Horns ward.
The Sign of the Horns has been a sign of power since long before it became a Heavy Metal cliché.
Because horns aren't just for beauty or display.
They're weapons. They ward because they warn. Theirs is the power of protection.
You could call the Horns a mudra. (In Witch we usually just say: hand-sign.) You could call them an invocation. (You know Who I mean.) In Anthropologist, you could call them an apotropaic: a turning away, an averting.
The Horns have been warding off the hostile, the unchancy, the ill-favored, for centuries, if not millennia.
You can mutter “Horns ward [me]” or “Horns protect [me]” if you like. It certainly won't hurt.
But only make the Sign and the Horns will do their work, seen or unseen, spoken or unspoken.
Some might call this a fire-fight-fire scenario: like warding like, the unchancy against the unchancy.
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Yeah, yeah, horns symbolize mostly good things, one of which is feared by many is in super-sexual capabilities that may even survi
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Ever a good averter, to be sure. And it does make the grass grow.
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As a Deaf Pagan, I have to add that not only do they represent the pagan horns, Heavy Metal horns, but in the language of the Amer