How to Recognize a Gift

This blog post was inspired by the illustration, which I found somewhere on Tumblr and immediately thought all of those sound just like me.

However I'm not confident of the high and low vibration idea. I find it a bit new agey, particularly as high vibration people are supposed to be successful people. Per-lease.

So if I recognize myself but not the high vibration thing, obviously I'm going to have to recast the meme thingy into a witchy mould. I haven't phrased it as being how to recognize a witch, although witches will routinely experience thoss things.

I'm also not happy with using the word gift although I don't have a better one. In fact gift could probably be exchanged with curse for a lot of people so I'm going to have to explain this.

There are some people who you recognize as witches definitely walking a path which is a very important part of their progress through their lives, correcting a lot of things from previous incarnations and being continually faced with ridiculous shit as a side effect of correcting karma. They will definitely attract toxic people's attention, will definitely attract animals, etc. Another very common characteristic of these witches is that they have chronic illness which really screws them over and they are completely incapable of healing. They will have a pattern in their relationships where they attract the work that they can do, and will keep being presented with their special task.

It may sound as if I'm describing what is elsewhere described as an old soul, endowed with maturity and wisdom, but that's not what I'm getting at. I've used the word gift because what I mean is what is called in Christianity a charism. For the Christians this is an ability given by God. In witch fashion I suppose we would have to call it an ability or abilities possibly divinely given, but the nature of the gift will be mediated by our life experiences.

If you want to take divinity out of it completely this isn't that different to saying, 'Hes a really gifted mechanic', for example.

The point of this, of course, is what you do with your gift. Some people fight their gift tooth and nail, especially as its bound to be something we don't enjoy in the main. Not always, though, one of mine is that trophy dogs held on leads by hot rough trade tend to roll over to have their tummy tickled when they see me. I can't help this: I'm just naturally gifted.

Urban Grimoire: A Spell to Break Capitalism

This one is inspired by a comment I saw that capitalism does, indeed, function like a game of Monopoly. The end is that one person is as rich as Croesus and the other people are broke and starve to death in a gutter. At this time in history we are part way through the game so nobody starts off the same and gross inequalities are built in.

But what if people don't play the game? Monopoly depends on people moving around the board and paying rent, buying streets, etc. What if they stop - at least as much as they can? 

The game can't come to its end if you don't buy anything.

That's it, that's the spell.

We don't all have the dedication to become the Moneyless Man, but we can sabotage capitalism by spending less and directing our money where we want it to go rather than one of the half dozen richest gazillionaires on the planet.

Alternatives are things like Freecycle, repair co-operatives.... The list is actually endless and they're definitely going on near you, it's just social media tends to loud pedal commerce.

Pictured below: a working class Tory Voter.

The Rule of Law

Politically, I am an anarchist, and know enough about it to know that it bears more resemblance to, say, the consensus process Quakers use than 'anarchy' as fantasized by the right. For this reason, while somewhat puzzled that the people of this country aren't noticeably rioting, I see it as in some ways a good sign that we aren't. 

Here's the thing. I don't doubt for an instant that members of the current government have committed crimes. Misconduct in public office, for example, carries a life sentence. Lying by saying in the Commons that you haven't been partying in lockdown when you have, is another one that both Johnson and Sunak should be tried for.

And that's the point: if we don't try them under the law, we're as bad as them. Don't get me wrong, I would find it very difficult to criticize anyone engaged in a glorious revolution in our current circumstances but we need to be able to consistently say that the MPs in question have broken the law. Not everyone else. Even with our weak democracy and weak legal set up we need them to be the ones history will decide are wrong.

I think what I'm saying is that I want to live in a country where public life is governed by the broad 'consensus' of the law, because that's how it goes in a civilized country. The other thing is that the longer this goes on the closer we get to the historic end of the Conservative Party. The kids are alright, and they're the ones who will gloriously vote them out using the ballot box instead of shooting them.

I have a dream which is that there won't be a Conservative candidate in Birmingham Ladywood at the next election. Honestly they might as well not bother because Labour got 79% of the vote at the last election, but if there is one I won't risk splitting the opposition and will vote tactically to keep them out. In the happy event that there isn't a Con candidate I will vote for what I want either True and Fair (unlikely to be a candidate) or Green because the people of this constituency can be relied on not to elect a Reform UK MP. However in the distant past it's had Con and Liberal MPs and Clare Short of blessed memory sat as an independent for a time.

