What on earth is this? (Found outside my house)

[brooklyn66]

Yesterday came home to find a bit of folded-up paper wedged in a crack in the fence wall bit (pavement goes right past it). Opened it up to find 2x2p coins inside unrecognisable writing - see pic!
What is this?

This is interesting.
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For reference, the hiragana alphabet. Imagine how some of these might come out if they were scribbled quickly without lifting the pen off the paper.

Dh thinks it's a form of Theban (witches alphabet), but with some characters being modified.

Dh asks what the dates are on the coins.

totally agree with you theclaws that this may be south indian script.

It really isn't though.

DH says it's a money charm. It's supposed to be carried about for a few days. Maybe someone dropped it and someone else picked it up.

Is it a spell?

We need the date on the coins to determine whether they're pure copper. If you're not sure, try them with a magnet. They won't stick if they're pure copper. Newer ones have a steel core.

Botanicbaby I thought Kohinoor Tamil.

My SIL with Down Syndrome spends her days scribbling reams like this (quite happily). Sometimes she gifts things to us like coppers wrapped up in her writings. It was my first thought when I saw it!

Coins left like this on Thursdays are indicative of a money spell. Thursday is linked to Jupiter which is linked to wealth a power.

It really looks like tee line shorthand upside down. Teeline doesn't look like pitman -it doesn't have the dots and dashes. It's 15 yrs since I used it so can't be 100% but some of the groups look like familiar words. Problem is some it's v difficult to decipher someone else's shorthand.

There is a spell where you whisper your wishes to two coins and perhaps the written text reinforces someone's wishes?
Am also prepared to be completely flamed for this but could it be a personal Chinese New Year good wishes/ prayer type of thing?

The alternative, which is almost too horrible to contemplate, is that it is a death spell, and these are the coins for the eyes used to pay the ferryman 😬

This is really quite intriguing. (Yep, that's a placemark)

Sorry, kohinoor is a typeface family; I'm still thinking it's a kind of dashed-off Tamil.

You need to sprinkle a circle of salt on the ground around the spell, light four candles at the compass points and then burn some sage or incense and then burn the paper and bury the coins. You could also give the coins to charity which would be better.

What is with all the pagan stuff? What is this? 1993?

The chant to recite is as follows:

'By salt and fire be purified,
No adverse will within thee hide,
May this spell return to thee,
As I do will so mote it be'

(you can buy sage at Tesco)

I'm only doing as dh suggests, I'm not the woo one.

yup TheClaws certainly looks like some kind of version of tamil, taking into account that particular person's hand-writing style.

fair enough if you think its not mooncuppy but whatever it is, it does kinda look like it, from what I can make out anyway...

What is with all the pagan stuff? What is this? 1993?

You mean 1693, surely?

I cannot believe that in 2017 there are people posting earnestly about money spells with copper left on a thursday because of Jupiter or some other such complete TWADDLE.

You need to sprinkle...

You really, really don't.

No, I definitely mean 1993, which is approximately when all this Wiccan stuff was made up.