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Spiritual Waters/ Colognes.

On this post I wanted to speak on spiritual waters and colognes these products that I've listed are and have use in different spiritual circles. I think some of this products were added later because of the low cost and having a alcohol base, because alcohol in the south has a lot of uses and could cure most is what my grandparents said🤔😄 But enjoy this post.

What Are They Used For? These are use to bring you back up. It can bring back money, love etc. It's used to feed a mojo bags that's made specifically for a purpose. (See my post on Perfumes.)

Holy Water. Can't get must more powerful thin this as a reverend my self I can tell you it works. This water that has been blessed by an Ordained Priest or a member of the clergy or spirituality ordained person. Used for baptism, spiritual cleansing, to bless individuals, places and objects. To bless or dispell it has many uses.

Florida Water. Actually made in New York it was and still is a male cologne. It was used for a scalp cleaner, a foot cleanser. It has multiple uses it was dubbed paranormal. Now used mostly for spiritual properties, like cleansing. It's used to feed your gris gris bag (mojo bag) to keep it going, used to feed the spirit because of the alcohol and is oftentimes used in fire rituals (to start not to burn), in ceremonies and offerings, venerating our ancestors and the dead. It's a good ingredient used in a African spirituality religion like Vodou or Hoodoo. But it can also strip away [Example] If you cleaned yourself using florida water you are now cleaned of negative but what happens you are striped of your other workings like money drawing, and you can use a money cologne to help bring that back. Protection can be stripped away so doing a spiritual bath to bring it back. Always reply what you loss.

Peruvian Florida Water. This cologne is widely used by healers for purification, cleansing, healing, and protection. The Peruvian Florida Water has a sweet, and spicy scent. Different from traditional Florida Water. Because of its sweet scent if a good offering to Erzulie Freda. This is what you would see in Hispanic areas and botanicals but both are good.

Rose Cologne is used for peace and love It can be good to use when working or doing any love and attraction work or used as a offering to a spirit or deity of love. It can be sprinkle around the home or add to your mop with water for attraction.

Kolonia 1800 Natural Water. This is a nice alternative to Florida Water. It has a more manly scent to it and a different vibration. Used the same way to get rid of any spell and curses on your love life, sex life, or your luck etc. This Kolonia colone also come in different scents like 1800 Tobacco if one likes to work with native american spirits or ancestral spirits because probably 60 to 70% of people or spiritual practices deal with tobacco in some way. It's good for one self.

Kananga Water Cologne. A African word that it comes from Jamaica. Kananga water is mainly used for purification and for departed ancestors. Also dispel dark energy from a room, purification of one's spirit, energy, and ancestral communication.

Orange Blossom Cologne is good to use when you have a business to help draw customers. Sprinkle outside the front door, before opening.

The Siete Macho. Is used for spiritual and emotional guidance. It is also used to block or to send back and reverse negative energy, evil eye, hexes and curses. It has multiple uses.

Reve d'Or Lotion. Used to put an end to adverse conditions and open the way for luck, love, money, and happiness. This perfume scent is good for Erzulie Dantor.

Pompeia. Used in many spiritual baths and rituals, sometimes used in Vodou for love A good scent for Erzulie Freda.

Hoyt's Cologne. This is another good cologne. Is said that it's traditionally used in conjure and hoodoo. I can't really say that its used traditionally. But what ever was available alcohol wise was used.

Now it's great for feeding mojo bags and waking a High John Root.

LOTION FEUILLES D'HAITI (SIMBI COLOGNE) if you been reading my blog you know Water is part of the life source, and energies. Water is one of the four elements that Vodou initiates are taught to respect as natural spiritual forces; it covered the earth at the beginning of time, and separates the living from the world of the ancestors.

So I wasted to add this spiritual cologne to the list an original formula, created in Haiti by Monsieur Trouillot. It’s made with Saut d'Eau Water is French for "Waterfall" it stand approximately 100 feet high and is the tallest in Haiti.

It also has natural, select Haitian herbs. "Lotion Feuilles" cologne gets its name from "feuilles" which is French for leaves. These potent leaves are used by Vodouisants for their medicinal & therapeutic benefits.