NB Comments are always welcome but I'll not allow any about Corbyn or Starmers centrism and certainly none saying 'Im too left wing to vote Labour and do what realistically has to be done to get the concentration-camps-and-death-penalty party out. This isn't the winning argument you apparently think it is and I'm not wasting my life arguing with twats.

Pictured: the Coronation Chair commissioned in 1297 after we stole the Stone of Scone.

By Appointment to The Hound

I don't know if other countries with constitutional monarchs do it but of course in the UK we have a system of Royal Warrants where companies are made official suppliers to members of the royal family. They get a crest above the door and get to put the prices up. Some of them are wild, like suppliers of fire extinguishers and older readers will remember how Benson and Hedges were the cigarettes by appointment. Currently I think the barmiest warrant is to Ainsworths Homeopathic Pharmacy, purely because it's the famous one that sells a 'remedy' called Berlin Wall to treat feelings of alienation.

Kings are nearly as good as witches so it's high time I issued some official Royal (or rather, Canine) Warrants of my own and here they are. These have the added advantage that in addition to being a witch so knowing these firms' inner dispositions I'm also a complete nightmare in shops so have mostly tried out these firms' resilience as well.

Apart from anything else this list should be some evidence that I'm not a complete curmudgeon and do occasionally have something good to say.

I feel slightly doomed saying this because my warrant has previously been given to firms which have gone bust (Packard Bell and Blackberry) but my current technology warrant goes to Lenovo. My current Windows laptop should be the same as any other but it's strikingly easier to use. It's also eminently reliable.

My warrant for supply of furnishings and household appliances goes to John Lewis. They naturally have a reputation for being posh but their stuff is quality and they're incredibly easy to deal with. Their own brand electricals are also reliable. This warrant does not extend to their partner firms Waitrose and Ocado because their prices are ridiculous.

Otherwise I have awarded a separate warrant for domestic appliances to Bosch. They just keep going forever and I told my mother she'd regret buying a cheap one when she was berating me for spending £400 on a fridge.

My warrant for supply of energy is awarded to Octopus Energy. They've always been perfectly simple to deal with and have never done any of the cock-ups other energy companies have. And in this case it's not just me saying it, they keep on winning awards from Which? (who are rightly difficult to please and USwitch and now even from the witch. And their electricity is green.

I have issued two warrants for banking: one to The Co-operative Bank and the other to Leeds Building Society. LBS can't quite match the Co-Op's ethical standards but it's still a mutual. They are both strikingly easy to deal with. 

This one might be a surprise because of their generally unethical reputation but I've thought carefully about this and I'm not sure you can get a supermarket with better ethics unless you can afford to shop at The Co-op. So my warrant for home delivery of groceries goes to Tesco because they deliver when they say they will, what you've ordered and with no drama. I used to have deliveries from another one which just wasn't reliable; in contrast Tesco couldn't deliver one night because someone crashed into the van. They rang me up to apologize, gave me a gift voucher and delivered the order the next evening and it was free! Suppliers in shop of groceries and household supplies by appointment to The Hound are Aldi.

If you are near Birmingham and need a gadget repaired my warrant has been awarded to Mr Gadget Xchange behind Oasis. Again I can't overstate how without drama this place is. I think they sell gadgets as well but I haven't used them for that.

I never thought I would find one I would recommend because I've dealt with a lot of solicitors over the past few years and they have mostly been a complete nightmare but I have decided to award my warrant to Mann and Co. Again they stand out for the complete absence of drama and just getting on with it professionally. They do criminal defense, property and family law, and I will leave it to your imagination which I've used them for.

So there you are, my very short list of Royal Warrants.

Oh alright, I know you want the picture of Mohammed Al Fayed burning Harrods's royal warrants.

Gambling

I have a friend who works in a betting shop and I'm fascinated by his tales of what happens because gambling is completely alien to me. I have never set foot in a bookies and have never even done the lottery. I can see how it could be addictive but of course my substance of choice has been smoking.

When I was a student I shared a house with a man who started playing backgammon at a casino. To start off with he won hugely but then suddenly started consistently losing. To me this was so obviously fixed that he should have cut his losses but by that time he'd decided he'd got too far in (this was only a matter of weeks) and had to try to get the money back by keeping going, with the predictable result that he kept losing.

