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 Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:50 am
To the one that I serve What are the differences between hexes, curses, jinxes, and smiting some one? I will give my all
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:26 pm
Let's have a look at the etymology:
Curse, derived from Old English curs: translated "a prayer that evil or harm befall one"
Rather simple.
Hex, derived from German hexe: translated "witch"
Pennsylvanian Germans first used the word as a verb meaning "to practice witchcraft" in 1830.
Jinx, derived from iynx, Greek and Latin name for the wryneck (a divinatory bird).
The word was used synonymously with "charm" or "spell" beginning in the 17th century.
Smite, derived from Old English smitan: translated "to hit, strike, beat"
Also straightforward.
There are most likely better sources out there, but I used this one in a pinch.
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Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:01 am
Let's not pretend etymology and definition are the same thing. That hardly helped.
Smite means hit. In this context it usually refers to something a deity does to a mortal. Otherwise it would imply a short, sharp, nasty type of curse that was the equivalent of a hammer to the head.
Jinx means bad luck, or a person who has bad luck and brings it with them. Usually not understood to be caused by another person. Unless you're in the schoolyard. I think the meaning differs in hoodoo but I'm not sure.
"Hex" and "curse" are nearly synonymous, but "hex" can also be used to refer to less malevolent spells. "Curse" is definitely malevolent.
I recall reading somewhere that "hex" referred to protecting one's home, but I can't remember the source so I can't acertain its validity.
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:23 am
To the one that I serve Do you think there might be times when a hex is preferred to a curse? I will give my all
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Cunning Witch Angus Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:10 pm
I have always defined Hex as something that "trips" up the victim. Not so much a Curse (which I define as something painful and long and "cold". Saturnarian, if you will) which is truly malicious. A hex is more of a one time thing, but packs one hell of a wallop.
Let me associate it this way: In a hex I would use martial plants, such as peppers, pine needles, wolf's bane et cetera. In a curse I would use Saturnarian plants like nightshade, hemlock, foxglove, all the nice poisonous ones that deliver a slow painful death curse.
A confusing spell I would consider a hex whilst a painful bout of sickness I would call a curse.
I don't know, depends on what the witch does to the practitioner I think.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:00 pm
To the one that I serve I guess I would say what I did was more of a hex than anything else. It wasn't major. He ignored us for a while and then we gradually got together again. I will give my all
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