The following are some spells that are currently used in Santeria, though originated in witchcraft. They were collected and translated by Luis M. Nuñez. You will see many similarities of many of the spells of my own and many of my grandmothers' that I had previously posted. Ebos that are sacrificial, must be done with certain ceremony (as only Santeras, Santeros, Babalawos or Iyanifas are allowed) or could cause great harm, I am not posting. I hope these would help many.
To refresh the Head (Eleda)
Ingredients:
Coconut water
River water or rain water
Raw milk
Rice water
Corojo butter
White juicy fruits such as: pineapples, pears, and sweet soursop.
Mix all the ingredients together and wash your head as often as
you like. This is specially recommended for mild depression and
anxiety and to get rid of the "blahs"
To feed the Head (Eleda)
Ingredients:
Coconut
Powdered egg shell
Cocoa butter
Smoked fish and jutia for Elegua
Slugs and black eyed peas
tamales for Obatala.
Two new white plates
Two candles
Cotton
A large white handkerchief
Feed Elegua and Obatala. Make a paste from the rest of the
ingredients. Light the two candles and place one on the center of
each plate.
The person whose Eleda is being fed should be sitting with his or
her shoes off and holding on to his or her knees. The paste is
placed on the plates around the burning candles. The Santero
holds a plate in each hand and presents the offerings to the
petitioner's forehead, shoulders, chest, the palms of the hands, the
knees and the feet while chanting:
"awe bo awe to awe omo ori yuba ba wa osiweo owe to mo re."
The paste is then applied to the petitioner's head. While still wet,
the cotton is applied, the head is covered by the handkerchief and
the paste is allowed to dry.
To think clearly
Ingredients:
Cotton
Powdered egg shell
Grated coconut
Grated yam
Coconut
water
A white cloth
If you feel that you are not thinking with your accustomed clarity,
make a paste with the yam and the grated coconut. Mix in the rest
of the ingredients and soak up the result with the cotton. Wrap the
soggy cotton up in the white cloth.
Lay down and put the package on your forehead. Close your eyes
for an hour. Keep the mixture moist by sprinkling it with coconut
water.
To see your Orisha or Eleda
Prop up a mirror on the floor of a very quiet and dark room. Light
a candle next to it. Sit on the floor two to three feet away from the
mirror. Look into the mirror for three hours and you will see your
Orisha, your Eleda and your past lives.
To remove cursed eggs
Ingredients:
Alcohol
Dry red wine
Camphor squares
Black pepper
When someone has cursed you by throwing or placing cursed
eggs around your property, don't touch them. Sprinkle them with
alcohol, dry red wine and camphor squares. Set the mixture on
fire and, while it burns, sprinkle it with black pepper and ask that
the evil that is wished upon you returns to the person that sent it.
To remove the tendency to be accident prone
Ingredients:
A piece of black cloth
White chalk
Eight black roosters
Rose
apple roots
A shark's tooth
A mule's tooth
Owl feathers
Seven candles
A large iron pot
Draw a cross with chalk on each corner of the black cloth. Line
the inside of the iron pot with the black cloth.
Place the seven candles inside the pot and light them. Throw in
the seven black rooster legs, the rose apple roots, and the rest of
the ingredients. Make sure that there are enough owl feathers for a
good fire.
As all the ingredients burn inside the pot, ask to be relieved of
your curse.
When the fire burns out, take the pot full of ashes to a cemetery
before midnight and bury the pot with its contents
To remove the influence of the evil eye from a child
Ingredients:
Sweet basil
Holy water
A white handkerchief
If you suspect that a child is sick because of someone's evil eye,
put the child to bed.
Pray over the child, asking for the intervention of your Orisha,
Yemaya, St. Beltran, or your patron Catholic Saint. Moisten a
sprig of sweet basil in the holy water and make crosses on the
child's head, chest, stomach, legs and hands.
When you are finished, wrap the sweet basil in the white
handkerchief and dispose of it far from the house.
To remove a neighbor's evil eye
Tie a red ribbon around a large bunch of bananas. Hang them
from the roof of your house until rotten. They will absorb all your
neighbor's envy.
To better your life
Ingredients:
A piece of flank steak
A red cloth
A piece of white cloth
Red ribbon
Corojo butter
Powdered egg shell
Dried corn
Six pieces of coconut
Six cowrie shells
Six silver coins
A red rooster
Place the steak on the red cloth. Smear it with corojo butter and
powdered egg shell.
Rub the steak thoroughly all over your naked body. When done,
place it on the red cloth again.
Dress in red and white. To the steak, add the corn, coconut, shells
and the coins. Place the red cloth and all that is on it on the piece
of white cloth. Make a secure bundle and tie it with the ribbon.
Take the bundle to the base of a kapok tree and offer it to Chango.
Before putting the package down, circle the tree six times while
touching it with your right hand and praying to Chango for a
better life. After the sixth turn, leave the package at the foot of the
tree.
Wait six days and return to the tree. Sacrifice a red rooster and
leave it where you left the package. Do not touch the tree. Never
do another ceremony of any kind at that tree. Don't return for a
long time.
To find out who is cursing you
Ingredients:
A white candle
A clear wine glass
Water
Coconut oil
Corojo butter
Go into a very quiet room. Place the wine glass on the floor and
fill it with water, a couple of drops of coconut oil and a tiny bit of
corojo butter. Place the candle next to the glass and light it.
Shut out all other sources of light. Sit on the floor two or three
feet away from the glass and invoke your Orisha, if you have one.
