Kleen wrote, “Winning love, attracting a man or woman and keeping them faithful was (as it always has been) a primary concern, and much of the folk magic recorded was dedicated to those ends.” Most love spells were examples of contagious magic. Contagious magic involved the use of physical ingredients that were once in contact with the targeted person. The physical proximity of material items, such as hair and blood, and the ingestion or binding of these items, was believed to increase the spell’s potency. What can Creator tell us?

Practices with this intention can indeed result in bringing people together to develop a relationship that is lasting. This may or may not be a major karmic misstep but always involves a deception of some kind, because it is a manipulation that is arranged unilaterally, and not with the permission of the targeted individual. Many times it is quite nefarious and would never be approved of if done out in the open and, as such, is sinister and a kind of evil manipulation, because it goes against personal sovereignty, and that is a moral, ethical, and karmic misstep that will have consequences. Everything that happens, as a result, will add to eventual personal misfortune when it is revisited on the manipulator who uses witchcraft to gain an advantage for personal and selfish reasons. When people manipulate someone else to have a love partner, that is not truly love in action but desire, passion, in service to the ego of the practitioner to help them get what they want, to make their life better, at least in their perspective. The fact they are manipulating their target to find them appealing and desirable, puts a lie to the justification and desired end result of being admired. After all, how rewarding can that truly be, and how meaningful, if a love partner has been manipulated in the first place to take an interest? It is, in effect, living a lie and, by altering the life journey of the person manipulated into the relationship, can represent a huge karmic liability by thwarting what otherwise would happen with that individual and others they may have engaged with and had a genuine love relationship and family, and on and on, the entire destinies of whom were derailed, by commandeering that person in a selfish manner, in being controlled by a spell. This is a good example of ill-gotten gains. Even though it might seem to be done willingly, if the spell works, and even if it gives some benefit to the victim who might, for example, never have a love relationship, that still will not matter karmically—the fact remains this was a manipulation and the manipulator will owe a karmic debt for sure. Here again there is need for divine intervention. First of all, to have a partnership with the divine and to ask for protection from misfortunes of all kinds. That will reduce the possibility of something like this happening because things like spells can be neutralized, through a divine healing, to transform the energy and transmute it into something harmless, or redirecting it in a beneficial way that is appropriate and in divine alignment rather than to manipulate and control another person. But that must be asked for, with some intelligent awareness of its importance, and there must be belief in the divine as well for the divine realm to act on someone's behalf.