# The paranormal+witchcraft=protection? **URL:** \ **Category:** Witchy Wisdom\ **Created:** [October 14, 2026, 8:03am UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/the-paranormal-witchcraft-protection/68938 "2026-10-14T08:03:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuckOnMySunshine](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/suckonmysunshine/32/76701_2.png) [@SuckOnMySunshine](https://forum.spells8.com/u/SuckOnMySunshine)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 8:03am UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/the-paranormal-witchcraft-protection/68938/1 "2026-10-14T08:03:04Z")
I don’t know about y’all, but the reason why most of us cajuns/Creoles are so spiritual is because of the paranormal in this state. I know that everywhere is haunted or has haunted and cursed places.. but this is some other worldly stuff over here. That’s how I got into the craft. I will never forget how it happened.. It’s seared into my brain and I even have like PTSD of anyone knocking on windows, whether I am wide awake or not. Day time or night time. That fear is seared into my nervous system. How do y’all handle the paranormal if you’ve experienced it? Do you believe that hauntings are real? I sure do. I’m just going to ramble on a bit, so excuse me​🤣 But I think seeing spirits and knowing the feeling of a haunted house is a certain gift. I’m not sure what that gift is, but I’ve had this gift since before I can even remember. My poppis house was haunted. When I say haunted I mean like , late 1800’s- early 1900’s built house owned by a mortician who loved to bring his work home, type of haunted. I have always been so afraid of that house. It felt as if the house itself was watching me. I get the same exact feeling, chills and all, because I get that same uneasy feeling of it watching me, like how I feel the Amityville house watching. Not the amity ville watching ME specifically, but you know what I mean. It just hits home. When I was a child, about 3- the time I stopped going to poppis house, when I’d walk through the house, it would be so dang dark in there . Sun could be shining bright as hell outside, poor poppi about to have a heat stroke, but inside that house, it’s like the darkness was swallowing me whole. Like as if it just put all its weight of the darkness onto my shoulders. I remember that when I’d walk through that house alone, in the day time, I’d just make a bee line straight to the back door, and wouldn’t look up or nothing. I have a picture of the house and I will post it when I find it. Tell me, does anyone else feel what I feel? ![Screenshot_20261014-031341](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/b/6/b61634c816af5387519ce2aa6cdad919a00d7378.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![TricksterShaman](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/trickstershaman/32/76914_2.png) [@TricksterShaman](https://forum.spells8.com/u/TricksterShaman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 8:29am UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/the-paranormal-witchcraft-protection/68938/2 "2026-10-14T08:29:32Z")
> [@SuckOnMySunshine](#): > > How do y’all handle the paranormal if you’ve experienced it? > > Do you believe that hauntings are real? I sure do. I’m going to think on this because I have zero fear of any of this and there is a reason, it’s a shamanic teaching I’ve been given that: 1 Explains the actual science behind these experiences 2 Why the living have power over the dead 3 Fear is totally unnecessary So I’m going to get all my teachings (these are from reputable elders within the community) and plonk it here. Be back soon 🫂💚 ---
**Author:** ![SuckOnMySunshine](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/suckonmysunshine/32/76701_2.png) [@SuckOnMySunshine](https://forum.spells8.com/u/SuckOnMySunshine)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/the-paranormal-witchcraft-protection/68938/3 "2026-10-14T09:23:27Z")
Forever grateful for your teachings 🫂 ---
**Author:** ![Amethyst](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/amethyst/32/1750_2.png) [@Amethyst](https://forum.spells8.com/u/Amethyst)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/the-paranormal-witchcraft-protection/68938/4 "2026-10-14T12:03:17Z")
I believe, but other than some shadow people, I’ve never seen or heard anything. So while I’d like to think I’d handle it well, I really don’t know. That’s one of those things that you really don’t know how you’d react until you face it. ---
