LUCKY MOJO CURIO CO. OCCULT SHOP 6632 Covey Road Forestville, California 95436 707-887-1521 PRESENTS THE LUCKY MOJO FREE SPELLS ARCHIVE MAGIC SPELLS: RECIPES for POTIONS used in SPELL-CASTING compiled from usenet, 1995 - present, by cat yronwode These recipes for use in magic spells are copyright by their respective authors as noted, and all rights are reserved. In other words, the contributions of these authors may not be mirrored to other web sites or copied into print or electronically distibuted in e-lists without the express permission of each individual author. If you beleive a post of yours or material copyright by you was archived here in error, please contact the web-master. Spelling and format editing has occurred within these posts; some email addresses may be out of date. RELATED PAGES: Tools and Materials Used in Spell-Casting Practical Tips and Techniques for Spell-Casting Errata to Herman Slater's Magickal Formulary by John M. Hansen "The Ancient Book of Formulas," a public domain magical formulary Recipes are in alphabetical order. ============================================ INTRODUCTION Most of the formulas given here were published in usenet
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LUCKY MOJO CURIO CO. OCCULT SHOP 6632 Covey Road
Forestville, California 95436 707-887-1521
PRESENTS
THE LUCKY MOJO FREE SPELLS ARCHIVE
MAGIC SPELLS: RECIPES for POTIONS used in SPELL-CASTING
compiled from usenet, 1995 - present, by cat yronwode
These recipes for use in magic spells are copyright by their respective authors as noted, and all rights are reserved. In other words, the contributions of these authors may not be mirrored to other web sites or copied into print or electronically distibuted in e-lists without the express permission of each individual author. If you beleive a post of yours or material copyright by you was archived here in error, please contact the web-master. Spelling and format editing has occurred within these posts; some email addresses may be out of date. RELATED PAGES: Tools and Materials Used in Spell-Casting Practical Tips and Techniques for Spell-Casting Errata to Herman Slater's Magickal Formulary by John M. Hansen "The Ancient Book of Formulas," a public domain magical formulary Recipes are in alphabetical order. ============================================ INTRODUCTION Most of the formulas given here were published in usenet
during the late 1990s. A prominent poster of these recipes was a woman variously known as Witchwoman, Chandralyn, Elizabeth Mack, and Lyz who did not source the recipes but merely signed her own name to them. Others were posted by a woman called "Cat" who had a hotmail.com account ("[email protected]") and whose other names i do not know. [She and i share the same first name, but one look at the formulas she posted, and their sources, should demonstrate to any knowledgeable person that we are quite different people.] A third set of formulas was posted by an anonymous source called Jellyface ([email protected]). A fourth set was posted by an anonymous person called "....." ([email protected]), whom i shall refer to as "inept1." Some were sourced by author, some were not and thus appeared to be original contributions. In some cases, my opinion of these formulas was asked. In other cases it was not. I decided to compile and compare the formulas posted by Chandralyn, "[email protected]," Jellyface, and "inept1" with the formulas that i use myself -- even though that meant revealing some of my own forumlas (usually closely held by perfumers and occult shop owners) because i felt that doing so might help students of this branch of magic. My formulas derive from a combination of four sources: o recipes given to me by friends, customers, clients, and occult shop owners from the 1960s to the present; o recipes that had been printed in folklore collections, some of whose authors are cited below; o recipes from 19th and early 20th century formularies, some of whose authors are cited below; and o first-hand perfume analysis augmented with a thorough knowledge of the occult symbolism of flowers and herbs. What interested me about the posted formulas was that they were a strange mixed bag, some "authentic" and some really "phony" by traditional standards. One, for instance, was said to be a 19th century recipe for Cologne, but it was not a true Cologne recipe at all. Others claimed to be traditional hoodoo formulas but contained none of the ingredients usually associated with spells or recipes bearing those names in the African-American community. Still others were well-researched and nearly the same as the ones i myself had collected. I have made my comparisons -- and in some cases lengthy analyses -- because people often ask me about formulas and i want to steer them toward authentic hoodoo sources by giving them an understanding of the holistic magical system from which such formulas derive. I am not trying to poke holes in the work of any author, but i docall the shots as i see them. It is difficult to explain a formula's good and bad points without a close look at each ingredient, and i used the posted formulas to demonstrate how some formulas did -- and some formulas did not -- derive from an identifiable
