Sign of Spiritual Attack
Animals behaving strangely around you
One of the eight signs the Malleus catalogued in 1487. Modern readers recognise it immediately.
Animals behaving strangely around you is recorded as one of the eight signs of spiritual attack in the Malleus Maleficarum (1487). The medieval source describes it; the modern reader will likely recognise it from their own life.
What the Malleus records
Part I, Ch 6Malleus Maleficarum, Part II
The modern context
Pets avoiding certain areas, birds striking windows repeatedly
If you recognise this sign in your life
The tradition's counter-measure: Salt threshold, rue herb bundle, dog iron collar
What to do, in order
- Name what you noticed. Write down, specifically, the pattern that fits this sign in your own life. Date the entry. Vagueness gives the influence cover.
- Apply the counter: Salt threshold, rue herb bundle, dog iron collar.
- Carry a protective stone from the Crystal Directory. For attack signs, the medieval tradition prescribes the carbuncle, the sapphire, or the diamond, depending on the kind of operation suspected.
- Call on Archangel Michael — the Watcher whose office is protection against operations that refuse to leave. The Leonine prayer is the standing tradition.
- Bless the threshold of your home. Salt and iron at the door; holy water if available.
- Repeat for forty days. The medieval and Catholic protective traditions are consistent on this duration.