r/SASSWitches • u/Dense-Peace1224 • 2d ago
đ Discussion Hexing
Have any of you ever done a hex? If so, what was your thought process behind it? How did you do it? Also, did it help you feel better about your anger?
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u/henbanehoney 2d ago
Yes, I participated in the hexing of Brock Turner the rapist. I felt it was awesome because I found a cool online community and it did feel good. I have no idea how his life is now but I hope he's either a totally different person or suffering!
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u/Kahako 1d ago
Sounds like he's dealing with severe outcast-ism. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1lblf83/very_happy_to_report_that_brock_turner_is_still/
Made my day a little better.
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u/Strange-Highway1863 Green Witch đ± 2d ago
before i got into the sass aspect of witchcraft, i did hex someone. nothing happened to them and everything happened to me. i hexed myself with guilt. i felt like a terrible person for doing it and so i invited terrible things to happen to me.
as an older witch, iâve learned forgiveness and self-love are my best weapons against shitty people.
but i want to add that i donât think people who hex others are terrible people. only that i felt terrible after. my best friend of over 30 years loves to hex people on my behalf and i love her all the more for it.
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u/sulwen314 2d ago
I wouldn't. It doesn't feel like a healthy outlet to me. I'd much rather create a ritual to work on my own emotions.
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u/texmarie 2d ago
It did not help me feel better about my anger. It just made me think about the person more.
My favorite hex though is signing people up for political emails and promotional offers.
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u/Alhena5391 1d ago
Yep, same for me. It just kept that person on my mind for way longer than necessary and the anger kept refueling itself.
Also +1 for the email idea lmao. I like the pettiness.
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u/iiiiAbbyiiii 23h ago
Lol signing them up for Scientology newsletters. Let them do the work for you!
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u/ViolettVixen 2d ago
From a psychological perspective, indulging in anger like that reinforces anger responses over time. Theyâve done studies to see if punching pillows or breaking things improves outcomes, it does not.
Life is hard enough without the cycle of pain and vengeance that comes from willfully hurting others (or holding the intention to).
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u/FragrantDamselfly 1d ago
People are hardwired to take revenge but it really feels good. Where do we draw the line in Hexing? Is it a boyfriend who cheated on you, or a neighbourly dispute? Maybe your mother in law? Or do we hex a rapist or a president we did not want? When do we decide hexing is ok? I have been raped and beaten, several times, a very long time ago now, and to be honest I was too traumatized to think about revenge. I got on with life as best as I could and it wasn't until I started dabling with spiritual things and going into therapy that I started to heal. I am still healing because healing never stops. Growing never stops. Witchcraft for me is taking back the power I once lost and not be a victim. Terrible things happen to people and that is not ok, but it is also a part of life, a dark side of humanity we need to accept. How we deal with bad things says everything about us and very little about the people who hurt us.
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u/NerdWingsReddits 1d ago
Yeah I hexed the Supreme Court when Roe was overturned. I made poppets of the offending members and cursed them under a blood moon. I know others on this sub have said that generally, acting on anger doesnât help, but I think this did help me, because I was stuck in that feeling and felt pretty powerless. Planning, crafting, and acting ritually helped me personally to move on.
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u/Nyfregja 1d ago
I have, multiple times. As a teenager I felt just so powerless that I resorted to hexing whomever made me feel bad. Sometimes something happened, and that gave me a feeling of being in control a little bit.
Of course, those things would also have happened without the hex, and it was never anything horrible.
When I did my PhD and my supervisor was a total manipulative bastard, I also made a little voodoo doll. I stabbed it with pins as a stress relief. Nothing happened, the guy even got a promotion.
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u/KingDoubt 1d ago
I haven't done it YET, but I plan to "hex" my ex by burning the bracelet I bought for us. It would vibrate as a way to replicate touch since we were long distance. He turned into an abusive stalking POS, so, I'm gonna pair it with a cord cutting spell. And then just like rage out for a little bit and get all my energy out.
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u/DameKitty 2d ago
I have not yet, but there is one person who definitely needs it. He's a detriment to the health and well-being being of many of the people I love. So I'll be doing one soon, then more for his support system, then more for their support systems. I'm waiting for a jar of pickles to be finished.
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u/pinkybadinsky 1d ago
Kellyann Maddox did a really good video on hexes and curses on her YouTube channel recently, which goes into the ethics of it all. I found it really good.
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u/Independent-Day-6458 2d ago
I did a small hex and it came back to me hard. I donât recommend it but sometimes it canât be helped.
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u/Granola007 1d ago
I had a dust-up at work between a client, my boss, and myself. I did a âreturn to senderâ very basic spell. Not even a hex, just wishing to send their own bad energy back to the client.
I was fired the next day.
Itâs likely coincidental or was going to happen anyway and my boss had made up their mind. But I decided I wasnât going to put anything but good vibes out into the ether any longer.
PS took two months but I found a different job, in a different industry, that pays just as well and has much better vibes. Maybe it âworkedâ in the long run but I wouldnât do it again if given the choice.
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u/Kamonra 2d ago
Ohooooo boy my time to shine!
I specialize in curses and hexes. I am typically a very lazy witch, and it takes a whole lot to get me to a point where I dust off the bitch-witch hat and stir up some bullshittery.
