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2003-03-03 - 11:19 p.m.
The Curse of the White Man from Town
Stephen King's Thinner.
The Ni�stang, or Ni�ing Pole, is an Old Norse curse using ancient and powerful magicks. It consists of a tall (7' - 9') pole with insults and curses writ upon it, crowned with a severed horse's head. It is placed in the ground near the home of the cursed individual, but off their property and preferably where they are physically or legally unable to remove it. This pole is effective on many levels.
First, the pole is magickally charmed to invoke Helia (Hel), the Norse goddess of death and the underworld, and direct her gaze through the eyes of the horse upon the cursed.
Her gaze is also deigned to disrupt the v�ttir, the land and nature spirits living around the home of the cursed.
Also, having the cursed aware that they have drawn the directed attention and ire of Helia and a vitki, or magickian, powerful enough to raise a Ni�stang against them, will heighten their awareness of the curse and its effects, magnifying it. Finally, all who would visit the cursed, will see that they are a ni�ling who has been cursed for their behaviour and attitudes, and will know to not deal with such a loathsome individual.
Excerpt from http://nidstang.ragnarokr.com/I just couldn't get it out of my mind after I was watching Tom Holland's adaptation of Stephen King's Thinner, the other night... Where the gypsy put a curse on the lawyer-dude, and the lawyer-dude answered back with a literal "curse of the white man from town", which sent the magical gypsies into a laughing roar.
His answer to their curse was a gangster, whom he happened to bail out of prison, as lawyers do, and eventually got the curse taken off of him.
But I was thinking that if he really believe or better knew he was cursed, and the curse worked to that extreme, then other forms of magick should work. And therefore, if he wanted to play magick games with the gypsy he could've countered it with a hex that fits his anglo-heritage better - a nidstang.
Not that I would recommend it for any one in real-life. The ritual is rather grotesque and brutal. And I really don't like cruelty to animals either. Besides it could possibly land you some jailtime, etc.
Anyways, I just had to get this off my chest, since it was eating away at my mind for some now.
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