r/Witches

I did a spell it was a protection spell or at least I think I did, and after the candle went out I had an instant feeling of tiredness, I felt drained and I felt weak. its my first spell but is this normal from your guy's personal experiences and all. Ive been conflicted about witchcraft and wether its real and all but the feeling of tiredness and weakness of my body sort of made me have more confidence in it. Is this feeling normal? I mean I've heard about people getting tired after big spells but it was very simple and I dont even know if I did it right

i have intrusive thoughts but they’re not so much intrusive when it’s in the back of my head constantly. it’s completely opposite of the person i am, but i have intrusive thoughts about hurting people i love and know are completely innocent and mean no harm. i have all other kinds of horrible thoughts that aren’t mine and it’s mentally tormenting. i also suffer with issues of thinking my thoughts are being broadcasted & delusions of something watching me.

anyways i had a really bad day with these thoughts today and i don’t want to assume, but the specific person these thoughts were about was having a really rough day after i’d been having these thoughts and im wondering if im energetically sending them to him somehow. because when i have these thoughts i imagine them going to him or like im “thinking them to him”. i know energy can’t be created nor destroyed, and these thoughts are some kind of energy, so i feel as if im sending him hurtful energy. whatever i could just be delusional but it’s mentally tormenting.

i fell asleep on the floor and had this dream, woke up at 11:49 pm.

i had a nightmare that there was this toy in a box that was in my room it was like a lps toy and it had some numbers randomly on the box. like 11, 2002, i think 49 but it was a double digit one, etc. and i kept looking at the box it and id turn it and the little animal toy thing would fall over and i keot doing it over and over. and then i see my sister, shes been hiding her face and quiet. i turn her around and she was sunburn from tanning i think, but her right eye is extremely bruised, and theres scratchings on her face her face is torn up and on each cheek theres numbers written on them. and i look at the nimbers and look at the box and automatically put 2 and 2 together that it has correlation to that toy. whatever hurt her has correlation to that toy. and so i get mad and i take the toy out the box i think and say were gonna burn it immediantly. and then these 2 rabdom older people show up a man and a woman and theyre helping me get the stuff to put it in a bag and burn it. (all of a sudden theres more pieces) but we had to get anything it touched. and while thats happening im holding onto the toy but its a trickster so its trying to get out of my hands and etc but im swueezing it with all ive got to hurt it. and the mans getting frustrated because im not outting the items in the bag his way but im also holding onto the toy to make sure it doesnt dissapear but they dont know it can move and its a trickster toy. whule theyre taking forever to put the stuff in the bag its not that much stuff but fir some reason in the dream they were moving so slow and more things had to go in the bag versys just the box and the toy, i was talking to the man about subconscious and conscious mind. idk what i was saying and finally the lady is done or she checks on me with the toy and i wake up. it was a lot scarier than it seems typed out but it was a demonic dream.

the scratches and burns and bruises on my sisters face, the carved numbers especially 11:11 which i thought was related to manifesting. it was just really scary.

when i have these mentally tormenting days (everyday but some worse than others) ill get extremely angry and i have the urge to get careless about everything and violent but i do not and i know better because i dont want to hurt anyone.

and the weirdest part of it all is this is completely against my true nature. naturally im very sensitive and empathetic, and its not really by choice at all. i think my nervous system is just sensitive because i can pick up on the feelings of others not just cognitively but physically and emotionally without trying or wanting to.

im scared im being possessed or attacked or something. does anyone know what the dream could mean and why i am experiencing this.

i also have a history of ouija board usage if that helps any

ps: please dont comment anything about therapy. ive seen 2 different ones over the past 2 years and was just judged and dismissed rather than helped.

I don’t know if it’s witchcraft or if it’s something more, but this past week and honestly my whole life has been comically unlucky. This week specifically has been worse than anything.

My twin sister had a cancer scare, found a cyst, her job tried to fire her for not showing up despite it not being on her schedule, her computer deleted her book, she got attacked by my cat and has a severe infection, our house basement caved in, I found out my new kitten has roundworms and has given it to me and my sister, I’ve gained weight despite not eating, my card won’t work at an ATM, our mother stopped talking to us over a small disagreement, etc etc theres more but seems pointless to bring up and this is just over the past month. I’m feeling very defeated.

