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

The witch bottle is a very old spell device. Its purpose is to draw in and trap harmful intentions directed at its owner. Folk magic contends that the witch bottle protects against evil spirits and magical attack, and counteracts spells cast by witches. Mother Bombie's Book of Witchcraft contains the following recipe for constructing a witch's bottle: To Make the Witch’s Bottle Which shall cure of all sorceries done against ye You must have a bottle which sealeth with a cork or wooden plug, in which you shall place the following: A quart of your own water shall be taken and boiled with a paring from each toenail, and with some of your hair, for fire will burn away all evils, and as the water reduces so shall your trouble. Put thereto sulfur, XII nails made from iron, and VIII pins of brass. Add also a heart that has been shaped and cut from from leather or cloth, which you shall pierce with one more nail or pin, for that is the heart of the evil doer who m...

I was recently having a less than lovely conversation with a certain fellow practitioner of hoodoo, who seemed to view me merely as some kind of maliciously deliberate competition, and thus she wasn't the most charming of people to speak with. Among other things, she was griping on and on about my Conjure Cookbook . Making some lemonade of this lemon, it has inspired me to give this brief history of the book's composition. When I was a new person to magic -- having fallen into it by a weird accident of timing and irrelevant search engine results -- I wanted to make my own formulas from the start. Similar to how I usually prefer knowing how to cook over going to restaurants, and prefer making my own beauty products to buying them, I wanted to make them. And even back then, when I knew nothing about how to make a good magic formula, I'd still try to make them -- initially from all kinds of stupid ingredients that I'd be embarrassed by these days. Thing was, I never ...

"Excuse me, sir/madame. Could I ask you, were we tortured and then burned at the stake as Agnostic Cathar Heretics by the Spanish Inquisition during intimately linked previous lives in the early 12th century?" "Hey, is that a really long black liner in your pocket or do you carry your own brand of black current all of the time?" "Go out with me or I'll kill us both." "You've stolen my heart away. Luckily, I've got another three or four in the freezer." "You should come home with me. We match." "Wow. That outfit must make a lot of noise in the dryer, huh." "Nice boots, wanna meaningful relationship?" "Tell me, is your heart as cold and black as your eyes?" "What do you think of the principles of Sacred Geometry with respect to Gothic Architecture?" "You're cute. Mind if I use you so I can impress my friends?" "Pardon me, but would you mind if I looked down...

When one performs a candle spell, often there is leftover wax remaining. Some people like to use this wax to detect shapes, which they perceive will relate to the final outcome of the spell. The images or symbols one will see can generally be broken down into four categories, which are: NATURE. Shapes to do with the organic world, such as flowers, mountains, branches, stars, etc. These can be indicative of circumstances that are beyond your power to control, and the general environment in which the spell is cast. PEOPLE. Shapes to do with human beings, such as full-body silhouettes or body parts like hands, ears, mouths and so on. These are said by some to be indicative of the role we, or the spell target, is playing or will play. Others also say that they represent actions which are being taken or will need to be taken. ANIMALS. Shapes that resemble animals found in wax are sometimes said to represent personal qualities that we, or the spell subject, are express...

The original recipe for cologne was reputedly given to St. Elizabeth of Hungary by an angel -- the concoction was known as "Hungary Water" and was used primarily as a medicine, rather than just a mere fragrance. Charles Godfrey Leland remarked that it therefore was appropriate hoodoo practitioners would use such a substance for feeding their conjure bags and other talismans. The term cologne actually comes from a later preparation, Cologne Water (named for the German city.) The original Cologne Water is a spirit-citrus perfume launched in 1709 by Giovanni Maria Farina (1685–1766), an Italian perfume maker from Santa Maria Maggiore Valle Vigezzo, Italy. In 1708, Farina wrote to his brother Jean Baptiste: "I have found a fragrance that reminds me of an Italian spring morning, of mountain daffodils and orange blossoms after the rain". He named his fragrance Cologne Water, in honour of his new hometown. The Original Cologne Water composed by Farina was used on...