Tongodiva
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I do believe i've done a form of scrying. In my family's culture..and I guess most likely in other cultures as well, we have this thing called the Evil Eye. This is when someone is affected by another person's "heavy" gaze. Mostly associated with something a person sees that finds attractive or very unattractive. To cure the Evil Eye the remedy is to take a fresh egg and "sweep" it over the affected person, usually along with a prayer. After the sweeping the egg is cracked open and placed in a glass of water, the center of the egg will reveal what was the cause of the Evil Eye. It's amazing how clear sometimes these images can be seen. Similar to the egg is burning of a ... hm, volcano rock... i don't know if it's lava rock or the obsidian, i'll have to check with my grandma. This is used most common to 'cure' someone of a scare. The rock is also swept along with a certain herb ( I haven't done this in a looong while so i'll have to check with my grandma on the type of herb) then it's burned and cracked. When it is cracked it will reveal what scared the person (usually the person is a child) and so the fear or scare is released after you've read the rock. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? " - Myself
Morewenna in the previous thread on Opinions on Scrying you asked me if I could give you examples of the images on the eggs. I'll tell you right now my mother has a very 'heavy' gaze. She does it without intention and our family has gotten to where if she mentions she likes something on someone or they way someone looks, we'll ask her to touch it. Part of the Evil Eye has to do with envy or yearning, another part has to do with admiring or the opposite. There is a story in my family about my mother's gaze. My grandmother sets it as an example whenever this subject arises. When my cousin was born, he was born with a beautiful pair of eyes. I want to say they're honey colored. They have flecks of green and brown in them and they change color constantly, depending on the whether he's in light or shadow. My mother absolutely fell in love with his eyes, but didn't mention it to anyone. Soon my cousin fell ill with a fever and we didn't know the cause. His eyes were bloodshot and his eyelids were purplish and it looked like the fever was affecting his eyes most of all. To the point where they had to gauze them and put try to put some of those first aid cooling patches because there was a fear that his eyes would be damaged because of the heat of the fever! Well my grandma started to meditate because no one could come up with a reason as to why he got so sick so suddenly. She realized it was my mother. So quickly she dragged her to the hospital along with a fresh hen's egg. She had my mother touch my cousin and ask her to say what she had thought of his eyes. My mother started touching him and complimenting the color of his eyes, and saying how pretty they were while my grandma swept him with the egg and said a prayer. After a bit she cracked the egg open and dropped it into a glass of water. The egg had been cooking! The whites of the egg were milky adn the yoke had been affected too. When she saw the yoke there was a face 'singed' or 'cooked' into it. It was my mothers face. Within the hour the fever was broken and my cousin was good as new. This after he had been in the hospital and the doctor's couldn't figure out what was wrong.
My grandma is -very- good at reading eggs. Sometimes just a sweeping will suffice, but other times, the egg just tells you what the cause of the harm is and so then you have to do something to remedy that harm. Same as with the cracked rock. My grandmother doesn't call it magick though, more like 'household healing'. I guess it's her way of rationalizing her amazing natural talents with her deeply fortified religious upbringing.
You also mentioned that you have a bluee glass eye to deflect such things... this is true in our culture too. Tradition speaks that the best way to deflect evil eye is to wear a charm (preferably around your neck) made of a deer's eye. Nowadays we have wooden "deer's eye" and we mostly place these on babies (very ideal situation would be for the very first year of their lives). Babies that wear these will grow up with a more natural ...immunity... to the Evil Eye as they grow. Adults can wear them too of course
These "household healings" have been passed down from mother to daughter in my family for generations, that I know for sure it has been at least four. I love geneology and so finding this stuff up is like a treasure hunt for me. There is an exception in my generation though because my mother doesn't completely agree with it (she is -very- religious) and though she doesn't practice it, she isn't against it or complains when people tell her to touch something. It has been silently understood by all, including her. Neither has she opposed to my grandmother teaching my sister and I these things. She considers it as passing on a legacy which is very important for her... I picked up the love of geneology from her.
