Ingredients
The following ingredients are needed
to cast Left hand of Shadow
Just your left hand.
This spell is part of the Coven of
Spell Casters
Spell Casters has the following books available:
1) Spell Casters Spellbook
2) Spell Casters Rituals
This spell was added by: Oberron
Left hand of Shadow
If the caster does not touch anyone within five seconds of casting, then the spell expires and is wasted.
Left Hand of Darkness
"Shadow's dark might flow through me!"
After casting this spell, the caster has five seconds in which to touch someone with the palm of their left hand. When they do, the target may suffer pain or depression.
now does anyone else here think that this spell seems to continue the stereotype of occult practitioners as just stage magicians chanting a few words and then expecting something of it??
im sorry, but it pissed me off.
why does the target suffer pain? all the caster did was speak some words, no energy was required, nothing but some words. what makes the spell work?? human vocal cords? no focus is needed just the ability to speak. and why only 5 seconds?
im sorry but i HATE the stereotype that so many people use for us, and this spell seems to perpetuate it, i just wanted to see if i was the only one.
NO OFFENSE IS MEANT TO OBERRON, i have read a few of your posts, and they seem highly intelligient, informative, and researched. please do not take this as a personal attack at you.
I do agree with you there Luzifer. There is alot more to the occult then just simply speaking words and hoping for an effect it requires a lot of discipline and focus to do(no offense oberron)
It makes studying and practising the occult, look like a very simple thing to do. And makes those who pracitse it look simple. I've met this sterotype of the occult elsewhere. Including those amoung my friends who practise magick.
Oh rant over and like Luzifer no offense just voicing opions lol.
I think I can make some one depressed just by talking to them...
Maybe this spell works for those who has the ability to drain peoples energy plus a very concentrated energy to make such pain.. ^_^ thoughts become words, words become actions sort of thing..
I know that magick can be a very subjective praitise. Something which works well for me may not for another person. I think this spell coud of been helped by adding more of an explanation eg the words themselfs have no efect if you cant see and feel what you are doing.
yes i thought for a second that it was a nice spell to work from concentrate and focus energy in your hand give it a will then unleash it upon whoever you touch next, but it never states anything of the sort, but say A and then B will happen.
like i said, Oberron seems intelligient but the spell has made me angry, along with the summon jesus ones and the bum a guy one where the spell is you go **** a dude, its openly hateful and definitely made by some jackass, but there are alot of spells on the spell caster book that are plain silly or hateful...no offense to spellcasters, it is of course hard to cotnrol newer members who dont care about the site when everyone is a council member. but i do applaud them, a coven for everyone no matter waht, ery noble indeed.
Spellcasters was the coven i joined when i first started to use the site and its a good starting place, s all memeer are set to cuncil staus and can share there rituals and spells. There are a some spells which are a bit off, but there are also excellent spells there. I think that it is a shame hat there are people who join just to take the p***.
Its a very large coven and obviously it would be imposible to see what all its members are doing.
^_^ Oh... I never really thought about joining covens, and then one day I clicked on one...and became one till I got invited to another one...back to topic... well, most spells will work if a person can rewrite it (most spells are copy from other sites) and add some ingredients to it...but I do not cast spells that much, but if I do probably it will work but then again...I can just make some one depressed just by talking to them...easy...hahaha
The stereotype comes from somewhere... I've read that Abracadabra means "I create with words" -- it's an affirmation, a statement of intent. And a statement of intent must come in some form in every magic (even not as an actual statement)... we even call magic spells or en chant ments that implies the power of words. When we express ourselves, the energy moves outwards right?
My own occult advisor was able to make these work: "It [a pickle jar] can and will be opened!" and "Hail Mary, full of grace -- help me find a parking space," then again when she can hold back a rainstorm I'm guessing she can move energy however she really wants and the words are just decoration.
Maybe for this spell:
a.) It's already given that the magician trained his mind and personal energy -- so knowledge of how/what energy is being used in the first place is all sub conscious and won't work if you overthink it, like a Sigil in chaos magick. Hence, use of the left hand and "just do it (you only have 5 seconds)" approach.
b.) Power of suggestion, if the target believes in magic and knows that the caster does it, then hears him/her shout something like that at him -- their own expectations will cause psychosomatic pain and depression.
c.) There is an entity called Shadow's Dark that is called in the casting of this spell?
...would be nice to have explained how it's supposed to work, of course, since I see spells as a skeleton, rather than the actual ability, of magic-casting itself.
I'm more annoyed at the stereotype-- actually, more like the mental block-- that spellcasting is only done as a last desperate resort, and must involve:
burning candles when the electric lights work just fine, using kitchen herbs for something you won't eat, reciting poetry to an empty room -- and expecting not only something from it, but threefold something from it.
See how energy (or concentration, or even deities) never come into it either? But, I think we should know where that stereotype comes from too... and it's just as valid a position...
all i mostly work with is energy, i dotn use much help from outside objects.
i understood it and i used the concept of using energy to tag someone for pain as a basis for a radically different spell, but i had never thought of using energy to tag someone for pain.
