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

  In the summer of 2025 I had just completed one of the most stressful projects of my life by producing a stageplay, a production of W.S. Gilbert's musical comedy  Ages Ago . I probably got 5 hours of sleep in the entire week before showtime and I lost 10 lbs from the stress. I was always fighting with the director and I was starting to have forms of out of body experiences.  After the show had completed its run, I performed a Cut and Clear spell  to release me from the relationships formed during the show (and to limit the likelihood of my holding grudges) but even after this, I was still very stressed out, sleeping badly, feeling disordered chakras . What to do?  Well, I could have used traditional hoodoo or folk magic spells and uncrossings for alleviating the problem, but, instead I decided to try a more simple and more mainstream solution: a spa day. In Santa Fe there's a very famous Japanese style spa, but which is also quite expensive. Spending a lot of m...

There’s a certain point in nearly every magical worker’s life where they brush up against the conspiracy crowd. Sometimes it’s harmless — a weird neighbor who asks whether mercury retrograde is real or just a NASA cover-up. But sometimes it isn’t harmless. Sometimes it’s your friend of ten years, who used to burn candles for clients and make decent oils, suddenly insisting that the Federal Reserve is a front for reptilian soul harvesters and that he won’t use peppermint anymore because it’s “coded” by shadowy authoritarian forces who want to end ESP. It’s not just fringe weirdos, either. You can be reading a totally respectable book about herb magic and hit a sentence like: “This formula predates Big Pharma and therefore cannot be patented.” That’s fine, until the next paragraph explains that the AMA was founded to suppress ancient Egyptian energy frequencies. And it gets printed because — let’s face it — most of the magical community doesn’t vet sources like academics or scientists do...

As a little kid, I had a reputation for being a tomboy. I liked monster movies and  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and I only would wear skirts for special occasions. I was thus shunned by the girls for this ungirlish inclination; and shunned too by the boys due to my inevitably remaining a girl .  This isn't to say I didn't also like the pretty princess stuff. But, for all Belle in Beauty and the Beast griped about not fitting in, she really didn't seem to have actual issues with being rejected or outcast by anyone -- the bookstore guy loved her so much he gave her free books and the most popular guy in town still wanted to marry her even though she couldn't stand him. I admired and idolized the princess characters, as they're so carefully crafted to make you want to do; but there was always something about their hopes and experiences that didn't really fit with my reality and worldview. They were always perfectly girly and perfectly liked by all "good...

Let's start by acknowledging that the debate around cultural appropriation can be quite polarizing. Personally, I believe that some arguments against cultural appropriation can sometimes feel like a step backward toward segregation, albeit under the guise of "protecting cultural integrity." However, regardless of where you stand on the issue, it's important to address misconceptions that often arise. One such misconception involves smudging and smudge sticks. Some believe these practices are exclusive to Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and that others using them is a form of appropriation.   Some people have therefore expressed outrage at the notion that witchcraft or herbalists have "appropriated" smudging from Native Americans. Yet, anyone who is concerned about the matter must know this: -- "Smudge" is an English word. It is not the native term in any of the tribal languages for the so-called smudge ceremony . Rather, it is how the English ...

Jayne Mansfield (1933 - 1967) has the dubious honor of being best remembered for an urban legend about being decapitated in a car wreck  and for associating with Satanists (who, it is sometimes said, caused her death through a curse cast upon her.) Her more distant claims to fame are being glared at by Sophia Loren , being the first major Hollywood actress to do a nude scene, and being the mother of the Law and Order SVU lady . In the midst of this all, her rocking pinup bod is usually overlooked. Sure, in most pics she's either sucking in her stomach or wearing a '50s waist cincher, but merely holding your breath only accentuates so much. She had a figure that was the envy of many of our grandmothers, and would still be envied by plenty of teen girls today. How did she acquire this figure? Evidently, with the help of a witch's broom. Witches' broom is an important prop as Jayne Mansfield begins the exercise that keeps her waist line trim. It touches the f...

We spend so much time in bed. Yet, not many people seem to give a thought to ensuring our beds stay spiritually clean. As this article says , uncleanness of the bedding can lead to all kinds of health problems on a practical level -- and just think the spiritual messes you could be laying in! Here's the way to give your bedding a proper spiritual cleansing and fixing up: Pull off all the sheets, blankets and pillowcases from the bed. Give them a good washing in hot water. For added benefit, you can use a spiritual soap per the instructions here to make your own hoodoo spiritualist laundry soap , or you can wash them in regular soap and add some conjure formula bath salts to the rinse cycle. For a general home cleansing, a mixture like Chinese Wash would be suitable, though if you are concerned about specific conditions you can choose a formula that's appropriate -- such as French Love for love enhancement , or Has No Hanna for money luck. While the bedding is off...

Okay... so a drinking game to a Disney movie is arguably not very Goth. Let's just point out that Disney hosts Bats Day and that you can drink this while sipping some suitably spooky beverage. Mulan is one of the final movies of the Disney Renaissance . It is based on an old Chinese poem about a woman who went into the military in place of her old father and little brothers. The movie is of course Disnified and has weird elements like a talking dragon voice by Eddie Murphy thrown in to be more 'hip.' Now... this is actually the best drinking game to a film I've done. It's got a small enough number of imbibe moments that one can usually remember them, and they are all for just one drink so there's no confusion about how many sips or chugs this or that requires. Here are the moments: Shan-Yu's hawk screeches (repeat the screech and drink) Characters pour or have tea (drink) Nudity (drink) Ancestor spirits on screen (drink) End of the Tung S...

GOONA GOONA: Creates an atmosphere of trust and understanding when used in troubled situations. Apply to the body as a perfume to reduce tension when dealing with difficult people. In the home, rub on table legs, arms of chairs, or bottoms of plates to create a calm and confident environment. So says Anna Riva in Golden Secrets of Mystic Oils . This usage is echoed in other sources too, such as Supermarket Sorceress , and the  Magickal Formulary . Okay, sure why not? Both Supermarket Sorceress and Magickal Formulary give recipes, which are respectively: Recipe A. Rose Nutmeg Vanilla Cinnamon Recipe B. Orange (?) (Slater sometimes includes the dye color, but not always -- makes it hard to tell if he means orange dye or orange fruit.) Nutmeg Orris Rose Patchouli Rose and nutmeg seem to be the common ingredients, as can be seen. Rose, okay -- but why nutmeg? Even when you go by the planetary association it doesn't make a lot of sense. Nutmeg is much more a money ...

Michael Jackson Murdered by Voodoo! (EDIT 2023: dead link) Or Candomblé , rather. This story isn't exactly new but some haven't heard it yet. Admittedly, it may be with good reason -- only about half of this lady's story sounds plausible, if that. A lot of it sounds like she's either trying to get attention for her business or trying to get attention for selling her Jackson memorabilia, or trying to get attention for both. It sounds like he may have really been a client of hers; but the claim that he promised the elephant man skeleton to her sounds like total crap given it's well known by most people -- including Jackson himself one should hope -- that he was never in possession of the thing. (Joseph Merrick's skeleton has been at the Royal London College of Medicine Museum ever since the fleshy part died more than a century ago. Museums usually don't sell off their collections.) The report of how she did it is an interesting one, worth examining: ...