SPIRITUAL BATHS AND CLEANSINGS

Some Staple Ingredients for Cleansings

As with all things in traditional Hoodoo and conjure, we want to look at what we have readily available in our homes that will work in a pinch. After there is an understanding of the various possibilities, then you can expand to include herbs, roots or plants that you wild craft yourself, or purchase (though we strongly recommend gathering your own herbs initially) and oils, cascarilla (which can be easily prepared from saved egg shells), and other special ingredients.

Look in your kitchen cabinet and see what you have on hand. Do you have salt? Vinegar? Cinnamon? Sugar? What about in your refrigerator? Do you have milk and eggs? Good! All of these are ingredients can be used for basic baths and cleansings and wont cost you anything to prepare.

A general rule of thumb is to use 3 ingredients for your baths and floor washes. There are definitely times when more or less ingredients are used but 3 ingredient baths are extremely common in Hoodoo. Following is a list of some common household ingredients and a variety of herbs that can be used in spiritual baths and their magical and spiritual associations (see table 1). It is important to understand what their associations are so that you can substitute one thing for the other in a pinch.

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Table 1. Commonly Used Ingredients Found in Floor Washes and Spiritual Baths.

PURPOSE
BLESSING BRING BUSINESS CLEANSING AND REMOVING CONDITIONS

HERB Salt, Hyssop, Angelica, Acacia, Basil, Evaporated Milk, Coconut Milk, Olive Oil, Florida Water Sugar, Bluestone, Saltpeter, Coins, Beer Salt, Saltpeter, Bluing, Epsom Salts, Camphor, Lemon, Evaporated Milk, Coconut Milk, Ammonia, Eucalyptus, Bay, Basil Sugar, Damiana, Rose, Magnet, Florida Water Sugar, Cinnamon, Alfalfa, Chamomile, Magnet, Mint Parsley, Basil, Coins, Beer, Ammonia Balm of Gilead, Olive Oil Salt, Hyssop, Angelica, Acacia, Evaporated Milk, Coconut Milk, Olive Oil, Rosemary Salt, Rue, Hyssop, Evaporated Milk, Coconut Milk Rue, Kosher Rock Salt, Sea Salt, Blessed Salt, Florida Water Balsam of Peru, Basil, Juniper Berry, Sassafras, Tangerine, Allspice, Bitter Almond, Cassia Bark, Cinnamon Bark, Cloves, Garlic, Ginger, Onion, Thyme Eucalyptus, Bay, Basil, Camphor, Anise, Coconut, Evaporated Milk, Coconut Milk, Ammonia, Rose Oil Sugar, Bluestone, Saltpeter, Bergamot, Coins Rosemary, Evaporated Milk, Coconut Milk Salt, Agrimony, Eucalyptus, Lemon, Ammonia

CANDLE

White Yellow White

DRAW LOVE DRAW MONEY EMOTIONAL GROUNDING, GRIEF HEALING PROTECTION PURIFICATION RELEASING ANGER (COOLING THE HEAD)

Red, Blue Green, Gold White

Purple, white White

Red

ROAD OPENER SUCCESS STRENGTH UNCROSSING/JINX REVERSAL

Black or white Yellow White, Purple Black or White

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