DEC 2006 APA newsletter Editress Ginger Stirvelli Holiday times…alas time for family to push our buttons, but we all survived the challenge. And we saw 2006 wink away. (Hush, y’all who said good riddance, along with me.) FROM OUR BOOK OF SHADOWS: From Nessa McNelly Banishing charm Who ever (or whatever) you want to banish… either write it down on paper or use a picture if it’s a person.. put the paper or picture between two mirrors facing each other.. seal it completely with duct tape and stick it into the very back of your freezer. Use this spell when doing it. I bind you from troubling me and mine own Your harm will return to where it was sown Your power to hurt it now is withdrawn Into the cold void I now send you BE GONE And best of all no karmic return since you are only sending back to them what was sent to you… Also from our ‘Book of shadows’ sort of…For all of us who grew up on the Claymation Christmas Specials, a tribute to Rankin and Bass’s “A year without Santa Claus,” which featured not only our own Celtic God of Winter the Holly King, AKA Santa Claus, but also the Goddess Mother Nature herself, and Her sons Heat Miser and Snow Miser…With their highlight songs of the movie Heat Miser and Snow Miser: I’m Mr. White Christmas I’m Mr. Cool. I’m Mr. Icicle I’m Mr. 10 below Friends call me Snow Miser Whatever I touch Turns to snow in my clutch! I’m too much He's mister white Christmas He's mister snow He's mister icicle He's mister ten below Friends call me Snow Miser Whatever I touch Turns to snow in my clutch! I’m too much I never wanna know a day That’s over 40 degrees. I’d rather have it 30,20 then 5. “ Let It Freeze!” Friends call me Snow Miser Whatever I touch Turns to snow in my clutch! I’m too much I’m Mr. green Christmas I’m Mr. Sun. I’m Mr. Heat Blister I’m Mr. One Hundred and one They call me Heat Miser Whatever I touch Starts to melt in my clutch. I’m too much! They call me Heat Miser Whatever I touch Starts to melt in my clutch. He's too much I never wanna know a day That’s under 60 degrees. I’d rather have it “80, 90, 100 degrees! “ They call me Heat Miser Whatever I touch Starts to melt in my clutch. I'm too much Too much!