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Post by Terra Rising » Mon Jan 20, 2020 7:27 am

Toiyah2,

I'm not sure how you would have cursed yourself by burning the candle rightside up. The spell would have simply not reversed negative work back to the sender. If you would like to do a cleansing, you could do an Uncrossing bath.

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Re: Can Spells Back-Fire, Blow Back, Reverse On Me, or Harm Me?

Post by Remiy » Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:47 pm

Hello! I’m a beginner witch or a baby witch if you will and I had recently followed a “recipe” for a protection spell jar.

I made it to protect me from evil and harmful energy, however I didn’t notice that the herbs and essentials needed to be “cleansed” and only realized it after I had already sealed the cork in the jar with a white and black candle.

I don’t think it worked and I believe it backfired on me because I’ve been having severe migraines ever since.

I want to know if it is okay if I can open the jar and dispose of the contents, besides the clear quartz and picture I used, I need those, I’d also like to keep the jar.

Also here is a list of the things I used.
Pink salt
Pumpkin spice
Cedar
Nettle leaf
Mugwart
Black pepper
Basil
Rosemary
Bay leafs
Thumbtacks
A picture of me
Clear quarts
And incense smoke named Nag Champa. I added the incense myself and impulsively I also only had Nag Champa on hand ://

If you can critique me or give me advice and let me know if it is okay to unseal the jar for my photo and the clear quartz I’d appreciate it sm

Thank you!!

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Post by catherineyronwode » Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:10 pm

Remiy,

I have no idea what that "recipe" is, but it is not very traditional in the African-American hoodoo tradition. It looks like what i call "throw in everything."

I will comment on the ingredients:

Pink salt -- why pink? just use table salt.
Pumpkin spice -- this is usually used as a simple shortcut or money spells, not protection.
Cedar -- good for protetion of the home.
Nettle leaf -- good for taking off jinxes.
Mugwart -- spelled Mugwort (wort is old English for "root"); generally used to enhance psychic abilities.
Black pepper -- good for protection from evil.
Basil -- good for protecting the home from evil.
Rosemary -- good for strength of women and guarding the home.
Bay leafs -- good for wisdom, a calm mind, invisibility from attack, and protection
Thumbtacks -- used in witch bottles, but this does not fully resemble a witch bottle; see below.
A picture of me -- no reason to put YOURSELF in a bottle with tacks, nails, needles, or pins.
Clear quarts -- healing stone but not traditional in old-school hoodoo.
And incense smoke named Nag Champa. I added the incense myself and impulsively I also only had Nag Champa on hand: -- okay

So it looks to me like whoever gave you this spell had confused a witch bottle with a protection spell. They are similar, but different. For a witch bottle, you would have used sharp items, nails, pins, needles, broken glass or mirrors, broken razor blades, taks, and so forth, plus urine and a hair. In hoodoo, such a bottle made on a kown enemy (with their hair and urine) will destroy them. Such a bottle is usually buried in the fireplace or around the chimney.

Putting your own photo in with tacks is what gave you the headaches. The spell did not "backfire," you just jinxed yourself!

Undo the jar and either burn the contents or throw it into running water. You an save the quartz and the glass jar, but wash them off.

Read this thread from the beginning for a lot of great discussion from experienced practitioners on the topic of how, when or if spells "back-fire" and stick around here and you can learn a lot more authentic spells than that one, if hoodoo is your interest.

Another place to read more on the topic of "back-firing" spells is on this web page i wrote:

IF I CAST SPELLS INCORRECTLY WILL THEY "BACKFIRE" ON ME? by catherine yronwode
http://www.luckymojo.com/spells/real.html#10

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Re: Can Spells Back-Fire, Blow Back, Reverse On Me, or Harm Me?

Post by Rapacia » Thu Oct 01, 2020 4:42 pm

Hello, all.

Gotta question and it’s taken some courage for me to ask because I’m afraid of appearing foolish, but I think it’s a good question and I really wanna know!

Awhile back, I worked a free revenge spell. It’s the first spell that appears on this page: https://www.luckymojo.com/spells/black/ ... pells.html.

On the last day of the working, as I was using the hammer and really venting all my spleen into the blows, I found that the hammer was bouncing and so took hold of the figure with my left hand and as the blows were falling from my right hand, I smashed my left thumb. HARD. The pain was exquisite. However, I didn’t miss a beat – on impulse I tried to bring the pain and injury into the spell, so I whispered, “My sacrifice!” and went on hammering the figure. I finished the working per instructions. As I was walking away from the cemetery, I drew off my left glove – I had been wearing some leather gloves – and boy, I REALLY smashed my thumb. It was bleeding.

