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[HailDiscordia]

Hello everyone. Every three months I completely cleans my house and renew the protection on the place. I figured I'd post a few of the tricks I use here both for critique from my elders and betters in hoodoo and to give those with less experience a starting place for their own protection work. Let me start by saying that I believe that protection work is some of the most important work one does, if you don't keep up with your defense, well it just won't be a very good thing.

Now the first thing I do after cleansing the house is to go and dress the rooms with Fiery Wall of Protection. A pinch of the powder in each corner and one in the middle of the floor. The windows get dressed with the oil, again a dab at each corner and another in the middle.

The four corners of the property are nailed down with railroad spikes and I go and urinate on them. The four corners of the house get dressed with more Fiery Wall of Protection.

Along the outside of the house, one on each side theirs a small round mirror to reflect evil, those get brought in and washed and prayed over before going back out.

The front and back doors get dressed same as the windows. The door mats get a powder put under them, its Fiery Wall of Protection mixed with salt and fillings from a sliver dime. I was taught to put that under the door mat to keep evil people from entering.

That's basically it as for what I renew every three months. I do have a couple other things, boxes of Red Devil Lye buried under the house, and a devil pod over the front door, but the pod gets anointed every week.
So yeah that's basically it, sorry for the kinda scatterbrained format, I'm just not very good at typing out things If anyone has any advise on what you think I should or shouldn't be doing please let me know, any questions are welcomed.

I hope this can help the people out their that don't have any protection going to get some up.

[catherineyronwode]

Nice work!

[HailDiscordia]

Thank you ms.cat, coming from you that's a big complement.

[blackforrest]

hi there


what if i live in an apartment. where do i put the nails?

[HailDiscordia]

Well you can nail down a room with square cut nails available from LuckyMojo.

[blackforrest]

yah i got the spikes but i am living in an apartment with concrete floors.

[HailDiscordia]

yah i got the spikes but i am living in an apartment with concrete floors.

Well then you can't do that part can you? Theirs no work around to having concrete floors lol.

[CopperFox]

In much of southern West Virginia (and perhaps elsewhere) a common sedum plant known as "hens and chicks" is kept on the homeplace for protection against lightning, fire and theft. These are pretty, hardy plants -- easy to find and grow, indoors or out. One cares for them much like an aloe or other succulent plant. My take on this has been to write out my petition for protection (you could annoint it accordingly with LM's Fiery Wall of Protection and/or add in some protective herbs such as Blessed Thistle) then bury your petition along with some graveyard dirt and pot up your hens'n'chicks. Viola! Pretty, functional and discreet protection for your home. Note: I like to use dirt from my Dad's and Popaw's (that's hillbilly for grandfather ) graves as they were very protective of me.

The hens'n'chicks, once potted up and empowered, also make wonderful housewarming gifts or can be sent with students off to college. After a season or two, your plant will have "babies" -- these can be kept intact on the original plant or removed and added to a new pot. I would suggest repotting the plants once a year and renewing the spell. With very little care, and the judicious repotting of the "chicks" one can have an ongoing supply of these lovely little garden guardians.

Hope you enjoy! I am new to hoodoo, but my practices for the most part follow very similar traditions -- I'd love to hear how any of you may choose to make use of this Appalachian folk practice and incorporate it into your Rootwork tradition.

[lmlvr]

I have also leaned to rub Protection oil on the door knobs and that you can spray Holy Water all around the doors and the windows ...and I was also told you can put Camphor Squares on each corner of the room.

[NotDorianGray]

Camphor is a cleanser, it doesn't protect. A better option if you have concrete floors is to drive small tacking nails into the corner of the skirting boards.

[zee]

Hi NDG,
Great post as always!
I have cut'n'paste it to my selection of good ideas in my own word doc.
Where do u get the railroad spikes from?
One other thing i do annually is to clean the house in 13 days in the waning phase of the moon and on these days i try to do the 13 herb bath also.In the final stages I mop all floors with ammonia and then the chinese wash etc.
I heard this from another rootworker and it just appealed to me...however i just used to do it once an year...as my spring cleaning ritual..maybe i should do this more often.

Also @ copperfox: where can I get this plant from? I am in Ohio so approx same planting area? It sounds very interesting and i am cultivating my green thumb these days...i also love potted plants!
thx
Zee

[jwmcclin]

LM sells railroad spikes...

I have read that people do annually cleaning with 13 Herb...do you do this at the first of the year or on certain times of the year...seems quite effective...

[NotDorianGray]

How often you'll need to renew your protection and cleanse your home depends on a number of factors:
-how much work you do
-where you live
-who you live with
-what kind of energy you're drawing

Someone who lives in a city with three people and does a lot of work (including revenge work) will need to cleanse/protect more often than someone that lives alone in a sparsely populated area and does very little work, and all of it of a positive nature.

