Most of what is done on the first night costs nothing, and you can start it before you have decided anything else.
My name is Ren Kagetsuki. I sell curse removal, and everything below I am giving away, in the order I would do it if it were me.
At the end I have written down where this stops, because that matters as much as the rest of it.
Tonight, take the weight off
Coarse salt, the cheap kitchen kind. Not table salt.
- A good handful into a hot bath. Fifteen to twenty minutes.
- Rinse it off afterwards with clean water, from the head down. The rinse is not optional and it always goes downward.
- No bath is not a problem, and most of the world does not have one. Salt in a bowl of hot water poured over the shoulders, or worked in wet palms over the neck, throat and wrists, then rinsed downward in the shower.
- Do not lie back in it thinking about the person. Wash, rinse, get out.
The neck and the wrists are where people carry it, which is why they go first even in the palms version.
Tomorrow morning, hold the door
- Dry-fry coarse salt in a pan, no oil, about five minutes, until it stops crackling and goes quiet.
- Let it cool. Two small cones on saucers, one each side of the door you actually use.
- If you live in a building where nothing can stand in a shared corridor, put them inside the door instead, one each side of it on the floor.
- Change them every morning. Old salt goes into a bag and out with the rubbish, not down the sink and not back into the kitchen.
- If a cone goes damp, grey or collapses in a day, replace it and keep going. That is the salt doing its job, not a sign to stop.
For three nights, watch one thing
Do the bath or the bowl for three nights and pay attention to a single question.
Does it lift and stay lifted, or does it lift and come back.
If it lifts and stays, what you had was residue. Something picked up from a place or a person, sitting on you, with nothing holding it there. That is genuinely finished and there is nothing else you need to do.
If it lifts and comes back within a week or two, the clearing worked and the line is still attached. That is the commonest answer people get, and it is the most useful thing three nights of salt can tell you.
Everything else that can be done without paying anybody is set out in full here: the whole sequence you can do alone, and the return, written out step by step.
None of it is held back and none of it is a sample.
Be careful with a free removal offered by someone else
There is a second meaning to this search. Not what you can do yourself, but somebody willing to do it for you at no charge.
Some of those people are sincere. Ask one question anyway, which is what they are being paid in.
Usually it is one of three. Your name and date of birth, which are the commonest anchor there is. Your fear, kept warm until a figure is named. Or the second conversation, the one where something worse has been found.
Do not hand over your details to somebody you approached because the work carried no price. Reading a stranger’s instructions costs you nothing. Giving a stranger your name and birth date is not the same act.
Where free curse removal stops
Salt clears. It does not close.
What you can do alone takes the weight off you, guards the door, and tells you which of the two situations you are in. What it does not do is turn the thing, send it back down the line it came along, cut the line, and seal the route so the same anchor cannot be used a second time.
Stopping at the clearing is the mistake, and it is the mistake that has a cost, because the second arrival lands on someone who has started to believe nothing works.
If three nights tell you it keeps coming back, that is the point at which the rest of it is mine rather than yours: what happens if you write to me.
And if the three nights settle it, close the tab. That is a real outcome and I would rather you had it.
