Disposal of Ritual Remains Questions and Answers

[theusurper]

i burned the black penis candle and i want to know what i do with the remains.

[Devi Spring]

crossroads, graveyard, or running water

[wraithklewn]

So id like to ask how others that have used gloves in negative works how they dispose of them? i dont really like the idea of leaving something like this in the middle of the crossroads. not a biggie on dumping something of that sort as it doesnt really decompose..animals could eat them..etc.

[starsinthesky7]

Then throw them in the trash or wash them off in ammonia and use them for next time. Please do not get caught up in such minor details. Common sense should be applied in rootwork as well.

[ShadowyEmbrace]

I've done alot of work with candles over the past several weeks now and they are piling up in my room lol. Is there a certain way you are suppose to get rid of them?

[jwmcclin]

Type? Disposal of candle wax is according to the ritual performed. Glass candle can be kept or recycled. Figurine or offeratory candles should be properly disposed read here...http://www.luckymojo.com/layingtricks.html

[ConjureMan]

Ritual disposal is just as important as doing the work itself. It firmly plants the work in the tradition while also sealing the work, or adding that final touch to it. HITAP has a wonderful series of pages on it that you may benefit from, but generally:

At your doorstep/front lawn to draw
At your backyard to keep close to you and tie down,
At a crossroads to disperse, or for all work that needs to be sent on its way
On someone's walkway in order to infect them
Buried in somone's lawn to effect their home,
tossed in a river to send it away,
and buried in graveyard to call upon the spirits to hold something down or kill it.

But this is just generally speaking.

[ShadowyEmbrace]

So after reading that link jwmcclin and thanks I'm guessing since I'm burning them for reconcilliation with my ex I should bury them either under or near my steps or in the yard? I can't actually bury anything under my steps since they are attached to asphult and concrete so near them?

[starsinthesky7]

Put it in a potted plant on your porch or near you doorway. Keep the plant watered

[jwmcclin]

You are correct...because you are drawing that person to you.... ConjureMan lists it perfectly as well.

[SophiaMia]

Hi,

I read through the entire page on disposing ritual remants but I didn't see any topic on how to dispose of the candle case of a novena candle with the label on it. When the candle has burned out, do we just throw the candle away? I know it isn't exactly earth friendly to bury a piece of glass in your yard, or away from it (depending on the intent of the candle spell) so what exactly do we do with it? I have a collection of used glass cases that I am just dying to throw out, but I don't want it to affect my work.

[Maljen]

I think Devi was the one who usually mentions recycling them in your recycling bin if you have one. Although, don't take my word for it as I'm fairly new to all of this.

[starsinthesky7]

Theres a thread on this in the candle section. You are right Maljen either recycle them or throw them away.

[jwmcclin]

I prefer to recycle.

[Devi Spring]

Recycle, please, for the good of the Earth.

[Mama Micki]

Recycle!

[ConjureMan]

They make great vases for flowers.

[faith2008]

I do glass etching and am learning to make my own soy candles so I plan to recycle mine into new candles.

[Maljen]

They make great vases for flowers.

That they do!

[missyd915]

Hi
Apologies if this has been asked before, but im a little unclear on what i should do with the remains of love workings. I know it is preferable to bury on my property but my front and back yard are concrete jungle's and ive toyed with the idea of getting a plant pot to put them in and cover with earth but i feel it's risky that the remains will be discovered by family which would be truly mortifying. Wheras i have good access to crossroads and am near a river which meets the sea, would any of these do for the purpose? I don't want to put energy into work and then get rid of the reains in the wrong way and possibly reduce its effectivness.
Many Thanks

[jwmcclin]

Good point missyd915, read here about disposal http://www.luckymojo.com/layingtricks.html

I have gotten creative and lead a trail from my target's home to mine...

[Mom-of-twins96]

Hello all,

I was wondering if it is ok to bury spell remains that I do for my children in their grandparents backyard?
The kids and I spend a lot of time at their house (since they were born, my mother watched them till they went to school) I go their every morning and the kids are there five days a week (all day during the summer while I work). Their grandparents pick them up from school, they play in the yard and do thier homework there, eat dinner, it is really their second home. If this is not ok and I have to use a potted plant ( I live in a apartment) does it have to have a plant or can it be a pot of dirt? The spells are for things like school, sports etc. Thank you to anyone who responds, your time is greatly appreciated.

