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

The concept of a magic spell "backfiring" on the one who had it cast is similar to the idea of "karma" as it is used in most modern American contexts. It conceives of magical spells (or certain types of magic spells) as being evil, and that a sort of spiritual punishment will befall the one who performed such a ritual or who arranged for it to be performed.  "Karma" in the sense of a mystic retaliation for negative deeds, is not a traditional part of hoodoo, nor of popular American spiritual belief before the 1970s or so. Traditional Eastern belief in the concept of karma holds it to be the force that governs what fortunes and misfortunes you will undergo in your life, these being the consequences of actions committed in your previous lifetime. (Basically, your good or bad deeds from a prior life create karma, which governs how you will be reincarnated in a future life.) One would not expect to suffer karma in this lifetime for a deed that was also c...

Bullying is a problem most commonly thought of as only affecting school-children, though it can impact full grown adults as well. No matter the age, to be a victim of bullying is devastating, especially as a key part of what makes it particularly bullying rather than merely "someone being mean" is the victim's inability to defend themselves effectively. It may be because the bully is a higher-status person than the victim and thereby has the institution (school, office, government, etc.) on their side, or in a purely physical sense the bully might be bigger and stronger and the victim physically less capable in a fight. The bully might even be armed and the victim not.  Beyond the physical and social dimensions, the psychological impact of bullying can be profound and long-lasting. Victims often experience anxiety, depression, and a diminished sense of self-worth. The fear and stress caused by bullying can affect their performance in school or work, their relationships, ...

A lot of people who cast love spells do so with an inherent fear that it might 'backfire.' They expect this. They buy their spell and want to know what will happen if the spell backfires . Most people who hold this belief seem to consider it something akin to the 'karma' rule of magic, wherein it's perceived that magic or certain types of magic are bad or evil and that they will cause bad or evil to come back on the person who uses them. Not all magical systems believe in this, and not all practitioners of magic believe in this. Most reported cases of backfiring I hear, sound to my nonbelieving senses to be either unrelated accidents or misfortunes that just happened to occur shortly after a spellcast and are attributed to 'backfiring' (these are things like broken appliances, failing job interviews, minor accidents or injuries -- stuff that has nothing to do with love or the love spell) OR, the spell producing unintended negative consequen...

I'm not one to believe in karma, myself -- at least not the way most people perceive it. I do, however, agree that guilt or embarrassment over a past deed can cause needless unhappiness in one's life. Hoodoo folk magic doesn't traditionally possess a concept of karma, but it does acknowledge sin, which is all in all a pretty similar notion. There is a traditional hoodoo ingredient for removing sin (or karma) and that is the herb hyssop. Its use for this purpose is given in the Bible. It is most commonly used in the form of a bath. One can either boil dried or fresh hyssop herb into a strong infusion and add it to the bath to free one's self from sin and karma, or one can simply buy it as a prepared bath from a supplier. If one has been a very bad person, a formula mixture like Cast Off Evil may be used to help encourage one to give up bad habits and behaviors. You can buy this formula readymade or you can make it using the recipe in the Conjure Cookbook .  Here's ...