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Apotropaic
ap o tro pa ic adj. (ap eh ‘tro pay ick) designed to avert evil, as in “an apotropaic ritual”
Evil is pretty bad. I suppose that if we can possibly avert it, we might as well try. Now we have a word to do it with. I tried to imagine what an apotropaic ritual might look like., and imagined it coming a little late. I wrote the following poem about it:
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