[jwmcclin]

You want the remains of positive spells to 'stay with them'; where you live and the pot doesn't have to have a plant in it.

[Darth Rosa]

I know in some traditions, burying or placing offerings at a crossroads is good for deific requests.

Also throwing spell remains in a river is appropriate, especially since it will meet the sea.

Burning in a fire is good too.

But, you could always just follow your intuition.

[Mom-of-twins96]

Thank you

[ConjureMan]

No, burning in fire would not be good. Generally you burn enemy tricks to get rid of them. You burn up name papers to torture people and on some occassions send up prayers by burning them at the end of a vigil, but you don't use fire for remains of a love spell, generally.

This is a *hoodoo* forum. Please use the symbolism and acts found in *hoodoo.* To attract place the remains near your front door. Even places with cement driveways have yards, lawns, or planters near houses. Bury it there.

[AmaSarah]

Every time I light a candle I encircle it with the herbs I used in the candle. Once the candle burns down, I then add those herbs around the candle to my incense burner. It's love work. Is this a mistake?

thanks

[ConjureMan]

Herbs can be burned as incense. Generally burning remains like tossing wax remains, bottles etc are used to end the work.

[Turnsteel]

Also throwing spell remains in a river is appropriate, especially since it will meet the sea.

Mmmm, only if you want to get rid of something, and that is very rarely the goal of love spell work.

[Sparkles]

The candlework (Return to Me working) I started a few months ago came to an end nearly two weeks ago. Out of curiosity as to what it meant, I booked a wax divination with a respected AIRR member. The reading was positive.

I know that to fix this trick and/or seal the results of this spell and keep it working, this should be buried in earth (as per LM website info). Now, I have been thinking about a doll baby for my target for a while now and wanted to know if I could use the wax puddle from this work or should it really be buried ?

Thank you for your time/advice/help.

[jwmcclin]

It should be buried.

[Sparkles]

Thank you!

[sarahstar74]

Hello,
I am new to rootworking and have had an ongoing situation regarding a very long, complicated relationship. I had begun a vinegar jar for a break up (him and a new interest) and a honey jar to sweeten him to me. This relationship has experienced a LOT of changes in the last two months, after 2.5 years of being a sancutary for both of us. I've had an almost embarrassing number of readings since it's A. So weird for us to be such high drama; and B. Major changes just keep happening in a relationship that was pretty much a port in the other storms of life for a long time.

Anyways, more stuff happened last night and I happened to have a reading this morning scheduled on a totally different subject but obviously, it turned to the dramz. Basically, I was on the right track with my work but the reader offered to do the first part of it for me. Now I want to get rid of the stuff I started, sort of to clear the slate.

I live in Arizona so there isn't any running water or I would deal with things out in nature.
Vinegar Jar: Do I open the jar and dump it in the desert? Pour it out in the wash by his place? In my "burial" spot in my backyard? Leave it in a tree? I was probably too emotional to make it work fully but I wouldn't be naive enough to say it's impotent, either.
Honey Jar: As for the honey jar, while I'm going to release it and start anew in a week or so, giving time for the breakup action to get going, I'm not as worried about that one. It has a very pleasant energy and probably was working nicely.
St Martha: I'm going to light a candle to say "thank you for being willing" but I'm gonna hold off on her help until they're broken up. I had only gotten one Tuesday underway but my understanding is that she may not be able to do much just yet, until the other gal is gone, since there's not a real "claim" like he's not my husband or anything.

I was truly prepared to cut and clear on all of this, and I could still but the way the reader explained it to me is that they're gonna break up now or they're gonna break up at the end of the summer. Either way, he's gonna come around and we're gonna have to deal with the attachment and feelings for each other that really only came to light when we each got involved with someone else (I ended mine awhile ago).

NOTE: This was a complicated intimate best friend relationship, not a traditional boyfriend/girlfriend thing; even taking out the physical aspect, we were too intimate to have room for us to be involved with others without this mess happening. Mistakes... were made.

So I may as well git 'er done now while it's all that's going on, rather than having it all come up again later and having it ruin Thanksgiving or Hannukah; or have our unresolved issues affect yet another person if I were to get involved in another relationship soon, the way they are affecting this girl.

