I have been studying the Craft for about eight years, and this is the first time I've ever come across such a situation...

I recently started working with a friend of mine on various methods of divination. Scrying, dowsing, Ouija, automatic writing, tarot, you name it. We've also been working on energy transferrence, but some strange things have been happening.

She's always been a bit on the thin and sickly side, but I'm usually reasonably healthy. Up until these past few months, that is. Now, each of us gets ill from eating heavy or dark-colored foods. Asthma has also gotten worse. I am trying to figure out if our work with divination is somehow affecting out bodies because we can't really think of any other coincidence.

This is my first post here, and I'd really appreciate any input on our situation. In the meantime, I'll be eating white bread and drinking water. Thanks!

Take a close look at the ingredients in what you eat when you get sick. Not many but some people are allergic to garlic. I am unfortunate enough to be one of those people. When I eat garlic by mistake I experience vomiting stomach pain and frequent the bath room. It also makes me burp uncontrollably. People who are allergic to garlic usually become so later in life. Children are not born allergic to garlic but intolerance or allergic reaction happens in some people as they get older and continues to get worse with age. If I eat anything with garlic such as barbecue sauce with garlic or even a pickle with garlic spices I get sick.

It is a funny coincidence that I practice Pranic Vampirism and garlic makes me so ill. I have never heard of anyone in Sang or other Vampiric circles who gets sick by garlic so there is no connection.

Working with spirits is not exactly the safest thing in the world as I am sure you already know. I would reccomend the use of exorcisms after you are finished.

Dark colored foods and drink. Perhaps take a look at the ingredients such as dye#. It is however odd that you should both become sick. Unless one of you is feeling sympathy pains for the other which could explain. Last but not least if I were to eat something with others and we all got sick I would be thinking poison. Food poisoning could be an obvious culprit. However to err on the side of caution do not allow people who can not be trusted to prepare your food.