Cast-Off Evil Spell

• Cast-Off Evil bath

• Black candle

• Cast-Off Evil Oil

• Petition Paper

• Black string

• Personal Concerns: Hair

• Eucalyptus

• Lemon Balm

• Agrimony

• Bat Nut

• Pomelo incense

1. All the while, calm yourself and focus your mind. Take that cleansing or Cast-off evil bath. Stroking down the water off your body repeating your petition. Air dry. Collect some of the bath water and fling it against a tree. Say your petition again. Walk away. Do not look back.

2. Write your petition three times. Turn the paper counter-clockwise and write your name/the target's name over it three times. Load the paper with a wad of hair, and the herbs. Say your petition over and over again, while you fold the paper away from you, making a neat little packet. Use the black string to tie up the packet.

3. Anoint the black candle with the Cast-off Evil oil, stroking it away from you. Repeating your petition, not allowing your mind to wander. Set it in the candlestick holder. Light the incense, and smoke the petition packet in it. Sprinkle the herbs around the candle in a ring, going counter-clockwise. Lay your petition packet there. Praying your intention, rub Cast-Off Evil oil on the bat nut and put it on top of the packet.

Keep praying until it feels right, and that the universe has heard your prayer.

4. Once you are done with your spell, (petition packets can be re-used over and over again) dispose of all this in running water. Or burn it in fire and camphor. You do not want this anywhere near your home or you. It is evil after all.

Footnotes:

* The pomelo is a citrus fruit, considered the king of citrus fruits. Citrus things clear the old, break up old conditions making way for the new. For example lemons are used in Cut & Clear spells. In Chinese legend, the pomelo tree is the tree of life. Purification, very appropriate for this spell. (Bear in mind it is a different tree from the tree Buddha sat under.)

* Bat nuts are very hard to come by in the States I hear. They only come about during the lantern festival or "Mid Autumn Festival" or "Mooncake Festival" over here. Only seasonal, these grow under freshwater. In this case, it is not used for protection, but for "scaring off" bad stuff. They taste nice in sweet soup.

* When bringing away something bad using Cast-Off Evil, better root workers will know to burn a white candle to draw in something healthier into the target's life, so that the target will not feel empty. Preferably it should be done at the same time as the Cast-Off Evil spell.

7-11 Holy Oil & Special Oil #20

These two are the bare basics, and must-haves for people first starting out in Hoodoo, be it for a dabbler or a person serious in magic.

With just these two, even a hoodoo root worker should be able to get by with no trouble at all. (As long as no cursing or domination work is involved.)

7-11 Holy oil is a biblical oil, mentioned in Exodus. It is also known as the traditional hoodoo oil "High Altar Oil." Its uses are obvious, that for prayer, devotion and blessings. For God, and for giving thanks to Saints and petitioning them. It has a very gentle resonance, and can be used for healing, tranquility and protection.

Special Oil #20 is mostly as it says on its label. It's a very good all-rounder, but mostly in love, luck and money. Because it is an all-rounder some people think it is weak. No, I assure you not at all. It is very strong, just not precise or specialised like other oils.

I find it difficult to put into words, but it has a very strong vibration or presence. It feels "big", "bulky" with a punch. (I'm abit of an empath, so I can feel it.) The best description I can come up with is that it just feels very powerful, and very lucky. Hence it can be used in protection and power spells, but it works differently from say, Power Oil or Protection Oil, but still getting the job done.

I'm sure you all know what I mean.

Container Spells

Let's talk about something other than the famous honeyjar and glass bottle spells. For container spells it is said the longer you work on it, the more powerful it becomes. Sort of like wine made to age, and the amount of focus and intent it picks up from you the spellcaster and the spirits.

The symbolism of a container spell is that it is a place of ideals created by the conjurer, in which is made to manifest in the real-world. For example a healing container, filled with hyssop, rue and lavender. Putting in personal concerns and sealing the container is putting the person in a place of healing and safety. Likewise with nasty intent, with nasty ingredients (rusty nails, needles broken glass) the victim is put literally into "a world of hurt" by the conjurer.

