gypsy incantation

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 08 Feb 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

lupo138	08 Feb 2003
There is a gypsy formula that was said over the cards before fortune-telling. It is quoted from "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling" by Charles Godfrey Leland and goes like that: Ye are twenty-five cards Become twenty-five devils ! Enter into the body, into the blood, into the soul! Into the feelings of the body Of my lover, from whom I cannot live. For I cannot stand or drink or eat Nor can I converse with men or women Till at the door of my house He shall come to knock. I know it is a bit weird but I wanted to share it :)

DarkChild	08 Feb 2003
thats a pretty cool "formula" i don't think its weird at all, but thats just me...

Laurel	08 Feb 2003
Tis kewl. I don't recommend trying this one at home however. Especially if you're sincere. LOL. But convert those 25 cards to the 22 major arcana unless you have a 25 card deck, maybe invoke them as "daimons" instead of devils (way more helpful imo).... and get rid of the last half of the incantation so that you aren't setting yourself up for death via starvation/depression/broken heart... and wa la. ~LAS

Small-tree	08 Feb 2003
I think i would find it quite difficult for me to say.....I would probably get spooked out even b4 i could do any reading......

HudsonGray	08 Feb 2003
And talk about the LOOKS you'd get from the people you're reading for! I wonder if you could substitute 'spirit of the cards' for devils?

lupo138	09 Feb 2003
in the Italian original it is of course "diavoli". That derives, as far as I do know, from "diabolos" which means "the one who throws things around" in Ancient Greek. Maybe that is helpful for adaptions ;)

Kiama	09 Feb 2003
Its a bit strange, cuz the incantation seems more like a chant to cause a lover to come to the door, instead of a chant you'd say to bless the cads before reading.... I have the book you're talking about, and must say it is wonderful! Kiama

Small-tree	09 Feb 2003
uh "the one who throws things around"??? Pardon me...but i think that would hardly set up any mood for a reading. Sounds like someone throwing a tantrum!! :P

meatbox666	09 Feb 2003
I like it. I have never heard anything like it before. I say a word over the cards when consorting with them. The word is "Yeseraye" I have no idea if I am pronouncing it correctly because it is Hebrew. It is said that Adam used this word to converse with angels and to get the correct answers when asking questions. I got the word from Moses's High Spirit Magick Art or the Six and Seventh Book of Moses. I find that saying this strange word (in an American accent, pronouncing it as it looks) seems to help me understand the reading better. Yeseraye means God without beggining God without End.

Eowyn	10 Feb 2003
Quote: Originally posted by HudsonGray And talk about the LOOKS you'd get from the people you're reading for! .... LOL Ehh... its nice, but I cant stop laughin.... I had another incantation, but it is in spanish. Ill post it later because its very beautiful. I found it in a book, too.

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