I used to have an ex friend who was into witchcraft and I stopped talking to her because she was very abusive and tried to assault me about a year and a half ago, but that’s the only person recently I can think of who would’ve caused this.

I also have to bring up that when I was 15 I shoplifted a small crow figure from a shop (I was a dumb teenager forgive me). I buried it in my yard last year because I thought I was cursed from it and it’s long gone, but idk…

My childhood is very strange too. Without getting into ghost stories and such, me and my sister had to be baptized because my mother took a picture of her car and it had three scary looking being in it that resembled large mouthed demons and her friend who had just committed suicide. After that photo she crashed that same car 6 times in a month. She got rid of the car, preist told her to delete the photo, and baptized us all. That is also a possible start to this torture idk…

Anotherrrr thing I can think of is the fact that my late grandfather who owned an old property of trees on an Indian burial ground died and since my aunts and mother have owned it, they didn’t respect his wishes of not tampering with the property to protect the graves and have built shacks and pulled trees out…my sister had a dream recently about being stuck under the concrete slab there and a group of them dancing around her..idk I know it’s so weird but I have to bring it up. I’m so desperate for help.

Anywho, I just need some advice or something. I have no money and I’m on my last straw. I have to be cursed, all of this is just too convenient and unnatural. Any advice helps thank you

Hi everyone. I hope someone can help me with this because i really dont know where else to search.

Im trying to figure about some practice related to classic cartomancy (with playing cards).

There is an older woman i know, and one time she told me - very carefuly, like she didnt want to say too much - that her grandmother teached her a card reading practice that was "dangerous". She meant something more specific - like when a really bad card came up, or a very bad spread, you do something TO the card. Not just read it different way - actually DO something with cards.

She said she only did it one time in her life and she was scared when she did it. She didnt want to explain more, just that it wasnt normal interpretation, it was an action, for changing the one's fate.

I dont know what the action was. My guesses (but really just guesses, dont trust this):

• turning the card around during the reading, like reversing it, to change what it means
• switching the card for a different one
• putting another card on top of it to cover it

Ive heard about this mysterious practice in Poland, passed from grandmother to granddaughter, only spoken, never written down as far as i know. It sounds older then the normal "cartomancy on instagram" stuff.

Ive havent found anything about it in old books and online archives. The oldest polish cartomancy books were actually translated from french and german books from 17-18th century. So i think this practice could have arrived from those countries along with cartomancy and it could have arrived them from yet other regions.

If anyone knows something like this - from family stories, old ethnography books (english, polish, german, french, whatever), old grimoires, or just "my grandma did something like this too" - please tell me. Even just a NAME for this practice would help me alot, so i can search more..

I believe that a warlock, who I was involved in a traumatic push-pull manipulative and gaslighting situationship with, has put (or had it done by another person) some kind of binding, hex, curse, or spell that causes physical pain and seems to consistently renew an invisible, sticky film all over my body, head and face. It's like burning ropes or string criss crossing all over my body sometimes and sometimes it feels like my limbs and body are literally being twisted in different directions. It changes all the time. I can feel it moving on my skin and sometimes i can see it move or twitch. Sometimes when it's not as strong, i can peel parts of it off momentarily giving me relief in that small area. My arms feel bound and i am not able to move them much without extreme pain. I have been trying to break this work for months to no avail. In the beginning it was just the annoying film that i could feel moving on my scalp or face. But since May, when I began to try to fully extricate myself from him, the pain and the feeling of someone doing horrible things to a possible voodoo doll have really kicked in and most days I can barely take my dog out to go to the bathroom due to the pain. I can't get dressed, hold the leash, open heavy doors, use my hands, walk without pain, and/or even stand up straight many days of the week.

Can anyone give me advice on what I can do or whether there is a type of practitioner that might have a solution? Please.

I thank you in advance, everyone who has any idea what this could be and/or how to undo or end this particular hardship.

PS: I have blocked and try to have zero contact with this person, but we live in the same building, on the same floor.

ciao, sono una ragazza di 18 anni. da quando sono piccola sento molto spesso sensazioni di presenze che mi fanno rabbrividire attorno a me e sento sempre di essere osservata. sono andata per anni dalla psicologa da piccola per questo motivo ma non si é mai risolto, ormai ci convivo.
vorrei avvicinarmi al mondo dell esoterismo per conoscere di più questa realtà che mi é sempre sembrata così vicina e chiedo aiuto a chi ne sa più di me. per chi é esperto e avesse voglia di insegnarmi e guidarmi in questa strada lo ringrazio tanto☺️

Hello i recently moved in into an apartment, i cleansed the apartment before moving my stuff in. The energy feels good, calm and peaceful.

