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

In modern hoodoo practice, it's not uncommon to take spiritual baths for purposes like drawing love or money. However, when writing Conjuration: Hoodoo Spells 1800-1920  I noticed that in the oldest spells, baths are only used for cleansing and purification. (Though drawing good luck might be an expected result of the bath, as once the victim was free from evil it could be supposed their good luck would be unlocked.) These older baths were usually herb baths, or made from simple mixtures like salt, boiled pieces of silver and baking or washing soda. On a hunt to find the first commercial hoodoo baths, I found the 7 Holy Spirits bath from the 1944 O&B Catalogue . The advertisement is featured above. Clearly it's some kind of 7 bottle set, meant to be taken every other day. The catalogue says little about the bath recipe, but as it happens, a sort of recipe is given in Lewis de Claremont's Ancient Book of Formulas . This book rarely gives complete conjure recipes, ...