Help me out, OK? Why would someone post crosses aimed at my home?

[Hepburn]

I have a not so nice, rather stupid, supposedly Christian neighbor.... and today I look outside when I got up and she has crosses in her windows, only on my side of her house, pointed at my house.

Anyone got any clues why?

The only thing I can think of is that I practice Wicca ... so maybe she has something against me?

:shrug:

Is there some Christian ritual going on here???

[Horse with no Name]

1. maybe she is exorcising you in your sleep?

gotta get those wiccan demons out. Or maybe she is just smiting you. My advice? Smite her back!~

[Hepburn]

6. Well, I did put my caldron on my porch....

...maybe she will notice that?

[Horse with no Name]

18. Only if you ask her her measurements first

and measure your cauldron in front of her...she might even move!

[Hepburn]

22. Oooooooooooh....

...good idea! I should ask her if she is melted down, what size container she might fit!

:rofl:

Anyone else into Wicca and, if you are, have you had any kind of reaction like this?

[TransitJohn]

2. She's afraid of you.

Would be my guess. Funny, eh?

[niyad]

3. protecting herself against your heathen ways, don't you know!! had neighbors like that for a time,

and each time I went past them or their house, I did very obvious banishing pentagrams. it worked, too, as they sold their house!!

[Hepburn]

10. Well, I did do a freezer spell on her to make her knock the shit off....

...so let me see if that works!

LOL

[damntexdem]

14. Satan, get thee behind me!

Hey, wait a minute! What are you doing back there, where I can't see you? Get out here where I can keep track of you!

;-)

[Vanje]

4. Ask your neighbor.

Its always good to be on talking terms with the neighbors.

[EFerrari]

5. No idea but I'd put garlic in all the windows facing hers.

lol

[renie408]

7. Ummm...maybe she is warding off the anti-christian cooties floating from your property? n/t

[swag]

8. You answered your own question.

She thinks you're an evil witch and that the crosses will help protect her from you and Satan.

[closeupready]

9. Her way of asking God to smite you?

:rofl: Crazy

[Drifter]

11. I would go ask about them ...

Naked.

Cheers
Drifter

[Hepburn]

19. Well, I was gonna wear my black robe...

...have a huge Pentagram around my neck, and while carrying my caldron, drop over and offer her something to drink which is foaming out of a cup...and then ask her to talk.

Whadda ya think?

Acually and seriously...is there anyone out there that knows why this nut job would take a cross that looks like it is from palm sunday and some other crosses and festoon the side of her house facing me?

Is there some wacko Christian ritual about which I have no clue? Thought I had seen everything until this....and I find it rather insulting, too.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

60. Put on the robe, make sure they are watching, then

take small amounts of flour up to the edge of their property, throw small amounts up in the air, and keep your lips moving.

Turn around three times (for some reason that drive them nuts) do the sign of the cross backwards, and walk slowly backwards back to your home.

[marions ghost]

63. well Halloween IS coming up....

you could fulfill her every fantasy with a nice neighborly visit...be sure to cackle. :evilgrin:

Maybe she does need a little phobia desensitization.

[demnan]

How fucking ridiculous!

n/t

[JVS]

12. how do you aim a cross at someone, also which side do you live on?

If you live across the street, it's probably just about being at the front of the house rather than the "Godless Heathen's" side of the house

[Hepburn]

26. I live in a development where one side of each house is VERY close to another.....

...they are kinda spaced like that on one side only.

And....all her windows and doors towards me are filled with crosses today...and NO other window in her house has a thing it in except mimi blinds.

In her kitchen window that is directly across from mine...she has her palm cross tied on the OUTSIDE of her mini blinds and the blind down.

It is really, really odd...to say the least.

[On the Road]

13. If You're a Wiccan,

I would have thought evangelicals would have made it abundantly clear they think you're a devil worshipper. The cross thing is a bit superstitious, though.

