Berserker Spell

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Re: Berserker Spell
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Post # 5
Just for the record...if you want a spell to help you go off and kill people, make it youself.

Why ask others to do the dirty work for you?

If you are incapable of writing your own spell, you have no business looking for one of this magnitude.
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Re: Berserker Spell
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Post # 6
Being in a cast may stop you from being a beserker,,or at least a very mobile one,lol...But it shouldnt stop you from writing a spell
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Re: Berserker Spell
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Post # 7
A cast makes me a double threat.. My mother says so.
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Re: Berserker Spell
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Post # 8
First of all I asked for a spell no one had to actually do it I just asked. Second my cast will only be on for another three weeks. And finally yea pain killers.
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Re: Berserker Spell
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Post # 9
we may kid,but if you really need a spell for what ever reason..Try to summon the emotions you might feel in a situation where you would want that type of spell,and write the spell infused with those emotions.I doubt that your going to get a word for word spell from anyone,simply because most people here (or at least a large part)write their own.
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Re: Berserker Spell
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Post # 10
Berserker spell?

"Modern scholars believe that certain examples of berserker rage to have been induced voluntarily by the consumption of drugs such as the hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria (Howard D. Fabing. "On Going Berserk: A Neurochemical Inquiry." Scientific Monthly. 83 [Nov. 1956] p. 232), or massive quantities of alcohol (Robert Wernick. The Vikings. Alexandria VA: Time-Life Books. 1979. p. 285). While such practices would fit in with ritual usages, other explanations for the berserker's madness have been put forward, including self-induced hysteria, epilepsy, mental illness or genetic flaws (Peter G. Foote and David m. Wilson. the Viking Achievement. London: Sidgewick & Jackson. 1970. p. 285).

The actual fit or madness the berserk experienced was known as berserkergang. This condition is described as follows:

"This fury, which was called berserkergang, occurred not only in the heat of battle, but also during laborious work. Men who were thus seized performed things which otherwise seemed impossible for human power. This condition is said to have begun with shivering, chattering of the teeth, and chill in the body, and then the face swelled and changed its color. With this was connected a great hot-headedness, which at last gave over into a great rage, under which they howled as wild animals, bit the edge of their shields, and cut down everything they met without discriminating bewteen friend or foe. When this condition ceased, a great dulling of the mind and feeble- ness followed, which could last for one or several days" (Fabing, p. 234)."

There ya go. Berserking was drug induced.
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Re: Berserker Spell
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Post # 11
Well Aelwyn that sounds interesting. But just for a laugh the first part sounded like regular alcohol abuse.
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Re: Berserker Spell
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Post # 12
The word berserk came from the words "bear sark" meaning bear coat. It was used to describe those who wore a bear coat and actions they did as they wore them. Many believed that when they wore there bear sark they took on the characteristics of a bear.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/go-berserk.html
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Re: Berserker Spell
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Post # 13
Sounds intrsting alwyen almost text book like.
Well I don't know of a spell there's always hypnoiss, trance work, and like alwyen said drugs. But even a placebo could do what she said
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Re: Berserker Spell
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Post # 14
KTS: Thanks for the info! :)
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