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

 * A voodoo doll made from feathers bound in place; the strings are slowly unbound and the doll falls apart, bringing destruction to the target. * urine and/or red brick dust used as a scrub on the front steps to keep away evil. * coin and a piece of stale bread for luck in love (no description of how). * revenge bag worn around the waist. * nutmeg, ammonia , sugar , sand, as a floor scrub in a church with low attendance to bring visitors. * a bag of "worthless stones" in a bag, swung by a childless couple as they walk a mile each of 9 mornings, to conceive. * St Joseph's bread baked in alligator molds (same used with the coin for love?). * scrub off doorstep and sprinkle with red brick dust (said to have been common "a generation ago"). * rub (yourself?) with Uncrossing Oil to make any spells put on you go away. * dragon's blood to ward off evil spirits and ghosts ("The concoction was actually powdered bloodroot," adds the writer.) * Van Van Oil ...

  Modern discussions of color magic often devolve quickly into some scientific mumbo jumbo about "light frequencies." Study of color from such perspective did not exist meaningfully until the late 18th century. Yet color correspondences for magical workings are far older... but also unsteady. We've talked previously about hoodoo style color magic on this blog and in my book The Conjure Cookbook,  but for this post we are concerned solely with the planetary magic correspondences in historical sources. Agrippa's  De Occulta Philosophia  (16th century) holds: Now the colours of the Planets are these: of Saturn, blew and leaden, and shining with this: of Jupiter citrine neer to a paleness, and clear with this; of Mars, red, and fiery; of the Sun, yellow, and when it riseth red, afterward glittering: of Venus, white and shining; white with the morning, and reddish in the evening: of Mercury, glittering; of the Moon, fair. The 17th century Clavicula Salomonis lists: Of ...