It can also be added to Good Luck, Prosperity & Blessing Baths - there are so many ways to use this and it smells good.

Now there are a lot of simbi products but to get the waters from that fall make it that much more special.

Sandalwood Water. Is one of these items that was give to Christ. It's good if you do a lot of prayer work. Prayer circles, seances, spiritual baths even for ones self. I like the spiritual washes that has sandalwood, or frankincense and myrrh.

7 African Powers Cologne is a popular one.

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Hot Foot Powder Vs Hot Foot Incense.

Hotfoot powder is used for people you don't like having bad neighbors, coworkers etc. Someone who is just a bully and something has to be done about it.

Now it is a Hex so I would say be careful with it because some people are like "I want this or that to happen to this person but I don't want them to get hurt". But that can happen. You may use it and get a person to leave and not knowing that they just got there dream job or a raise and now they just quit and moved away.

So think about how it affects them.

Sometimes they may not evet move they may just not come over anymore or not walk in your side of the street or not speak to you etc.

SO HOW TO USE IT: You just sprinkle it in someones path and when they walk over it it makes them want to leave. You can also use it in a door handle too.

HOW FOOT INCENSE: This is also something you have to be careful using. The incense is used when you don't have access to the actual person to sprinkle a Hot foot powder in their path.

What you do is take a picture of that person, light the incense and pass the picture back and forth through the incense smoke. Another way is you can write their name on paper and pass that paper a few times through the incense smoke.

That's the difference between the two.

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Part 2. Charms / Jujus Used in Real Hoodoo.

These jujus are some good ones to have if you like these kinds of of charms.

What Is A Juju? It's basically an object that was one alive and has been infused with a particular type of energy, It can be bone from an animal or bark from a tree etc. They can be powerful. (For more on this see my post on juju)

The best way to spiritually work with anything in nature like a juju is to study its character and undertand its natural power.

All items need to be properly activated.

Monkeys Paw That is naturally harvest is used for good luck and gambling, moving in a out of places unseen.

Coyotes Paw is good for protection. Taking hexes off buy rubbing your self with it. Kind of like a chicken claw. It can trample on your enemy and it can be used for hexing.

Rabbit Foot. Carried as a Good Luck charm, to ward off bad luck and bring in good luck.

Rattle Snake Vertebrae. Or any snake vertebrae is good for protection and is good juju to add in a mojo bag because sometimes you need an active object for better protection. Remember what said about the oil snake don't always harm the protect as well.

Alligator Teeth Or Foot. Like the Rabbit Foot, These are good for luck. These charms have been around in the south for a long time and as been apart of my hoodoo & voodoo heritage/community.

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More on Hoodoo (spirituality)

In my previous post I talked about traditional hoodoo where it started I want to talk a little more on it.

Let's start with this 'The origins of the word Hoodoo which some say actually comes from the real term "Hudu", meaning "spirit work," coming from the Ewe language spoken in the West African countries. No. It Does Not.some parts or African but it comes from African Americans in the American south.

As I mentioned in a past post the term Hoodoo mean. This is a term that's mean you are sending someone up the river, or the upper room. aka death. This is what it actually means. But in this time it seems it's use to represent all forms of root work. This was started by marketeers. People who has made others think it's not a religion.

Let's talk on this here 👇

SWEETENING JARS:

Traditional Sweeting Jar

Sweetening jars is traditional in Hoodoo to sweeten a person or a situation in a person's favor. The practice is appropriated and its meaning is misunderstood outside the Southern African-American community. Traditionally sugar is added to water and used.. Not Honey. Ever... This word sweeten is a southern term mean if a person like you one would say their sweet in you. Aka sweet, to like another...

During the slave trade, the majority of Central Africans imported to New Orleans, Louisiana were Bakongo (Bantu people). This image I like and wanted to show it if anyone hasn't seen it. It was painted in 1886 and shows African Americans in New Orleans performing dances from Africa in Congo Square. Congo Square was where African Americans practiced Voodoo. ("So again when any non traditional Root Worker says there isn't a little voodoo elements with hoodoo there wrong") Because it all starts in Africa..

Next we have this diagram the Kongo Cosmogram Cross.

Kongo Cosmogram aka Crossroads.

The Kongo cosmogram aka The Crossroads is from Bakongo origins. This shows how different African religions teach simulator things.

Why is it important? The basic form of this symbol is a simple cross (＋) which (symbolizes the rising of the sun in the east, the setting of the sun in the west, and represents cosmic energies.) Crossroads a place between worlds.

This shows that we do sometimes use the sun but not the moon like books may teach.

However, the cross is not the same as your typical Christian cross.

The vertical line of the cosmogram is the path of spiritual power from God at the top traveling to the realm of the dead below where the ancestors reside.

The horizontal line in the cross represents the boundary between the physical world which is the (realm of the living) and the spiritual world (realm of the ancestors).

The horizonal line is a watery divide that separates the two worlds from the physical and spiritual, and thus the "element" of water plays a role in spirituality.

The Kongo cosmogram cross symbol has a physical form in Hoodoo called the crossroads where Hoodoo rituals are performed to communicate with spirits.

Dancing: The Ring shout Is Not Part of traditional Hoodoo as far as the actual rituals are concerned, but it was done in some church's.

I wanted to share that your African roots of hoodoo but not all things that was done in Africa is hoodoo, being Christian is hoodoo so when people say I'm leaving the church to do hoodoo remember you never do it right if you don't believe in God, his son and the bible.

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Simple Hoodoo Job Spell.

First grab some dirt from your yard. Then go you the job your applying to and take some dirt from their yard and put it in a jar while replacing their dirt with your dirt. Go back home and add their dirt to the dug hole in your yard.

Go to your altar light. A white candle and say a prayer to help get the job.

That's it, pretty simple right.

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How To Traditionally Use Magical Baths.

This photo is from Aura Laforest book though it was cool

After my last post on how to use floor wash in southern hoodoo I doing this on the use of spiritual baths.

Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Magical Baths are one of the simplest and most effective ways of purifying ones self.

Magical Baths was one of the earliest lessons I was tough.

In the tradition of using herbs for cleansing and bathing is an old practice rooted in African religious traditions, Judeo-Christian tradition paganism and all other religions. Even Psalm 51:7 reads: "Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." and the tradition of using hyssop in cleansing baths persists to this day. In fact it is one of the required ingredients in any uncrossing bath.

How to Bathe. In southern hoodoo baths are not relaxing in a tubs full of flower petals and perfumes that you sit and soak in. Remember this isn't a spa day.😁

They are a series of herbs and minerals that are infused and dumped over the head quickly. Think of it like a baptism of the head or a foot wash in Christianity. Dumping water over your head versus slipping into a warm comfortable bath. It shocks your system and instantly changes your energies vibrations. (Remember what I said in my post on rattles and instruments. The vibrations. And how important & powerful it is.)( See post on rattles)

Baths are typically done in the following manner:

Set up two white candles burning on either side of your tub such that you'll have to pass through them as you step out of the tub. (Don't need to anoint the candles)

2. Heat up some water and allow your herbs to steep until they have transfered their essence and aroma to the water (as strong tea-like infusion is perfect) - strain the herbs out of the liquid. (Don't touch herbs to skin in case If Irritation)

3. Fill a big basin/ bowl with bath-temperature water or tub and add your herbal infusion to it (diluting it) Disrobe and take your basin into the bathroom.

4. Stand in the bath between the two lit candles and dump the bath over your body* use your bowl to capture some bathwater or useing a plug in the tub.

5. Pray a psalm that is appropriate for your situation.

6. Air dry.

7. Dress in clean clothes.

8. Take up some of the captured bathwater outdoors and toss in the street of ground drain the rest.

Direction Of Pouring: You would pour the bath over your body starting at your head then moving upward toward your feet.

If you are eliminating something (like taking a curse off of you, performing an uncrossing or reversing something back at an enemy) you would pour the bath over your body starting at the head and working your way downward...

Psalm: Typically Psalm 23 is prayed while performing any type of bath, but there are others you can use according to your needs. Like I stated use your own If preferred.

Tossing out the Bath Water: toss the water it the street is fine. Keep it simple this is not TV don't need to over complicated.

let me know how it worked out.

That's it Happy Bathing.

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A True Hoodoo Freezer Spell.