I think what makes gambling distasteful to me is that as a witch, a former mental health professional and an INFJ I'm pretty good at predicting the future. I also know that predicting the future isn't rocket science. Given these weather conditions that horse will run like that. That football team won't win, and I'll tell you right now we're not likely to have a white Christmas. Betting works by you gambling on something and the bookie works out the risk. To my surprise there are actually people who are professional gamblers who make a good living, and obviously the bookies absorb that risk to make the other punters think that it could happen to them. In reality of course they are supporting the professional gamblers.

Insurance of course is the same exercise reversed. The insurer bets that something won't happen based on the likelihood and risk. Again it's not rocket science, and of course if you're a young man you're likely to crash your car. See, I said predicting the future was not rocket science. The only difference is that where the bookies make you think some good thing could happen, insurers want you to worry about bad things happening so that you will essentially gamble on them happening. House insurance is just you betting that your house will burn down and getting the payout if it does.

If this sounds like a scam it's because it's definitely got one foot there.

Similarly I have discovered that casinos use all sorts of tricks which aren't that different from the tricks supermarkets use, to keep the punter in there and keep him betting. No windows, free gifts, disorienting in time and even the carpet are among them. I'd just assumed the people who furnished casinos had no taste but the carpet is to create a prison of sensory perceptions. 

It's no wonder I don't do betting when I'm so cynical  attuned to the nature of the risk assessment and psychological tricks and can do the risk assessment myself and conclude it wouldn't give me pleasure and I'm unlikely to profit from it. The reason the subject is appearing here is that I've only just realized that this in itself is a gamble and after my risk assessment I've decided the risk isn't worth it. If gambling is about risk and prediction rather than 'chance' then I'm not giving myself good odds so am not making bets.

... which is in itself a gamble! And I haven't lost any money!

Oh go on, I know you want some tic tac men:

Economising with the Hound

An important symbol of witchcraft is the cauldron and so in addition to the wommonly arts of hexing, changing and leading the revolution we are skilled at the arts of domestic economy. Reading around on Twitter I'm getting the impression that some people don't know how to economise so this is just a few pointers from my extensive experience of being a student twice and paying off a mortgage in ten years.

Follow Martin Lewis. This post is not a systematic collection and he has a better overview.

Financial

If you have any spare money and have a choice between saving and paying off debt, always pay off debt first and focus on the debt with the highest interest. It seems wrong but you always pay more interest than you earn.

Never let contracts (phone, insurance, energy supplies) automatically renew, they will stiff you.

For the love of the Goddess look at your bank statements and see if you're paying any subs you have forgotten or can cancel. Add up what you're spending on things so that it shocks you.

Get off the rat race of updating electronics. You really really don't need the latest iPhone. The reality is that technology is not moving as fast as manufacturers make out it is and you can usually get by with the year before last's technology if you're buying new.

The law gives you a fourteen day cooling off period to return something if you don't like it. Use it.

You can save huge amounts of money by buying stuff nearly new. The important thing is to go to a reputable dealer and get a warranty (for example Cex test the stuff they sell and give a year's warranty). Again, if you get it home and find the battery's knackered you can change your mind within fourteen days.

Look through your drawers for any old technology, games and DVDs and sell them to Cex or you can get a higher amount of credit to use in the store. If they're rubbish and Cex won't take them there are places that will.

Some people find this really difficult but it's best to plan ahead. For example buying a season ticket for the train or bus pass might be cheaper than individual fares if you know you're travelling.

Shopping

I'm afraid you have a clear choice between supporting local small retailers and saving money. Your corner shop is the most expensive way to buy anything.

Shop with a list and be wary of retail tricks. For example the items near the till are there to tempt you or your kids and should be treated with caution.

To economise, get supplies in. I don't mean massive hoarding but a shelf of the things you will use anyway will tide you over if they're unavailable like in any other third world country. It will also help when your brother turns up with no money after being evicted.

Shop around if you can and if you are in a town so the savings won't be eaten up by the cost of travel. Use delivery services or if you can't  shop around, do a big shop at Aldi, Lidl or Asda.

Many shops do a special offer of a reduction on your first shop and you can always make it your only shop.

