One of the stories that didn’t make it in our memoirs:
There are times when an object is possessed not with a spirit from the Otherworld but haunted with the evil actions, intentions and mental projections of humans. Thoughts have power and influence our subconscious—if you can’t image it, it’s difficult to manifest it. One such item was a bone-handled sword. And the bone was human bone with human hair attached to it! The sword belonged to one of our apprentices.
In the early 1990’s he brought it to one of our meetings to get our opinion and our thoughts about it. Soon as we saw it, we knew it was corrupted. But when we held it, the energetic vibration of evilness coursing throughout its handle and blade left no doubt in our minds. There is no external evil, such as the Devil, just the depraved, evil actions of humans. And this bone-slaying sword held many of them.
Both Sher and I spiritually worked on it to transmute the intrinsic vibrational evil contained within the sword and the memories it held of brutal slayings. Shamanic extraction would not work on this sword. There was no evil entity attached to it. Since bones hold memories, the sword was tainted due to its use, the deaths incurred, and the intention of its user. Whoever the person was, he or she was one “sick puppy.”
The next step was to bury it in the Great Mother. Possibly the earth would help remove some of the defilement. We left it in the earth for months. When I dug it up—it was still oozing evilness. The next step: I wrapped it in an old blanket and put it in the back of an old shed that we seldom used.
At the next apprentice meeting I handed it still wrapped in the blanket back to the apprentice who owned it. “It is still evil,” I said. “Sher and I both worked on it, buried in the earth, but it is still defiled.” Continuing on I said, “Don’t touch it, keep it wrapped in the blanket, and take up into the mountains where no one can find it and bury it deep beneath the earth near an evergreen tree.”