How to Remove a Curse: Untie It, Then Walk Away Without Looking Back

To remove a curse the old way, you do not fight it and you do not hunt for whoever you think laid it. You untie it. The working I use is called the Water of Seven Doors: a spoonful of water from seven different sources is gathered into one bowl, your name is wiped through with it in a single direction, and the water is carried to a crossroads and left there while you walk home without looking back. What was knotted runs straight again. Nothing is returned to anyone.

Is it really a curse?

This is the honest first question, and I ask it of everyone. Most hard stretches in life are just hard stretches. Jobs end, relationships wobble, money runs short, and sometimes all three happen in one season with no one behind it.

What people describe when they feel crossed is usually different in texture:

• Things that were going well begin to fail one after another, in quick succession.
• Plans stall at the very last step, again and again.
• The home feels heavy in a way it did not before.
• Mornings start tired, however long you slept.

Whether you call it a curse, a hex or crossed conditions, the working does not need a diagnosis. It unties whatever has become knotted. And if tiredness or low mood has lasted a long time, please see a doctor as well; those deserve care of their own.

Why seven doors

In Anatolia, when a weight or a binding would not lift, people gathered water from several houses and sources, sometimes seven, sometimes forty, and washed with it. The idea is beautifully simple: a weight that came from one place is loosened by water that comes from many. In the American hoodoo tradition the same instinct appears as uncrossing, and there too the used water is often left at a crossroads.

How the Water of Seven Doors is laid

1. With a wooden spoon, a spoonful of water is gathered from each of seven different sources: a kitchen tap, a bathroom tap, rainwater, bottled water, a neighbour's tap, a garden tap, a public fountain. Each is named as it goes into the bowl.
2. A pinch of salt rests at the bottom of the bowl.
3. A white candle is lit.
4. A clean white cloth is dipped in the water, and your name paper is wiped with it from one end to the other, in one direction only.
5. The paper is laid in the clean white cloth to dry.
6. The water is carried to a crossroads away from the house and poured out, and I walk home without looking back.

Why nothing is sent back

Many curse removal workings you will find promise to return the curse to whoever sent it. I will not do that, and neither does this working. No one's name is written except yours. No one is blamed or guessed at. Because there is no other name on the table, there is nowhere for anything to go but away. The seal of the working is the road left behind at the crossroads, and the paper kept dry in its cloth.

How this differs from a cleansing or a protection

People often confuse these three, so here is the plain difference:

• A cleansing draws heaviness out of you and carries it off. The Cleansing Spell does that with salt and an egg.
• An uncrossing unties what has been knotted, so things flow straight again. That is this working.
• A protection closes the door afterwards so that nothing new settles. The Protection Spell is the natural next step once a crossing has been untied.

If what you are feeling is closer to envy, the heaviness that follows praise or good news, read about the Evil Eye Removal Spell instead. That is a different thing and is lifted in a different way.

What to do in the days after

Keep things simple while the working settles. Open the windows, wash the bedding, and put off any big decision for a week if you can. People who have felt crossed for a long time often start looking for the next blow; try to let a good day be a good day without testing it.

Signs the crossing has come undone

• The run of things going wrong simply stops.
• Something that was stuck starts moving again.
• The air at home changes.
• Mornings feel lighter.

After the working I send you a written record: the seven sources of water, the direction your name was wiped, the crossroads chosen, and the walk home.