However all the rooms have glass closet doors, which all face the bed because they are as wide as the walls. How can i go about enchanting/protecting these mirrors. I’m just a little superstitious about the mirror facing my bed.

So I've never been the type to beg or look for someone I'm not gonna lie I've been a player i don't get attached easily at all and i was seeing an ex that i broke up with and he got me pregnant with just 2 times (i thinknhe baby trapped me because he always wanted to)within hookuping up i was threating to abort it then out of nowhere i because depressed stopped going out like i used to and people would talk to me fine guys‚ rich ones i used to talk to but i can't get my ex out of my head i even hooked up with other people but i can't get him out of my head every second and day i think about him I'm not the type to beg but i can't get him out of my head I've never felt like this even before when we dated i never felt this crazy about someone I've been seeing random bugs in my house having dreams about spiders and bugs attacking me‚ insomnia i did an egg clense and it had like stings/like a web type thing idk like if i was holding on to something i feel so strange and he's like not replying to me I've never been this crazy about someone legit I've talked to way better people( etc/piolet/hustlers) but this specific man(my ex) I'm drawn to him I'm devoted o don't get it why I'm just suddenly attached to him how or what can i do to find out for someone did brujeria on me

I’m a Romani witch, however I’m very familiar with Arabs as most of my friends are Arab. I knew one Yemeniat that was a witch, she knew my ex husband. I’ve lost contact with her but she was starting to help me with a lot. I know 100% I have a jinn in love with me, not to boast but I am very attractive and beautiful, I have also been amazing wife the times I was married. I’m only 30 and I have been married 3 times. I left all 3 of my ex husbands for the SAME exact reason, they were extremely abusive to me. They have definitely gotten their karma. I’m also very much a loner, I have very few friends and the ones I have are long distance. I know that my jinn wants me all to himself. (This might sound actually insane I’m sorry) I’m just curious how I can work with him more, how I can work with him more, how I can communicate with my jinn, should I set out offerings? How do I find out the name of him. Plz help those who are Arab witches and work with Jinns

okay so a background!
I do NOT believe in magic. I did as a kid but as I grew older I just found the aesthetic of it pleasing.
this year I was hanging around with my cousins and my younger two cousins(4 and 7) kept fighting and I got an idea to get them to calm down and also annoy them. I told them I am a Zoroastrian witch(my ancestors were very devoted Zoroastrians so claiming it at that moment felt like the most obvious option) and preformed a ritual for them and we were all laughing and blah blah blah I entertained them at the end.
but since the things I wrote(I used the Persian-Cuneiform) and drew turned out so cool and pretty I did it more times but not for anything serious.
so fast forward to the blood moon this year, March 2–3, 2026, I saw every spiritual person committing to some sort of magical activity and I was like what the hell Imma do it too.
so I ACTUALLY did it. I started to do a death spell or something and I wrote a few names. I didn't want anyone dead in particular other than the obvious dictator that died this year and I had ran out of ideas so I asked others what they want to die. so basically I had even put down the bacteria that caused infection in some friend of mines meow meow as I barely had anything in mind. while I was doing the ritual a small fly died in the air and fell on the paper I had wrote the spell on.
I laughed it off until I found out the list had actually been completed and what reminded me of that list? another dead fly on my bed(I did the first ritual in my bed)
now.
last night I was BEGGING the universe to somehow give me more time for my upcoming university exam which has like a million participants and its hard af AND this morning I woke up to another dead fly by my side.
and there's BARELY any flies in our area and we are super duper careful and we have stuff to prevent them from getting in our home and I am like WHERE ARE THESE FLIES EVEN COMING FROM?!
I am getting creeped out. idk if the things I asked for are going to happen bc I really don't believe in Magic but hell the patterns are scaring me. I have done some other spells in the the mean time and it didn't work out the way I wanted them to work.
so like... do you guys think the things I asked for are going to happen? what does even the dead fly I find after sleeping on my bed mean?

