True cinnamon is cinnamomum zeylanicum – most cinnamon sold in the US is cinnamomum cassia, but they can both be used interchangeably in magic unless the spell asks for one or both of them specifically. It is an herb considered especially pleasing to the orisha Oshun or Oxum or Ochun, who rules love matters, and who is popularly petitioned by many hoodoo practitioners.
Spell to Bring Back a Lover: Mix powdered cinnamon and sugar. Write out a paper with the target’s name 3 times, and your own name crossed over it 3 times. Sprinkle the cinnamon and sugar over this paper, then set it beneath a burner of Oriental Bouquet incense. Burn this incense over the spiced paper every day for 9 days.
Ochun Attraction Bath Spell: Begin on a Tuesday night. Take five cinnamon sticks, petals from five yellow roses, five drops of Florida Water cologne, five drops of honey, and five drops each from five different colognes (any combination of scents you prefer.) Put them all in a basin with some water, and set it in a place where it will be touched by the first rays of dawn on Wednesday morning. After it has received this light, add the mixture to your bath water, and light a yellow candle in honor of the orisha Ochun (or to honor Our Lady of El Cobre, if you prefer.) Stay in the bath for 30 minutes so the water can soak into your skin. Repeat this bath every Wednesday for a total of five weeks.
Hoodoo Stay At Home Spell: To keep a spouse from leaving or from going out too much, write the names of the couple 9 times each on separate papers, then put the papers together face to face and roll them up into a single tube. Place the paper tube into a bottle and fill it with cinnamon, sugar, honey and holy water. Make sure the bottle is well stoppered, and hide it under the back step or bury it just outside the back of the house.
Bring Back Lover Magic Spell: Take a man’s shoe or woman’s shoe (as suits the gender of the target) and fill it with a name-paper of your target, sugar, honey and cinnamon. Place a pink candle on top of the spice mixture, so it is sticking out of the shoe. At noon each day, speak the target’s name aloud and burn the candle for 1 hour, repeating till they return.
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