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Follow-up: My bf and I are getting married at our house this Wednesday. So as per the suggestions here, we incorporated Money Stay With Me and House Blessing herbs into a floor wash, along with Peace Water, Chuparosa, and some other happy marriage stuff. So hopefully, we'll have a physically sturdy ...

I'm in the process of building up the supplies to request to be a student in the course, and doing some practice working in the meantime. This information makes me even more motivated. The alligator foot talisman was fun to make, but the mojo bag was a really interesting work to do. I've had a fair ...

A dollhouse! That's kind of adorable. I've suggested making little replica houses with mirrors inside them to people who wanted to rid their house of ghosts, but not necessarily get rid of the ghost itself. (Some people think ghosts are cute. Ugh. Go figure). Strengthening spell makes sense. But I w...

The consensus in this discussion is that it's not a good idea to attempt to instill negative emotions in a person you love and wish to protect, especially a child, as making an innocent person fearful is by definition a form of harm--clearly not what you're going for. But I wonder if there is a way ...

The dandelion things is genius.

If I were going for zits, I might use a vegetable: a potato maybe--put it in a dark place, let it wither, grow eyes and rot, or any other kind that rots by developing little black spots first. Slather it up with a lot of greasy things not good for skin.

-Piseog

I've noticed that many hoodoo workings involve specific prayers, often psalms. All of the psalms are poems, and many of them are songs. The word "psalm" refers to songs sung to a harp or lyre. Doing magical works brings us to a certain mind state outside of our everyday selves: patterned, rhythmic, ...

Herbal tinctures and tonics are an old tradition in hoodoo - Angel Wine being, I believe, the most famous. They're usually medicines taken by the spoonful -- but then, so was Angostura Bitters, when it began. I don't have any Lucky Mojo links on this subject, unfortunately. Ooooh, nice! Would you h...

Hmmm. If I think about what most concerned the 19th/early 20th century black Protestants who practiced hoodoo, I could imagine that home improvement and animals wouldn't come up much, because poor people mostly rented, in the cities or in rural areas as sharecroppers, and would not have owned many a...

I'm bumping this topic again, if that is permissible, and giving it one more try before it languishes due to lack of further interest. Are there spells within conjure that are specifically meant to strengthen inanimate objects like the wood, brick, or metal in a home (or car, or tractor), or protect...

There are other people on this forum much more experienced in this particular form of magic than I. So any advice I might offer is intuitive. I've been practicing magic for a very long time though, and have almost always gotten the results I wanted. Based on what you've said, If I were in your situa...

Hi everyone, This is a very helpful thread. I also am doing the reading, the shopping, and the practicing getting ready to request to be a student. I also appreciate the clarification of the requirements, because like many here, it's new to me too. What I love is the ways thinking of learning rootwo...

Hi celine_celeste, Sometimes it helps to break down exactly what you want to have happen, as precisely as possible. Do you want to punish him, or to improve communication with him? Force him always to speak the truth, Cause him pain for having lied, mend the relationship and make it better? Or some ...

There is also the Welsh custom of sin eating, which persisted into the 19th century. It might be a somewhat different order of things though, since it seems more like volunteer scapegoating/self-sacrifice than blessing, and involves eating bread instead of words. The sin eater took the sins of a rec...

Interesting. The Egyptian magic connection gives me a different perspective on Ezekiel eating the scroll (3.1-3.3) at the Lord's command and gaining prophecy, which never quite made sense to me. Psalms seem all in all easier to swallow though, given Ezekiel's results.

-Piseog

I found this adorable poem about Mary spreading out her baby's swaddling on a lavender bush: which is not the same as rosemary, but tradition may well vary. I'm curious about the line "spikenard, manger herb, drying rack," since spikenard isn't the same thing at all. Maybe it has more noble associat...

My orders both came exactly a week after I placed them, and all the way across the country too. This is my first time ordering, and just as everybody says, the quality and care are very evident. I'm excited to begin working.

Thanks LM!!

This is the sort of situation where just telling the person to go away, changing the locks when they're out, calling the police, and/or getting a restraining order won't suffice? Those kinds of things tend to be the quickest and most effective solutions if you don't have time for conjure to work, bu...

Thanks, aura! I'm noticing that these very good suggestions seem to aim to improve energy circumstances in general, particularly money energy. Which around here is always useful. My question is somewhat theoretical though. Are there spells in hoodoo which affect the physical condition of inanimate o...

Hi KayJay,

Welcome to the forums. Tell Seattle I said hi. I still miss it sometimes.

-Piseog.

Oh sweet. By fabulous coincidence, I just ordered Money Stay With Me oil for another working, and House Blessing herbs for an overall good scrub floor wash, as it happens. And now, I have an even more specific purpose than just generic house cleansing. The incense is a great idea for maintenance (an...

Glad to help. I hope that plenty of peace and love come to you soon.

-Piseog.

So, the basics of how to have a happy home, and how to clear one's home of negative psychic or spiritual energies are well-documented here. And we keep a spiritually clean house. But physically, like most old houses, the place is a giant maintenance issue. What are some workings to ensure and mainta...

I am definitely going to go take myself a cleansing bath right now. I do not have any sage but do have some holy water I will also incorporate into my cleansing ritual. Yay!!!! Will it then be safe to continue with my honey jar? Im wondering if I should dispose of the sour jar I had created on the ...

Well, there are plenty of old-timey spells specifically to run folks crazy. Somebody might have thrown that into the mix as part of their efforts to break you up. Yipes, yes. Thank you Miss Michaele, for the greater clarity and precision. I knew I hadn't phrased what I said very well. It is certain...

I would not think hoodoo made him crazy. Hoodoo, properly used, is a good set of tools, honed for specific results. In my experience, however, working magic in general amplifies situations in sometimes unpredictable ways. Human situations, especially in matters of the heart, are complex. My strong s...

Miss Michaele thanks, you answered another question I didn't ask, about whether talismans were as private and secret as mojo bags. And Papa_Newt, that's also a really interesting and helpful working; thanks for the reference. Almost a different logic than what I had in mind--mastery and active bring...

Oh, excellent suggestions, thanks so much. Van van oil seems like it would be extremely useful around the house anyway. And bf is from E TX, which is serious gator country, so the connection with his origins is a great anchoring. And Miss Michaele, the King Solomon Wisdom addition is---very insightf...

Hmmm, no response yet. So embarrassing. Did I phrase this question in too abstract a way? I was wanting to ask if I chose the right basic ingredients for a mojo bag (my first attempt) for this particular situation. Which isn't really a situation about gambling or the lottery, but which I started thi...

Thanks everybody! Happy to be here, and learning a lot so far.

I never thought I would think so hard about brick dust. :-) But the discussion is interesting, because it's about the properties of things, and the question of whether the properties are physical, or metaphoric, or both. Which isn't that easy a question for some of us, and not easy with this particu...

Normally, when I feel the need to do a working, it's because something big has happened that can't be dealt with by ordinary means, or that need the extra push or anchor. What made me decide that it was time to begin learning rootworking was a very little thing: last week, while playing a game with ...

Hi everyone, Interesting place here! I've been enjoying reading all the posts, and the very useful information. I am, for lack of better description, a hedge witch, of Irish heritage. I had Craft training in an American family tradition a very long while ago, and have been practicing mostly solitary...