Write the person’s name and behavior on a piece of paper and bind it with black thread and thirteen knots. One banishing technique I like – but which must be done with finely focused aim and a strong intention to harm none – is to put the ice saint right where he or she belongs: in the freezer. Sometimes they’re thieves who steal our stuff or our work. Sometimes they’re psychic vampires who steal our energy. They’re bigger control freaks than we are and insist that a household chore or a ritual has to be performed “their way or the highway.” Sometimes they threaten physical harm. They’re self-righteous, hypocritical, and extremely annoying. Sometimes we find ice saints in our lives, people whose presence chills our blood and infects our happiness with frostbite. Farmers learned early on not to set plants out until after the ice saints had come and gone. They’d kill a budding tree or a field of sprouting wheat the minute they touched it with their frosty fingers or blew on it with their freezing breath.
Along with Cold Sophie, these “strong lords” are pagan figures who were turned into Christian saints were said to bring cold weather during planting season. The “ice saints,” Mamertius, Pancratius, and Servatus, were celebrated on May 11.
In southern Germany, the eisbeilige – the iceman days – is the brief cooling trend in May.
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