Re-Imprisoning Spells
[August Derleth's Cthulhu Mythos]

Humans were able to use star-stones and spells from the Elder Gods (1) to re-imprison the Cthulhu spawn:

[The Cthulhu spawn were] held down by the power of the blessed stars laid out over the water in the form of one great star, the five points marking the directions of the earth and the secret place beyond the earth from which the things of Evil had first come, the holy ones meanwhile whispering the secret words, the words know only to them, translated by them into this language from the ancient gibberings in which the Elder Gods had given them the potent words. [Depths]

Negotia Perambulanti in Tenebris. .  . . Things walking in the darkness, things not of the earth, things belonging to the damned hosts of evil, get you down into the nameless kingdoms under the seas, get you down and remain, by the power of the five-pointed stars, blessed and sacred, made powerful by the Elder Gods who loathe the evil you work in all being. O, Elder Gods, from your impenetrable fastnesses, look down and confirm, extend your power once more. Go down, you Evil Ones, and remain forever in eternal darkness. Hosts of mad Cthulhu, spawn of unspeakable Hastur, loathsome brood of Yog-Sothoth, get you down into everlasting sleep. Never again shall you rise upon the fair earth. Go, in the name of those Elder Gods, the Old Ones, whom once you sought to displace. Go now, and the power of the five-pointed star shall forever hold you below the face of the earth in the hidden and lost sea kingdoms of the vast unknown! [Depths]

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