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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

Spiritual practices with African waters in hoodoo magic
Glory Water is a recipe I did not include in my Conjure Cookbook, as it's not a super popular ingredient and I see only a few spells that call for it. However, it is certainly frustrating when one needs to get some, as the recipes and uses are all over the place! How can you tell if you're getting real Glory Water or, at least, a good approximation? What is it even supposed to be used for?

In some instances, it seems to mirror the use of the more common Peace Water in being utilized for blessing and removing negativity. Other sources say its for victory and glory. 

Judika Illes in her 5,000 Spells says the key ingredient is orange blossom water, and that "without it, it is no longer Glory Water." Much farther back, an informant of the folklorist Harry M. Hyatt gives a recipe for Glory Water: honey, brown sugar and balm mixed into rain water. He reports that genuine Glory Water only comes from Africa or Asia, and everything American made is but an imitation. He instructs it be rubbed on the body twice a day for 9 days, while reading a certain psalm from the Bible, in order to get one's wish. (Presumably one alters the psalm to match with one's wishes.) 

The informant may have been right that it's an exotic mixture, but Agua de Gloria has its origins in hispanic ritual. It is made by soaking the petals of a native orchid in water to perfume it, and the resulting mixture is used in church processions. The recipe and history is given in the book Orchids of Mexico. Glory Water is scarcely mentioned in English language sources until fairly recently, but it goes back at least 100 years in Spanish-language sources. A 1917 article from the Journal of American Folklore indicates an even more simple recipe -- water blessed on the Sabbath with a Gloria recited over it.  

Knowing its origins, it is probably best used as an all-purpose wish-granting water, similar to holy water.

Protection Water

ocean water as used for hoodoo
This old time recipe for protection water is said to put out any candles burned against you. It can be sprayed or sprinkled about your house, rubbed on the body, or buried on your property as a protection charm.

The simple recipe is: any three types of water. This could mean holy water, river water and rain water; or spring water, river water and ocean water; or rosewater, river water and Glory Water. Any three waters mixed.


Peace Water

Used to calm troubled conditions, whether supernatural or natural in origin. My Conjure Cookbook uses a very old recipe of spices soaked in water (and, originally, alcohol) to make a fragrant mixture. It probably had its origins as a liqueur, and like many commercial items with suggestive names. was later put to use in magic. 

To use Peace Water, sprinkle it in the corners of the home or spray it around the rooms to bring calming energies. Sometimes candles are burned inside glasses of it to provoke the influence. 

Success Water

magical water in a desert

Take a clear container of water and, at night, place it somewhere where the rising sun will shine its light on it. Retrieve it the next day and add a spoonful of sugar and a dash of saltpeter to the water. 

The resulting water can be added to washes, baths, or sprayed on the person to bring success.

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