Love Spells (Lord, Wicca)

[Lightkeeper]

I saw on the internet today that "Love Spells" are for sale and they are very popular items. Has anyone here ever cast a Love Spell? Do Love Spells work? Do you know any Love Spells?

[Mr Spinkles]

Originally Posted by Lightkeeper

Do Love Spells work?

I dunno darlin', why don't you tell me?

[Mephideus]

They've never worked for anyone I knew (excluding one person); the best way (if you just think you have to use the Art) to garner said person's affection is to first attract their attention to you then get to know them normally..."love spells" can have nasty consequences if successful.

However e-spells are highly unlikely to work. People take the Art for granted.

[Mister Emu]

Well to begin with any occult practice should be avoided. But spells that attempt to control or force a person to do something should especially be avoided, they can have dire consequences.

[Mephideus]

Originally Posted by Mister Emu

...spells that attempt to control or force a person to do something should especially be avoided, they can have dire consequences.

Good point to bring up--I see it this way: why try and force someone to do as you would wish them to by aid of the Art, when common manipulation will do just as well (plus you conserve your strength). This way the person thinks it was their idea, and there is little chance of backfire.

[Jaymes]

Personally, I find "love spells" horrible, dishonorable, and cheapen the concept of love. If you have to resort to a what is usually a cheap, showy spell by someone trying to con you out of money to win someone.. well. If it doesn't happen without "love spells", the Lord and Lady didn't intend for it to, methinks.

[Ardhanariswar]

YES. the do work. but you should never do the kind which binds a specific person.

its okay to do spells that attract love and make you feel sexy and gorgeous, nothing wrong with that.

but forcing someone to love you is bad bad bad idea.it comes back to you, in case of wicca, 3 times. in anycase, why would you want someone hanging around you 24/7 goggling at your beautiful eyes or hair?

[Green Gaia]

I put a spell on you
Because you're mine.
You better stop
The things that you're doin'.
I said "Watch out!
I ain't lyin', yeah!
I ain't gonna take none of your
Foolin' around;
I ain't gonna take none of your
Puttin' me down;
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine.
All right!

[Runt]

There are 2 kinds of "love spells": The first is supposed to make someone fall in love with you, and is considered bane by most practicioners of magick. The second is supposed to bring your true love into your life, and is considered the positive way to do a love spell. It is also the spell whose effectiveness is harder to determine. If you do this spell, and you suddenly start seeing someone, did it work? If you break up with them, did this mean it failed? If you start dating someone three years later and end up marrying them and falling in love, was it because of the spell? It is hard to tell...

The difference between the two kinds of love spells? The first has a target. You are trying to force your will upon someone else, to MAKE them love you. The second does not have a defined target. Supposedly you are sending your energy into the universe, which will somehow cause the circumstances in which the one person who you are SUPPOSED to meet (destined, you could say) will come into your life.

My mother, who is a Wiccan, has done the second kind of love spell for people, and I have seen first hand how in some circumstances it certainly LOOKS like the spell worked. Using my mother as an example, both the people she helped had been single and lonely for 3-5 years, and had a series of bad/unfulfilling relationships before she offered to help them out. Within months helping them do the spells (I don't know what the spells consisted of, sorry), both had started dating someone, and now both are married. And these are people over the age of fourty, which makes it slightly stranger...

[Feathers in Hair]

I've been learning that it's against most Wiccan ethics to charge money for any spells. Which makes those 'buy love spells here' sites rather annoying.