Do you swear?

I mean, in different words than most people. I used to get really annoyed at "Oh my Goddess!" that a lot of new Goddess-worshippers seem to take up. It always sounds fake, and it makes no sense, because shouldn't we use in vain the name of the deity we DON'T like, and not the one we do?

Now I understand that it's just a matter of expressing our culture. So, just for fun, can you think of something magical to swear by that can sound completely natural? So far, I've thought up of...

"Nyx and Styx!" Spewable, snappy, and it calls upon some truly powerful images. The Goddess of the night who even Zeus was afraid of, and the river of death. The latter has precedence, too: in the past, there was no oath more sacred than one sworn by the Styx.

"Get me out of this Fey-forsaken place!" I've read recently that Fairyland is actually a redundant, etymological nightmare. The entities were originally Fey, just Fey, not Fairy. In proper English, the place that Fey would live in is Fairy (like nuns live in a nunneRY, or monks live in a monasteRY, and mathematicians get a countRY. Or something.) FairyLAND came with Nordic languages' influence, and maybe later generations will read bedtime stories about Fairylandvenueplace.

Fey, being spirits/caretakers of the natural world, would leave a remarkably sad place in their absence (think: burned-down rainforests, polluted rivers and seas, smoggy air... fey-forsaken.) It's alliterative, too.

"Fewmets" ...dragon droppings. Okay, that doesn't really roll of the tongue, but this is difficult.

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that "taking the name of you god in vain." is Xtian dogma.

I always say "Goddess Bless!"

Nyx and Styx, huh? I LIKE it...gonna use it, iffen you don't mind.
lol.
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Still sounds a bit odd to me that people would TRY to associate a deity they love with obscenity... Goddess Bless is so much better! The world probably needs more blessings than curses (hmm, *rethinks topic...*)
But of course I don't mind it being used, that's what it's for, lol. ^^