[Hepburn]

31. Yeah.....

...I have had "Christians" make that remark...but to put up crosses like some kind of weird magic....I have NEVER seen that before. Maybe at a front door and stuff like that with real fanatical Catholics....but tied on the mini blinds (outside only) that face ONLY my house?

I think she is really off the deep end.

[fasttense]

15. Don't you know that crosses protect you from

vampires. Have you been flying around like a bat or drinking blood lately?

[renie408]

16. I thought that was garlic and stakes? n/t

[radfringe]

28. yummm... I love putting garlic on my steak....

[fasttense]

40. No, crosses too. If a vampire touches one, his hand is burned

in the shape of the cross. I've seen it in the movies and on TV.

[renie408]

47. Good to know. n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

73. Don't forget Holy Water (or Poland)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

82. LOL

I think some really small chalk marks on your sidewalk, with a chant and an odd waving of arms would not hurt.

[flamin lib]

17. When I was a kid on the farm my Ma used to put tape over all the

electrical outlets. She didn't want the electricity leaking out and shocking us at night. It might be something like that.

[Horse with no Name]

33. My kids had a babysitter when they were little

I was picking up the kids one day and there was a priest there when I got there. There were crucifixes over all the windows and doors, and all of her antique furniture was in the yard in a bonfire.
The explanation? The demons used the antique furniture as portals into her home...so she had to destroy the furniture. She had to put the crucifixes over the doorways to keep them from re-entering as they were burned out of their homes. The priest was busily putting holy water everywhere and chanting.
Needless to say, that was my last "experience" with her as a babysitter.:scared:

[Hepburn]

38. So....you think that she is trying to prevent evil spirits from me...

...getting into her house on this side? Like I cannot go to one of the other three sides and my evilness will attack???

This is just nuts on her part IMO.

[Horse with no Name]

42. Could be

the evil spirits in this particular woman's home caused her husband to have an affair.:rofl:

[Hepburn]

51. LMBO!!

:rofl:

[againes654]

20. Ya know people like you neighbor

really give us christians a bad name. Not all of us are like that. I am a firm believer that an individual should be allowed to live their life in the way they choose. It is not my place to judge anyone. I love everyone! Especially those that are different from me because it widens my view of things and a broader view is always good IMHO.

Sorry about your neighbor, I will pray for her LOL.

[Cleita]

21. Garlic wreathes comes to mind. That seems to be her thinking.

She sounds like a nut case and as long as she keeps it on her own property, ignore it. You could do some cute stuff on your windows like picture of puppies and kittens, nothing aggressive. It would completely throw her off.

[Marrah_G]

23. Welcome to reality

She is protecting herself from the evil witches.

Ignore it, ignore her.

She thinks of her crosses in the same way you think of say...a circle of salt or a consecrated circle.

Or better yet:

Hang a few pentacles in the window facing her house, add a couple candles beneath them and you can relish in the thoughts of her in a panic, convinced you are cursing her.

[Hepburn]

34. Thank you....

...and blessed be. I was not sure if I did some protection magic with white candles and symbols in the windows if that would be OK. I find her conduct really, really offensive in regard to my beliefs.

[Marrah_G]

45. I would

If for no other reason then to ward of her negativeness.

Don't let it get to you too much. Ignorance is a powerful thing.

Unfortunately we are the biggest religion that is completely acceptable to be offensive, bigoted and openly discriminatory to. When I hear other religions cry "discrimination" over every little thing I have to laugh and I have the urge to tell them all to toughen the hell up.

I take comfort in knowing it will not always be this way.

Blessed be!

note: feel free to PM me if you want to talk.

[Hepburn]

55. Thank you for your advice.

I feel very badly that she would act like this....and feel it necessary to "guard" her property against me. Let me see what happens later today with her and I def will up date on this thread and most likely PM you, too. Thank you so much for the offer to discuss this with me. I feel like she spit on me by doing this. Maybe I am wrong to feel like this, but it is such a hateful nasty thing to do.

