In Reply to: In regards to Insult... posted by Balimagic on Thursday, 6. March 2008 at 03:36 Bali Time:
...the traditional belief is that 'positive' symbols, letters, or even entire Lontars can be diverted for evil purposes by reversing them.For example, the great powers of the Evil Witch, Calon Arang (Rangda) were acquired by her reading a book of white magic backwards. On several occasions different Balinese contacts of mine have expressed their conviction that Hitler attracted great evil to himself and his country by reversing the Swastika (In Hindu-Buddhist iconography a sign of G-d and prosperity). Don't mean to scare you. But I would repeat my advice to the person in question: Go for something else, please.