Unveiling the Shocking Love Spell: Secret Ingredients Exposed! Find Out Why This Controversial Practice is Making Waves in Folk Magic Circles!

As evidenced by the mockery of the Lucky Mojo Forum a while back, the magical method of trapping a lover by feeding (usually) menstrual blood, or sometimes urine, to the target, is one of the more uncouth practices used in folk magic -- many nonbelievers will laugh and shake off mention of dusting items with herbs or burning fixed candles as harmless, but the act of secretly feeding human bodily secretions to another person tends to cross the line into being repulsive (not to mention, frankly, illegal in many places if it's done without consent.)

According to the Lucky Mojo website, in some traditions like African-American hoodoo and Sicilian folk-magic, using menstrual blood in a man's coffee or tea can make him notice you romantically. You don't need to do any special rituals or prayers. You just have to add a little bit of menstrual blood to the drink. The idea is to make the person you like become more aware of you. Urine too is used in love spells that go into coffee or tea, used instead of menstrual blood when the person doing the magic can't use menstrual blood. This might be because they are too young, too old, pregnant, or have other reasons. Sometimes, men can also use urine in a drink to create a strong connection with a woman, although this is not as common.

My first contact with this tradition actually came via Snopes.com where their article on menstrual superstition reports, "(Menstrual blood has been) viewed as a potent ingredient to add to a love potion or to slip directly into something that would be ingested by the lusted-for object of affection. A drop or two secreted in a man's food or drink was said to bind him forever to the woman whose blood it was. (Didn't work, though: history is replete with disappointed maidens who attempted to win themselves adoring husbands through this trick.)"

The trick is probably popular because it's cheap (practically free!), doesn't require any odd ingredients, and the only task of any difficulty is in the actual collecting/deploying the fluids. Plus, as the spell is usually given, it's promised to bind the man to you forever! -- which is usually what people are striving to do. Though yronwode claims on the page linked earlier to have always had good results with this trick, I'm inclined more to agree with Snopes about its effectiveness -- I've met a few people that have used this or been the victims of its use, yet none of these people seem to still be in the relationship they were supposedly obliged to stay in. Most of them didn't use any fancy uncrossing spells or escape spells either; the thing just plain didn't work.

Could it have been the squeamishness of the deployer creating a negative effect on the magical powers? Except in one case of a friend who'd had this done, she was already broken up with the guy before realizing he'd put something on her earlier, indicating it still won't stop a person from leaving. A friend of mine from a Cuban/Santeria background has said that as she was taught, the menstrual blood does produce strong love but only for very a short time, and so these accounts match with what she was told.
Just my opinion of course, based on what I've understood -- but I'd say this is one of the tricks not worth getting involved with. It seems to just annoy the targets and not work very well, and if done without consent can land you in jail.

Paper-in-Shoe Spells

A popular and very traditional hoodoo spell, often used for any situation where you need to control someone with magic , is the namepaper-in-shoe spell. It's very easy: you write the target's name 3, 7, or 9 times on a paper (depending on intent and who's giving instruction) then fold it up, sometimes after dressing it with oils or powders, then put it in your shoe. This "keeps the person underfoot" or "stomps out the trouble" or "puts pressure on them" or any other number of metaphors. I have had this work several times over the years. In one instance, I was working for a very unpleasant boss, on a short-term job. It was the last day, and I only had about 3 hours of work left on the project; and I wanted him to up my pay for the day since it almost wasn't worth the trip across town for the amount he was paying me, for only 3 hours. He was very reluctant. So I wrote his name 3 times on a 5-dollar bill he'd given me, and dusted it...

Ammonia - A Spiritual Cleansing Agent for Magick

Ammonia is a strong cleansing agent in hoodoo magick, both physically and spiritually. In Edwardian times it was advised as an old home remedy for a nerve tonic (see recipe below.) "Household ammonia" or "ammonium hydroxide" is a solution of NH3 in water. Household ammonia ranges in concentration from 5 to 10 weight percent ammonia. The Romans called the ammonium chloride deposits they collected from near the Temple of Amun (Greek Ἄμμων Ammon) in ancient Libya 'sal ammoniacus' (salt of Amun) because of proximity to the nearby temple of Amun, the chief god of ancient Thebes. Salts of ammonia have been known from very early times; thus the term Hammoniacus sal appears in the writings of Pliny, although it is not known whether the term is identical with the more modern sal-ammoniac (ammonium chloride). In the form of sal-ammoniac (nushadir) ammonia was important to the Muslim alchemists as early as the 8th century, first mentioned by the arab chemist...

Spiritual Use of Turpentine in Hoodoo and Witchcraft

I have posted in the past about the use of giving one's bedding a spiritual cleansing from time to time. I recently was laundering my pillows in the same load of laundry as some turpentine-soaked rags, with the result that the pillows emerged from the wash reeking of turpentine. From a magical perspective, this may not be a bad thing. Turpentine is used in old-time hoodoo rituals for purposes such as uncrossing, protection and sometimes as a feed for mojo bags. Its solvent powers and strong odor do indeed suggest a powerful spiritual cleansing agent, and it is still used in some modern day cleaning products on a purely practical level for these same reasons. Old time medicines sometimes included turpentine as a thing to drink, in small doses. A book from the 1850s, The Domestic Medicine Chest , recommends giving it to children in a dose of one teaspoon for killing tapeworm. Relatedly, in old time hoodoo cures for "live things" turpentine might be made into a tea...

Magical Water Recipes - Old Style Hoodoo, Real and Genuine Magic Spells from History

Hoodoo Style Magical Waters for Magic In hoodoo tradition, some of the oldest and most traditional ingredients are natural gathered waters. While cologne and perfume is sometimes classed as a water for conjure purposes, special waters are based on water, sometimes taken from a specific location. They can have additional ingredients added, but the magic is generally held to be in the water itself. They've become a little less common since the rise of commercial hoodoo, perhaps due to manufacturer's tendency to sell any old tap water as "alleged glory water" or whatever it's labeled; and also there is difficulty in shipping liquids like water that aren't inherent in somewhat thicker mixtures like soaps or oils. (For example, a bottle of oil won't evaporate if left out too long.) Here's a list of some traditional hoodoo magical waters and how to make them: Glory Water Glory Water is a recipe I did not include in my Conjure Cookbook , as it's not ...

The Intranquil Spirit

(EDIT: Up to date information about the Intranquil Sprit can be found in my book The Intranquil Spirit , available on Amazon. This post has some incomplete information which is clarified in the book.) The Intranquility spell is, unfortunately, the first resort of many a rejected lover. In some ways it makes sense -- the more unhappy and forlorn one is about a breakup, the better this idea of making the other partner feel just as much so starts to sound. Unfortunately, this spell is often not well suited to a case. The purpose of the standard Intranquility spell is to have the person be tormented by the spirit until they make contact with you, or whomever the spell is being cast for. This means that if a person is already in good contact with their ex OR if they're one of those people who cannot restrain themselves from initiating contact, then this already is probably not the right spell for that case. If you've had an Intranquility spell cast and you make contac...

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