Magick by Type: Voudou and HooDoo

Voudou and hoodo Magick
are a rich and powerful set of traditions that have mingled with Western Occult traditions especially in the Southern US. Strictly speaking, Voudou, Louisiana Voodoo or Haitian Vodun are distinct from Hoodoo, which is also called Conjure or simply Rootwork. Hoodoo is more syncretized with Christian faiths, and is primarily a tradition of magick and spellwork. Voudou is an organized religious system in a family of African diaspora religions which are practiced primarily in Western African countries and the Western Hemisphere. 

In the American South, and in New Orleans in particular, these religious traditions brought directly from West Africa and indirectly from Caribbean nations, especially Haiti, blended with Christian faiths and practices of French occultists and Native American spirituality into a rich gumbo of spirituality and magick. The African style of conjure magick must have seemed very logical and familiar to kitchen witch style spellworkers from or descended from ancestors from Western Europe, and subsequently many Hoodoo and Voodoo ingredients and formulas became next to indispensable in the Natural Magickian's herb closet.
  

Oils

Black Cat oil

High John the Conqueror oil

Van Van oil

Incenses

High John the Conqueror incense

Mojo Kits

Major Mojo mojo kit

(All the mojo kits)

Candles
Black Cat candles
High John the Conqueror candles
Van Van candles

Botanicals

Beth Root

Cinquefoil

Devil’s Claw

High John the Conqueror

Job’s Tears

Lucky Hand

Tonka Bean

Miscellaneous Mojo

Florida Water

Four Thieves Vinegar

Graveyard Dust

Hot Foot Powder

Lodestones

Lodestone Food

Deity oils

Chango oil

Elegba oil

Obatala oil

Oshun oil

Yemoyah oil

The Witch Bottle

Witch bottles have been used for centuries in various ways. Nowadays, as perhaps before, they are used primarily as decoys to attract, absorb, confuse and defuse negative psychic energy being sent to a target or victim, whether it be random ill will or malicious cursing.

All it takes is a bottle or jar with a good watertight lid, and all sorts of bent pins or nails, broken glass or mirrors, cactus thorns, anything spiky, bent, or broken. Fill the jar or bottle with this stuff and then fill it a little more than halfway with a combo of: your own urine and/or a drop of blood or menstrual blood, and either plain water or vinegar, or for stronger effect, Four Thieves Vinegar. Cap the jar tightly.

Then you bury the bottle somewhere near your house, preferably under the front porch or near your front door. This is best done during the dark moon or just before, at midnight, but really anytime will do.

Here is the theory behind why the Witch Bottle works so well: Your urine or blood identifies it as “you,” and so then acts as a decoy for energy sent your way, the bent pins confuse the hex, the mirrors reflect the energy back to sender, the vinegar dissolves the curse, and the burying "buries the hatchet."

Good luck!

Cedar Stevens 2008