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A couple of days before the event, I received an email from Greg Nelson
describing a ceremony or ritual planned by various modern Wiccan and
pagan groups, and promoted by email lists.
The intent was to place a "Binding Spell" on Osama Bin
Laden. Here is the description:
> Wherever you are, whatever your individual
> tradition may be, please plan to join with
> hundreds of others "of like mind" on the evening
> of Monday, October 15 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time to
> perform a Binding on Osama bin Laden. A Binding is
> a magickal act designed NOT to cause harm to the
> subject, but to render him powerless to act and to
> immobilize him.
"I'm making a prediction of increased coherence from
9pm-9:30pm EST, if you want something formal."
The corresponding period in GMT is 01:00 to 01:30 on the
16th of October 2001. Seconds resolution, medium confidence.
The analysis yields a positive final value, with Chisquare 1835.3 on 1800 df,
and p = 0.276. But the trend is not steady, and instead shows a rather
interesting sequence of ups and downs. I take it as a pleasant
indicator that the "ups" won out over the "downs."
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