One topic that I don’t see discussed much is ancestry and performing magick especially baneful magick on relatives that share the same blood when a lot of rituals suggest having a biological link from your target. So I just use my blood, a picture, and the person’s personal nickname. I’m also careful because we have the same legal name.
I’ve used blood sorcery on a relative since I directly am descended from him, and have not had much results yet, while I can manipulate another relative just by petitioning spirits with pathworking. I’ve used the “Destroy Defenses” ritual from Gordon Winterfield’s Angels of Wrath book, but a few times I directly had weird dreams from a spirit who I assumed was an earlier ancestor, although that’s it’s not confirmed yet. Please excuse my run-on sentences.
I am mixed race and have been apart of a Palo Mayombe and Vodun House. The Tata was initiated in several traditions. Some practitioners explained to me that just because you’re descended from a particular people it does not mean you’ll have success with a certain system or that those ancestors will particularly like you and help you. I’m okay with that, at least I learned from experience, I just thought they would care about me more since I’m the child, but I suppose there are more forces at play, and personal destinies or whatever. I just want to push the person over onto the other side since in my eyes, he’s at the end of his life, is wasting my elders’ hard earned money, has harmed children and women, and ended the lives of innocent people. I thought that would be enough to justify it. I suppose I need to just relax and not obsess over results.