be appropriate here? Thank you!
Hi Maggie! If he is out of your life now, I would concentrate on healing yourself and replenishing your boundaries rather than doing anything magically to him. Here are three meditations to help you do that. I suggest doing one of these daily (or one like it) for at least 60 days: https://tesswhitehurst.com/cord-cutting-meditation/ – https://tesswhitehurst.com/quick-thorough-aura-cleansing-meditation/ – https://tesswhitehurst.com/10-minute-chakra-clearing-meditation/
Thank you!
Hello there, I enjoyed this informative article very much, it has given me hope.
I live in a senior/disabled persons high rise and there is a group of women who try to control everything and bully others. Some are on the resident council and one in particular, the self-titled “Queen of all B-(word)’s is very ageist and racist as well as homophobic toward me and a few of my friends who live here, she bullies even other elderly people, calls them trash etc.
She is currently trying to have all the young people kicked out by lying and being manipulative. She calls the headquarters daily and has people’s cars towed for even though they live here if they park in the spot she claims as hers. She dislikes my friend who is here to care for her mother and has gotten a group of her friends to pick fights with her to get her banned.
She has gotten the previous manager fired because he did not give in to her unreasonable demands and is trying to bully the ones she dislikes into moving. I have multiple sclerosis and I cannot move again.
I need help, I don’t know her last name and I wish her no harm but I want her and people like her to leave everyone alone. Should I/can I bind her with her first name only if I picture her in my mind? I would hate to accidentally bind any innocent person. She is a person who upon my first meeting her, told me: “If they want to see a b****, I’ll show them a b****.” with no reason for it at all other than to make me fear her somehow and I do now that I have seen how she and her crew have affected so many lives. Please help us. I can’t take it anymore. Now she comes up to our table in the community room and slams the chairs down while we are painting to get us to leave and painting is all I have to enjoy these days.
Hi there! Yes, it sounds like a binding is appropriate in this situation, and I would go ahead and use her first name only while picturing her in your mind. Brightest blessings and every best wish.
Thank you so very much Miss Tess! I will follow your instruction to the letter! I have not felt so hopeful in a year. Brightest blessings and every best wish to you as well. You seriously have no idea how safe I’m starting to feel already. I woke up with so much energy this morning and my numbness from the MS is not as intense as it has been this month, I might even have the ability/energy to walk go for a walk to buy the things I need for the spell! So so happy thank you, you beautiful beacon of light and love! Ok, I’ll shut up now lol.
I recently left an extremely verbally and bordering on physically abusive relationship of 2 years with someone who emotionally and financially manipulated me and was addicted to drugs. I have since found out that this is a pattern of his but that he twists the stories of past relationships to sound like a victim or hero to the next. Could this help to ensure future women don’t fall for his lies and abuse and which version?
Kathleen, if you are safely out of the relationship, I wouldn’t turn your focus to doing magic on your ex. Instead, I’d cut the cords of attachment between you. Here’s a meditation to help you do that: https://tesswhitehurst.com/cord-cutting-meditation/
hey, i needed help with a situation going on in my house for the past couple of years now, my father is extremely abusive towards my mother mostly verbally but it gets physically too and sometimes he’d load a gun and tell her he’ll shoot her. He does this every time he’s drunk (which is everyday now) and has literally tortured my mother to the max she cannot handle any more his abusive shitty attitude and nothing seems to be helping her. She would get a divorce but she doesn’t have the finance and for some odd reason no matter how hard she tries she never seems to get any work almost as if she’s been cursed. I really need your help in this situation i don’t want any karmic backlash for an asshole like my father so please tell me what can i do.
I’d really appreciate the help thanks!
Sara, are you old enough to move out on your own? Or, if you’re not, is there somewhere else that’s safe where you can stay, perhaps with a grandparent or other relative? If so, that would be the first thing I would recommend. Once you’re safe and out of that environment, you can begin to approach helping your mother.
i don’t want to leave my mother alone with him, is there some kind of spell or anything to help me out ?
Sara, I suggest getting counseling and reading the book Co-Dependent No More. I know it may not seem like it to you right now, but you can actually help your mother more by setting positive boundaries with both your parents by getting out of the house, which is clearly an unsafe environment for everyone.
hi, I’m 21 and living in avery disturbing and abusive situation at home and I don;’ know what to do to deal with it, as far as I’m concerned both my parents are severely narcissistic, my mother is extremely abusive (usually very covertly) and feels no remorse for what she says and does to me (EXTREMELY manipulative, outright rude and disrespectful, condescending, passive aggressive, sarcastic, you name it). She is also very controlling and willing to smear me by baiting me to react and then telling ohers, though never about what she does to abuse. My father is violent, he degrades me, he mocks..it’s horrible, I suffer from anxiety and depression and traumatic stress and I can’t leave, both because I’m dependent on them and because I feel traumatized by all of these experiences…my life had gotten better with therapy but after a few short months and worsening abuse it spiraled. Their behaviour shocks me and I don’t know what to do. If there is any chance for repair I want it but this can’t go on. I have little external social support and I don;t know what to do. Would anything work for me? Please let me know, thanks
Ant, I suggest revisiting the belief that you can’t leave. Get proactive about creating a new pattern for yourself, even if it takes a little while before you can actually move out. Of course, a social support system will also help so consider finding a job or a meetup group where you can make friends. Here are some posts to help you change your pattern: https://tesswhitehurst.com/9-ways-to-get-motivated-and-activate-your-magical-mojo/ and https://tesswhitehurst.com/5-spells-to-get-yourself-out-of-a-funk/