Any insight into disposal of low-pulse crappy work in a state with zero running water would be super, and thanks in advance,
~slw

[jwmcclin]

Read about disposing of ritual remains here...http://www.luckymojo.com/layingtricks.html

But never dispose of negative spells on your property, if there is no river about, consider disposal in a graveyard.

[Rainbow95]

I have some candle wax used in a love spell buried in my yard but i might be moving.
what do i do with the remains if i'm not living there anymore? i can't leave them there if it's not my house lol

can i dig them up and rebury them? will that effect anything, like the manifestation of the spell? i don't want all my hard work to be disturbed i'm going to be needing to bury other candle remains soon also....

suggestions and advice please?

thanks!

[Maljen]

I'm curious as to the answer to this too!

[butchcomer]

This is just my opinion and others more experienced may have a different one, so I am curious too, but I never dig up or disturb spell remains. I moved from a different state about 4 years ago, and there were plenty of remains left in the yard I left behind. My feeling is that "home" is where the heart is, so things buried to "keep things close to home" know where you are. When you settle in your new home, you can repeat the spell, to in a sense, "renew" it. If it eases your mind, I would write a prayer to recite as I leave my old home, express your thanks for all the good things that happened there, ask for blessings and that the power and magic from the spells you've done there continue to be alive and working although your travels are now taking you elsewhere. Trust the Universe to hear and understand what you desire. Good luck in your new home, too!

[jwmcclin]

I agree with butchcomer...pray over the remains ... and trust the universe to hear and understand your desires.

[JasmineTalula]

I have remains from a spiritual bath but I have a small bottle of water that Ive kept for a day and a half now and placed in the fridge can I keep this water or do I have to throw it at the cross road or is it too late to throw it away as it has been a day and a half?
I need help in this department. And it wasnt a negativity removal one.

[JasmineTalula]

Reason why this happened was because I litetally had no time to throw it away because I wasnt in my area and had to rush out, so can I keep this water for further use or does it have to be thrown or can some be thrown at the crossroads and some kept.

[JasmineTalula]

Hello I had a spiritual bath and I was unable to dispose of the water that exact night can I still dispose of it a day or 2 days later? Also can you throw some of the water and keep some of the water for futer use?
Thanks.

[starsinthesky7]

you need to get rid of the water as soon as possible, especially if its uncrossing work since you want to complete the work. In addition, for keeping the water I think it would depend on what it is for.

[starsinthesky7]

I think you posted this in another section.

This is a paragraph from this page on bath washes: http://www.luckymojo.com/baths.html
If a bath is intended to draw in good luck, it is common for the conjure to tell the bather to rub the body only in an upward direction after pouring the bath. If the bath is for the removal of evil conditions, the client may be told to bathe by rubbing in a downward direction only. In either case, the used bath water, enhanced by the essence of the bather, may become an ingredient in further spell work, ritually sprinkled, used to wipe away enemy tricks and witchcraft spells, or be added to floor wash.

Furthermore, you want to get rid of the bath water to the East if you want to draw it you ,and the west to rid of it.

[sunnyone]

Hello everyone. I have a picture taped to the outside of a vigil light for positive work. How do you properly dispose of the picture itself? Do you burn it in the candle before it goes out, just dispose of it with the candle, or keep it somewhere safe?

What about if you were burning a "negative" candle? I'm not, but just curious if that would be handled differently. Speaking of negative candlework, is it true that you can dispose of the remains by wrapping it in a paper bag and throwing it away somewhere far from your home?

thanks

[starsinthesky7]

Please read this link, and should answer your questions.
http://www.luckymojo.com/layingtricks.html

[Fernview]

Quick question. I know when we dispose of bathwater or pretty much anything negative at the crossroads, we are to leave and not look back. I was curious as to why we can't look back? Would that in a way be like reabsorbing the bad energy we were trying to remove?

[jwmcclin]

...you can look at that way Fernview...not as much in my opinion as looking back on what you have disposed...i.e., taboo...I cleansed...and am riding myself of negative energies, I am finished with that...therefore I dispose and move on. Its like putting an end to something that wasn't good anyway.

[JasmineTalula]

So could I keep half and place half in the east? and can I pust some in the east at night or does it need to be done at dawn?