The ashes seem to symbolize an end to flames -- but i am unsure why he called for red pepper in an anger-calming powder. Generally, red pepper is used to heat things up and to create discord. And think about it -- if you go around throwing red pepper powder on angry folks and it gets up their nose or in their eyes, they'll be mad as hell! Well, Herman is gone, and i can't ask him why he added that odd ingredient, but i would recommend something sweeter, like powdered sugar, in place of the red pepper in this recipe. Exact quantities for making this formula are available in "The Magickal Formulary" by Herman Slater for sale at http://www.angelfire.com/ego/magickalchilde -- cat yronwode ([email protected]) ============================================ EAU DE COLOGNE This comparison began in usenet when i posted formulas for some traditional colognes from some standard mid-20th century manuals of perfumery in my collection. Those recipes are now archived at http://www.luckymojo.com/floridakanangawater.html Kirsten Rowe then wrote in response: > > From "Perfumes, Splashes and Colognes" by Nancy Booth > > Claims to be an American version of the original Eau de Cologne > introduced in this country in 1808: > > 2 c. distilled water > 1/4 c. vodka or grain alcohol > 6 drops essential oil of lavender > 2 drops essential oil of clove bud > 8 drops essential oil of bergamot > > Mix all ingredients in a sterilized glass container. Seal the bottle > and store in the refrigerator for two weeks for the scents to blend. > Use within two months if refrigerated, two weeks if not. > > Kirsten > > No offense to the author of the first recipe. None taken, for sure! -- i was not the author of those recipes -- i was simply passing along commercial (not new-age or home-made) formulas for Florida Water and Kananga Water. And no offense to you, Kirsten, but i would like to point out that the Nancy Booth recipe given above is too weak even
For examples of how it is used to rule and control a boss, see my web page on Essence of Bend-Over at http://www.luckymojo.com/essenceofbendover.html Next, let's look at the ingredients given by Slater and O'Hara, shall we, and see how (or rather IF) they relate to the work at hand, namely to bend someone to your will. The ingredients they list are rose frankincense honeysuckle vetivert These scents may be okay for use in AROMATHERAPY-style domination, but magically speaking, the herbs in that list have long been assigned other meanings in MAGICAL herbology. Rose is used for love magic. Real essential oil of roses (rose otto or attar of roses) is so expensive that most people use either essential oil of rose geranium or artificial rose oil as a substitute. Rose has nothing at all to do with raw power or domination. Frankincense is a spiritual scent and is also used for power. It could be used in Essence of Bend-Over, but it is a little on the "nice" side for it to carry the entire weight of true domination work in this formula. Honeysuckle is primarily used as a fragrance, and, being floral, it is a frequent ingredient in love potions. The plant itself is a vine that has no strong magical connotations that i know, and what's stranger, real essential oil of honeysuckle is unstable, so most makers use the artificial, synthetic aroma. Looking at honeysuckle from the perspective of the "doctrine of signatures," one could say that it grows upon trees and somehow dominates them, but it certainly does not make them bend to its will -- and other vines of similar twining habit, such as periwinkle, are always used in love-and-marriage formulas, because of their clinging natures. In short, honeysuckle might be good for love-domination (as an ingredient in Follow me Boy Oil, for instance, but it would hardly be expected to work on your boss! Vetivert is one of the five "Asian Grasses" that is used (in a very small proportion) in Van Van Oil and, as such, it is a spiritual cleanser and luck-changer. It is not particularly associated with efforts of will or domination. So this recipe for Bend-Over, although very commonly encountered in the Anglo-Saxon world of aromatherapy and playful spell-cookery -- and despite its wonderful fragrance -- is not exactly what i'd call a powerful aid to domination or willful control of another's mind or activities through the doctrine of sympathetic magic as developed by
