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This thread makes me rethink an event that happened in my life.



A couple of years ago I had an interesting complication in my life. I had a friend who often went into deep, dark mood swings; a friend who while in these mood swings tended to be teh epicenter of a sinister vortex that you really wanted to be nowhere near, even though he tended to be reclusive during these times.



I have another friend, who I met while on a Psychic Fair circuit, that made all manner of crystal amulets for sale at her table that were not only beautiful but also quite effective. We became very close over the following year and on other circuits, so we talked on all manner of things during slow periods.



At times she would talk about her ex, particularilly if we were on a subject of dark magic. Turns out, of course, that the two friends were each others ex's, and it gave a whole new perspective to each of them, as both of them had told me pretty "interesting" things about the other.



She said she'd meet me at a pub that I regularily go to on thursday nights, because she had a protection amulet to give me (She had given me a few amulets for various purposes already). I suspect that she arranged a confrontation of sorts; that she had figured that I knew her ex, (I may have even used his name specifically.)



As soon as she gave it to me I fealt that it was to protect me from a specific threat that I was immediately under, that it was pertanant to that day, and I found out rather quickly when "lord gloomy" came in; well actually, he wasn't gloomy when he came in... but you could see a lightning and thunder over his head (like a comic book) after he saw me talking to his ex (she didn't seam surprised). He avoided both of us... and I was somewhat worried that he was going to cast a pretty malicious spell my way.



That night when I got home (safely) I walked in the house and wandered to teh bathroom to remove my other amulets so they wouldn't interfere, especially while he was surging with anger and would most liklely try something at this time.



I had always considered what happened next to be a spell, but it is altogether likely that this had been an evil eye effect.



I walked back into my kitchen to the back door to hang up my jacket and just as I was passing under the kitchen light (one of those 1950's behemoths that way at least 10 pounds) it fell, and I just barely managed to avoid getting hit... it split in two solid pieces when it hit the floor, the glass was probably 1/2 inch thick.



I am convinced that I'd have been killed by this thing, that the amulet saved me, and that my dark friend was the source of the falling fixture.



As I consider this thread about the evil eye, I am concidering that the evil eye is a much better explanation than a spell, it has a neatness to my friends character (because I never wholely believed he'd really cast a spell against me, but it seamed to be the only explanation.) The fact that he has this dark hidden Italian heritage just seams to tie things up into a neat little ball, so perhaps next time I see him, I will bring up the incident again and ask him about evil eye... maybe he will admit to evil eye, like he never admited to spellcasting ...LOL.