The Most Dangerous Games: The Eternal Love Ritual

Previously: Yeongan Ticket, Or The Spirit Ticket Game.

It’s February, so here’s a ritual game for the romantics in the audience: Amor Eterno, or the Eternal Love Ritual. As you might suspect, this ritual game is intended to summon your eternal love to your side. Just… be warned. Because they might not be who — or, more accurately, what — you think they are.

I’ve only seen this one in a few places, among them the main, primarily English-language Creepypasta Wiki and its Spanish-language counterpart; furthermore, none of the postings are terribly recent — they’re all circa 2011-2012.

[Like what you read? Check out Dangerous Games To Play In The Dark, available from Chronicle Books now!]

The Creepypasta Wiki version was, I believe, posted by the ritual’s originated. Credited to user Yamkastan and published on Aug. 23, 2011, it also appears over at a Blogspot blog associated with the same username, where it was posted just a day earlier on Aug. 22. The Creepypasta Wiki ES version, meanwhile, was uploaded about a year later by a different user under the title “Por Un Amor Eterno,” or “For An Eternal Love.”

All of this is to say that the Amor Eterno/Eternal Love ritual is likely a piece of fiction — but it’s simple enough to perform, if you want to give it a shot.

I wouldn’t recommend it, of course. But, y’know… it’s there. If you’re interested.

As always, play at your own risk.

Players:

• One principal.

Requirements:

• Two candles — black.
• Matches or a lighter — something to set the candles alight.
• A sharp object — sterilized.
• Paper — at least one sheet.
• A writing implement — ink, not graphite.
• A fireproof dish or container.
• A moon phase chart or lunar calendar.
• A timekeeping device.
• Access to a forest.
• Optional but recommended: A flashlight. A fire extinguisher. A first aid kit. Other safety items.

Instructions:

Making The Preparations:

1. First, consult your moon phases chart or lunar calendar and determine when you will play. The game must be played on a moonless night — that is, the night of a new moon. Identify when the next new moon is set to occur. This will be the date on which you will play.
2. Wait until the appointed date. In the meantime, assemble your other supplies and requirements, and locate a suitable forest or wood in which to play.
3. When the correct day arrives, wait until nightfall. Then, travel to the forest or wood in which you intend to play, supplies and requirements in hand.

Entering The Forest:

1. When you arrive at the forest, enter it. Bring your supplies with you.
2. Now: Move fast. You have until shortly before midnight to complete the next four steps. If you do not complete the next four steps until midnight or later, DO NOT PROCEED.
3. Travel through the forest until arrive at a clearing. Step carefully. You may use the optional flashlight to light your way, if you choose.
4. When you arrive at the clearing, search for a tree stump — one with a flat surface. One which has clearly seen the hewing of an axe or a chainsaw. The stump’s existence must be the result of an intentional cut — not of natural decay.
5. Once you have located an appropriate stump, kneel before it, and arrange the candles, matches or lighter, fireproof dish or container, paper, writing implement, and sharp object atop it. If you have brought a fire extinguisher, first aid kit, and/or other safety items, position them within easy reach.
6. If you have used a flashlight to light your way thus far, turn it off and put it away. Do not allow it to remain lit during the remainder of the ritual.
7. Check the time. Is it still before midnight?
   • If it is not: Do not proceed. Gather your supplies. Turn around. Leave the forest. You may try again another time — another new moon — but only if you intend to follow the rules correctly.
   • If it is: Good. Proceed. It is time.

Calling Your Love:

1. At midnight precisely, use the matches or lighter to light the candles. Remain kneeling as you do so. Do not rise. Do not change position.
2. When the candles are lit, identify yourself by name, and then speak aloud your intention: That you come to find love — true, unconditional, and eternal.
3. Remain kneeling. Do not rise. Do not change position.
4. Wait. Look. Listen.
   • If you feel uneasy, or if you experience anything unusual: DO NOT PROCEED. Extinguish the candles. Gather your supplies. Turn around. And leave the forest immediately — the same way you came. Do look back. Do not return.
   • If you feel calm, and all seems as it should be: The forest has chosen to hear your request. You may proceed.
5. Reaffirm your intention by speaking aloud the following words: “Tonight, I sign my unconditional love with my beloved, for all eternity.”
6. Remain kneeling. Do not rise. Do not change position.

7. Using the sharp object, draw blood from your non-dominant hand. Dab it on the piece of paper.
8. Pick up your writing implement and touch its point to the blood you have drawn, mingling together the ink and the blood. Then use the bloodied ink to write your full name on the paper.
9. When you have written your name in blood and ink, take the piece of paper, touch it to the flame of one of the candles, and burn it in the fireproof dish until nothing remains but ash.
10. Remain kneeling. Do not rise. Do not change position.
11. Now: Wait.
12. Wait.
13. Wait.
14. Wait, until you see a figure emerge from the depths of the forest into the clearing in which you have waited all this time.
15. You may leave now, with this figure — with your true, unconditional, and eternal love. Be sure to extinguish the candles, gather your supplies, and leave the forest better than you found it.
16. But be prepared, too, for everything that is yet to come, once you leave the forest.
17. Do you know, truly, what “true, unconditional, and eternal” means?
18. Because if you don’t…
19. …Well. You have the rest of your lives together to find out, don’t you?
20. For better… or for worse.

Additional Notes:

Due to the use of candles and open flames, this game should be considered a FIRE HAZARD. Especially given the setting in which this game is intended to be played, it is NOT RECOMMENDED that you play this game. We are not responsible for anything that may befall you as a result of playing this game.

Due to the drawing of blood, this game should be considered a HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARD. Do not attempt to play without exercising proper health and safety precautions regarding the sterilization of sharp objects, first aid, etc. We are not responsible for anything that may befall you as a result of playing this game.

Concerning Your Beloved:

Once you have called them to your side, they are yours for eternity — and you are theirs.

Do not, at any point, attempt to deceive, mistreat, or cheat on them.

Breakups can be messy at the best of times — but when you’re breaking up with a demon?

Well.

That’s truly something else.

Now, then. I’ll ask again:

…Are you sure you want to try this ritual?

***

Follow The Ghost In My Machine on Bluesky @GhostMachine13.bsky.social, Twitter @GhostMachine13, and Facebook @TheGhostInMyMachine. And for more games, don’t forget to check out Dangerous Games To Play In The Dark, available now from Chronicle Books!

[Photos via brisch27, mobius-w, StockSnap, Photorama/Pixabay]