Hello, to all the witches out there. A little background about me. I was born a Hindu, but for some reason, I never vibed with Hinduism, questioned a lot of things and there was no satisfaction.

I was an atheist for a very long time, but I’ve always lived with an open mind. About 6 years ago, I came across an article about witchcraft, which kinda fascinated me and challenged my understanding about witches, especially after seeing a tonne of movies, which portrays witches differently.

I got curious and went down the rabbit hole, understood what it means, and loved reading everything about witchcraft. Followed some social media profiles and all the information started to get overwhelming. I dismissed my thoughts, as I didn’t have anyone to talk about or have a conversation. I sometimes caught myself defending witches when people say incorrect things about them.

But, every couple years, something reminds or pulls me back to it and I can’t explain what. But, I feel calm whenever I think or read about it. I would like to add something here - I have a very heightened sense of intuition and 80% of the time, I get flashes before things happen, or I know what’s going on with others, their thoughts and they almost always turn out to be true.

I was also recently diagnosed with ADHD and Autism, and being a neurodivergent, I thought that I was undergoing a psychosis episode with every witchcraft obsession. But, honestly, witchcraft thought have been helpful and calming. I tend to care for myself more during these times and enjoy being alone to reflect of my thoughts.

I think I want to get into witchcraft, but I’m scared of doing wrong rituals and worried things may be come worse. Being neurodivergent, I like things to be practical for me. I want to see someone do things and learn. It’s sad that these days, in this modern world, people laugh at these things and the real ones practise behind curtains. I really wish I could have a conversation with someone in person, talk about thoughts. Understand this. Why am I being pulled again and again?

I appreciate if you have any answers or suggestions for me. Thank you ✨✨

P.S. I’m more drawn towards animals and nature. I think I may be a green witch. But I don’t know yet.
Also, few people reached out asking for money, I guess a scam in Reddit and Instagram.

Hi! I am an American with Sicilian ancestry! My great grandfather was fully Sicilian, and my (step?) grandfather was an Italian man who would take my mother up to Naples every summer. My great uncle is also an Italian man.
I say all this to prove a connection to Italy but I wonder if it’s enough?
My DNA percentages are spread between: Scottish, Irish, English, Italian, Bavarian, and French. Meaning all of them end up being a decently small percentage (20% at most).
I was wondering if it would be disrespectful to learn and maybe practice Italy’s pre-Christian religious beliefs.
Thank you for any help <3

For a while I have been thinking about diy‘ing a tarot deck because I can’t afford one and idk I just wanted to know if you got some tips for me or something I should keep in mind of or sum.

Hi everyone this is my first time on this sub. I'm also very interested in witchcraft etc, and I've seen a few tiktoks about Hekate, which has piqued my interest, along with some coincidences. I've always had an odd pull to the supernatural and gods and Goddesses.

1. I bought a bag recently, which had a lock and key attached to it. (They were put on in a way which could be removed if you wanted) The lock and key isn't really my usual style so I thought to myself that I would probably remove it after I brought it. Weirdly, something told me not to remove the key. Then I was walking around, and randomly this lock and key attachment fell off my bag, even though it was tied quite securely. Looking back, it almost felt as if my attention was purposely being drawn to it. Weirdly, I felt kind of territorial about they key and hurried to attach it back to my bag, which I found strange. It was only later that I realised that on of the signs of Hekate is keys. I realised this in a shock and had a very strange feeling. I'm a rational person, so I can't tell if it's one big coincidence or not?

2. I found out that 'the witching hour' was from 3-4am, so I decided to wake up at three. At this time I was very sleepy and I remember attempting to 'pray' to Hekate, but I probably mumbled some stuff but I said her name clearly several times. After that I drifted off to sleep and had the most vivid dream. I've always been a vivid dreamer, and they get especially worse when I'm ill, but my dreams are always FULL colour and so clear. Last night I dreamt so vividly that I was viewing myself, like I was watching a movie with me in it, and there were like 2-3 moths on my eyelid and didn't want to get off. It was soo strange, and was the shortest dream I'd ever had. Idk could this be Hekate trying to reach me? This happened directly after I had prayed to her.

I would really appreciate any advice or comments, and why/if you believe in Hekate and if it would be worth it for me to start looking deeper into her.