**Author:** ![TricksterShaman](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/trickstershaman/32/76914_2.png) [@TricksterShaman](https://forum.spells8.com/u/TricksterShaman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/the-paranormal-witchcraft-protection/68938/5 "2026-10-14T14:06:04Z")
Ok I don’t mean to offend and to start off I’m not saying hauntings don’t happen or that there aren’t bad spirits out there, of course they happen and of course there is negative of everything in life. The root of this teaching is **fear** , and that’s what I’ll chat about here. **First** : We do not need to, nor should we fear. **Second** : Possession is not like the church or movies show - I do possession, it’s called _horsing_, it’s a standard shamanic practice and shamans have been doing it for 1000s of years and I’ve yet to see one turn their head 360° or crawl across a ceiling (_trust me I’d be the first one out the door if that happened._) Why am I mentioning possession, cuz you said Amityville (_and that’s a whole load of possession_ 🤣). > [@SuckOnMySunshine](#): > > That fear is seared into my nervous system. This is important because you don’t need to live with this fear and once I show you what I’ve been taught, hopefully (_and I’ll add a shamanic exercise at the end_) with practice and patience, that fear will disappear. > [@SuckOnMySunshine](#): > > Amityville house watching. A little on that, I’m a Warren fan but alot of sceptics say it was a hoax, so I read the Warrens books to see the Warrens view sans Hollywood (_they’re brilliant by the way_) but the interesting difference between the Warrens books (_written by themselves_) and the movies - is the books contain no fear - they read like a police report and that really stood out to me. So if you like them as a couple, I recommend reading their books. 🥳 > [@SuckOnMySunshine](#): > > Tell me, does anyone else feel what I feel? The house is gorgeous, I love that old stuff, but if you want old and spooky we have a s\*tload here in England, I went to a pub in Norfolk just under 900 years old, in Italy and Greece, buildings are even older and what about the pyramids. Why am I mentioning these? Because the older the building the larger the egregore (_build up of human energy_) as there are more stories, experiences good and bad attached to that place. That’s why the buildings feel different. If your clairs are well tuned (_and it looks like yours are_) then you will pick up on that. That’s why some people feel the “_haunting_” and some don’t. If everyone honed their clairs everyone would feel it. 🤷 1. So what did I learn about the mechanics of a haunting, because knowing this removes the fear. Here’s a few theories that I was taught, and they help dispell fear. The first thing that stands out in typical hauntings or spirit activity is how classical “poltergeist” or atmospheric physical phenomena appears — cabinet doors opening, footsteps, banging noises, physical marks etc. These almost never happen when a witch does deep, intentional, devotional work with spirit, or ancestors. Why? Trained psychics read people everyday, we use pendulums, tarot cards, runes and we’re all ok; so what’s the difference. Well it’s _perception and fear_. When _ **we** _ are doing the working, we set our space, set our intention and feel in control. But when we _enter_ an unknown space we feel vulnerable but we shouldn’t. That same power and control you have when you set the intention, is still in you and you can tap into that anytime and anywhere - you never lose that! **Unconscious / Environmental Kinetic Energy** Alot of what happens in hauntings like doors opening, furniture impressions, pets acting odd, banging on walls etc - often boils down to subtle environmental shifts, draft dynamics in old timber, or psychokinesis/poltergeist activity. In traditional folklore and parapsychology, poltergeist phenomena aren’t even “_spirits_” most of the time—they are often raw, unconscious emotional tension (_especially in houses with alot of stress_) externalizing physically into the room. **Residual Impressions & Unbound Local Dead** Walking through a cemetery or an abandoned building, and seeing or feeling physical traces is usually residual energy—like a localized film loop burned into the atmosphere of a place—or they are encounters with unbound, wandering land-spirits (landvaettr) or human dead who are just drifting in the middle world. It’s there, it’s been there long before you, and will still be there long after you’ve gone. You don’t need to fear it, it’s just sharing the same space you are, that’s all! 1. I mentioned possession - In historical Trolldom, animism, Shamanism and Goetic practices, - channeling a spirit/deity in full-body possession work or “_horsing_,” is a structured ritual form of communication. It is a practiced, voluntary spirit alliance. You are opening a clear, controlled channel to invite primordial, or divine currents into your physical body aka vessel, and it really isn’t that sensational. 