characteristic "Fast Luck" smell. Hurston does not tell what makes her informant's Red Fast Luck Oil red, but i was taught to colour it with Alkanet root, a few flakes per 1/2 oz. bottle. If you use too little, it stays pink; too much makes it bloody-brown. The colour does not develop instantly, as it would from a synthetic dye, so work carefully and add more root flakes only if your first batch doesn't colour up red in a day, after a thorough shaking. Alkanet root has magical properties of its own, namely it draws luck and protects your money, and the red colour indicates increased love-luck, so it is a better colourant for Fast Luck than any synthetic dye could ever be. I also add crushed pyrite to my Fast Luck Oil, for money-drawing purposes. To make Fast Luck Oil, simply add the formula above to a carrier oil such as Almond Oil. Essential oil of Cinnamon can be irritating to sensitive skin, so wear protective gloves as you work, don't rub your eyes or nose, and dilute the product to a useable strength before applying it to anything you might touch. For an entire web page on (Red) Fast Luck, please see the Lucky W Amulet Archive at http://www.luckymojo.com/fastluck.html Next we come to Hurston's other Fast Luck recipe. Frankly, although someone may have genuinely given her this formula, i personally have never bought any Fast Luck products made according to this recipe. For reasons explained below, i think there may have been some confusion in the mind of Hurston's informant, or perhaps Hurston herself got the formula attached to the wrong name. -------------- FAST LUCK Aqueous solution of Citronella. It is put in scrub water to scrub the house. It brings luck in business by pulling custmers into a store. -- Zora Neale Hurston -------------- Hurston's Citronella-based Fast Luck formula is actually in the family of recipes usually given for Chinese Wash and Van Van Oil. These products, more than any other, are to be used as house and doorway scrubs. I have never seen this citronella recipe sold as Fast Luck, but i am not surprised that someone used it as such. I give a good Van Van Oil recipe below (under the letter V (which contains the five closely-related Asian grasses Citronella, Lemongrass, Vetivert, Palmarosa, and Gingergrass), and, for comparison, i here append Hurston's very simple Van Van Essence formula:
-------------- ESSENCE OF VAN VAN: 10 per cent Oil of Lemon Grass in alcohol. (Different doctors specify either grain, mentholated, or wood alcohol), used for luck and power of all kinds. It is the most popular conjure drug in New Orleans. -- Zora Neale Hurston -------------- Those who work with these essential oils know how similar Citronella and Lemongrass smell. Folks with botanical knowledge will also realize the close relationship between Citronella, Lemongrass, Vetivert, Palmarosa, and Gingergrass (in fact, Gingergrass is simply the lesser quality second pressing of Palmarosa grass!). As my Van Van recipe indicated, the addition of Vetivert (Khus Khus), Palmarosa, and Gingergrass was to be in very small quantities compared to the Lemongrass and Citronella, which means that both Chinese Wash and Van Van Oil smell predominantly of citrusy fragrances, with smoky undertones. It is possible that someone Hurston talked to had mistaken this ubiquitous New Orleans formula-family for Fast Luck ... or, as i said, Hurston herself might have made the error. In any case, the Fast Luck i know is the Cinnamon, Vanilla, Wintergreen one. For an entire web page on Van Van Oil, please see the Lucky W Amulet Archive at http://www.luckymojo.com/vanvan.html For an entire web page on Chinese Wash, please see the Lucky W Amulet Archive at http://www.luckymojo.com/chinesewash.html For more on the intertwined history of Chinese Wash and Van Van Oil, please see the Lucky W Amulet Archive page on ritual baths and floor washes at http://www.luckymojo.com/baths.html Now, as to "Double Fast Luck" -- here Slater has given a strange twist to things. He adds a powdered dollar bill (why not? although filings from a silver dime would be more likely in hoodoo, and crushed pyrite even more apropos), and then he colours the oil green. He has, i believe, confused DOUBLE POWER (add more ingredients) with DOUBLE LUCK (make the item work two ways). The two concepts are quite different in hoodoo conjuration, and Slater's formula is only a doubling in POWER of his already highly inaccurate formula, it is not two-way or DOUBLE LUCK True Double Luck formulas work for both money and love. Thus, Double Fast Luck should work for money and love -- in a hurry.
