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To: alt.lucky.w,alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic From: catherine yronwodeSubject: Re: Bad luck. Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:38:47 GMT Taffy wrote [re: use of hyssop for unjinxing]: > > catherine yronwode wrote in message > > Hyssop is a common herb. It is sold in health food stores and > > botanicas. What is "complicated" about boiling hyssop herb in water > > and bathing in the strained "tea" while you burn a white candle > > Well to start with you would need a very big kettle to make enough tea > to bathe in? Sorry, i assumed that folks would know what i meant, so i wrote it in shorthand. I guess it did sound funny! To make an herbal tea to bathe in, you start with a saucepan of water, bring it to a boil, throw in the herbs, take it off the heat, and let it steep. Then you strain the herbs out. Or, if you like, you can use a muslin bag to put the herbs in and then just pull the whole bag out of the water after it has steeped, herbs and all. This is far neater. Most herb stores sell the muslin bags. They can be emptied out, rinsed and re-used for months or years, so i recommend them highly. Once you have the "tea" made you use it in the bath by pouring it over your head while reciting your spell, prayer, wish, or Psalm. Some folks do this while standing in a tub or shower. Some people will sit in a bath of hot water (with no soap) and pour the tea over their heads that way. This is a ritual bath, though, not a soap-and-water bath. Some baths are quite specific in their method of application. For instance, with 7-Herb Spiritual Bath for luck in love and money, you are to steep the herbs for 7 minutes and to pour the bath-water over your head in 7 pourings, reciting the 23rd Psalm each time. Furthermore, you are to do this for 7 days in a row. This means that you will make a total of 49 pourings of btah water and recitations of the 23rd Palm to complete the ritual bath. With other baths, a root-worker may specify that you boil the herbs in the water until the liquid has been reduced to one-third of its original volume, or that you bathe only your feet or only your hands. I have written a pretty long article on how ritual baths are used in African-American hoodoo practice and you can read it on the web at http://www.luckymojo.com/baths.html Good luck, cat yronwode Hoodoo in Theory and Practice -- http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html Lucky W Amulet Archive --------- http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html Free Spells Archive ------------ http://www.luckymojo.com/spells.html news:alt.lucky.w --- discussions on folk magic, luck, amulets, charms Lucky Mojo Curio Co. http://www.luckymojo.com/luckymojocatalogue.html Send e-mail with your street address to catalogue@luckymojo.com and receive our free 32 page catalogue of hoodoo supplies and amulets
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