Of artificial containers (those not found naturally in nature like the egg) I like most of all those made of metal. Tins, cans, boxes. These are light-weight and durable. Very shakable while chanting. They come in every imaginable shape and size, and cry out to be decorated. (You can even write your petition on the outside as a reminder, especially when you have many container spells.) I seem to be irrationally drawn to them for no obvious reason. They just seem charming to me, and they surely will develop scratches and dents in time as they are used.

For these sorts of containers no liquids are used within them. Just the petitions and herbs, powders. Maybe a dash of sugar if things are needed to be sweet. I like capturing the smoke from incense before sealing them.

The sort of container you pick often reflects what sort of spell you want it for. Candy tins for positive work, and chilli sauce bottles for negative work. Medicine tins can be used for healing. For cast-off evil work, go for something like cardboard. (So that you can easily torch it once you are done with it.)

Pictured here are some of my personal container spells.

Egg

So easily accessible. So convenient. Yet so powerful and underrated. Or in some cases people are hesitant about using them because it seems complicated or difficult. Some people say it has to be a fertile egg. Others say it has to be from a black hen. Not all of us can get that, so for the rest of us we can just use commercial eggs right from the supermarket sold in cartons. Like this British Lion brand egg.

People need to take care of themselves more, and not fall into self-neglect. It can be done so with the humble chicken's egg. (Actually other eggs can be used as well, but chicken's eggs are most common.)

Eggs, are symbolic of life, new beginnings, fertility, even a little like the world, it being round and can be also used to represent a person. These things have a strong property of being able to absorb negativity very well. Hence they are most often used in cleansings. Used to rub a persons body, starting from the top of a person's head, with a cross, another cross on the chest, back of the neck, all the time praying your intent, down to the palms of your hands again with a cross and the soles of your feet. After that it can be cracked into a glass of water to be used for egg divination. If a person is suffering from illness or being cursed, the yolk can be splattered with red, have black patches or smell bad.

A trick I know is using eggs to remove bruises. Take an egg and hard boil it, remove its shell. While it is still very hot, roll it over your bruise while praying.

Eggs are powerful for use as container spells. What you do, is shake a raw uncooked egg in its shell to mix its yolk and white. Then, you knock a hole in it and pour out some of its contents to make way for what you are going to put in it. Pour in ground herbs depending on your intent, along with personal concerns and seal it with wax. It is tedious and fiddly to do, but the strong results of the spell will be well worth it.

Write your petition like so...

Continue shaking up the egg and praying to mix well what you have put inside it. Some rootworkers feel that just doing that is enough, others like to light candles around it and pray even more.

Once again, depending on your intent you either go outside and throw it against a tree, or toss it at a busy crossroads. Go home and do not look back.

Steady and Faithful Honeyjar

People think honeyjars are weak. I disagree, they only seem weak because their power works very subtly and slowly. But so steady and long.

The first hoodoo thing I ever did was of a honey jar spell. I would say it was… five long years ago. Maybe because it was my first, it did not seem to work at all. I recall working on it for a month or two. I burnt candles on it daily in the mornings whenever I woke up at roughly the same time. At the time I just used plain olive oil on the candles along with plain and simple herbs for the inside of the jar, no specially made fancy hoodoo condition oils or any of that. I did not use coloured candles either, just plain white paraffin ones like how they used in conjure during the old days.

Then I gave up and kept it away. Six months later when I had forgotten all about it, I started seeing movement and then results. Within a year I saw its full effects, and then another year passed I realised that the effects of this honey jar was quite permanent even though I kept it away.

Although I have always believed in magic and what prayer can do, I sometimes still get amazed at how much a difference and change it can make.

I disposed of the honey jar in a non-hoodoo way though. I emptied out its contents in the middle of a field to let the herbs and honey return to nature via decomposition.

I have learnt, that sometimes even though no candles or incense is burning, magic is still working, unseen and in its mysterious way. Patience is a quality every mage should have.

