That sneaky ol' devil!

Satan's been being really sneaky - using Mum to get at me, leaving things lying around for me to find, etc.

Like the "Evil Eye" Umbro top, for example. Turned up at home a couple of months back, and is really cosy, so I've been wearing it under things in order not to display the markings. Realised today that such markings on clothing are the equivalent of the charms witches fix to people's clothing in order to curse them.

In the old days (and probably still in some countries), if you had an argument with someone, you might go and pay a witch/witchdoctor/etc. a fee to curse your adversary. The witch would brew up the appropriate spell or whatever, and this force would be then associated with a charm, or a sign maybe. The unsuspecting victim would have this attached to his clothing, or maybe deceived into accepting it. The force of the curse would then be active on our victim. (This could well be the source of "cursed artefacts" that one hears of occasionally. I've known examples of this myself, and a friend's family had all sorts of problems when his mum came back from a junk shop with a brass Buddha declaring it to be a "good luck charm". But that's another story...)

I'm certainly not saying that all logos are bad, but certainly be on the lookout. Much of the record industry is perpetrated by witches, so there's no reason why they wouldn't use consumer distribution in order to spread curses and spells. It helps to know what kind of symbols to look for (pyramids, stars, zodiac, etc.), but one could also look at the "fruitage" of what the brand and its associations are.