The Threefold Law: Does It Apply to Sending a Curse Back?

I am not Wiccan, and I am not going to tell anybody whether their own law is true.

My name is Ren Kagetsuki. What I can offer is narrower and possibly more useful.

For fifteen years I was paid to send curses at people. So I have watched, at close range and many times over, what comes back after somebody sends something.

Something does. It is not threefold, and it does not arrive at the person most people expect.

What I actually watched come back

My clients came back. Not to complain about the work, which had usually landed.

They came back to ask why their own lives had started coming apart.

One to three months afterwards, in my experience. Quietly, with no sense of drama about it, and almost never connected by them to what they had commissioned.

For a long time I told myself that unhappy people have unhappy lives and that I was seeing a pattern in noise.

It was too consistent for that, and it was too specific.

It was not three times anything

This is the part I would gently set aside.

What came back was the same size as what went out. Not multiplied, not amplified, not made into an example of anybody.

A small spiteful thing produced a small spiteful year. Something built carefully over weeks produced something that took years to clear.

And it arrived in the same shape it was sent in. Aimed at a marriage, it came back at a marriage. Aimed at money, it came back at money.

That shape matching is the strongest thing I observed, and it is the thing that finally convinced me.

Multiplication would be a punishment. What I watched was closer to a delivery.

It did not come to me. It went to them.

This is the finding that took me longest to accept and it is the one worth the page.

I was the one performing the work. The clients had done nothing but ask and pay.

It reached them, not me.

The reason is not mysterious once you have seen it. What returns is not the labour. It is the wanting.

I did not want anything to happen to those people. I did not know most of them and I had no view about them at all. The wish belonged to the person who came to me with it.

A practitioner also builds a separation into the work, deliberately, and most of what is being paid for is that separation rather than the rite.

So the bill went where the wanting was.

What that means for sending a curse back

If what returns is the wanting rather than the act, then a return to sender is not the dangerous thing people are afraid of.

Nothing new is being wished on anybody. A thing that is already in motion is being turned around on the road it arrived by, and the direction is supplied by that road rather than by you.

There is no wish in it, so there is nothing to come back.

The danger is entirely in the other thing, and it is a real danger.

Run a return while wanting a result for the person at the other end, and you have not returned anything. You have made something, with your name on it: what a rebound actually looks like.

Where I think the law is pointing at something real

I have no standing to argue Wiccan doctrine and no interest in doing it.

But the instinct underneath the threefold law matches what I saw from the other side, and I would not want anybody to read this page as a dismissal of it.

Something you send does come home. It does find the person who wanted it. It does arrive in the shape it left in.

Where I would differ is only in the arithmetic and the authority.

No multiplication, and nobody keeping score. What you make has your name on it and things go back to where they were made. That is all, and in practice it is quite enough.

People who treat the law as a rule they might get caught breaking tend to look for the loophole. People who treat it as a property of the material do not, because there is nothing to get away with.

Does it apply if the reversal is strong

Strength has nothing to do with it, and this is worth saying because it is where people look next.

A powerful working with no wish in it returns nothing. A weak one built around a wish returns exactly that wish, small and slow.

What makes a working strong is a separate question with a disappointing answer: what actually makes a return strong.

If you are asking because you are afraid to send it back

That fear is the correct instinct pointed at slightly the wrong thing.

Being afraid of consequences means you are not the sort of person who adds a wish to a working, which is the only thing that would create any.

The people who should worry are the ones who are not asking.

And if you would rather not hold any of it at all, that is what I am for. Carried out from here, you perform nothing and you hold nobody in mind.

I remove. I do not send.

Tell me when it started and what has been happening. You will not be asked to wish anything on anybody.