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

This spell is one of many available in the The Intranquil Spirit Spellbook for bringing back an ex or a runaway lover. The Intranquil Spirit spell is perhaps the best known of this particular style of coercive magic in North America, but there are many other entities who can assist with such work, both saintly and demonic. The tool used in this prayer is a Cigar, which the petitioner regards as a living spirit as well. Appeals are made to both the cigar and outside spirits. Some people might be amazed that Saints can be called upon for what most modern magicians would call "evil work" but the fact is the entities that fall in the general class of intranquil spirits are a much more neutral than their reputation would lead some people to think. Please note: This Prayer to El Puro is NOT in the public domain, this is my own English translation of the original Spanish prayer. Do not copy this without attribution to Talia Felix.  Prayer to El Puro (The Cigar) ...

Thomas Hardy wrote with the eye of an antiquarian. His Wessex novels are set in a fictionalized version of his native Dorset, but the customs, dialects, and beliefs he transcribed into them were drawn directly from a vanishing rural England he was determined to preserve on paper. He kept folklore notebooks, corresponded with members of the Folklore Society (founded in 1878, the same year Return of the Native was published), and treated peasant superstition not as curiosity but as serious record of how people actually lived. Return of the Native takes place on Egdon Heath, a windswept tract of bracken and barrow-mounds where the modern world feels like a rumor. Among its cast is Susan Nunsuch, a heath-dwelling mother convinced that the striking and rebellious Eustacia Yeobright has overlooked her sickly son — that is, harmed him by malign or envious glance (what other cultures call Evil Eye.) Hardy's account of Susan's response runs to several pages of close working detail: