Obviously there are many ways to protect your house from evil, but I found the one my grandmother showed me to be the most efficient one, quite apart from being useful, beautiful and easy to keep. I am talking of course of the witch-hazel, corylus avellana.
Whenever somebody complained about bad influences, bad feelings or persistent unexplainable illnesses, my grandmother went to their house with a small witch-hazel plant and planted it there. She adhered to strict principles on how this should be done which I have followed as well whenever I saw the need for doing it myself.
Witch-hazel is luckily a very modest plant, it will grow almost anywhere as long as it gets at least some sunshine. It is very hardy, can be cut back quite ruthlessly if necessary and will be back again as fresh as ever. Apart from that, the bushes are quite beautiful year round. If you are too lazy to pick the nuts, squirrels will be your best customers.
The plant should be planted on the side of the house where the main entrance is, meaning where most people enter. If most people get in by the kitchen door, then that's the place to plant it and not where the mailman rings. It shouldn't be planted too near to the house or to the door, but it should be well visible when the door is opened. If there is a paved path to the door, it should be planted to the left of it coming to the house, rather than to right. If there is a garden wall, it should not be placed in a corner of it.
At first I was mystified by all this, but she explained it all in her own good time.
A house is a closed building with walls, floors, and a roof. If it would remain closed, almost no energy would flow in or out of the building. The place where energy flow is not only permitted, but encouraged, is the main entrance where people are made welcome and bid in. That is also the entrance for all energies coming into the house. As witch-hazel absorbs bad energies, it must do it where the flow is.
It must be visible from the door, so that people in the house know it is there. Basic psychology I suppose. And as the plant is a highly efficient energy collector, it should be planted at some distance from the walls to allow it to get rid of these energies without transferring them to the walls. Once in the walls, the energies would go rampant all over the place distributed to every nook and cranny by water pipes and cables for electricity, telephone, and television.
The witch-hazel is a hard working plant which is satisfied with very little. This hard working attitude is also an energy transmitted by the bush. As my grandmother was of the opinion that the body takes up energy from the right hand side and disperses it on the left, she planted the bushes so that the working attitude could be taken in on leaving the house.
If the bush is planted in the corner of the garden wall, it is hindered on two sides to let go of surplus energies, and it therefore starts to shout, as she said, like a radio turned on high volume in the other direction where there is no such hindrance.
There are further placements for hazel plants, if you have open water running in or near your garden; you then might want to plant one between house and water, to break the reflections. The same principle would go for a car park, where many cars mirror reflections from their roofs and windows.
