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There was a time during my teenage years and briefly in college that I dabbled in Wicca and witchcraft. I have a 3 ring binder of spells and information from that time. How should I properly dispose of it? Should I burn it?
 
Tear up the pages and throw them in the trash or dump them into the recycling bin.

No need to go all dramatic and light a fire – it’s dangerous with paper, even in a fireplace, and there is seriously no need to burn it.

I dabbled in many new age practices over about a decade or more. I had books and papers to get rid of and wondered the same thing as you. I had some very well-catechized Catholics tell me what I just told you.

Be at peace, and give thanks to God for His mercy and grace!
 
Put them in the trash can and throw them away the same as any other junk.
 
Trash is fine.

If you’re worried about someone digging it out of the trash, throw it in the kitchen trash, and dump some sloppy stuff on top of it. 😉
 
There is merit in burning it, ashes to ashes. When
the Ephesians repented of their sorcery books,
they held a BONFIRE in the middle of town! See
Acts 19
 
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There is merit in burning it, ashes to ashes. When
the Ephesians repented of their sorcery books,
they held a BONFIRE in the middle of town! See
Acts 19
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That would not only be incredibly dangerous, it would also be completely illegal in most jurisdictions in the US without a permit and supervision by a local fire department. I doubt such permission would be granted so someone could burn books that go against their religion.

Burning these sorts of things just so we can emulate something we read in scripture (as opposed to something required by our faith) plays on our pride and should be avoided. 😇

Tear them apart or as @midori said dump something goopy on them, and throw them in the trash and move on.
 
Why do you disobey the formula for getting rid of
the “spell” of these books, I would like to know, the
Bible doesn’t have any other option. the
Catechism of the Catholic Church is mute on what
to do See CCC 2117, but as I said, the BEST way to
exorcise these kinds of “educational material” is to
burn them. Note in History, the Nazi’s burned LIBRARY
books and Chairman Mao burned school books!!
 
Thanks for the concern but I live in extremely rural Alabama and there are no rules on that sort of thing out here. I live in bottom land out in the country, I am not in any city limits. Me and all neighbors have burn piles and boxes and limbs are burned on the regular. My neighbors across the road is actually cattle. Lol. I just didn’t know if burning was preferred due to the Satanic nature of the items. Although at the time I thought it was all peace and love and Goddess Earth worship, I have realized it was obviously Satanic.
 
So you’re suggesting that the Nazis and Mao got it right? 🤨

Here’s the paragraph to which you directed us:
2117 All practices of magic or sorcery , by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one’s service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another’s credulity.
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I see no reason to assume that just because the Catechism is silent about what to do with books and other objects that we should assume we are to burn them.

Rather than relying on your own personal opinions and interpretations of scripture, I think I’ll stick with Mother Church.

Thankfully, all such items have been removed from my home. But before I removed them, I did seek out authoritative advice – and not from someone who could quote one instance in scripture to back up their opinion.

Throwing these items into the trash is sufficient. To do more would be to ascribe more power to them than they deserve.
 
Well if you have your heart set on burning them, I guess you have the means and permission to do so. If you’re really concerned, talk with your pastor and get his advice – far better than us strangers on the internet telling you what to do. 😃
 
Simply disposing of it should be enough.
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How do you feel about it?

This is not information that is not easily obtained. There is nothing wrong with just throwing it out. We’re not talking about selling ritual items on eBay, such that someone might make use of them to the user’s detriment. Nobody is going to dig your old notes out of recycling and suddenly develop a fascination with Wicca.

Having said that, you might actually feel that burning it or shredding it would give you a chance to make a tangible renunciation of those activities. Do you think you’d like to do something like that? If you do, that is OK. As another poster pointed out, just choose a way to do it that is safe and doesn’t violate any local codes. (If a little common sense is used, it is possible to burn the contents of a single three-ring binder in most jurisdictions where the fire danger isn’t high.)

A friend went with me once to burn a bunch of letters from an old boyfriend. Sometimes burning a bridge behind you can seem like a suitable way to get rid of something that is significant but not in a way you want to keep around. It gives a time and place to talk about how you feel about this with someone, too, if that’s what you want to do. Or not…you can just pitch them, and that’s that. It is totally up to you.
 
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One thing I will say is that in Ephesians, there wasn’t exactly a waste removal system and they had a lot of books. So burning them was the only really effective way of getting rid of them.

Today we have a waste disposal system. Throwing them,out is sufficient.
 
Burning books was an Imperial Roman juridical thing. (Just like burning people at the stake for high crimes like arson, poisoning, and witchcraft.) That was why the now ex-pagan people burned their books; they were passing judgment on those books, as dangerous to society.

It comes into a lot of pagan stories, because burning was seen as a purifying act. So was dumping stuff into running water or deep water or saltwater, or burying things in the ground, or throwing things down holes or caves.

To a certain extent, all human people do similar things, because we live in a physical world with certain possibilities. If we ever get fast spacecraft, we will probably all enjoy throwing things into the fiery heart of the Sun.

The original poster can do whatever he wants to dispose of this junk; and there is always some satisfaction to be had in “killing it with fire,” just as there is with dumping junk in the trash.
 
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Actually, bookburning was an Roman Republic pagan thing, too. And an ancient Athenian pagan thing.
 
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Some towns have ordinances against burning stuff without permission. There’s the risk of burning more than what you intend to burn.
 
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