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

While I include the basic instructions for this process in my book The Conjure Cookbook , I figured I would give a more detailed -- and illustrated -- version of the homemade soap-making process. Now of course, one can often buy ready-made magical washes, but they are sometimes little more than generic perfume with a lot of colorful dyes added and a pretty label asserting that it's now "Fast Luck Soap" -- and the exact same bar can also be bought as "Road Opener" or "Uncrossing." In some cases the, "washes" have no soap at all and are just colored and scented water.  To avoid this, one can make their own wash (particularly if you have access to a good formulary like Conjure Cookbook and thus know your magical recipes.) An obvious way to do this is by adding essential oils to an unscented soap base -- but what can you do if the recipe requires ingredients that don't come in essential or fragrance oil? Many traditional recipes use t...

In The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Jaynes gives his supposition that man, in early times and too in some situations today, was not 'conscious' which is to say, self-conscious. Decisions were made by the alpha of the group or tribe, which others followed without too much question. As communities widened and there came to be less contact with the leader of the group, this way of thinking gradually was lost; people had to make their own decisions. During this transition, people whose brains were not wired to particularly think for themselves beyond basic animal functions (hunt, eat, sleep, frolic, etc.) would occasionally get something in their heads which most people nowadays would recognize to be an "idea." In these simple societies such a thing wasn't common, and it was not immediately recognized to be one's own thought. Thus -- this command that has suddenly entered one's brain must have been a command from God . Readi...

Many times, usually for cases of love gone badly, folks request communication spells to make someone with whom they are no longer in touch call them. Most of the time these people don't want to initiate the contact themselves for whatever reason. Some spells reputed to bring about communication are: *Put a paper with your target's name written 9 times into a container of whiskey along with some black candle tobacco, and let it sit for 7 days. When the mixture is ready, spray it on whatever you want to hear from the person through -- your phone, your mailbox, your computer, etc. *Write in cursive your name and the name of the target in a circle, without lifting your pen, such that the two names are joined together. (Go back and finish any crossed t's or dotted i's afterwards.) Jam two pins through the circle, such that the pins make an X shape crossing each other. Keep this paper by your computer, phone or whatever. *Keep a paper in your shoe with your targets name ...