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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2012-07-05 04:42 pm
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A ghost question -- Part research and part for a friend --

Does anyone know how to stop random ghosts from attaching to people and following them home?

I have friends who are dealing with this -- one parent and a small child see ghosts, and the father has had to firmly run off a couple of spirits who were probably picked up off the greenbelt or something.

You may think they're nuts, so this is for the people who don't think it's a crazy question at all. Feel free to respond by LJ email.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2012-07-05 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know: I keep meaning to research it, and the idea slips away. (It's Monks' Kirby, on the Leicestershire/Warwickshire border.)
Shiver: your experience in New Orleans sounds very like ones I've had, too.

[identity profile] dancinghorse.livejournal.com 2012-07-06 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Are we all Celts?

My mom and I feel places intensely. Mom was house-hunting once, and had a complete meltdown in an unremarkable suburban living room. Left at speed.

Turns out she was standing where a man had murdered his wife.

We feel ghosts but don't tend to be followed around by them. My grandmother did have visitors; I don't recall that she did anything specific to keep them out. Around here, salt and sage seem to be standard. Also finding out what they want and trying to help them if possible, then encouraging them to move on. But I've never had experience of it so don't know if that's effective.

Speaking of feeling places--Chartres. Kari, have you picked up on what's there?

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2012-07-06 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'm Scottish, Welsh, English, Irish, French, German & Native American. So, definitely mostly Celtic.

The man has run off two ghosts -- one was a woman who wanted to talk with their 2 year old. It was frightening the child, so his father asked her not to do that, and she went away.

The second was an observant ghost who seemed superficially helpful -- but she started telling the little boy about blowing someone away with a handgun. So Dad asked her to leave, too, and she did.

I was hoping we could come up with warding ideas for them. It may be that both men will need to wear hematite or something, plus occasional salt and sage smudging.

[identity profile] dancinghorse.livejournal.com 2012-07-06 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
For negative influences, S swears by black tourmaline. Put a piece at each of the four cardinal points, plus one on the hearth, or in the heart of the house. Rosemary is also good for this--plant it around the house or hang it inside. And lavender. Calms and heals.

Sounds as if Dad has the ability to expel spirits. Unfortunately I've heard that if there's a sensitive in the house, they'll keep coming.

The one person in my (very) extended family who does this sort of thing is the husband of my sister's former coworker--John Zaffis. He's very famous and currently would be inundated, with his tv show and all, but since there's a small child involved, he might at least respond to a request for advice. He's a demonologist and has dealt with some awful stuff--has a whole museum of weird objects in CT. When his kids were young he had the house warded up one side and down the other. He would certainly know how to protect your friends' house and child.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2012-07-06 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, Chartres.... It's many years since I was there, but there is something very unbalancing there. At the time, I remember feeling it was connected to that streak of insanity in the Valois kings.
I am, as you know, a Celt, though I don't know that anyone else in the family does this. I never asked: it's not the kind of thing we talked about. I must ask my mother, though. (My money would be on her father as the conduit, from what I know of him -- he died before I was born, sadly.) My father's side (Anglo-Celtic) runs to dowsers, but only in the men.

[identity profile] 6-penny.livejournal.com 2012-07-06 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I found Chillon Castle very unsettling when I visited as a child. I have wondered if I would have the same reaction if I went there now that I am many decades grown.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2012-07-06 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting that the gift changes slightly depending on whether it's the male or female portion of the line.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2012-07-09 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
Dowsing is very much a thing in the Herefordshire line in my family. (The joke is that my father does it subconsciously: ever house my parents have had has turned out to have an unmarked aquifer running under it.)

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2012-07-09 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The way the climate is running, his subconscious may just be planning ahead!

spooky!

[identity profile] sheilagh.livejournal.com 2012-07-06 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
googling "Monks' Kirby on the Leicestershire/Warwickshire border", second hit is this:

http://www.ghost-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=514

Re: spooky!

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2012-07-06 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Orbs are interesting -- I've seen them in aura pics, but not otherwise. Looks like the area is active!

Re: spooky!

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2012-07-09 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
That *is* weird!