[Fernview]

Thank you!

[redheadwitch]

I live on the 4th floor in an urban, high-rise condo building. I have no yard to bury things in, nor can I remove floorboards (tile floors) or cut carpet since I rent. There are some grassy areas below my balcony and behind my building, but that is not exactly my property. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[jwmcclin]

What type of remains? positive or negative http://www.luckymojo.com/layingtricks.html

...and for further examples, the forum posters have discussed this numerous times.

[redheadwitch]

Positive.

Yes, I have read that information, but the instructions call for burying items in your yard. I don't have a yard. I was wondering if I could use the public green space under my balcony, even though it is not technically my property. I have searched for this and haven't found anything. My question is not about the general instructions on disposing of remains, but what I should do in this instance of not having a yard.

[Devi Spring]

You can use the green, or you can use a potted plant.

[redheadwitch]

Thanks! We aren't allowed to have items like that on our balconies, unfortunately. The rules here are very restrictive. One thing about the green space below me is that it is the "dog walk". This could be good because all the little animal spirits frolicking about. But it does mean that various people come and go. Right outside the dogwalk is a lovely fountain with some plantings beside it. I think I'll go down in a bit and look around. As long as it's not a problem that it's four floors beneath me and not right outside my place.

[BewitchingBelle]

As a renter, I will typically limit items that I bury close to my place of residence to remedial items and ingredients that are most likely to be broken down by the elements. If the remedy involves glass or metal , it goes to the crossroads for burial or into running water. Items placed inside or around the property, (horse shoes, indian head pennies etc) for protection can be cleansed and blessed at a new location.

[catherineyronwode]

I have never had a qualm about burying spell remains and moving later. In fact, i don't "get" that there's a problem at all with leaving things where they were buried.

Sometimes i think that folks make all of this way too complicated. It's simple.

Look, hoodoo was developed by African American slaves living primarily in rural areas in the South who were employed for the most part in agricultural work. Any housing given to these enslaved people was absolutely owned by the people who literally owned them, and at any time they could be loaned or leased out or sold into a new locality. Yet regardless of the legal suspension of their right to personal freedom and their right to own land, they taught us to bury spell remains in the front yard, back yard, at the crossroads, at the graveyard, and so forth, according to the nature and intention of the spell -- and these customs remained within hoodoo after Emancipation, and to the present day, even in urban environments.

Now, do you think they would have done it that way if they'd have had to dig up spell remains and move them when Ol' Massa sold them down the river?

A lot of our customs are easier to understand and easier to see clearly if you will take the time to understand what hoodoo really is and where it came from. It's not random magical spell-work -- it's domestic African American folk magic. If you haven't already read it, please check out the introductory "Hoodoo History" page in "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice," which should give you some of the flavour and background of hoodoo:

http://luckymojo.com/hoodoohistory.html

And for more information on deploying spell work and disposing of spell remnants, see the HITAP page called "Laying Tricks and Disposing of Ritual Remains," which is here:

http://luckymojo.com/layingtricks.html

[wanderingknits]

Hello everyone. I've recently found myself in bit of a spot.

One of my dearest, oldest friends is having a real bad time of it so I decide to do a Good Luck candle spell for him. It was really simple: A green candle, a letter he wrote me years ago, and parchment where I wrote down a simple prayer. I have finished the spell, but I've come across a problem...

What do I do with the leftovers? I have the paper, the letter, and the last little bit of candle. It feels wrong to throw it out, but I don't know if I should keep it. He lives on the other side of the country so it's not like I can bury it near his house. My only idea is to bury it someplace that holds a lot of happy memories of him, but I'm not too sure if that'll work.

Does anyone have a better idea?

[Devi Spring]

Keep the letter - it's a memory. Burn the petition with a prayer for it to be lifted to God, then take the ashes and the candle wax remains to a crossroads for disposal.

[Joseph Magnuson]

Great advice, Devi...thank you for that! I like gathering information for myself through others specific situations... Learning from others. Thank you.

-Joseph

[SophiaMia]

Awww Recycle! Why didn't I think of that??? Duh Sophia I like the flower vase idea... but then I'd have to *pick* flowers, I feel weird picking out plants. But I love looking at them!