A ring of salt, a spiritual pyramid, the curse is
gone
Published
on 18/03/2005
Is it working? Charlie Kennedy at the cursing
stone yesterday
By Kat Ferguson
IF only she’d come earlier – we’d have escaped foot
and mouth, floods and the fire at Rathbones.
Dressed in purple shoes, an orange shawl and hat, and
black leather trousers, Charlie Kennedy says she has
cleansed the cursing stone of its malevolent ways.
The self-proclaimed psychic, astrologer and healer
travelled to Carlisle yesterday to exorcise the stone.
Armed only with her turquoise pendant and a box of
table salt, she and her “spiritual guides” released
the stone’s negative energy and dispersed it in a
force field of light.
Thankfully, she is “very confident” we will have no
more problems from the troublesome rock.
The exorcism was not easy. First, Charlie had to draw
a circle of salt around the stone to protect
passers-by from its negative energy.
The circle did not, however, seem to protect Charlie
from the heckling of Leslie Irving, one of the stone’s
most vocal opponents. Witchcraft, he said, was not the
answer.
Unperturbed, she walked around the stone, asking her
spiritual guides to release the bad energy that has
been causing Carlisle’s recent problems.
The guides apparently created a spiritual pyramid and
channelled the negative energy through it and into a
light force above.
She made one last check that all the negative energy
was gone before suggesting ways of making sure such
shadows never darken our doors again.
A piece of rose quartz could help, she said, and we
should try shining a light on the blessing that sits
behind the stone.
Carlisle, it seems has been saved.
“This stone has been sending out negative energy
straight to the castle, which is, or was, the power
structure of the city,” Charlie explained.
“All curses encourage negative thoughts. If you say a
positive affirmation every morning that you will be
grounded and protected, you will feel grounded and
protected. Curses, on the other hand, promote fear.
“I don’t think the stone itself is at fault. It’s the
words of the curse – negative energy was stuck to the
surface of the stone.
“Without the negative energy, it’s a nice piece of
art.”
The full ceremony was filmed for the Discovery
Channel. Carlisle’s brush with the paranormal is
expected to be featured alongside voodoo and
witchcraft in New Orleans this autumn.
The stone is inscribed with a 16th Century curse on
the Border Reivers from the then-Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Glasgow.
Carlisle Liberal Democrat Jim Tootle called for the
stone’s destruction or removal, the Bishop of Carlisle
said the curse is “ungodly”, but councillors voted to
keep the stone.
But how do we know the stone ceremony has worked? “It
has,” Charlie said. “I knew my guides wouldn’t even
agree to let me come if they didn’t think they could
do it.”
And with that, we can all breathe a sigh of relief.
End of story?