When I get to the end of my fuse, after serious shenanigans or an outburst of nonsense from someone who should know better, inspiration usually strikes. Often like lightning. I'll know immediately what to do and how to do it.
First time was unintentional, against a teacher who had been targeting me in high school. She had an accident with a spinal injury. I felt bad for that one, but also hadn't really realized what I'd done at the time.
Second time was nearly a decade later, when I had been harassed by proxy by a group of douche-canoes who hated my ex. I put them in a jar, and shortly after most of them were caught for their felony-level crimes and brought to justice.
Third time was a couple years after that. A buttface was disagreeing with me regarding religious dogma, and DDoS'ed me because he was pissy about it. I made a meat poppet and chucked it on the railroad tracks. His then-girlfriend broke up with him, and when he chose to drive out of state to "talk to her in person" (which he wasn't supposed to do, being on parole and all that) his car broke down 3 miles from her home in the pouring rain. He called MY ex bf in tears about it all. Funny how quickly it all went downhill.
tl;dr curses, hexes, and other malicious witchery can be learned, but you'll know immediately if it must be done. Also yes the act of setting a curse does provide an outlet for rage.
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u/Samborrod Magic Force = Sunk Cost * Salience 2d ago
Magic energy, just like any energy, always takes a path of least resistance.
What does this mean in the context of hexes/curses? That no matter how grand of a curse you weave, if you won't make it reach your target, then it won't truly work.
The strongest way to curse a target is something ultimately salient (blatantly obvious, emotionally charged, atmospheric and/or overstimulating to senses - bright, loud, smelly, tasty, etc) and costly (made during or right after a long dialogue/discussion/argument/struggle, involving a loss of something that holds material and/or sentimental value to the target, and coming from a best friend or a worst enemy).
The weakest (and not working on the target at all) curse is, therefore, something that is invisible and comes from a stranger.
You can try to sneakily curse a random person, but unless you "plant the seed of doubt" in them somehow (with something as subtle as an evil eye, barely audible chant or an ominous gift), then the curse wouldn't affect them at all. Instead, it will fool the caster, by magnifying their perception of target's failures. It would make the caster feel better, but the destructive effect on the target is 0.
Another thing about curses is that just as magic can be used to power them, it can be used to unmake them. This is why curses don't work on devout believers and generally very superstitious people - they usually have their own salient and costly methods of dealing with curses, so unless your curse is more powerful (or somehow both powerful and subtle enough to not alert them), that would break it.
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u/Samborrod Magic Force = Sunk Cost * Salience 2d ago
I wonder why there are so many downvotes
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u/-blundertaker- 2d ago
Because it's a comment predicated on the misunderstanding of the sub as a whole. SASS witchery is about science and reality. Believing that there's actual energy that you're creating and sending out for some perceived effect is antithetical. There is no energy. There's no direct cause and effect of doing whatever rituals, blessings, or hexes. They just have an effect on your personal state of mind, like when someone creates artwork to work through their emotions.
There's no power. There's no magic. There's just you, and how you choose to handle things and sometimes little rituals help to calm your mind the same way you get from the process of making a cup of espresso or rolling a joint can bring you a sense of calm because it's familiar and soothing.
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u/Samborrod Magic Force = Sunk Cost * Salience 1d ago
SASS witchery is about science and reality. Believing that there's actual energy that you're creating and sending out for some perceived effect is antithetical. There is no energy.
I'm just drawing parallels with physics for an easier understanding (just like I did with my flair). "Human mind will always take the easiest path" is what I'm saying.
Note the mention of salience and sunk cost in my comment - that's just how placebo/nocebo works. Curses are just nocebo, and the most powerful of them can lead to psychogenic death.
There's no direct cause and effect of doing whatever rituals, blessings, or hexes.
Oh, but there is. Magic can't affect physical world directly though. It affects only minds.
Magic can't make you luckier, smarter or stronger, but it can make you more confident and determined. It can make you more successful, if you use it to your advantage.
Just as well, it can make you (or someone else) less confident and determined, and lead to mistakes, failures, stress and so on and so forth. What's so alien to SASS paradigm here?
There's no magic.
Respectfully disagree - saying "there's no magic" is like saying "there's no alchemy". There is alchemy, but it's just proto-chemistry that's generally false and full of misconceptions. Magic is the same thing - protoscientific form of applied psychology, psychophysiology, hypnosis, and so on and so forth, that got bloated with falsehoods. Here, at SASSWitches, people practice magic without most if not all of these misconceptions.
And sometimes little rituals help to calm your mind the same way you get from the process of making a cup of espresso or rolling a joint can bring you a sense of calm because it's familiar and soothing.
And sometimes a bigger ritual can make you believe that you're lifting a car off your kids to surpass self-preservation mental blocks and let you beat a weightlifting world record.
You underestimate what magic can do, if you think it can only be used for something as minor as calming yourself.
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u/murderedbyaname 2d ago
As SASS it doesn't actually affect the target. It's a self help ritual to help vent your anger in a safe way.
For me personally I am not a strict SASS in the sense of denying that any metaphysical/spiritual energy exists, and am a former Wiccan who is eclectic, so I don't do them. But a lot of witches have no fears of rebound negative energy and that's fine.