20/08/2026
How to Banish an Unwelcome Entity and Reclaim Your Home
People ask me about strange energy in their homes surprisingly often. Usually, it isn’t anything dramatic. A room suddenly feels oppressive, sleep becomes disturbed, an animal refuses to enter a certain area, or there’s the persistent feeling that somebody else is present.
Before assuming the worst, check the ordinary possibilities. Draughts, pipes, mould, faulty electrics and carbon monoxide can all create unsettling experiences. A sensible witch checks the physical world as well as the spiritual one.
If the atmosphere still feels occupied or intrusive, it may be residual energy, a lingering spirit or an unwanted entity. These aren’t necessarily the same thing. Residual energy behaves more like an emotional imprint, while a spirit presence may feel aware and responsive.
This is where people often get cleansing and banishing mixed up. Cleansing removes accumulated energy. Banishing removes a particular presence. Protection seals the space afterwards. If you only cleanse, you may never clearly tell the presence to leave. If you banish without protecting the home afterwards, you leave the boundary vague.
You don’t need to scream, threaten the dead or fill the house with so much smoke that the neighbours call the fire brigade. Calm authority works far better than panic.
Clean the room physically, open a window, then work from the furthest part of the home towards an external door. Use incense, sound, salt water or spoken words to move the energy ahead of you. Tell the presence clearly that it has no permission to remain, attach or return. Once it has gone, close the door, seal the thresholds and fill the home with the energy you actually want there.
Your home belongs to the living people who are loved within it. You decide what may enter, what may stay and what must leave.
The full ritual, including the original banishing words, object cleansing and threshold protection, is here:
https://solitarymorrigan.co.uk/blogs/how-to-banish-an-unwelcome-entity-and-reclaim-your-home