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From: catherine yronwodeSubject: Re: Magical Manipulation (was e: help to stop manipulation...) Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 20:13:06 -0800 nagasiva wrote: > > 49970516 AA1 Hail Satan! > > catherine yronwode : > >...The problem... is to help him see that he loves you, and to > >strengthen his decision-making skills, while not appearing to be the > >enemy of his beloved (and probably destructive and manipulative) > >mother. > > >...a few samples of the range of magical actions i know.... > > >1) Curse her. For instance, burn a DUME candle on her or cross her or > >sprinkle her house with Graveyard Dust. > > how does one "cross her" and how and why does this incur a curse? Well, that is a question that deserves a really explicit answer...so get comfortable and relax as you drift on back to 18th century America in the days when African footprint magic was beginning to meld with European folk magic to produce hoodoo.... For an introduction to African footprint magic, see my web page on Hot Foot Powder. It is at http://www.luckymojo.com/hotfoot.html In short form: a great deal of African-American folk magic focuses on the footprint as a token of the person one wishes to hurt or help. For instance, one may dig up the footprint of a hated enemy with a silver spoon and mix it with Graveyard Dust and throw the mixture in running water to cause them to leave one alone. There are many dozens of spells involving footprints, but that was a typical sample. Crossing, in its earliest and purest form, is a variant of footprint magic. One mixes shreds of hemp rope and gum arabic and Guinea red peppers (capsicum) together and lays them out in lines across a path that the person to be crossed walks regularly. The material will stick to his or her feet or shoes. The result should be restlessness, pain, unease, and unceasing trouble for the person crossed, and he or she will not know the cause because the spell is self-working -- that is, the practitioner did not perform a curse and thereby leave a psychic trail that could be followed back for a counter-attack. Note that because the wrong person might walk over the prepared ground, it is possible to be crossed accidently. A person who is crossed, whether intentionally or acidentally, knows that everything is going wrong but does not know why. There may be suspicion as to who did it, but nothing can be proved. The person who is crossed is said to "suffer from crossed conditions." White folks would call this "having a string of bad luck." By the 1930s, with the urbanization of the Negro population and the resultant paucity of dirt paths, footprint magic mutated a bit and other forms of crossing -- still using the same name, but now accomplished by means of oils or sachet powders -- were in favour. Double Cross Oil and Crossing Powder were used for the purpose. The only cure for crossed conditions is to conduct some sort of purification spell. Usually one consults a root doctor for this. The oldest formula used "to clear away that evil mess" and "remove crossed conditions" is so-called Chinese Wash, a floorwash formula made with lemon grass and other herbs. (I do not know the origin of the name, but it goes back to the late 19th century at least and is still in use today.) The shoes and feet are washed with Chinese Wash, the paths to the house washed or swept down with it, and so forth. If the crossed conditions are of long standing or very intense, the floors and walls of the home may also be washed. In the old days, the crossed person would also take a seven-day ritual bath made with hyssop leaves, as per the 51st Psalm of the Bible, which says, "cleanse me with hyssop." By the 1940s, a specific urban formula for uncrossing, called Uncrossing Oil was also sold. Like Chinese Wash, it contains lemon grass -- and it also contains hyssop, presumeably to obviate the need for the seven-day hyssop bath, although many people still take hyssop baths for spiritual cleansing. > >3) Break up their overly-symbiotic mother-son relationship. Burn a > >Break-Up candle on her in both their names or use Cast Off Evil Oil > >or powder to separate them. > > when you say "burn a candle on her" here, you don't mean literally > on her body, like while she's asleep do you? Oh, no, no. To burn a candle on someone is an old "ebonics" term for doing a job on them, working a curse on them, laying a blessing on them, or such -- it simply specifies that a candle will be used in the cursing or blessing ritual. In the old days, only Jewish-style offeratory candles were used; now many practitioners use Catholic-style seven-day glass-encased candles instead. (For a more complete history of the evolution of hoodoo candle magic, see my page on candle magic at http://www.luckymojo.com.candlemagic.html .) Offeratory candles are inscribed with the name of the person to be worked on; seven day glass-encased candles such as DUME, Break-Up, Love Me, The Secret Desire of My Body, and the like have a convenient white space on the silk-screened label where one may write a name or names with a Sharpie marker. If a photo of the person to be worked on can be gotten, this is placed beath the candle before lighting it. If not, the person's name is written a certain number of times on parchment paper with red ink and that is placed beneath the candle. (Hence the candle is "burned on" the person.) A full-fledged candle ritual designed to harm someone would typically use a black candle, plus anointing oils, herbs, and incense appropriate to the curse (e.g. Double Cross Oil, Drive Away Oil, or Break-Up Oil) and would probably take at least seven days to perform. If the person's footprint could be gotten, it would also be used. At the climax of a typical candle ritual designed to curse someone, the picture or parchment is burned in the candle flame and the ashes are mixed with the footprint or with a substitute such as Hot Foot Powder or Graveyard Dust and carried off to be thrown into running water or scattered at a crossroads. > thanks. > > tyagi any time, pal! catherine yronwode The Lucky Mojo Curio Co.: http://www.luckymojo.com The Lucky W Amulet Archive: http://www.luckymojo.com/LuckyW.html Hoodoo Catalogue: http://www.luckymojo.com/luckymojocatalogue.html Freemasonry for Women: http://www.luckymojo.com/CoMasonry.html The Sacred Landscape: http://www.luckymojo.com/sacredland.html Karezza and Tantra: http://www.luckymojo.com/sacredsex.html
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