Frozen vegetables are cheaper than fresh and have no loss of nutrients. In fact frozen is cheaper to buy a lot of things like sausages BUT they can take a fair time to cook so the savings can be lost in energy expenditure. Iceland is good to stock up on frozen food and have a good range of takeaway stuff for treats.

If you're desperate the following foodstuffs are your friends: red lentils, rice, tinned tomatoes, oats, frozen vegetables, frozen mince, baked beans, microwave jacket potatoes. Oats are an incredibly versatile and rich foodstuff. Look at Charles Bronson: he literally got those muscles on porridge and no fancy supplements. Don't forget to have a treat now and then so it doesn't get dreary.

Buy savers ranges and economy packs.

Consider yellow reduced stickers but be cautious because if there is only a small reduction on a luxury item it will still be expensive. Shop in the evening to get the best of these.

Cooking

Microwave rather than using the hob as much as possible. If you must use the oven cook lots of stuff to fill it and heat it once instead of several times.

Be strict about Use By dates but if something is past the Best Before date and looks and smells okay it probably won't kill you.

Microwave dahl recipe. Into a microwave bowl put some frozen chopped onions, frozen spinach, red lentils, spices of your choice, pinch of salt and less water than you think you need. I like some dessicated coconut as well. Microwave loosely covered for about fifteen minutes at full power, keeping an eye to make sure it doesn't dry out. Halfway through stir and add more water if it's a bit dry. Let it stand a bit and serve with rice. If you want to avoid the hob you could microwave one of those packets of rice while it's standing. The description of this recipe does not sound appetizing which is why it's all the more surprising when without fail it turns out gorgeous.

The psychological bit

This is really important to stop economising wearing you down: have treats. However you could have say a frozen curry instead of a takeaway. Basically every treat is also available in an economy version. If it comes to survival there is no shame in doing this.

Notice how our capitalist society has connected the things you enjoy to money. Some people are actually shocked when they realize their enjoyment is dependent on shopping or the cinema, etc. The internet is your friend here. YouTube and the Internet Archive are never ending wells of wonderful stuff. If capitalism has deceived you, you can find new things to enjoy that don't cost money.

The two most important bits

Every time you save some money or preserve your life and dignity in any way, in your mind's eye see the power of the Conservative Party waning and see them losing their seats. See them eating shit. See them in prison. And know that this is happening now.

Finally, vote. Vote as if your life depends on it, because it does. And this is really important: vote tactically to get the Tories out whenever we get an election in this shithole. I can truthfully say I don't care what you think about Starmer the most important thing is to get the Tories out and a vote for a minority party may actually be a vote for the Tories in our electoral system. A guide to why this is and a tactical voting guide is here.

Of course there is a tune to make this a magical enchantment.

It Doesn't Have to be Perfect

Spot the 110 year old mistake

Our capitalist society has a thing about quality and professionalism. The source can only be capitalism because it connects the worth of things to their economic or productive value. That's why it's okay to be snooty about the unemployed but billionaires can exist with impunity in our society.

When you take economic or market value out of a thing it has a remarkable effect because the word amateur comes from the Latin for love for a reason. I was inspired to think again about this when I was recently writing my post about not writing a tarot book, and I was thinking that to get a book commercially published you have to say what the market is perceived to want to hear otherwise you 'fail'.

Take that pressure out and you have more what looks like the blogging world where you can say pretty much what you want and also control any comments about your witterings. Magically this is moving from the element of earth alone, and prioritizing air (thoughts), fire (will, desire) and water (love, desire). Take the financial lead out of it and the elements are already more balanced. 

If nobody will hear you it doesn't matter if your singing is terrible. It doesn't matter if nobody else understands your art, and so on. Doing things for the love of it is about as revolutionary as you can get!

The other thing I was thinking was that many people look at the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck and rightly think it looks like it was thrown together by a very drunk four year old but it has been remarkably influential. Personally I've tried a couple of the tidied up versions and simply can't engage with them in the same way.

Since this is about being unprofessional let's have some artists. 'Is he artistic? No, he's musical,' as Dame Hilda Bracket used to say. First one who genuinely didn't realize what she sounded like, and so enjoy Florence Foster Jenkins singing Mozart's Queen of the Night:

While looking for that video, fortuitously I came across a real review from 1934 of one of her concerts:

Mrs. Jenkins appeared in flame-colored velvet, with yellow ringlets piled high on her head. For a starter she picked Brahms’ Die Mainacht, subtitled on her gilt program as “O singer, if thou canst not dream, leave this song unsung.” Mrs. Jenkins could dream if she could not sing. With her hands clasped to her heart she passed on to Vergebliches Standchen, which she had labeled “The Serenade in Vain.”