It's now several weeks later and my thumb is still black, blue and sore, though it’s getting better every day. In case you’re wondering, I do feel that I’ve had satisfying results from the working.

Any thoughts on what happened to my thumb during a working and/or the way I handled it?

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Post by catherineyronwode » Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:27 am

Rapacia,

Welcome to the lucky mojo forum. I had to find a place to place your post because we do not allow the creation on new threads here, as we have thousands of topics, and we are trying to keep the place orderly.

Okay, so harming yourself while doing a spell is generally an omen that the person against whom you are working is protected or on the defensive in the spiritual realm. You went in thinking magic would be your edge, but the person fought back. Sometimes this happens because the person is a strong fighter, sometimes the protection was placed on the person by a relative, often a mother or grandmother.

Your quick thinking was brilliant -- "My sacrifice" indeed. Good for you.

But this enemy may still have a few tricks on the back burner, so be careful.
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Post by Rapacia » Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:32 am

More on SMASHED THUMB DURING ROOTWORK

Hello, all.

First, I have to say that receiving a reply to my first post from The Woman Herself was thrilling. Thank you, Miss Cat. And your reply was fascinating to me and very educational. Many, many thanks to you and ALL you do. I’ve been following your work for years and your reply was a real treat.

I hope that you might have a little time to read this post as well, which is sort of a sequel to the first. If you’re able to reply, I suspect that you might give me more of the same advice that you did the first time, but I’d still like to hear anything new you might have to add and hope that maybe my experience might be of some interest to you and other forum readers.

This is a rather long post, but I see no way to pare it down. I do intend to submit further posts on other topics in future, but don’t see any of them being this long, so I am giving you mental hugs in advance for your patience.

There was more that happened during that last day of work. In fact, I’m regarding that work as part work, part INCIDENT, as you’ll see.

Alert: run on sentence ahead. So, I finished hammering the figure while my thumb was absolutely killing me, but spent no time whining, just kept going. THEN. As I was digging a hole in which to bury the figure, (near a large interestingly-shaped rock near a tree, but not in actual grave dirt – that I know of), and I apologize in advance for the graphic nature of the experience I convey to you now and you have my leave to laugh if you must, I became aware that I was about to experience explosive diarrhea and there was no time to find a restroom, no time even to respectfully remove myself from the graveyard proper and relieve myself at the edge of the cemetery. I did keep digging for several seconds until I realized that I was about to lose control of my bodily functions in spite of my best efforts. I hope you’ll overlook any possible poor judgment here, taking into consideration the fact that as I was trying to finish this work, I was in considerable pain and trauma from my smashed and bleeding thumb.

So again, as before with the pain and injury, I tried to make the best of this unfortunate situation and BRING IT IN to the work; I thought, I’ll finish this hole, place the figure inside, and then poo into the hole on top of the figure, which though undignified, actually sounded pretty enjoyable as this was a revenge spell, after all. As it happened, I was unable to wait even long enough for that. The situation in my intestinal tract had reached critical mass and I was forced to drop my drawers then and there before the hole was even finished. I won’t go into detail about what a messy horrid episode this was for me or how glad I was that my car, which contained a roll of paper towels, was not TOO far away from the site; suffice it to say that I was deeply grateful that I was the only person in the cemetery, thank Jesus.

So, I took care of myself and finished digging the hole, placing the figure in the deepest part of the hole, then shoveling MY PERSONAL CONCERNS right on top of the figure, then replacing the dirt, tidying up the site and leaving the cemetery. As I drove away it did occur to me that perhaps including my personal concerns with the figure I’d been abusing for nine days was probably not a great idea, but I felt there was no help for it at that point and needed to dress my thumb.

From what I learned from your reply to my last post, I take my explosive diarrhea as another omen that my target is really fighting back and/or is protected in some way. This is one of my first experiments with this type of work and though parts of it went to shite, pardon my English, your explanation of why this can happen is nonetheless fascinating to me.

My target may very well be a strong fighter, I see this as a possibility in her. Also, what you said about protection, typically from a mother or grandmother, is very interesting. My own mother is very close to my brother and I, constantly praying for us and there was a time many years ago when I was on the “periphery” of a black magic operation performed by someone else (not hoodoo and a story for another time) and though my mother was many hundreds of miles away, she called me shortly after this occurred, frantically telling me that she had a sense that I was in danger and wanted to hear my voice.
She’s very tuned in to her children and I have always believed that her prayers protect my brother and I, so it’s not hard for me to believe that my target’s mother may be the same sort of protector. An item which I find of interest is that the target’s mother is full-blooded Nez Perce. Also, the target’s mother lives with her.