Houshold Healer - Tongodiva
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I do believe i've done a form of scrying. In my family's culture..and I guess most likely in other cultures as well, we have this thing called the Evil Eye. This is when someone is affected by another person's "heavy" gaze. Mostly associated with something a person sees that finds attractive or very unattractive. To cure the Evil Eye the remedy is to take a fresh egg and "sweep" it over the affected person, usually along with a prayer. After the sweeping the egg is cracked open and placed in a glass of water, the center of the egg will reveal what was the cause of the Evil Eye. It's amazing how clear sometimes these images can be seen. Similar to the egg is burning of a ... hm, volcano rock... i don't know if it's lava rock or the obsidian, i'll have to check with my grandma. This is used most common to 'cure' someone of a scare. The rock is also swept along with a certain herb ( I haven't done this in a looong while so i'll have to check with my grandma on the type of herb) then it's burned and cracked. When it is cracked it will reveal what scared the person (usually the person is a child) and so the fear or scare is released after you've read the rock. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? " - Myself
Morewenna in the previous thread on Opinions on Scrying you asked me if I could give you examples of the images on the eggs. I'll tell you right now my mother has a very 'heavy' gaze. She does it without intention and our family has gotten to where if she mentions she likes something on someone or they way someone looks, we'll ask her to touch it. Part of the Evil Eye has to do with envy or yearning, another part has to do with admiring or the opposite. There is a story in my family about my mother's gaze. My grandmother sets it as an example whenever this subject arises. When my cousin was born, he was born with a beautiful pair of eyes. I want to say they're honey colored. They have flecks of green and brown in them and they change color constantly, depending on the whether he's in light or shadow. My mother absolutely fell in love with his eyes, but didn't mention it to anyone. Soon my cousin fell ill with a fever and we didn't know the cause. His eyes were bloodshot and his eyelids were purplish and it looked like the fever was affecting his eyes most of all. To the point where they had to gauze them and put try to put some of those first aid cooling patches because there was a fear that his eyes would be damaged because of the heat of the fever! Well my grandma started to meditate because no one could come up with a reason as to why he got so sick so suddenly. She realized it was my mother. So quickly she dragged her to the hospital along with a fresh hen's egg. She had my mother touch my cousin and ask her to say what she had thought of his eyes. My mother started touching him and complimenting the color of his eyes, and saying how pretty they were while my grandma swept him with the egg and said a prayer. After a bit she cracked the egg open and dropped it into a glass of water. The egg had been cooking! The whites of the egg were milky adn the yoke had been affected too. When she saw the yoke there was a face 'singed' or 'cooked' into it. It was my mothers face. Within the hour the fever was broken and my cousin was good as new. This after he had been in the hospital and the doctor's couldn't figure out what was wrong.
My grandma is -very- good at reading eggs. Sometimes just a sweeping will suffice, but other times, the egg just tells you what the cause of the harm is and so then you have to do something to remedy that harm. Same as with the cracked rock. My grandmother doesn't call it magick though, more like 'household healing'. I guess it's her way of rationalizing her amazing natural talents with her deeply fortified religious upbringing.
You also mentioned that you have a bluee glass eye to deflect such things... this is true in our culture too. Tradition speaks that the best way to deflect evil eye is to wear a charm (preferably around your neck) made of a deer's eye. Nowadays we have wooden "deer's eye" and we mostly place these on babies (very ideal situation would be for the very first year of their lives). Babies that wear these will grow up with a more natural ...immunity... to the Evil Eye as they grow. Adults can wear them too of course
These "household healings" have been passed down from mother to daughter in my family for generations, that I know for sure it has been at least four. I love geneology and so finding this stuff up is like a treasure hunt for me. There is an exception in my generation though because my mother doesn't completely agree with it (she is -very- religious) and though she doesn't practice it, she isn't against it or complains when people tell her to touch something. It has been silently understood by all, including her. Neither has she opposed to my grandmother teaching my sister and I these things. She considers it as passing on a legacy which is very important for her... I picked up the love of geneology from her.
Houshold Healer - Tongodiva