[Marrah_G]

59. The world is full of nasty people

We can only control how we respond to the nastiness.

PM me anytime.

:hug:

BB

Marrah

[nightrider767]

24. I Would Do Nothing

If you are a good person. Continue to do that and she'll eventually know you as that.

She's obviously scared. Maybe she's not as open minded as you or I.

It's common for people to be scared when the see things that are uncommon to them or they don't understand.

[minnesota_liberal]

25. Find something to put in your windows ... on her side

It'll keep you amused and keep your neighbor wondering.

I can think of all kinds of items.

[spinbaby]

57. Oooh, good idea!

Confuse her by putting up random items like teddy bears, boxes of crackers, and copies of TIME magazine.

[mitchtv]

27. A nice African fertility fetish might work

It worked for me. If yo are near La Paz, Bolivia, go to the mecado de brujas and pick up a nice LLama fetish (a pickled llama embryo); Guaranteed

[NMMNG]

29. The crosses protect her from your witchy badness

Obviously. :sarcasm:



I don't know whether to roll my eyes or laugh. Maybe both. Some people are so ignorant. I wish you well with this one. :crazy:

[musette_sf]

if she knows you are Wiccan

then it looks like she is "protecting" herself from your Wiccan mojo that undoubtedly must leak out of your windows :-)

i'd find pentacle window clings and put them in all MY windows facing her.



available at: http://herbalmusings.com/pagan_buttons_pins_decals.htm

let her know in a way she can understand, that you don't want her superstitious Xian mojo to leak into your house either.

on edit: put one of these in your window too:

[Hepburn]

67. Oh, those are so beautiful....

...I am going to order some! Thanks for the link. :hi:

[Az]

30. She is scared and trying to ward off your evil

Unless you think her crosses have some power over you I would not be concerned about them.

Her attitudes and fear may be another matter though. As an atheist I can only suggest that the single greatest thing you can do to undermine her fears is to show her that you are not what she thinks you are ie evil.

[Bjornsdotter]

32. She's crazy

...I've got a nutcase next door too. She thinks my Harry Potter books are an invitation to satan....go figure.

Cheers

[Puckster]

35. Kinda funny, but......

If I were you, I'd be a little cautious. You can't always tell the difference between someone who's just eccentric, and someone who's so infected with extreme Christian entitlement that they feel they can mess with you, with impunity. Then again, it might be fun to see what would happen if you dance naked on your lawn one night! :yourock:

[bdamomma]

48. welcome to DU puckster!!!

[Puckster]

86. Thanks!

I only have a handful of posts so far, and I think DU needs its own zip code. It's HUGE!

[bdamomma]

36. these people have got to go,

probably she thinks you need to be "saved" what sick SOB's what ever happened to keep your religion to yourself instead of jamming down everyone's throats.

I have an idea, put up peace signs on your windows!!!!!!

[tularetom]

37. Maybe it isn't just you - lot of these nut cases hate Halloween

Couple of years ago when our grandson was about 6 we took him trick or treating. A woman came to the door at one house and instead of giving him candy, proceeded to lecture us about celebrating a pagan holiday and how Halloween was symbolic of the anti christian sentiments of the majority of US citizens. She tried to give him some goofy religio wacko comic book but he threw it in her garbage can as he walked down her walk. Funny thing there was three or four other ones in there.

[bdamomma]

49. exactly they hate Halloween, they find it EVIL.

How silly, when I was young I love Halloween, and I was out just for the candy.

[melm00se]

39. are you a vampire?

[Hepburn]

46. Well....

recovering vampire. After all, my ancestry is Romanian (seriously)!

:evilgrin:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

41. My guess would be she's using them as a talisman

To keep any wandering bad vibes from your property from seeping into her house.

I'm sure she has no idea that such beliefs actually stem from ancient pagan religions and crossed over into Christianity.

If I were you I'd complement her on her lovely crosses and ask what provoked her to put them there.

