An ancient exorcism
TO RID THE HOUSE OF BAD SPIRITS.
This routine is as ancient as the hills and employs the favourite tool of all witches, the broom.
Use this if you really feel you have a negative ‘spirit’ abiding with you.
On the full moon, sweep with the broom across the threshold of your home and then bang it three times on the step.
Continue through every room in the house with the broom, sweeping up a veritable storm of energy in an ant-clockwise direction (a.ka. “widdershins”). Now sweep back through the house to the front or back door and symbolically chase out the last of the bad energy.
Bang the broom thrice again, and replace the broom behind the door.
Light a candle in the main room of the house, in front of a mirror, and direct all evil to leave.
Let the candle burn right down, then offer a blessing to the spirit to return to its proper plane of consciousness.