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I always give the example of the joke cure for hiccups: "Your hiccups will be cured if you can round the house three times without thinking of the word 'wolf'"Superstitions and rumours are hard to get rid of. If I told you that putting your right/left shoe on first was unlucky, you'd probably can't help thinking about it next when the occasion arises. Hear or read a rumour about and person and you will invariably remember it once you hear his or her name, even when you consider it completely spurious or a lie. I guess the only remedy is to become totally jaded and think, "Yeah, I've heard that one before" so you don't have to waste your energy trying to suppress your fear of these 'curses' and approach every such ritual filled with nervousness and a sense of foreboding.
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There's even a (pirated) book about book curses anywhere but I can't find it.... coincidence?!!?
The best method for "forget about it" is to do something else. The more pressing the better. Riding an electric scooter in Beijing traffic will wash potential curses on books from one's mind. Quoth Dr. Johnson, "Few things concentrate the mind as wonderfully as does the imminent prospect of being hanged." Or, in the instant case, being hit by a car. Shoot, go do a bungie jump and you'll get the same result. The matter to be forgotten is at least very much reduced first in urgency, then afterward in any lingering force to frighten.I always give the example of the joke cure for hiccups: "Your hiccups will be cured if you can round the house three times without thinking of the word 'wolf'"
I believe that to master the "forget about it" stage of the magical act, you need to train yourself to run round the house without thinking of the word 'wolf'
Quite likely, but one does not see avenging angels descending on Wall Street in any haste. I doubt they'll make piracy of books a priority.
i meant it more in the sence of just refusing to work with me
Fair question. I suppose it depends on the tradition and the entity. Maybe this is rationalization, but the angel would have to ask which is the better universe: you with the book and Magus Merle out his royalty for that volume, or you without the book (because lots of folks are on damned tight budgets) and Merele still without his royalty, or again, you with the boughten book, Merele with his royalty and just a shade smugger because he can have book pirates whacked out.
ill try the swordbanishing and see if it still works but i kinda doubth it wont since the angels predate DB and GoM
Interesting question. I think that such entities would not have that much problem with the pirated book, because the author published his work to the public anyway. Sometimes piracy is the only way you can get to the knowledge in the books so those beings might even be the ones guiding you to the book for you to use. It would only be literal stealing if the author had only his own copy for himself and someone took it.
I'm always skeptical when it comes to those, because it ends up as a "law of attraction effect" of sorts.
You need a new set of angles. Your lot sounds more like a flock of harpies, nitpicking you over relatively minor foibles.