[hedgehog]

43. That's so sad. A real Christian wouldn't be afraid.

[H2O Man]

44. Is her home

to the east of yours? If so, she may consider you the Wicked Wiccan of the West, and have those crosses as sort of a heavenly insurance policy.

[Hepburn]

50. LOL, H20, leave it to you....

...I AM to the West of her....and she has hated me from the day she moved in and I have no idea why. Just snotty and mean to me and rude and bitchy. Fairly nice to everyone else....but nasty as she could be to me.

Soooo....maybe she is a total wack job snd thinks I am the Wicked Witch of the West!?!?!?!

I just hope she is not dangerous.

[H2O Man]

53. Burn some sage.

Gets rid of their bad energy.

[Hepburn]

Thank you and blessed be!

I will do that later today!

[NorthernSpy]

52. Fortify. Put up your own symbols. Have a supernatural face-off...

Like an occult Fulda Gap.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

54. heh. I have a four dimensional

hypercross I forged and sculpted out of steel bar, with an impaled mathematician on it. My super christian neighbors took offense.
So I replaced it with a 8 foot steel gargoyle I made, one who was standing up with an excited third member. They again complained.
This time the police came by. They were impressed and said, "cool art"

[Hepburn]

61. OMG........

....LMBO out loud and totally!

:rofl:

[Marrah_G]

56. This is not as random as people think, we really terrify some people

MANY people outright fear us, others hate us. The fearing us is worse.

One year at a gathering in VA a local minister got onto the site. I am not sure what he planned to do there, but he was carrying a handgun. He wasn't there to murder us, as you might assume.

He had the gun because he was SO afraid of us that he felt he had to bring it to defend himself. Defend himself against people who are generally extremely peaceful unless we are defending ourselves. Our creed is "Harm None" (micro-version).

The upside of the story is that after arresting him the local sheriffs dept volunteered their off time to guard the gates in shifts. The sheriff himself brought his family the next day to take a tour. He came back later that night to check out the naked bonfire dancing and seems rather taken with the whole idea.

[Hepburn]

64. You know....

...the basics I live by are:

1. Do NO harm; and

2. The Rule of Three.

Why in the world does she think she needs protection from me? IMO, she would be beter off aiming crosses at frauds like Benny Hinn who cheat old people out of theie SS when he says he can cure their ills.

Very cool that LE came back to protect you. I just do NOT understand where some can believe in good things that are in their Christian spirit world, but think that any other spirit world is all bad.

To each his own...I have no fear of Christianity...why would a Christian fear me?

[Whoa_Nelly]

58. Put up laughing happy faces in your windows aimed at her

and stake out some sound activated Halloween items out there, too...such as, skeletons, jack o'lanterns, bats, spiders, and more! :evilgrin:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

62. The Imp in me says that you should place beautiful Pentagrams facing her house and

when I try to look at it compassionately, I would just let her be in her own little world.

[Megahurtz]

65. A Little Paranoid, Maybe?

Sheesh.:eyes:

[Occulus]

66. Get other Wiccans you know to come over for a Solstice gathering.

Have a nice, big ol' Wiccan party/ritual right in your backyard.

It's part of your religion, yes?

:evilgrin:

[Hepburn]

69. I think she would have a heart attack...

...if she thought other "witches" were at my house! :evilgrin:

[Mythsaje]

68. ROFL

Yeah, that's probably it. I imagine some of our neighbors would be a little weirded out if they realized my wife was a witch. There have been subtle clues, but, then again, living in a predominantly African-American neighborhood, the dynamic is a bit different. White Christians tend to be FAR more obnoxious about it most of the time.

[Hepburn]

70. Well, this gal is white, ethnically Mexican American and from...

....you got it: TEXAS! And she is mega Catholic. I think so many hit it right on that she is afraid of me. And that just freaks me out!

[Mythsaje]

80. There's probably nothing you can do about it.

And from what my wife has told me, it's not altogether negative. Hispanics and folks from the Carribean tend to be VERY respectful of witches in general. They may be fearful, but they're not likely to come burning a cross on your front lawn or something like that.

