Chapter Five

When she arrived at the Art Gallery, Jennifer meet her at the door. Jennifer just stood there, standing at the painting. When she looked at the painting, she saw herself covered in blood. Jennifer panicked and ran out of the room. The owner of the Gallery looked at the painting and loved it. She put it on display in the middle of the Gallery. The owner asked Lillie to take part in a special show featuring her painting. Lillie did not know how to respond. She did not want anyone to know she was the painter. Every painting had a spell on it. No two people see the painting the same.

Jennifer went to the Coffee Shop and meet Paul. She explained to Paul that Lillie had a painting of her covered in blood. She was afraid that Lillie had put a spell on her to kill her. Paul assured Jennifer that was not the case. Lillie would kill nobody. She only tries to scare people. The spell will not work if you do not believe in them. She only uses it to get her way. 

As Jennifer was sitting at the table having dinner with Paul, she dropped the knife and it cut her leg. Blood started dripping now from her leg onto the shoe she was wearing. As she looked down at the shoe, it was ruby red with blood. She remembered the painting of the young maiden with the flowing red dress and the ruby shoes. She was certain that Lillie had put a spell on her to kill her and this was only the beginning. She was now determined to find someone that could reverse the spell. 

Jennifer went to a small little house in the country to see the Voodoo Doctor Ellen. I knew Ellen as being the best in the county. Jennifer explained to Ellen that Lillie, the witch, had used black magic, put a spell on her. She thought it was to kill her. Ellen agreed to help Jennifer and explained to her while protection spells and rituals are the best way to prevent hexes, jinxes, and other malevolent magic from sticking to you in the first place, reversals are the best way to shake it off. A reversal would have to be performed. 

Reversing magic spell takes the spell off you and sends it back to the person who put it on you. Ellen believes it is safer to reverse a spell than attempting to get revenge on someone. Ellen placed a red and black candle on the table. She cut seven divots on the top of the candles with a knife. She then placed a reversible oil on each candle. Jennifer took a nail and wrote, Lillie, I return the spell back to you on the candle. The candle slowly flickered, and the wax burned. Jennifer felt relieved because the spell was reversed. Ellen gave Jennifer a candle and instructed her to light it every night in front of a mirror and let it burn for five minutes the first day. Decrease the time for the next four days. If the candle does not flicker, start over. 

Jennifer left Ellen’s feeling safe. She went home and was sitting in the study reading a book. The wind started blowing hard. The rain was pounding on the tin roof and the thunder was shaking the windowpanes. She heard a glass scatter on the floor. When she turned around, a picture of herself had fallen off the mantle and broken. She reached down to pick up the glass from the floor and her finger started bleeding. As she walked across the floor to put the glass in the trash, the floor shook. She immediately went to the bedroom and light the candle and stood looking into the mirror. The candle blew out. She was consumed with fear. The reverse spell did not work. 

Lillie was at home sitting on her front porch watching the sky become dark as the clouds rolled in. The branches of the trees swayed with the blowing of the wind. White flashes of light were visible in the sky. The lightning lit up the sky as nature provided a light show to be seen for miles away. The loud sound to the thunder shook the windowpanes of the house. The rain was lashing the metal roof. Hail fell from the sky with a significant force. The hail bounced off the ground onto the porch where she was sitting. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck the tree beside the porch. Lillie heard the tree cracking and falling to the ground. She ran inside and fear filled her body. She knew the night had turned dark and evil was displayed in the air. Someone had tampered the spell with. She was now forced to show her strength and power. 

Lillie went into the bedroom and sit on her bed looking into in small glass ball that transformed into a mirror of all the spells she had cast. She saw Jennifer with Ellen. Anger filled her body as her eyes twitched. She began grinding her teeth and her hands shook. Now Jennifer and Ellen would both have to pay. Nobody interferes with her spells. Lillie never put a spell on Jennifer. Now Jennifer had Ellen to put a spell on her. The spell she cast was only to make Steve fall in love with her hoping she would leave Paul alone. 

Lillie walked out into the thunderstorm with lightning flashing, thunder rolling, window blowing, and the ground shaking. She picked up a stick and drew a heart on the ground with an arrow across the middle. On one side of heart, she wrote Jennifer and on the other side of the heart she wrote Paul. The arrow was a sword that separated the heart into two pieces. Jennifer would pay for being a home wrecker. 

She went inside and gathered a group of candles, oil, perfume, powder, incense, crystals, roots, herbs, dried flowers and took them into the kitchen. I placed the candles on the kitchen table. She took a large cast iron Dutch Oven and placed in on the enormous eye of the stove. There were roots, herbs, dried flowers and oil in the oven. She threw a light match into the oven to burn the items. The items became ashes in the oven's bottom. She sprinkled the perfume over the ashes, and they sizzled. A smoke filled the oven. She took the powder and poured it into the oven. The smoke disappeared into the air. 

The candles and incenses were lit on the table to create a flicker in the breeze blowing through the kitchen. She placed the crystals in the oven. Red for blood, fire, violence, health and danger. Orange for change and yellow for mourning. Black for evil and dark. She began stirring the crystals in the oven with a wooden spoon as she chanted a spell. The oven became so hot the spoon caught fire. She reached over to the sink and filled a glass with water. She propelled the glass of water onto the fire. The steam spelled out Rose Garden Plantation. I completed the spell.  

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