Someone who lives in an area where there is a lot of criminal activity would want stronger protection than someone living in a small community where there is very little crime.

Once a year is fine. More often is fine too. However much you think you need to do.

[HailDiscordia]

Camphor is a cleanser, it doesn't protect. A better option if you have concrete floors is to drive small tacking nails into the corner of the skirting boards.

Actually, setting four pieces of camphor in the corners of the room, sometimes with a silver dime on top, is an old trick for protection and sealing a room. Just saying.

[NotDorianGray]

Wow. I've never come across that one before. I guess that's my something new for the day.

I'm guessing because of the pungent smell, it's use as a protecor would be similar to the practice of placing garlic in windows and doorways to stop bad spirits from entering.

Now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense.

[Azna21]

I just have to say HailDiscordia you are awesome! I just love reading all your posts - they are very informative for rookies such as myself.

Re camphor - I purchased LM's camphor incense & mixed it w/LM dragon blood that I broke down into a powdery substance. It helps to cleanse out my apartment, as well as (I intuitively feel) keep out external influences/vibrations. I also burn it on my front door step so that it travels down the hallways of the floor I live on. The after effects create a lot of peace, cease the slamming of doors and seem to lighten heavy foot traffic.

I love LM's FWP products and always have a FWP candle burning on my altar w/pictures of my nieces and nephews, me and my mom, my brother and sister-in-law surrounding them, and FWP powder sprinkled across our pictures - a small St. Benedict cross (anointed w/LM cast off evil oil) in front of the pictures w/a LM devil's pod & devil's shoe string, and Archangel Michael card. I pray to this candle altar daily, using PSALM 91 & I have many reasons to believe this source of protection is highly effective, not just on me (who wears FWP oil to work everyday as well), but also protects the little ones in my family. For as long as I live, I will always have a FWP altar (God-willing).

I also sprinkle fern leaves across my window seals & keep elder flower hung above my windows for protection. The outside of these areas are sprayed w/a combo mix of LM products including buffalo ammonia diluted in water and protective herbs, w/a dash of peace water added to the mix. So far my little apartment remains as peaceful, protected and blessed as can be.

[moonshadow]

Great advice! Growing up in the south as a child we did a top-to-bottom thorough cleaning of the house, yard, vehicles, etc. Everything got a going thru and a cleaning. Nothing magical there - just good hygene.
But as an adult, with magical interests, I read and learned to "add" more to this by "cleansing and protecting" at the same time or any other time I felt it needed it. Use your magical items, as well as regular around the house items that are also used for magic - according to your own supplies/needs and experiment.

For example I bless/cleanse/protect the yard by blessing the tools ahead of time that I will be working with. No one is the wiser. You can say a little prayer/chant/etc over them also so that as the tool moves it will add its "magic/power" to whatever it is touching (plant, ground, fence, pots, etc.) This way anyone who sees you will only see someone doing yardwork, nothing more.

I also bless/protect the boundaries around my place (live in an apt on groundfloor with carport attached,
small front yard, and a small fenced backyard. I take a large bucket and fill with water that I bless with
prayers/chants - and/or - herbs/oils/etc ... and then I walk around the perimeter sprinkling or pouring
along the edges. As I do, depending on if its day or night, and if there is anyone visibly outside... I pray or chant softly or mentally ... until I am done. Once I had someone ask me what I was doing and I said I was
taking care of the ant problem (or crickets or whatever were in season). Usually no one asks anything. I even did this on a military base I lived on years ago with no problems from anyone.

I also created "guardians" to watch and protect the four corners of my property ... I made gargoyles, named them, gave them personalities, and gave them each a home on one corner of the property. I have used gargoyles in my work many times over the years and we have a good working relationship. You could create any kind of guardian ... even something whimsical, comical, or silly ... (raggedly ann, jester, pound puppies, etc.) This is just one of the things I do. Moonshadow

[Guided09]

The four corners of the property are nailed down with railroad spikes and I go and urinate on them.

Hi HailDiscordia,
I was wondering if urinating into a cup and then pouring the urine on the railroad spikes work as well as urinating on them directly? I live in a neighborhood that won't allow me to. My backyard is fenced and private, but my front yard isn't and I'm constantly watched by neighbors , thus, I was wondering if it would make a difference. Thanks much!

[HailDiscordia]

The four corners of the property are nailed down with railroad spikes and I go and urinate on them.

Hi HailDiscordia,
I was wondering if urinating into a cup and then pouring the urine on the railroad spikes work as well as urinating on them directly? I live in a neighborhood that won't allow me to. My backyard is fenced and private, but my front yard isn't and I'm constantly watched by neighbors , thus, I was wondering if it would make a difference. Thanks much!

Well when I wrote this post I was living on my own out of the city so it wasn't a problem for me. But yeah, doing it from a cup would be fine.

[Guided09]

Thank you!