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 there, I’m grateful to see your responses to help all these people. I am in a situation that involves a very controlling, paranoid, manipulative, mean, narcissistic ex. We have 2 children who he is also very verbally and emotionally damaging too. The courts don’t see it and I’m terrified to spend a ton of money to then possibly get screwed over in the end. I have gone back and forth with staying positive, not allowing myself to stoop to his level with the hate and anger… but he manages to upset me to such a degree I’m physically shivering, or worse. The anxiety he creates when he reaches out or is around is a lot. I am a strong, confident, don’t let people push me around type person… he has such a crazy affect on me and I need it to stop. I want to bind him with positivity, so that maybe he will find love and happiness for himself and in result be gentler and kinder to my boys and me. If that makes sense, if that’s not possible I need something that will protect both my boys, their half brothers and their mom as well. I feel as though he’s so broken and so hurt… I don’t think he’s inherently evil.. but he’s very possibly text book narcissist. I’m sorry for how long winded this is, I’m grateful to you and your advice. Thank you 🙏🏻
Angela, before we talk about the magical end of things, it seems important to note that if he is verbally and emotionally damaging to your kids, you probably will, in the long run, like to know that you did everything in your power to keep them away from him. So even though the legal route feels like a gamble, I want to point out that it might still be important to pursue it for your kid’s sake (and your own sense that you did your best for them). That being said, as you’re taking steps to protect your children from an abusive situation, you could do spell #3 from this post: https://tesswhitehurst.com/5-karma-friendly-alternatives-to-curses-and-hexes/
Would this work on a supervisor at work, she is cruel and nasty. She bullies and belittles, she criticizes everything, even what people it. She bullied one guy so bad he tried to hang himself, she knows all about it but has never changed…
In this case, I would personally lean toward doing #3 from this post instead: https://tesswhitehurst.com/5-karma-friendly-alternatives-to-curses-and-hexes/
how do you do binding love spell?
Hi Mary! That’s probably not a good idea. Check out this post: https://tesswhitehurst.com/why-you-should-not-do-a-love-spell-on-a-specific-person/
Hi, Tess. I really like your approach to life’s problems, because I don’t like the idea of hexing people either. My current problem, is that my husband and I have recently purchased a home that we really like. Unfortunately, just over on the next block, are a row of homes with people who are incredibly inconsiderate. They sit in their backyards after midnight, talking loudly and playing loud, bass music. We have not felt comfortable approaching them because they seem rowdy, possibly dangerous. We have called the police, they were cited, and we are sure another neighbor complained as well. Yet they continue this behavior. I no longer enjoy sitting out in my yard, and since I have complex PTSD and am over sixty, I feel constantly stressed and powerless. What measure would you suggest that won’t backfire onto us? I really can’t take this anymore.
Janna, neighbor problems like this are so frustrating. I know this firsthand! First, for the after midnight situation, if this is keeping you from sleeping, have you tried white noise, like a box fan or a white noise machine or app for your bedroom? This might mitigate or cure the sound issue if you can get used to it and it feels soothing to you. As for sitting in your yard, what if you hung a collection of beautiful wind chimes to bring a soothing sound closer instead of being distracted by the music across the way? If they’re too loud for other neighbors (or you) during other times, you could take them down when you’re not in the back. An outdoor fountain would be another idea for soothing sounds to counterbalance the other noise (and that could also work even if there’s no wind). Let me know your thoughts on these ideas!
These sound good, and I am willing to try them. Thanks!
Hello, and thank you for your advice. We are trying to use positive energy to invoke change. Each time we think of invoking positive energy we are hit with such despair. Such as being told after 25 years of employment, “that does not matter, you will have 0 years of seniority.” I’ll never understand how greedy and evil people get away with so much.
Thanks again.
Hi, yes, I can imagine it would be a challenge. In case it might be helpful, I just posted this spell yesterday: https://tesswhitehurst.com/spell-to-transform-a-problem-into-a-blessing/