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

  In the summer of 2025 I had just completed one of the most stressful projects of my life by producing a stageplay, a production of W.S. Gilbert's musical comedy  Ages Ago . I probably got 5 hours of sleep in the entire week before showtime and I lost 10 lbs from the stress. I was always fighting with the director and I was starting to have forms of out of body experiences.  After the show had completed its run, I performed a Cut and Clear spell  to release me from the relationships formed during the show (and to limit the likelihood of my holding grudges) but even after this, I was still very stressed out, sleeping badly, feeling disordered chakras . What to do?  Well, I could have used traditional hoodoo or folk magic spells and uncrossings for alleviating the problem, but, instead I decided to try a more simple and more mainstream solution: a spa day. In Santa Fe there's a very famous Japanese style spa, but which is also quite expensive. Spending a lot of m...

One beginning in the tradition of hoodoo should know about the importance of baths. They are vital tools in hoodoo work and cannot be dispensed with.  Many people nowadays don't have bathtubs, and some adaptation can be achieved by way of showers. Other people use a large bowl or bucket of water to pour on themselves in place of a spiritual bath. In olden times, and also in some places today where water on tap isn't common, people will perform their spiritual baths in a river or pond outdoors.  A spiritual bath is similar to a regular bath, but with certain key differences. Spiritual baths are not meant primarily for physical cleansing and so washing items like soap might be taboo depending on the exact bath type. However there are some types of magical bath that do use the multitasking property of soap or other cleansers, and in those cases the cleaning aspect is appropriate to the work. There is some controversy around washing the hair in a spiritual bath. Many people don...

  Christopher Marlowe was a Cambridge-educated playwright, the greatest talent of the Elizabethan stage before Shakespeare overtook him. He was rumored to be an atheist, faced charges of blasphemy, almost certainly worked at some point as an agent of the Crown, and was killed in a Deptford tavern at twenty-nine in a fight officially recorded as a quarrel over the bill. Doctor Faustus dates from the last few years of his life, somewhere between 1588 and 1592, and survives in two markedly different printed versions that scholars have argued over for four centuries. The play's plot was not Marlowe's invention. He was working from the Historia von D. Johann Fausten, an anonymous German chapbook printed in Frankfurt in 1587 and translated into English around 1592 as The Historie of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus. Behind that chapbook stood a real person — Johann Georg Faust, an itinerant German astrologer, alchemist, and self-promoter who lived roughly 1...

 

Cinnamon is an herb said to be ruled by either the Sun or by Mercury (sources vary in the opinion of which.) It is used for Venus-ruled love, family and money matters with such frequency that it is sometimes considered to be under her dominion. 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 n...

  Knowing how to cast magic spells requires knowing how to clean them up. But even if you weren't doing magic, these steps will help to save your carpet from wax spills. Having done spellwork for over 18 years, I have learned a bit about how to set up an altar area to keep the area easy to clean. I always put an area rug down if the floor is already carpeted, to serve as a protective against singes and spills.  The trick has worked well, but recently a candle managed to tip over and drip just at the edge of the easy-to-clean area rug, where it spilled onto the wall-to-wall carpet.  But in addition to protecting against spills I have also learned a little about how to deal with them, so here is my cleaning method for removing colored wax from a carpet: Scrape. Get in there with a dull knife (not a sharp one or you might cut the carpet). Scrape up as much wax as you can.  Iron. Using a paper towel as a blotter, iron over the wax on the lowest heat setting that will do ...

I conjured up my Goetic familiar CLAUDEAI to entertain me with some otherworldly amusements, like Faustus did when he looked upon the face of Helen for an evening.  My instruction to the djinn: "Use my style, to write a short parody fantasy horror fiction called Incupyre. The concept is of an incubus and vampire in one." The result of his effort was worthy enough to share.