(Hoodoo Lesson)

When it comes to enemy freezer spells, the first thing you might read or hear is put it in the freezer. Stop right there; don't just throw it in your freezer. Doing that is not going to stop the hate, or animosity, that a person is given you. Listening to these young people who don't know what hoodoo is or these people that your reading about on Reddit that answer questions that they may repeat from books, articles or websites.

When you freeze something it's frozen like a cube of ice their being frozen in time. When you freeze a enemy your freezing them in time your freezing them physically, mentally and spiritually in that moment ok.

When you use that spell on a person who spits towards you, curses at you, talks bad about you or act any way towards you or others your freezing them in that pacific moment that won't make them stop.

So instead of those people probably moving on meeting someone or getting a better job etc, they can't because there frozen in that bad space. so they'll always be a hater.

Remember this is your roots your ancestry of southern culture and if your don't understand southern black culture you won't get Hoodoo.

Freezer Spell: Take a little bag like a ziplock bag, a piece of plastic or whatever that can hold water.

Get yourself a piece of brown paper bag. Write there name on it 3 times on the paper. Grab a lemon and cut it in half.

Roll up the petition paper and stick it in the bag take one half of the lemon put it in the bag take the other lemon half and squeeze it in the bag.

Then take 3 teaspoons of sugar and add it into the bag.

Add some water and shake it up. Seal it up tight then roll it up and put it in the freezer.

Pray the 23 Psalms. Using A white candle.

Your done...

Now why am I doing it like this?

Just like the sweetening jar your are sweetimg them. Taking them from being sour to making them better.

Now I'm sure some of you have read "Write there name and stick it in a lemon and throw it in the freezer. NO, why is this the wrong way because the lemon is sour so what your doing is taking a sour person and making that person more sour. But when you take a sour person and add sugar you're making them nicer, sweeter all-around better to be around

Now there stuck in a new moment in time a better one, Now there not going to be mean to you or anyone else and there life will be all the better for that person.

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How To Properly Dress A Candle.

You know sometimes when people burn a candle they see this soot and want to know what it means. But it can be hard to read because reading a candle properly these days is different. Let me explain it's different because different candles have different wax, different companies use different wax in their candles and the wick also okay plays apart in it. A good wick is cotton it burns good and last long. If your going to do a reading on a glass candle I suggest you try out different candles and see how they burn then if you find a good one use only their candle products.

Now let's get into candle dressing.

First when you get your candle you need to trim your wick you don't want a long wick it cause a big flame. Next let's say your doing a Money candle you would scratch your name and a dollar signed into the wax. Make it simple not to big or to deep. Reason why is that if its to deep the oils would pour into the was a could make it burn to quickly.

Next rub a light coat of oil around the wax of the candle. Then add just a sprinkle of your herb. Write your petition. now your done.

Right way. Wrong way

But wait let's do it how others tell you to online.

Its said not to trim the wick. I also see some say you need to cleanse the candle.

Then you wipe something that's going to be lit on fire with a flammable liquid. Because someone said you have to cleanse the energy that another has touched.

Florida water flammable

Then write your name on the candle and then pour some oil, but the oils is a little to much. Next you cover the top of the candle with herbs and flowers and crystals right. Then I see people put glitter into it, another thing that catches on fire. Then add your petition.

Now the candle is lit and it burn hot, it catches on fire and usually instantly creates black soot. ☝️

When you properly dress a candle you going to get spiritual results. And reduce the fire so you can get a good reading and have good results. But can you imagine paying somebody to burn the candle for you and they send you a picture and the results of the reading back to you showing you a candle that looks this bad. The fire is high, candle is burned, chard, black suit everywhere.

Now what happened next after they send you a picture they're going to send you an invoice of all these things that you're going to have to get done because your candle was black and you could have bad vibes, negative vibes, are you could be cursed. All these things are not true. Why because this person don't know how to probably dress a candle.

So to whomever is ready this post remember less is more; spirit doesn't care about these arts and crafts hoodoo candles so take your time and do it right. But if your going to buy these crafts candles I suggest you use it not as a candle but as a piece to be placed on your altar as a object of powder. such as for your deity, saints, ancestors etc .