The audience, as Mrs. Jenkins’ audiences invariably do, behaved very badly. In the back of the hall men and women in full evening dress made no attempt to control their laughter. Dignified gentlemen sat with handkerchiefs stuffed in their mouths and tears of mirth streaming down their cheeks. But Mrs. Jenkins went bravely on. For a Spanish group she wore a mantilla, carried a big feather fan, undertook a few little dancing steps to convey more spirit. While she was getting her breath, the Pascarella chamber group played Dvorak’s Quintet and cameramen photographed the happy laughing faces in the audience.

Sometimes, her concerts were painful in more ways than one, the review noted, not only because she “struggled” with the songs but also because she once literally tossed roses into the audience and “in her excitement, the basket slipped from her hand, [and] hit an old gentleman on the head.” Source

The linked article correctly comments that if she were alive today she would be trending on YouTube.

In a rather different vein we have the legendary Jonathan and Darlene Edwards who definitely did know how to do it and get paid for it in their regular careers but had a side career out of doing it wrong:

Finally I'm delighted to introduce you to Francisco and Fernando, two Venezuelan backpacking friends who self funded an album of them singing. You wouldn't be hearing about it now if one of them hadn't subsequently gone on a talent contest and let out that there was in existence a whole album of the singing he treated them to. Do join in the chorus. It really won't make much difference if you're tone deaf, sing in a different key (I mean different to the at least three keys the song is already being sung in at once) or feel like singing a different song. That's the point.

Urban Grimoire: A Modern Return to Sender Spell

Not one of mine, in fact I'm wide eyed with admiration at this woman. You may object that this doesn't at first sight appear to be a spell, but all acts are magical acts.

I particularly like that she gave him clear warning that she was after him. Some people may recoil at her saying she has ruined his life (I'd call it giving him the consequences of his actions, myself) but in nature balance is only achieved by toing and froing between opposites.

All credits to @_BeeEv on Twitter.

I will admit to feeling slightly bad that at this point I would have said no to him, he needed to get it to me first. This isn't purely because I'm a total bastard but I'm here to let people know they will stay inside boundaries. 

Absolute legend.

Truly worthy of a witch. I don't know how psychics did it before the internet.

Personally I'd have used his real name here, but then I'm a cunt.

Nothing wrong with checking you're right.

Remember, kids, the setting of the spell works as much as the spell itself. Use all the theatricality you can!

She's been more than patient at this point.

And he really is a turd. Some turds will be surrounded by other turds, in which case exposure won't work, but this is exactly what scammers who keep it quiet from family, fear.

This is the bit where it really struck me as most magical - to the discerning eye this guy has obviously had this coming for a long time, he just needed to meet the person who would start the ball rolling.

He's not sorry in the slightest and doesn't take responsibility for it.

Just for the record, nobody in their right mind would go near this clown's bootyhole but he can try. 😂

Somebody's mother never followed through on disciplinary threats.

She could in fairness have demanded some more cash as compensation but in that case would only have got recompense in the domain of Earth. I suspect there would have been no opportunity for him to learn his lesson though - he is after all a scammer and will no doubt see that as going with the territory. By demanding the same amount back he has got the comeback in other areas (specifically Water) and stands a better chance of learning the lesson.

The Magical Significance of Silence

I have immediately hit a snag with the title of this post because I was going to make the point that for Christians and witches and/or Pagans silence is different. But of course there is nothing to stop a Christian being a witch, practicing magic or even having a foot in paganism! So perhaps I mean the significance of silence in some magical traditions.

Of course I am not aware of any history of a monastic movement as such in modern pagan or magical traditions (come on, you didn't seriously expect me to stay on the subject for more than a paragraph did you?). You will find formal, vowed monasticism in some of the Old Catholic or Liberal Catholic traditions. In modern magical traditions we do have a long tradition of going into the quiet with our books, or on a walk, to do the thing that monastics do in silence.

But what is that? Monasticism comes from the Greek word monos meaning alone and has implications of paring things down to what is necessary. And that's where the difference starts, because I'm a witch and I'll decide what I'm doing thank you very much.

