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Fear and Centipedes in Las Vegas, New Mexico - Crazy Folklore From the Past

The desert is a peculiar mistress. She offers beauty that steals the breath and danger that stops the heart. New Mexico, my home, is no exception. It’s a land where legends and reality often blur, where the line between truth and myth is drawn with a shaky hand. It's a place where old women swear centipedes crawl under your fingernails and eat your heart. It's not just a story whispered to frighten children but a genuine belief held with the fervor of religious conviction. Old New Mexican women of Spanish extraction will scream in horror at the sight of a centipede, not merely for their swift-moving many-legged terror, but because these women honestly think that the bugs are deadly, murderous creatures. In the arid sun beaten expanses of New Mexico, I remember my own grandmother, a woman of strange, deep-set, and often confused beliefs, who would warn us against these nightmarish creatures. Rollie-pollies (pill bugs) she would say, were the same as centipedes. Now it is general...

Mystical Black Cat Protection Spell - Traditional Hoodoo Ritual Against Enemies, Ghosts, Hauntings, Negativity

This is a very traditional old hoodoo style magical spell. It is done using Black Cat sachet powder. The notorious Black Cat spell was perhaps meant to be alluded to, but in their oldest form these type of sachet powders were usually just fragrance blends in a powder base. You need: 7 packages of Black Cat sachet powder Take up a container of the powder in the pre-dawn, for each of seven days total, and perform as follows: Take the powder to a window from which you can see the sunrise, or step outside to where you can see it. As the sun rises, say the Lord's Prayer over the powder. Here is how it's said in Latin: PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris,  et ne nos inducas in tentationem: sed libera nos a malo. Take the powder and sprinkle it all around your house. After 7 day...