✨Common brujería ingredients✨
Since I’ve moved I’ve rediscovered how challenging it can be to practice with what you have in hand, so I’m making this post as a reminder for myself, and for any other brujitas who may need it!
✨ Table Salt: regular white salt, used for purification, protection, and driving away bad luck.
✨ Spices and herbs: depending on what spices you have in hand, most common are garlic (protection), cayenne pepper (driving away bad luck, banishings), basil (protection, wish granting, abundance and prosperity).
✨ Olive oil: great for luck and money workings. Can also be used with herbs and spices to make other oils, like a prosperity oil or a love oil.
✨ Eggs: cleansing! Also, you can powder the eggshells and use them for protection, or to make cascarilla powder (if you have the rest of the ingredients for it). Also, fertility and love spells.
✨ Water: don’t underestimate the power of water. Different types of water have different uses, you can check that out right here!
✨ Dice: divination! Even if you don’t have a whole set, it’s still useful. Use numerology! Also good for luck spells.
✨ Seashells: protection! Depending on what type of seashell it is, it may serve for other purposes too (luck, love, etc). Also, can be used for candle making, and if you have many you can select a few different ones to use as a divinatory set.
✨ Stones: rocks are often overlooked too. Use color correspondences (white, grey, black, brown, etc) You can paint them to make offerings, or draw symbols on them and use them for divination, or as an extra spell ingredient.
✨ Paper: so many uses! Paper petitions, paper talismans, and if you have a printer you can print photos of specific things you want to invoke or attract! Can also be used to make envelopes for your workings.
✨ Rice: sacred in many cultures, rice is great as an offering, used also for purification, luck and love spells.
✨ Teas: Brewing teas with different correspondences, drinking a cup of tea after enchanting it as part of the spell, or using the herbs on the sachet! Also, tea leaf divination.
✨ Coins: used most commonly in luck and money spells, also good as offerings and payment to spirits.
✨ Dirt: collected from different places holds different uses, a few are bank dirt (money and success), dirt from a crossroads (summonings, road opening, hexes and curses), dirt from a mountain (psychic abilities, invoking divinity, invoking ancestors, clarity), police station dirt (banishing enemies, bringing justice, protection)
✨ Ashes: if it’s ashes of incense burnt for deity, it’s great for protection and cleansing, and invoking divinity when needed. If it’s remnants of a spell, what to do with them depends on what you wish the outcome to be, throw them around your home for protection, at a crossroads for banishings, at a court for success on trials, etc.
✨ Prayers: take your holy, sacred books and scriptures, and use them! Depending on your religion, you can use psalms, mantras, or simply chants written by yourself, but prayers are a huge part of brujería!
✨ Candles: use color correspondences for these too. Burn candles and incense for your prayers to be heard by your deities, burn other spell ingredients if you want the spell to work fast. If you have spices, herbs and oils, you can dress, anoint or fix the candles to further strengthen the spell.
✨ DNA: who hasn’t heard of this, you use bodily fluids such as blood or saliva, or hair and fingernails for different things, from fixing the spell to you, and sealing it with your power, (and/or the power of your ancestors, in your blood), to fingernails and bodily fluids often used in curses.
✨ Dollar bills and checks: (real, fake or printed) used for attracting money and abundance into your life.
✨ Keys: often used to open roads, specially skeleton keys, that can become talismans for success (open doors to new opportunities) and love (locking a lover, protecting your relationship)
✨ Buttons and thread: for bindings and protection spells. Also, consider knot magic.
✨Scissors and a ball of yarn or thread: unbinding or solving problems in a certain area of your life, ussually accompanied by prayers.
✨ Nails and other rusty items: used in curses, also as an ingredient for war water or mars water.
✨ Plants: plant the organic remnants of a spell on it’s soil, for example, for a powerful house protection spell to last longer.
✨ Honey or sugar: love, luck, lust spells, used in honey jars, to sweeten a person or situation.
✨ Tobacco: often used as an offering or to boost the effects of a spell.
✨ Mirrors: used for divination, or for protection and reversal spells. Broken mirror pieces can be used for curses.
✨Wild plants: If I see a dandelion or chamomile plant on the street, I’m gonna take some flowers or leaves. Research what plants grow on your area and their uses!!!
✨I think this is all for now, if anyone has any more ideas feel free to share!✨
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