for sale at http://www.angelfire.com/ego/magickalchilde -- cat yronwode ([email protected]) ============================================ SEVEN HOLY WATERS See PEACE WATER ============================================ VAN VAN OIL Van Van is essentially a lemongrass - citronella - palmarosa - gingergrass - vetivert blend. The five species are closely related Asian grasses, long cultivated for their fragrant roots. SIDE NOTE ON THE ERROR OF USING POPULAR NAMES TO DESCRIBE PLANTS: Some people think that because it is named Van Van, this oil must contain vanilla, but such is NOT the case. Not only does Van Van never contain vanilla, the "rosa" in palmarosa does NOT refer to roses, the "ginger" in gingergrass does NOT refer to ginger roots, the "lemon" in lemongrass does NOT refer to lemons, and the "citron" in citronella does NOT refer to citrons!!! These are all simply common names for species of ASIAN GRASSES. To further complicate matters, vetivert, the last-named of the above Asian grasses, is also known commercially as khus-khus but it is not related in any way to the Moroccan food product called cous-cous, made of wheat and chickpea flour ... and chickpea flour is not in any way derived from chickens. :-) It's a common trap. Don't fall into it. END OF ADMONITORY SIDE NOTE These days, palmarosa oil and gingergrass are difficult to obtain, but they can be found if yoiu are persistent. The ingredients for Van Van Oil have always varied from maker to maker, but the absence of any one or two of the Asian Grass oils will not hurt the results much, for usually the blend will focus on citrusy lemongrass and citronella, with only a hint of musky vetivert, floral palmarosa, and spicy gingergrass. Here is Zora Neale Hurston's very basic Van Van Essence formula: --------------
ESSENCE OF VAN VAN 10 per cent Oil of Lemon Grass in alcohol. (Different doctors specify either grain, mentholated, or wood alcohol), used for luck and power of all kinds. It is the most popular conjure drug in New Orleans. -- Zora Neale Hurston -------------- Here's a better variation, made up as an oil: -------------- VAN VAN OIL 16 parts lemongrass oil 8 parts citronella oil 1 part vetivert oil 1 part palmarosa oil 1 part gingergrass oil if you can get it Mix together and let sit for at least week. This is your stock oil. Do not apply it directly, for like all uncut essential oils, it can be a skin irritant to some people. Therefore: In each 1/2 oz. bottle of VAN VAN OIL to be made up, place a pinch of dried lemongrass leaves a pinch of crushed pyrite crystals one full standard dropper-full of the above stock blend Fill the bottle with undyed almond oil as a carrier This is an old, authentic formula for VAN VAN OIL and i vouch for it in every way. -------------- A highly simplified, cheap version of Van Van Oil is sometimes found under the name Henry's Grass Oil. -------------- HENRY'S GRASS OIL lemongrass oil a pinch of dried lemongrass leaves Put a dropper-full of the essential oil and a pinch of the dried leaves in a 1/2 oz. bottle and fill the bottle with undyed cooking oil as a carrier. --------------
I believe that Herman had no heirs, so this may be a case of their grabbing at something left unattended and trying to make a buck -- or perhaps Herman did make them his literary executors ... who knows? I asked them and they refused to tell me, and that's all i know about that. [Disclaimer: My only connection to Herman Slater is that i used to sell him self-interpreting astrological chart blanks of my own devising and design, which he sold in his shop.] The Slater "Magickal Formulary" itself, regardless of its disputed copyright status, is a completely mixed bag. It contains some genuine old-time hoodoo formulas similar to ones i use, some very good (and expensive-to-make) resin-and-sandalwood-based incense recipes Herman must have obtained from an old-timer with a background in Indian-style incense compounding, some comeplety faked-together attempts to recreate Medieval perfumes for which better and more accutrate formulae can be found in other books, and some truly stupid weirdness which looks like his attempt to satisfy customers who asked for oils by names for which he had no formulae. These latter bear no resemblance to the way those oils were prepared in other shops or by other manufacturers during Herman's lifetime, and they contain no link to the attributions or symbolisms bfound in European-American or African-American plant-lore or natural magic. Take Slater's supposed recipe for the "death" oil, Yula Perfume Oil. The ingredients are: > Melon > Rose > Lavender > Wisteria Symbolically, fragrant melons such as cantelope and musk melons are traditional offerings to the Orisha Oshun, an African goddess or nature spirit whose home is in fresh-water rivers, and whose aid is sought in matters of love. However, these fruits do not yield up an essential oil, and thus "Melon" is an artifical scent. Melon fragrance appears in some modern fruit-scented shampoos, like Finesse. Its use in this oil marks the Slater formula as fairly recent. To roughly date it, i looked through my library. Melon fragrance is not mentioned at all in the 1907 Henley edition of the 1897 English translation of "Perfumes and Their Preparation" by Furst, Askinson, and Rice. (And this book, by the way, does contain formulae for magical perfumes like Kiss Me Quick and such!) The earliest recipe for synthetic Melon fragrance i found in my own library appears in the 2-volume 1932 4th edition of "Perfumes, Cosmetics, and Soaps With Especial Reference to Synthetics" by William A. Poucher; the numbers to the
left of the ingredients are weights in grammes: ---------------------------- Melon Base No. 1349 150 Ethyl acetate, 100 Ethyl formate 150 Ethyl butyrate 400 Ethyl valarianate 50 Ethyl pelargonate 4 Benzyl acetone 5 Eugenol 1 Gamma undecalactone 100 Ethyl sebacate 30 Lemon oil 10 Vanillin ------ 1000 ---------------------------- I don't know about you, but i wouldn't offer that mess of chemicals to a river goddess and i wouldn't associate it with "death," either. Rose is a traditional love herb. It produces a natural essential oil called Rose Otto or Attar of Roses. Rose Otto is very expensive, so many modern compounders use a synthetic in its place. Some folks, like me, who are traditionalists-within-a-budget, mix genuine Rose Otto into a larger batch of synthetic rose scent to produce a synthetic-natural fragrance blend that is affordable yet still retains the herbal essence that should be there. Lavender is used in magic for love and friendship, and also has medical uses, for instance, as a revivifier for those suffering from headaches. It produces a natural essential oil that is relatively inexpensive and easy to acquire. Wisteria (more properly spelled Wistaria because it was named after a botanist named Wistar) is a large flowering vine in the pea family. The flowers are fragrant but they cannot be used to distill an essential oil, therefore chemists have created an artifical compound to smell like Wistaria flowers. This artificial Wistaria became popular in the 1920s, as i mentioned here recently, and was especially noted as the scent in a then-extremely-popular brand called Vantine's Wisteria Incense, which was burned to draw luck. To get a tentative date on the intrioduction of synthetic Wistaria fragrance, i again consulted my perfumery books: Wistaria fragrance does not appear in the 1907 Henley edition of the 1897 English translation of "Perfumes and
Their Preparation" by Furst, Askinson, and Rice, but, decades later, it can be found in the 2-volume 1932 4th edition of "Perfumes, Cosmetics, and Soaps With Especial Reference to Synthetics" by William A. Poucher. So my dating Wistaria to the 1920s seems accurate, within the limited research i was able to conduct. In Poucher's book you will find this recipe for creating Wistaria fragrance; the numbers to the left are weights in grammes: ---------------------------- Glycine No. 1127 (Wistaria) 180 Hawthorn No. 1937 [itself a synthetic compound containing such yummy things as Phenylacetic aldehyde -- cat] 50 Eugenol 100 Methyl Ionone 120 Hydroxy-citronellal 70 Ylang oil -- Bourbon 80 Rose centifolia No. 1091 [a synthetic blend, not Rose Otto -- cat] 190 Jasmin No. 1055 [another synthetic blend -- cat] 100 Terpinol 40 Coumarin 60 Heliotropin 30 Musk ketone ----- 1000 ---------------------------- Well, that's "Wistaria" -- which Herman Slater did not make up from scratch, of course, but bought from some fragrance supplier. So this supposed "death" oil consists of two love-herb-based essential oils (for one of which the maker probably substituted a cheaper synthetic scent), a synthetic floral scent, and a synthetic fruit scent, plus black dye. I dunno, but even with the black dye, this list of ingredients doesn't smell like "death" to me. I mean, if Herman Slater or Papa Jim were going for a death smell and death ingredients with their Yula Oil, where's the Asafoetida, the Sulphur, the Patchouli, the Vandal Root, the Hot Chilis, the Snake sheds, the Spiders, and the Graveyard Dirt? Were they out to kill someone with this mess or just mix up a batch of sweet-and-fruity shampoo?