Get a piece of white cloth. None of that made-from-plastic junk. And, thank the Goddess, you don't have to iron it, so make it cotton. Then cut it into a seven inch square. Yes, seven. Numbers are important to magic. ... Read more of AN HERBAL PROTECTION SPELL at White Magic.caInformational Site Network Informational.ca
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CURIOUS NUMBERS.





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The number 48 has this peculiarity, that if you add 1 to it the result
is a square number (49, the square of 7), and if you add 1 to its half,
you also get a square number (25, the square of 5). Now, there is no
limit to the numbers that have this peculiarity, and it is an
interesting puzzle to find three more of them--the smallest possible
numbers. What are they?


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