Another interesting item – after the working, as I was nursing my thumb with ice, I was talking with my mother. NOT about the working – I talk with NO ONE about that, only with my friends here in the forum. She knows that I enjoy cemeteries – I have for years and go there once in a while to do rubbings and take photos and what not and now to work roots on folks. But I hadn’t been in a cemetery for awhile prior to this working. Again, my mother knew NOTHING about this working. Rootwork is something she would not approve of at all. But out of the blue, she said, “Sometime we should take you to the __ ____ cemetery! You’d like that”. I thought it was interesting that she brought up the fact that she thought I’d enjoy a particular cemetery not knowing that I HAD JUST BEEN TO THIS VERY CEMETERY. This is the level of this woman’s mother-radar.

Question 1: Am I correct in thinking that according to African-American hoodoo reasoning, my mother will still be able to pray for and protect my brother and I when she's no longer in bodily form?

I hope this long post hasn’t been too harrowing. And your reply to my first post was very helpful and I appreciate it very much, truly.

In conclusion – I’ve been devouring these forum pages and learning a lot. What I’ve learned as it applies to my situation is that 1) you’re right – I’d do well to be careful with this particular target and 2) a revenge spell may not be the way to go with this one. I say that not out of fear of spiritual counter-attack but because now that I’ve had time to climb out of my tree of rage I see that another approach might be better. I am truly disgusted with the target, but think that another approach might be wise.

I write now because I’m curious to know if you have any further thoughts on all this.

One last thing: As an adjunct to this “incident”, the target is someone I work with and the target’s second-in-command is someone I DO wish to do some revenge and/or justice work on soon. Since I’m teleworking, I have no access to this person’s personal concerns. So, I found a photo of her online and printed it off as it’s better than nothing. All I had was the image of her head and face. I cut it out of the page I printed and it was about as big as a postage stamp. This is embarrassing, but I’ve misplaced it/lost it. It HAS to be somewhere in my bedroom but I cannot find it anywhere, even after moving furniture. I’m not ready to do the work yet, so don’t yet need the image, but I don’t like that it’s floating around in my bedroom and the fact that I can’t find it. It’s as though it’s vanished into thin air.

My question 2 is this: is there any work that could be done that would “neutralize” this weak personal concern of this target that seems to be in my bedroom but I’m unable to locate? FYI – my bedroom is very orderly, so this isn’t a case of being unable to find something in a pigsty.

Sincerely and with very great respect,

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Post by catherineyronwode » Thu Oct 08, 2020 12:09 am

Rapacia:

1) Belief in a mother's protection after death is not exclusive to hoodoo; it is found in many cultures. Also there are mothers who are incapable of providing such protection, regardless of culture.

2( Well, the Catholics among us ask Saint Anthony to find lost things. I have used it, not being a Catholic, but with aith, and it worked for me. I also have used pendulum dowsing and that worked as well. To neutralize it, you would need to have it in hand.
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Post by Rapacia » Thu Oct 08, 2020 5:38 am

Why would a mother be "incapable of providing such protection"?
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Post by Miss Athena » Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:55 pm

Hello Rapacia,

I believe Miss cat is saying that not every mother is a loving, kind and protective type while they are alive. We wouldn't presume them to acquire such characteristics upon their death.

I hope that makes sense.
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Post by Rapacia » Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:00 pm

Miss Athena:

Thank you. This makes perfect sense, that our basic human psychology, our temperament, does not change that much after we move to a lighter body.

Thank you Miss Athena and thank you, Mama!

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Post by Loveli » Mon Mar 01, 2021 4:36 pm

Wasnt sure where to ask this question...but lately, like the last month or so, ive been feeling like i have been getting bad luck or the opposite of the work im trying to do. I almost feel like not doing any rootwork or candlework because its giving me the opposite affect or bad luck. What do you think it could be?
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Post by RisenRaven » Tue Mar 02, 2021 12:42 am

Hi Loveli,

Sorry to hear you seem to be having a rough time. I recommend this page, and I’m specifically linking you to the section about spells “backfiring.” The short version is hoodoo spells either work or don’t; they don’t backfire. https://www.luckymojo.com/spells/real.html#10

