How To Break Curses

Q&A for Have You Been Hexed?  Alexandra Chauran

What is your book Have You Been Hexed? about?

Have You Been Hexed?  Is a book about curses in all their forms.  Not only is the book about the superstitions and negative magic practices that have made their way into our culture, but it explores self-imposed curses that are applied mentally by people to themselves.  Since the mind is a powerful thing, such curses can cause a very real experience of bad luck.  

Why do people believe in curses?

We’ve all had bad days, those situations in which it seems like everything keeps going wrong and you just want to go to bed instead of allowing more terrible things to happen.  Humans evolved to make connections between events and to see patterns in the world.  On top of that phenomenon, many cultures have developed negative magical practices as a means of defense, a weapon of attack or even a means of income.  Unfortunately, curse scammers have also become prominent.  These are criminals who claim that a perfectly normal and healthy person is cursed, and then extort money out of him or her for a bogus spiritual cleansing or curse removal.  The elderly and the emotionally vulnerable are frequently victimized in this way.

Who are you, and why are you qualified to write about curses?

I come from a witchcraft background.  I’m the queen of a coven, and an elder of British Traditional Wicca.  As a professional fortune teller, I help many people with questions about curses, among other things.  I am also a certified counselor, hold a Masters in Teaching and am currently working on my doctoral degree.  

So, do you think curses are real?

I do believe that effective curses can be real, but they are far less prolific than most people think.  As a professional fortune teller, I literally have clients come to me almost every single day asking whether a curse has been placed upon them.  Yet, in my experience, only a very precious few over the years have been real, and I often go years without seeing a true case.  

Why did you write Have You Been Hexed?  

I wrote my book so that people who believe that they have been hexed will have a place for straight talk about hexes, to be able to determine for themselves whether the curse is real or not.  Also, since hex breaking information in a simple format was not yet widely available, I wanted this book to become a resource for book shelves everywhere. Magical practitioners, libraries and bookstores can now have this information in place and at the ready for people in need.  

Have you met people who are actually cursed?  What was that like?

I have met a few people who were the subjects of real curses.  The scariest was a man who had recently returned from another country in which curses are prevalent, and he was suffering what he thought was a demon possession.   The most tragic was a child who had come in contact with a cursed object.  Both had their curses easily removed at no cost to them.  I’ve also experienced many haunted places, which required banishing magic that is similar to curse breaking.  

What a “curse” is all in somebody’s head?  Make-believe?  

Very often, a curse is in somebody’s head, but that doesn’t mean that the person can just snap out of it, or that the person has done anything foolish.  A curse that one places on oneself can be very real, since the mind is such a powerful weaver of our own destinies.  That said, a curse breaking is not necessarily required in these cases, since new habits of mind can be taught to bring better luck to such a person.  My book teaches all of the natural thoughts and feelings that lead people into the trap of self-cursing, and how to reverse such effects.
If somebody knows that he or she isn’t cursed but is just scared of hexes, what can be done to prevent them?
Many cultures have simple practices that can be thought of as magical hygiene, in order to protect from any potential offensive magic.  Simple exercises can be done in order to prevent even the negative effects of somebody giving you the evil eye at church or at work. My book outlines simple daily practices and even how to make protective talismans, a practice that can be done once in order to protect one who carries such magical objects.   

What if somebody is just unlucky?  Can such a person be helped?

An unlucky person is usually somebody who has a very powerful mind and who has been inadvertently working curse magic on themselves for years to produce very real bad luck.  It’s not easy to retrain habits of mind that have been practiced over a lifetime, but my book teaches ways to recognize them and how to rewrite the script of your life to exclude bad luck.  

Can Have You Been Hexed? help with hauntings?  

Though hauntings aren’t usually the result of a curse from a magical practitioner, they certainly can act like a curse, and some of the effects of a haunting can mimic a curse.  Simple banishing techniques can safely exclude spirits and other malicious entities from a home, place of work or any other space, and are outlined clearly in my book.  

Can Have You Been Hexed? help with negative interactions with a coworker that aren’t strictly a curse?

In popular culture, curses are usually big deals that involve a wizard and a big book, but a simple angry glare can be a curse that we deflect every day.  The same magical hygiene techniques that can be used to prevent curses can be used to safely diffuse more natural and inadvertent negative energy to which we are exposed.

Can Have You Been Hexed? help somebody fix a broken relationship and get an ex back?

I get a lot of questions from people who believe that a curse broke up the relationship.  For better or for worse, it usually turns out that a real and effective curse from a magical practitioner is not to blame.  Even if a curse were the root of a problem and were successfully removed, chances are that there are many other factors involved in a relationship not being the right fit for two people.  My book is about bettering the lives of the people involved with a curse or a self-inflicted bout of bad luck, even if they need to live separate lives.  

So, let’s say somebody is really hexed.  What would it involve to break his or her curse?  

Most curses are easily broken with a short prayer.  Even the worst curses can often involve little more than visualization and simple ritual exercises to throw a monkey wrench in the magic mechanism and undo what has been done.  All magic should be attempted to be unwound in the same way that is wound, but it really is easier to destroy a negative magical construct than it is to create it.  The easy hex removals in my book can be performed in a single evening.

Is it really that easy to break a curse?

Yes!  Those who want to pretend that it is very hard to break curses might be well-meaning and just inexperienced with this rare magic, but they actually are just perpetuating the myth that allows curse scammers to function.  Curse breaking is not a mysterious art that can only be done by powerful professionals that cost lots of money.  Curse breaking is something easy that anyone can do, and my book proves it.
How can I help rid the world of curse scams, lies about black magic, real negative energy and other such evils?
Join my campaign to make this knowledge available to anyone in need.  Speak up if you ever hear somebody talking about his or her bad luck or worries about being cursed.  Let him or her know how rare curses are, and how easy the problem is to solve.  If you hear about a phony psychic or magical practitioner targeting the elderly or emotionally vulnerable with curse scams, report the fraud to the proper authorities and share this knowledge with the victims.  Ask your local library and bookstores to carry Have You Been Hexed? on their shelves prominently.  Together, we can eliminate the fear that holds some people hostage.