It could be worse.

[-..__...]

71. YOU"RE DARK SIDED!

Could be worse... Imagine if the "God Warrior" was your next door neighbor..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCODIhAXbQM

[Hepburn]

76. Ummmmmmmmm......

....there was one like that in the neighborhood, but (pardon the expression)thank gawd, she moved!

[SaveAmerica]

78. right - because SHE IS NOT A CHRISTCHUUUUUN!!

Gorgyles, SLYKICKS!! They are dorksided. It was sad to see someone so filled with whatever you call how she feels. That was her religiosity, but on a maternal note, I hope the family is doing OK after the death of her older daughter.

[krispos42]

72. Flag her down next time you see her...

... and mention that she has some Christianity leaking out of her house, and that she had better fix it before it rots the soul!



:rofl:




I would suggest, on a more serious level, that you buy a bunch of these and put them in all of your windows facing her house!



http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/stickers-ss9.html



She's probably trying to convert you. I guess you're suppose to open your window one way, perhaps to clean them, then spy the crosses on the window and be spontaneously filled with the love of Jesus. Or sumptin'.

:eyes:

This one might work well, too... :-)

[Irishonly]

74. You live next to a nut

I love the suggestions you have been given and I also agree that a true Christian would not be afraid of anyone practicing Wicca. A lot of people have never heard of Samhain.

I don't understand people like your neighbor. She is a shining example with what's wrong with the country today.

[Bitwit1234]

75. Maybe she is protecting herself from YOUR curse

after all she must think Wicca members are witches....if she is one of those right wing nutso Christians it is hard to tell what the hell she thinks.

[Hepburn]

77. I get the feeling she is apolitical....

...and just mega stupid, but a nasty person underneath. She is just so mean looking when I see her outside talking to other people. A scowl on her face and her face is all twisted.

Kind of like she has a boat load of hatred inside her.

[Occulus]

84. Another thought: cast a Circle of Protection

Can they be permanent?

Which Wiccan path do you follow, anyway? That may give you some clues as to what you should do that is consistent with your own personal beliefs...

(I've lived with a Wiccan for several years now. *I* know there's nothing at all to be afraid of from you, but hey, *you* gotta protect yourself...)

[woodsprite]

79. Bake her a nice cake or zucchini bread

When she's had enough time to actually eat some, call her and ask if she's seen your ring with a pentagram on it. Tell her the last time you saw it was when you took it off to make the bread. ;)

Edited to say: Whoops! I think I meant pentacle instead of pentagram. Actually, either one would work.

[Occulus]

85. Make her some baklava with cut apple stars on top of each piece

:evilgrin:

[Name removed]

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[varkam]

81. Perhaps it is just a coincidence.

But of course the only real way to know is to talk to her.

[lumpy]

83. Ignore it

nt

[RexDart]

87. Maybe she's trying to protect herself from

a scottie? Those cute, fuzzy, loving bundles of demonic evil.

[Guaranteed]

88. Her religion is opposed to yours.

:P

[TK421]

89. Are the crosses loaded? you didn't mention that in your post?

:shrug:

[Hekate]

90. A friend once hung a faux voodoo doll in the window facing an obnoxious neighbor....

...just to give the old bat a thrill. It worked.

As to why crosses? Don't you have any Wiccan/Pagan friends who like to display symbols of their religion around the house? As to why so many aimed at you? All it is is a kind of "circle of protection" -- she also may have sprinkled holy water at the boundaries while you weren't looking. So what? She's clearly operating from a place of fear and ignorance.

I really like some of the ideas here though -- they made me laugh. How about posting this sign: My Goddess Gave Birth to Your God.

Good luck, enjoy your Samhain, and blessed be!

Hekate

[TK421]

91. Invite her over for a good old-fashioned goat sacrifice

that's the kind of thing that brings neighbors together