As for your own situation, you may need to consult a rootworker for a reading. (Many people have difficulty reading for themselves.) Here are the readers at AIRR that Lucky Mojo recommends. http://www.readersandrootworkers.org/wi ... ootworkers

You could also read the sections of the boards on cleansing and uncrossing and perhaps undertake those and see if they help, and/or work with Clarity products. https://www.luckymojo.com/clarity.html

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Post by Loveli » Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:17 am

Thanks! Good to know nothing is backfiring.
I did have a reading by one of those rootworkers and it was very positive, so the signs and movement im getting are confusing to me. For years these spells worked on this situation, but now nothing is working. Im hoping it will just take more time than im used to.
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Post by JayDee » Tue Mar 02, 2021 2:49 pm

Hi Loveli,

If I was receiving signs of bad luck that was abnormal to what I normally experience I would read that as a sign to do protection work and cleansing work on yourself. In hoodoo we do not have the concept of backfire or the rule of 3 that others practice. Rather the work happens or it fails. However, if you notice a pattern of issues you may be crossed, and that is effecting your work. Similar to you I also get signs real fast when someone is working on me, a former colleague tried to do a freezer jar on me and I used these steps to break it so my work can be successful.

1. Cleanse the house- my favorite is Chinese floor wash: https://www.luckymojo.com/chinesewash.html
This will eliminate the energy or work in the house.

2. Cleanse your body with a strong uncrossing bath, my favorite is the 13 herb: http://www.herbmagic.com/13-herb-spirit ... -days.html
This removes it from your body and spirit.

3. Protecting you: wear protection and pray protection: Great oil: https://www.luckymojo.com/fierywall.html
If you have a relationship with St Michael this oil works great with his petition. Wear it on your body.

4. Spray your house and body wit Florida water when you experience this issue: https://www.luckymojo.com/floridakanangawater.html
This is know for cleansing spiritually.

Now you should be able to continue your work without issue.

Here is a forum topic related to this work: am-i-crossed-jinxed-hexed-cursed-if-so- ... 7-300.html

I wish you the best and greatest luck!

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Post by Neeks7 » Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:38 pm

Hello,

I have a question....

If you do work on someone ie honey jar and Vigil candles etc for one person is it possible for you to start to get alot of attention from someone else? I have a situation at the moment where all the attention I want my target to be giving me I’m getting from someone else. It’s like my rootwork is working on the wrong person.

It may be because this person is someone that I have been involved with in the past but the timing was just weird. I have seen alot of signs and have had positive readings about the work I have done so I may just be over thinking it but I thought I would ask anyway.

Any knowledge on this would be appreciated.

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Post by JayDee » Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:50 am

Neeks7,

Interesting topic to discuss, this thread is filled with many of them. In my experience with hoodoo rootwork is either it works or it does not. There is no boomerang effect where the spell suddenly does the opposite of what you asked. Now in reversing work the person sends it back but that is different than your question.

This concept is illustrated in the book of Matthew 7:10 when he asks if you ask (God) for a fish, does he give you a snake? Of course not.

Make sure the work you are doing is focused on the person, your intent is clear, you are not mixing up or doing multiple spells at the same time, and mixing your energy.

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Post by Neeks7 » Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:14 am

Hi Jaydee,

Thanks for coming back to me. My intent in my work is very clear. However I am talking to this other person. Initially was just to take my mind of my target and to stop me feeling sorry for myself but I’m wondering if some of my energy has rubbed off on the wrong person.

Like I said previously I have had great readings saying my work is working and I should be patient and maybe it may just be a coincidence but I wanted to ask the question in case someone had any ideas. Thank you for you input.

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Post by catherineyronwode » Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:26 am

Neeks7,

I agree with JayDee -- His quote from the Book of Matthew is SPOT-ON.

If you ask for sweetness from a difficult person or an ex -- let's call him Tom -- God does not suddenly go "oops" and send you sweetness from Harry by mistake. I mean, God knows the difference between Tom and Harry.

However, sometime God might say, "Neek7, i gotta tell ya, sweeheart, Tom is really a shit on wheels and he's going to hell in a handcart and i think he has given his soul over to wicked ways, and in my opinion there is nothing in him that you or i can sweeten at this time because right now he is bitter to the core ... so let me show you a couple of other nice guys, 'cause i hate to see a child of mine crying out for love, and i do so want you to be happy. Look, here's Harry, He's nice. Why don't you give him a try? If he's not your type, just ask again and i'll send another sweet guy your way, okay?"

This is why we call God a father or a mother, according to the nature of our beliefs, culture, customs, and personal gnosis -- for, like Jesus said --

7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
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