How does one curse a festival or certain type of activity?

[Liberator]

I want to discourage the eating of dogs for example if possible. Is it possible at all to put a curse on a festival or certain type of celebration so that it brings death, misfortune or any other very unpleasant things whenever done? How would one go about cursing a festival about eating the companion animals of humans(dogs)?

[Maya The Generator]

I want to discourage the eating of dogs for example if possible. Is it possible at all to put a curse on a festival or certain type of celebration so that it brings death, misfortune or any other very unpleasant things whenever done? How would one go about cursing a festival about eating the companion animals of humans(dogs)?

Nahemah here: Sorry, Maya, this pic was way too big, I resized, but it could be a bit bigger than this and be ok, I don't have time this morning, so just picked the small one for now. Soz.

[RoseRed]

That's a cultural issue. People in certain countries may have huge problems with this. People in other countries live that way. Are you really prepared to curse every person who engages in this activity and has for generations? Really?

[Desecrated]

Here is an historical example.

THAT IS ILLEGAL.
I NOR ANYBODY AT THE FORUM ENCOURAGES TO DO THIS. WRITTEN FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE ONLY.

Cut of a horse head.
Put it on a pole in the direction you are cursing.
This drives the land spirits crazy. And all sort of things go wrong.
Perfect method to curse a larger area or group of people.

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.

[Nahemah]

Nidstang.

Totally appropriate for animal cruelty offences, lol. [thumbup]

Horses for courses, more like. [twisted]

Call on the emotional distress of those in the world who are concerned about it, go to the heart of the matter. Put up barriers to it happening again, try to prevent more of it occcuring, rather than halt it in it's tracks once it's started? It is annual, after all and it's a bit late to try and close the gate after the horse has bolted. [sorry, groan. [crazy] ]

Big working, but you could direct energy towards other outcomes than curse effects and joining your voice, money and energy to the political and ethical fight would be a good way to tie the energy in and add a direct link in.

I don't think you can successfully halt it on your own.

Meh to the cultural thing, FGM is cultural too. Naturalistic fallacy applies.

My primary consideration is that this 'festival' fails on ethical slaughter grounds alone, before we take any thing else into account.

Tie the emotion to reason and you have a plan. [wink]

[Liberator]

That's a cultural issue. People in certain countries may have huge problems with this. People in other countries live that way. Are you really prepared to curse every person who engages in this activity and has for generations? Really?

Well if a practice is cruel and objectionable for universal moral and ethical reasons then yes but only to discourage it. I heard about it on news and it being continued despite worldwide objection to it. World pressure over morality will cause them to go the way all other cultures have gone. The current people who celebrate it, many of the animals are killed in a way I do not want to mention because so much as mentioning/seeing it will enrage me more when I think about it. The majority of people worldwide object to this festival they hold and if so maybe this objection could be used if it were possible to curse the festival in order to prevent its celebration.

[Nahemah]

China is becoming a big player on the Global economic stage, Western distaste for this event and widespread protest at it, may be a driving factor in getting it stopped, due to the potential for lost business that may come from it.

Media magick can be powerful. Also: rich Western businessmen and their wives Lurve their pet dogs very much. Ouch, China, ouch.

[RoseRed]

Look at how cows are grown and slaughtered in the States. Many of the Eastern countries still don't have refrigeration and the dog they eat as a staple in their diet are raised an slaughtered as a crop. Horse meat is becoming very popular in Europe, from what I hear. Should we slaughter a horse and make a nidstang to magically prevent the slaughter of horses as food?

All I'm suggesting is to look at this from a much further perspective than the very personal 'a dog is mans best companion' point of view. From some of the documentaries I've seen, the dogs in Korea are treated with more respect than the cows and chickens here. For all I know, they could be full of shit and it's just as awful.

While we're at it should we curse everyone who eats hamburgers and plays baseball (the gloves are cowhide) because the guy down the road has a thing for cows?

[Eremita]

As barbaric as humanity's treatment of animals is and always has been (in every country, including the wealthiest), some cultural context is important. I live with Chinese people, and I asked them one day about the whole cat and dog meat thing. They were actually embarrassed to comment, as they thought as an Australian I would look down on them for admitting to eating these animals. My housemate told me that although most Chinese people no longer eat dogs, historically they have as in China every kind of animal is seen as a potential food source. We have to remember that China's gradual emergence from a state of severe poverty is very recent. If a stray dog comes into your street, they don't look at that as any different than a stray turkey or rabbit. It's dinner.

I've been a vegetarian for many years, and I'm not defending eating dogs, but if we're being honest there is absolutely no difference between eating dogs and eating cows, chickens, pigs or anything else. Personally I think the idea of catching and cooking stray dogs and cats is a great deal less repulsive than the industrialised factory farming of birds and cattle we have in the West.

I think the curse is a fruitless idea.