😉 Cuz here I am, chatting to you, not dead, not damaged, not terrified (_slightly crazy but I can’t blame the gods for that_ 🤣) Why, because I learnt simple energy management techniques, grounding, discipline, and intentionality. I also learnt that angels/demons/spirits _ **talk** _ via possession not turn you into The Exorcist. It’s about communication and relationship not dominance and terror. That’s church propaganda, fear-mongering, sensationalism that sells pews, edge-lord cleanses, movie tickets and keeps you in the dark. I have been possessed, voluntarily by Loki, Lucifer aka Samael, Asmoday, Odin, my spirit guide an 11th century nun, and a Thusar - some were more intense, yes the body swayed, yes it felt weird but everytime I do a soul rune reading here in this coven, I am _horsing_ the god, that’s how they come out the way they do. 🤷 **So the Shamanic Exercise**. **Clear Intent vs. Unconscious Spookiness** When people experience random “hauntings,” or unsettling bumps in the night, they are usually dealing with low-level residual noise, ungrounded anxiety, or unbound human dead floating in the middle world. They haven’t set a door, they haven’t called a specific spirit, and they have zero boundaries. They are essentially leaving the front door wide open and wondering why a stray draft or a wandering traveler walked in. So here’s the first exercise. **Practice spiritual hygiene.** This is basic 101 witchcraft. It won’t keep everything out, but it will empower you and show the spirit world you’re not an amateur. So what is spiritual hygiene? Fancy wards, thousands of crystals and bells - if that’s your thing, sure. How about this though. A clean, tidy swept out home. A prayerful home. A little bit of belief in yourself. Seriously - you don’t need huge academia or loads of money. Spirits respond to the _ **energy** _ you bring to the table: So here’s the exercise. **You’ll need** You. A candle. A mirror **To do**. Light the candle. Pick up the mirror, sit comfortably. Take a long look at yourself in the mirror and tell that person one amazing thing you know about them, anything, something they did, something they overcame, how they helped another, a clever fact, an interesting fact - pick one and say it, over and over, out loud to that person in the mirror until you start to feel it in your body. Then put the mirror down and touch that part of your body where you felt it, and sit with that emotion. That’s it. Put the mirror away, blow out the candle, and do this daily for 7 days. Then write a small paragraph at the end of the 7 days on how you see yourself. You can continue this exercise for as long as needed. There’s no rush. The point? You are a strong, confident human being, no spirit can conquer you, you just haven’t realised that yet and that’s why you fear the unseen. This shamanic practice is to help you build conviction in yourself. Remember, panic and fear invite instability, tricksters of a low order, and unsettling physical disruptions because fear acts as an ungrounded battery. Respect, Humor, and Sovereignty invites direct alliance, clear communication, and absolute protection. You can show that in how you work with the spirit world but more importantly how you work with yourself. I hope this is helpful, apologies for the long reply. With love & maybe too much mischief 🤷😉 Skal 🍻💚 ---
**Author:** ![Moonbeam](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/moonbeam/32/74797_2.png) [@Moonbeam](https://forum.spells8.com/u/Moonbeam)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/the-paranormal-witchcraft-protection/68938/6 "2026-10-14T20:09:50Z")
@TricksterShaman That is wonderful advice and s good exercise to do. I agree with everything you said. Like you connect with Loki I connect with my Ancestors so do not need anything special just myself. There are many places as you said in the UK with hundreds of years of history and I agree residual energies will have been built up over millennia. I have walked into a room and could sense and feel a change and have seen and spoken directly to spirts they were all lovely and I do think that there is a misunderstanding (and dramatised by movies, literature, internet) that the majority are bad and are going to harm us that is not true which causes fear, anxiety, emotional distress and thoughts) they have just not moved on for their own reasons Blessed Be 🌒🔯🎃