I think we do, however have activities which aim to focus, concentrate and feed our witchcraft. They may well not take place in silence. There is a Judaeo-Christian tradition where God is a still small voice and it is necessary to silence the chatter to some extent to enable an I and Thou encounter, whereas in paganism you're standing on the Divine and she's quite likely to tell you when she wants attention.

So rather than the quietening for encounter meaning, influenced by the Qabalah in magical world views silence is more likely to represent the nothingness before something, even before an intent of creation. Like taking a breath before speaking. Or the sensation that you might need the loo soon but the idea hasn't popped into your head.

Don't get me wrong there is an implication of purity type thing but it tends to be the thing before the actual thing.

It also has remarkable power, considering it's nothing, because the child on the Golden Dawn fool card is making the sign of silence but yet can control the wolf!

Sssh!

It Takes a Witch to Break a Generational Curse

This post was inspired by a meme I found saying exactly the title of this post. So, wanting to at least nod to other people's opinions (only if they're right, of course) I leapt on the internet to see what other people had to say about this subject, and all I can say is, I'm shocked. Shocked.

These Christians steal virtually everything and this area, the one where you're virtually guaranteed to need a witch, is no exception. And I wouldn't even mind them stealing so much if what they stole wasn't contradictory to their own religion.

According to The Gospel Coalition, a “generational curse describes the cumulative effect on a person of things that their ancestors did, believed, or practiced in the past, and a consequence of an ancestor’s actions, beliefs, and sins being passed down.” Source

At the risk of sounding like Jeff Tiedrich (actually, fuck it, I might start a Tiedrich tradition of witchcraft right here), holy fucking shit, that's some industrial strength batshit crazy right there. From a Christian point of view. Because I don't know who this Gospel Coalition are but they sure as hell haven't read the gospel, because in Christianity that thing of sins being passed down through generations has gone, baby. But it turns out there's a whole Christian industry of dealing with this thing they don't believe in. Holy shit.

It's not even like we believe in that shit either, because we don't believe in sin. You heard that right, the Hound was conceived without sin. I do however carry my own actions from previous lives but not other family members' unless I am them reincarnated.

There are two causes of generational curses. One is the more spiritual one that you would expect although is virtually never because of someone actually putting a curse on your family. It is more to do with the way the family as a whole acts and relates to every reality surrounding them. For example (and I'm choosing a fairly dramatic example because it's a clear one) the children of Fred and Rose West will have to live with the ongoing effects of their childhood. I mentioned relating and it is truly in all sorts of relationships that this kind of curse comes back. If you have your own children, for example, you will forever be wondering if you are looking after them well enough, if you could have done more about your siblings, and so on. Conversely you may end up so frozen you can't think about it at all. And how cursed is that? It's generational because previous generations of your family have caused this.

The other way, which is far more common, is that you won't have the resources to deal with life without repeating the same actions again. This is the lesser one because (to stay with the serial killer family example) once you know there's a problem you can get books about parenting and do things differently. Another example would be that if you've been physically neglected you can make a point of feeding your own children better. This way is less inside you than the other way, and ironically once you start dealing with this way you are well on the way to dealing with the first aspect of the generational curse.

The inner curse is the reason it needs a witch. Did I mention that anyone can do witchcraft and that it's usually that sort of adversity that makes someone a witch? It's magical because it means reframing your whole existence, acknowledging and dealing with thought forms that can literally go back generations, and creating a new life. It's also bloody scary work, because it's almost guaranteed to leave you with family members and others furious at you. I speak from experience!

It also needs a witch rather than a Christian because with no disrespect, praying won't do this one. It needs action. It may also conceivably need a few prison sentences and safeguarding but hey, that's the territory and I think the most difficult thing would be that people don't get it. The link referring to the Gospel Coalition above makes some absolutely bizarre comments about childhood, and let's face it the actor Dominic West was attacked in the street after playing Fred West in a documentary. Stupidity is not curable and is not a curse. And it's not even like they had a sensible reason for thinking he was actually Fred West because the guy died right here in Her Majesty's Prison Birmingham thirty years ago. 

You'll notice that I'm not rushing to write a how to book, for reasons of individuality of cases. That's the other reason it takes a witch, is it needs a bitch who's dealt with a few fuccbois. And fuccbois will clearly be abundant.