The Spellcaster's Source Hoodoo and Voodoo Witchcraft Blog of Talia Felix

With the modern hoodoo tradition, there's a pre-made formula for near everything.  Some folks accuse this of being done "just to sell products" but note that this is in fact a longer ongoing tradition than modern Wicca. It's no more done "just to sell products" than a cookbook is "just to sell groceries." It is how these spells are performed. Those with very little money can struggle with this fact. Now, it's not to say that using pre-made formulas is the only way to practice, and there are also many old workings that can be done with plain herbs . However, if you live in an urban environment as most people do nowadays, you will probably still have to purchase the herbs, and in many cases it's actually cheaper to just buy the made formula than to buy all the herbal ingredients individually.  For those who really don't like to buy specialty ingredients, I have collected several spells in my book Homemade Hoodoo that can be done using co...

In spellcasting, a person sometimes needs that extra assurance that a spell will be done quickly. A substance called Precipitado (and sometimes Precipitado Rojo or Yellow or White Precipitado) -- considered generally interchangable with another formula called Rush -- is often used for this purpose. As the tendancy for its name to be rendered in Spanish may suggest, it's especially popular in the Latin American countries. It is generally made from hot substaces like cayenne pepper, along with mixtures like gunpowder (to put a 'bang' in it.) I've been very fond of this mixture for a long time. And then -- and then -- I was visiting the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum , more than half of which consists of old bottles of herbs and medicines one would have bought in a 19th century pharmacy -- and then, it all came together! On a shelf was a bottle of an orange substance called Red Precipitate, circa 1890-1930. Now, a pharmacy museum in New Orleans you can bet has its own sectio...