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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Hello, I have been suffering emotionally from verbal abuse from my ex husband and his now girlfriend for the past 3 years, he says anything and eveything be it not true but he will say anything to hurt me. He is beyond disrespectful and crosses lines All the time by constantly being disrespectful towards me, there’s so much more to it but After all these years all I’ve ever wanted was for him to have even the most basic respect towards me. What kind of spell do you recommend to get someone who is always being disrespectful and constantly rude and bad mouthing me to stop. I want so bad for our relationship to be even the most civil because our daughter is the most important thing and she is stuck in the middle. Unfortunately she is still so young and at the age where she doesn’t understand all the things me and her dad have arguments about. He really is not a good father at all !!! The only reason he ever sees his daughter is whenever he “can” which varies every month. She is so innocent and doesn’t understand all she knows is I’m her mom and he’s her dad and naturally her love for us is bigger then her little heart can hold. I wish for him to leave us alone for how ever long it takes till he can finally realize he was the one in the wrong and hurting us this way all these years and that I being the mother of his child never deserved any of it. Thank you !
Hi there. A binding from this post sounds very appropriate. Is there one that stands out to you more than the others? You might also want to make this charm for your daughter: https://tesswhitehurst.com/powerful-protection-charm-for-empaths/
Hi Tess,
Me and my friend have been dealing with a lot of negativity which has effected work, finances and personal relationships, from many sources over the last 9 months. we have managed to use protection and shields and in a tough case a return to sender spell to get rid of most of them but this one person is sticking around. She is motivated by jealously and spite she is now causing issues with both of our relationships causing distance and obstacles my friend and her boyfriend almost spilt up because she was totally overwhelmed with feelings of jealousy and anger and couldn’t stop herself starting a fight with him over nothing. my financial situation suffered massively and my work was seriously effected. my friends car randomly blew up. And whenever we need to see each other it’s a real effort to meet up as stuff happens to stop us.
This person was invited in but before i knew she wasn’t good. And since she has been around life has got harder than ever, i have cut her out my life as much as possible but now people around us are getting hurt with worse than average luck, bad health or severe depression. i can’t help but feel she needs to be bound to stop this with us and also anyone else she may get jealous of in the future.
I’ve sat down many times and thought maybe i’m imagining all this as it can’t really be real… but I can’t carry on like this not now others are getting hurt too. I have no idea if she is strong enough to do this or if she is using other’s energies to do it but it feels like i have to do this now? i’m not going crazy am i? any help or advice would be appreciated.
Hi Julie! It sounds to me like a binding would be appropriate. Is there one of these options that feels right to you?
I feel drawn to option 2.
It feels right but also because I have randomly been drawn to getting my tarot cards out of storage recently and I had no idea why (they were a gift 20 yrs ago and I have never used them as the time never felt right)
Perfect! I’d do that one then.
Thank you!
It’s been done so lets hope we start to notice a difference, otherwise i need to look for a plan B!
thank you for your help 🙂
Hello tess, which spell should i use for binding my sister in law from interfering with her brother and i’s loving relationship??? She wants everyone to be miserable because shes not happy which is ridiculous cause she has a good life and likes control over him and others she can as well as becoming violent i hate this of her because i just want to be happy with her brother and live in peace without her interference please help thank you
Hi Angela! Instead of a binding, I suggest spell #3 from this post: https://tesswhitehurst.com/5-karma-friendly-alternatives-to-curses-and-hexes/
Hi Tess, I have a ex that I left who has been using voodoo magic, very strong in his family, to try to prevent me from leaving. I know he was doing it while I slept. My mother does Reiki and pranic healing and removed an entity last night. Today I went to see my energy healer, who practices Reiki, shamanism, alchemy and channeling. She found many, many cords from him placed between me and his daughter, attempts to try to shield my intuition, mind control black magic and most concerning, Black magic that is making my right knee injured so I can’t walk well and in pain. My mom cast out one entity again but I feel I need to cast protection on myself and bind him. I would love your thoughts.
Hi Celinya! I’d hold off on the binding, and instead do 3 and 2 from this post (in that order) – https://tesswhitehurst.com/5-karma-friendly-alternatives-to-curses-and-hexes/
Hi Tess,
I did the first of the three binding spells that you described and my sister and I actually had a cordial phone conversation the next day, which was wonderful! Should I re-do the spell periodically, or is once enough?
Lisa, great news! I’d say once is enough, unless at some point you feel intuitively that the spell needs refreshing. But it may very well hold.
I am working with a women who is erratic. She is cruel and harsh and blows up frequently repeating some manufactured or mistake to enormous degrees. I have tried to apologize over and over to diffuse the situation as most are a mutual misunderstanding, work styles or her reading way too much into things. I will never be her and she is trying to make me thing, talk and act the way she wants me to. She is a peer but acts like my manager. She is friends with a high positioned person so I cannot escalate the issue. She will be nice one day and then blow up an screech the next. She has threatened before to be uncooperative. What can I do without causing her harm to get her to not scream and yell at me and not to do anything to jeopardize my reputation or employment.
This does sound frustrating. I suggest #3 from this post: https://tesswhitehurst.com/5-karma-friendly-alternatives-to-curses-and-hexes/