I think I have found a possible lasting solution to what's " Hexing " me.
I was able to track down and locate a " Wandering Exorcist "
Father Damien.
Seems like something bad happened to him at some point in the past and he is currently " undomiciled " and unaffiliated with any peticular order.
Other than his tendency to frequently take a sip of something called " EverClear " from a silver flask ( Maybe to keep his thinking clear as he fights demons? )
he seemed very knowledgeable in " The Hidden Arts " : ( his spooky words, not mine. )
He came prepared.
He had a " Portal " with him made of sacred leather that contained his tools of the trade.
Many religious articles, candles, lengths of cloth and of course holy water.
I fully debriefed him on the situation with my Figs and the words and possible actions of the old Italian woman.
He wasted no time. After taking a rather large long swallow of his " EverClear " he got to work.
The first thing he did was ask me to light candles. I asked him: "is it to ward off evil spirits? he said: " No, there's lot of mosquitoes
here." ( he noticed my Citronella candles.... )
The second thing he did was spit on the spooky headless statue.
He then grabbed a handful of soil from one of my fig trees and threw it onto the statue.
After the spitting and soil throwing he leaned down and whispered something in the area of where the ears would be ( if it had a head )
Reaching deeply into his " Portal " ( which looked like a bag to me.) he removed item, after item, whispering something to each one.
Placing a Cross here, sprinkling some Holy water there, lighting one of his spooky human figure candles there, and giving the
headless statue more spits.
The most incredible thing is the old Italian woman that I believe s the cause of all this " just happened " to walk by as Father Damien
was preforming his service!
She did not slow down or speed up. She just looked at us, looked at what we were doing and started laughing loudly. and I mean
loudly, never thought an 85 year old woman could laugh that loud.
Boy, was I shaken, I assume Father Damien was too because he took another large swallow of his " EverClear ".
After a few more minutes of chant and relic placement, Father Damien said he could do no more at that time.
He said he would have to leave the headless statue there because it was too tainted to remove ( maybe all that spit and soil?)
but would return in a couple of days to do so and to also gauge the "energy " on my patio.
I will post pictures of his handiwork in my next and hopefully last post on this subject.