| Determining if it is safe to cast a spell begins by | | | | also very important. If the person trying to cast a |
| looking at the type of spell. Is it a love spell or is it a | | | | spell is not focused enough, distracted, or even |
| curse? Is it a Wiccan spell or a Santeria spell? | | | | harboring doubts and malice toward his or her patient |
| Although there are always exceptions, a good rule of | | | | a good spell could quickly turn sour. This is why it is |
| thumb is that a curse is going to be less safe than a | | | | important to find someone of the highest skill if you |
| love spell. A spell that is intended to cause harm is | | | | choose to have a spell done for you. |
| going to be less safe than a spell intended to heal or | | | | Whatever results from the spell will also determine if |
| protect somebody. | | | | negative effects occur. For example, if you cast a |
| This leads to the second point - intention. The | | | | curse and you harm somebody there might be a |
| intention of yourself, as well as the intention of the | | | | karmic debt you have to account for at some point. |
| person casting the spell, will influence the degree to | | | | However, if you cast a curse and it ends up causing |
| which the spells manifests dangerous side effects. If | | | | more good than harm (such as stopping a bad |
| your intentions are not entirely pure this can filter into | | | | person from hurting others) then, despite being a |
| spellcastings, possibly even making the magick | | | | curse, it is unlikely to have any long term harmful |
| corrupted and dangerous. Even in cases where a | | | | consequences. |
| person casts a curse out of anger, but doesn't truly | | | | The skill of the caster is also important in a more |
| want the result there may be some backlash. The | | | | encompassing way. All of the former issues - impure |
| most important aspect of intention is being in | | | | intentions, type of the spell and even the end result |
| harmony with the result of the spell, rather than | | | | of the spell can be accounted for with the right |
| traditional ideas of right or wrong. | | | | casting technique. This is a mixture of a person's |
| Intention on the part of the person casting the spell, | | | | innate ability, their devotion and time practicing their |
| if not the person having the spell done (in the case | | | | craft and the specific methods they have developed |
| where a spell is done for one person by another), is | | | | to cast spells that really work. |