A Gambling Hand - Love and Gambling

This is an old recipe for a Gambling Hand. It uses one of those old mercury-filled nutmegs that most people advise against trying, these days. I have a suspicion that the purpose of the liquid mercury comes from a bit of wordplay off "quicksilver" (suggesting silver, money, will come quick.) I like to replace it with some Fast Luck oil and silver magnetic sand: I know others who use filed down Mercury dimes for this.

Begin: prepare a round whole nutmeg by drilling a hole in it and filling it with liquid mercury. Then use some strong adhesive tape to seal it, making an X or a cross with two pieces.

For the rest of the bag you need:

a chamois bag
an eagle eye
a shark tooth
a lodestone
magnetic sand
cinnamon

Combine all the items and the nutmeg inside the bag, and sew it shut.

You dress the bag with a mixture of clove oil, cinnamon oil and "green-luck oil." Seven drops are used to feed it. If you lose while carrying this bag, stop a while and let it rest; and don't try to use it during the waning moon.

Something I have been noticing lately is that many formulas that have a reputation for gambling luck also are used for luck in love. Take Jockey Club, Has No Hanna, Fast Luck, Algiers, Black Cat -- even the Swallow's Heart Charm with its romantic traditions, I have seen called for in a gambling hand in The Black and White Magic of Marie Laveau.

Considering why this would be so, I come to a few possibilities: firstly, that the kind of love in question is a "player's" love, where one is just trying to get as many mates as possible and overall the formulas help one to accumulate hits. However, given the use of some of these formulas (particularly Black Cat) in reconciliation workings and in fidelity spells, that seems a bit unlikely.

The next possibility then is that they don't particularly influence gambling or love, but rather Luck in general. The Church of Good Luck talks of influencers on the matter: "The mechanism by which these techniques operate is not known. Perhaps they serve to alter attitude or openness. Maybe they work in small ways on cause and effect to alter results in a larger way.Since the effectiveness of these techniques can be neither proved nor disproved theories are rather useless and practice is the key to results."

Finally, if you follow the practice of deity worship, there's the chance that these formulas particularly appeal to one of those Ochun/Venus sort of entities who rule over both love and money. In fact, it's slightly common in world religions that a single entity rules, or at least influences, both these matters -- Hariti, Kurukulla, Xochiquetzal, etc. In the case of Hathor, she is described as a "goddess of joy" and I suppose, given that love and money are the things most people worry most on, that makes sense.

Planetary Hours and How To Use Them for Magic Spells and Conjure Work

The Planetary Hours are a belief that sections of each day are ruled by certain heavenly bodies, and that these times of day can be utilized by those who understand their secrets to improve success in certain types of ventures. Folks like Jim Haskins and Tarostar have printed slightly incorrect versions of "Venus Hours" which have been popularly repeated: the claim that 2 AM, 9 AM, 4 PM and 11 PM on a Sunday, 6 AM, 1 PM and 8 PM on Monday, etc, are Venus Hours is wrong. This is a problem that goes back to the 18th century at least -- the Petit Albert itself mentions the mistake. The error stems from the notion that planetary hours align to hours on the clock -- they do not. As the Albert puts it: "In order that there be no mistakes about the hours that each planet rules [...] one needs to reckon the first hour from the sunrise, and not by midnight, as some people have erroneously claimed." In other words, the planetary hours are reckoned by a solar clock. T...

The Intranquil Spirit

(EDIT: Up to date information about the Intranquil Sprit can be found in my book The Intranquil Spirit , available on Amazon. This post has some incomplete information which is clarified in the book.) The Intranquility spell is, unfortunately, the first resort of many a rejected lover. In some ways it makes sense -- the more unhappy and forlorn one is about a breakup, the better this idea of making the other partner feel just as much so starts to sound. Unfortunately, this spell is often not well suited to a case. The purpose of the standard Intranquility spell is to have the person be tormented by the spirit until they make contact with you, or whomever the spell is being cast for. This means that if a person is already in good contact with their ex OR if they're one of those people who cannot restrain themselves from initiating contact, then this already is probably not the right spell for that case. If you've had an Intranquility spell cast and you make contac...

Paper-in-Shoe Spells

A popular and very traditional hoodoo spell, often used for any situation where you need to control someone with magic , is the namepaper-in-shoe spell. It's very easy: you write the target's name 3, 7, or 9 times on a paper (depending on intent and who's giving instruction) then fold it up, sometimes after dressing it with oils or powders, then put it in your shoe. This "keeps the person underfoot" or "stomps out the trouble" or "puts pressure on them" or any other number of metaphors. I have had this work several times over the years. In one instance, I was working for a very unpleasant boss, on a short-term job. It was the last day, and I only had about 3 hours of work left on the project; and I wanted him to up my pay for the day since it almost wasn't worth the trip across town for the amount he was paying me, for only 3 hours. He was very reluctant. So I wrote his name 3 times on a 5-dollar bill he'd given me, and dusted it...

Cut and Clear Purification Spell - White Witchcraft to Forget the Past

The time has come. You're over and done with that relationship. It could be a romance, a friendship, a business partnership -- any sort of connection really. But now you're done, and you want all ties severed. This spell helps clear up any lingering energies and makes people let go of past feelings. You need: 1 bottle Jinx Removing salt Lemon verbena leaves Purification oil or Cut and Clear oil Personal or representational items of the person(s) you are removing yourself from (names and photos are easy) Purification incense 4 white candles You will also need to make your own Cut and Clear bath salt. For this you'll need about 1/2 cup epsom salt to which you add 5 drops each lemongrass oil, lemon or melissa oil, and rue or rosemary oil. It's important to make this salt yourself with only oils (no herbs) because we want it to run clean down the drain with no residue left behind to be cleaned up. Many spiritual bath blends contain herbal matter and curio...

13 Herb Bath for Curse Removal

13 Herb Bath for curse removal can be made from from any 13 uncrossing and purification herbs. For example, if I needed to fix a batch of 13 herb bath right now based on what I've got in the house, I could mix bay leaves, rue, mint, rosemary, wood betony, sage, verbena, angelica root, white rose petals, lemongrass, lemon peel, agrimony and arnica, and it would suffice well. Other herbs like hyssop, pine needles, juniper leaves, boldo, eucalyptus leaves, mullein, basil, lavender, or marshmallow leaves would be good to use too. By no means complete, here is a list of just a few herbs said to remove a curse or jinx that you can use to make your own 13 Herbs bath: Agrimony Alkanet Angelica Arnica Basil Bay leaves Black Pepper Blessed Thistle Boldo Cayenne Pepper Chives Eucalyptus Garlic Hyssop John the Conqueror Juniper Lavender Lemon Lemongrass Lime Marshmallow leaves Mint Mullein Onion Pine Rosemary Rue Sage Sandalwood Verbena White Rose Petals ...

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