A Sorcerous Defence Against Malevolent Spirits, discussion on sorcerous self defence Options

ok, so I became intrigued by another post and have been unable to shake the idea of starting this thread mainly because I wish to see what others believe would be a good defence against malevolent spirits should you find yourself being thrown in a position that rituals are unable to be performed.

Dealing with spirits that you have "called" or otherwise encouraged contact would/could be a very different set of responses then to spirits that have become overvly interested seemingly without cause.
I'm not entirely clear which your referring to....?

If its the former, banishings, bindings, threats or simply coming to bear on the linking tools (like sigils, seals or some kind of spirit-charged item)... this might even come down to destroying said linkage.
You could also purify yourself (censing, banishing, fastings...) and your surroundings. You might want to consider calling in greater forces, such as invocations of divinities (I like Ganesha personally), or some ruling power of the spirit (sephoratic archangels, elemental kings/angels, demon kings....) Salt baths can be good temporary, short-term method for giving yourself a moment of breathing room.

If its the latter.... banishings, purifications, consciousness raising, blessings, psychotherapy all come to mind. Additionally, calling on greater forces are often useful.
Or you can take the aggressive approach and evoke it to presense, and deal with the bugger until you either can bind it, send it away or die trying. (guess thats not really that funny . . . but)

If its an emergency, the stronger the banishings you have the better. There are some herb that stink so bad.....
Salt water, or better yet "holy" water. Hell . . . even banging pot-and-pans and copper wire hoops or quartz-point poking can piss'em off nicely.