So, by all means go ahead and do that honey jar to change that undesirable situation. As long as the wish is not humanely and unnaturally impossible, you will be pleasantly surprised at what a seemingly unsuspecting and subtle honey jar can do. (Especially so regarding jars of which you ironically think aren't working or were not done properly.)

Don't forget to thank the spirits of the herbs and the bees for their help. And he who is full of grace our almighty God.

The Power of Incense

Incense has been used all over the world in spiritual practices for thousands of years. Incense first appeared in China during Neolithic times, just when cave men were starting to become "civilised" learning farming, domesticating animals and started using copper tools instead of stone hand axes. That would be over ten thousand years ago.

So here we go. Incense is older than the candle. Hard to say historically whether incense or the Neolithic stone oil lamp came first… But these are very old and ancient things. Almost like holding a piece of the origin of civilisation in one's hands when one uses either of these.

When you burn incense and pray, watch as the smoke rises up into the air and dissolves into the spirit world. Incense is used for purification and for scaring away evil spirits.

Over here, it's not magic, just known as "prayers" at a temple. I think the words prayer and magic is blurred here. Magic is, to make change by force of will, maybe considered an advanced form of prayer for the Gods and spirits to hear it and help.

In Taoism, magic can be done simply by using incense alone. It's akin to hoodoo, using a petition paper.

Huge spiral incense hung from ceilings is like how a vigil candle takes days to burn so does huge spiral coil incense. Some can take as long as nine days to burn, like these ones pictured here. Be careful when visiting such temples, I would not suggest looking upwards it can sting abit when the ash falls onto you.

I guess we could be considered really hardcore about incense here in the Orient. There are so many kinds here. Straight stick without a core. Stick with a thin bamboo core (joss sticks). Ready-made cones. Coil incense (small sized for home use) my personal favourite. Incense disks. In reality I have no idea what they are called in English, but they are set alight altogether much like charcoal disks, but they burn by themselves and smoke alot. (Incense that needs charcoal disks are known as "indirect incense.")

Pictured here is disk incense.

 The whole thing is torched (perhaps over a stove) then placed in a heavy censer, and it smokes a great deal. It can and will burn one's table if the censer is too small or thin. These are used in temples, very seldom used by people at home. If they are used at home, it would be for a special prayer or little ceremony. For example smoking a person's body to scare off an evil spirit. Unlike small coil incense for daily use over here:

 In hoodoo, incense is very effective for use in long-distance work. When the target/client/victim is far away from you or out of reach. Smoke is associated with the soul and spirits see, so it makes perfect sense, it bridges distance. So far for use with hoodoo, I hold container spells over the burning incense while praying my intent, moving my hand in a clockwise or counter clockwise motion depending on my intent.

(Clockwise is for increasing or drawing, counter clockwise is for decreasing or repelling. The symbolism of spirals is such.)

Damn I just love smoke and fire.

Oil Lamp Wicks

Of material there are two kinds, cotton and fibreglass. Fibreglass is more expensive and lasts almost forever and draws the oil up better than cheaper cotton wicks.

The only drawback is that fibreglass is an "unnatural" material, in which some magicians say it might be less powerful than something natural. (Like how some magicians swear by beeswax candles instead of ordinary wax ones.)

Of wick shape, there are also two kinds. The typical and common round sort, and the more unusual flat sort, like that of a tape. "Flat" wicks mostly come in cotton, and these draw up the oil better than ordinary round wicks due to their larger surface area. They are also less likely to get clogged so quickly with impurities. (E.g. Hoodoo condition oils.)

Wick holders are mostly made of thermal glass and can be ritually cleansed and reused once the spell is complete. To remove the soot I just use a metal skewer to scrape with.

Wicks are almost always white. But sometimes if I am lucky I happen to spot coloured wicks. Here is a blue-coloured cotton wick of which I shall be using for healing shortly.

But of all wicks, it is the flat sort that has been capturing my attention the most. Your petition can be sewn right into it with the correct coloured thread. Even better if the target has long hair, the hair can be sewn into words as the petition itself into the flat cotton of the wick with a needle.