Radzimir
Radzimir Rituals
I didn't come to this by a calling or a sudden vision. I grew up in it. I do it because I can. People come to me when nothing else helps.
How I learned
I grew up with my grandmother. She was a szeptucha, the woman people went to when someone had put the evil eye on them. The word means “the one who whispers.” To me it was ordinary. I watched, helped, and in time did it myself.
I did my first ritual alone while she was still alive. Someone brought a matter to her, she didn't have the strength, so I stood at the fire in her place. When she died, the work stayed with me. Nobody chose me. I just stayed. From that house I took one rule:
“Wish no one harm. It comes back to you.”
Before me was my grandmother, and before her, her mother. I never knew her, only from stories. In my family this work passed through the women. I'm the first man in that line. Don't ask about a turning point. There wasn't one. Over fifteen years of this work, hundreds of rituals. I don't call it a gift or a mission. It's a trade, like any other.
Radzimir is the name I work under. This portrait does not show a real person. The photos from my rituals are real.
How I work
It starts with your photo and what you write. From them I see what sits on you and for how long, before I light the first candle.
I work alone in the Bieszczady Mountains, in the far southeast of Poland. I start after dusk. Every stage is photographed so you see what happened.
Right after the burning I close it with protection and write the report. Before dawn I bury the ash in the earth, where no one will find it.
Fire cleanses and changes
How it behaves in the burning tells me what I'm dealing with.
Red thread ties and cuts
The color of blood, of dusk and dawn. First it ties the matter, then cuts it.
The earth takes what is dead
What is cut off gets buried. What is buried is forgotten.
Word and intent decide it
Objects do nothing alone, without someone who knows what he says and why.
What I stand by, what I don't promise
It's a trade, not theater. I speak plainly and don't make promises I can't keep.
What I stand by
- ✓Honesty. I'll tell you plainly when you don't need a ritual.
- ✓Discretion. Your matter stays between us. No trace.
- ✓Proof. In the report you see exactly what I did.
- ✓Closure. I close the matter so you can move on.
What I don't promise
- ✕Miracles. I won't tell you it all ends overnight.
- ✕Guarantees. None. I do my part, and I do it right.
- ✕Fear. I don't scare you or add drama for effect.
- ✕Names. I won't point a finger at who is behind it.
Before you write to me
Common questions about me and my work.
Why do you only work from a distance?
Does a ritual work from that far away?
Will you handle it yourself?
Can I write to you before ordering anything?
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