Look at the glass. Breathe evenly. It's alright to fall asleep, since
the answer may come in a dream. The face of the person wishing
you evil will appear in the glass.
The process takes patience and perseverance, since you might see
unrelated scenes in the glass for quite a while.
To ward off evil
Ingredients:
Cooking oil
Five eggs
Cinnamon
A deep white dish
Fill the dish with cooking oil. Float the five eggs on the oil.
Sprinkle them liberally with cinnamon. Insert a cotton wick in the
oil and burn the lamp for five days.
To ward off the evil eye
Ingredients:
A small gourd
Mazorquilla
Taro
Bamboo
Grind the ingredients to powder. Mix equal quantities of each
powder and sift.
Blow the powder into the eyes of the person giving you the evil
eye.
To purify yourself
Ingredients:
Sunflowers
Yellow roses
White roses
Red roses
Pompeii cologne
Violet water
Mint oil
Coconut oil
Chamomile
Holy water
Rose water
Mint leaves
Put five sunflowers in a large container. Add five of each of the
roses, a small bottle of cologne, a small bottle of violet water, five
drops of mint oil and five drops of coconut oil. Add a small bottle
of rose water, five handfuls of chamomile, five handfuls of mint
leaves and five drops of holy water. Pour in about five gallons of
water. Let the mixture steep of 24 hours.
Bathe with the mixture before going to bed. Don't dry it off.
To purify yourself
Ingredients:
Peppergrass
Vervain
Rosemary
Violets
Marigolds
Pumpkin seeds
Guinea pepper
Five river stones
Five peacock feathers
Five cinnamon sticks
Fill the tub with boiling water. Add five blossoms of all the
flowers and five pumpkin seeds. Sprinkle in the pepper. Add the
rest of the ingredients and stir until cool enough to submerge
yourself.
To purify yourself
Ingredients:
Sea water
Watermelon seeds
Florida grass
Anamu, (petiveria alliacea) garlic herb native to Cuba
Purple basil
Mugwort
Witch Hazel
Marjoram
Seven gallon bottles
Seven candles
Take all the ingredients to the sea shore. Fill the seven bottles half
way with sea water. Add seven watermelon seeds to each bottle
along with seven sprigs of each of the herbs. Submerge the bottles
in the sea for seven hours.
Start bathing with the contents of the first bottle on a Saturday.
Use a bottle a day until all the bottles are used up. On the seventh
day, light seven candles to Yemaya.
To drive away unpleasant people
Ingredients:
Honey
Ginger
Amansa guapo
On a plate, place three spoonfuls of honey, three pieces of ginger
and the Amansa guapo. Place the plate in front of your Elegua and
wait until it is covered with ants. Mix all the ingredients,
including the ants, and smear the mixture over your mouth,
petitioning Elegua to drive the person away.
To drive away unpleasant persons
Ingredients:
Pumpkin leaves
'
Boil seven pumpkin leaves in water. Strain off and keep the water.
When an unpleasant person comes to visit, throw out a bit of the
water at the person's back as he or she is leaving. Repeat every
time the person comes to visit. The person will stop coming.
To drive away unpleasant people
A loaf of bread
An egg
Honey
India ink
Red ocher
A white cloth
A turtle shell
Corn silk
Corn
Make seven spots of red ocher on the white cloth. Place a tea cup
atop the cloth.
Break the egg inside the tea cup. Pour in seven drops of honey and
seven of ink. Add a few threads of corn silk and three grains of
corn.
Tear off the butt end of a loaf of bread, hollow it out and pour the
mixture into it. Place the butt in a turtle shell and wrap everything
up in the white cloth.
Wait until the person you dislike is leaving and throw out the
bundle after him or her.
To drive away unpleasant people
Ingredients:
Ground cumin
Chinese pepper
Guinea pepper
Cowhage
Dried cat excrement
Dried dog excrement
Reduce all the ingredients to a fine powder. Mix equal parts of the
powders together. Blow this powder upon the person you want to
drive away.
To drive away an unpleasant person
Take hairs from the head of a dog and of a cat. Toast them and
pulverize them. Blow the powder on the unwanted person.
To drive away an unpleasant person
Take hairs from the head of a dog and of a cat. Toast them and
pulverize them. Blow the powder on the unwanted person.
To drive away an unpleasant person
Ingredients:
Ashes
Powdered egg shell
Hellebore
Dry and powder the hellebore root. Mix in equal parts with the
ashes and the powdered egg. Blow the powder into the face of the
person you want to drive away.
To drive away unpleasant people
Ingredients:
A pepper tree twig
A tamarind twig
Malanguilla
Clover
Marigold
Cowhage
Cemetery dust
Ground antler
Dried goat's excrement
Dried pig's excrement
Grind all the ingredients into powder. Mix equal parts of the
powders. Blow the powder at the person.
To drive away sickness
Tie a dry corn cob behind the door with a purple ribbon.
To drive away sickness and the evil eye
Ingredients:
A peeled guava stick
Corojo butter
White, blue, red, yellow, black, green, and brown ribbons.
Bend the guava stick into a shepherd's crook shape. Cover it
thoroughly in corojo butter. Wind the seven ribbons around it.
Place the stick behind the door.
To protect against a cold or flu
During the cold and flu season, take a small jute bag and fill it
with a few pieces of camphor and two or three mint leaves. Hang
the bag from your neck or pin it to your underclothes.
To encourage recuperation from an illness
Ingredients:
bejuco de la Cruz, (Hippocratea volubiles, Lin.)
A white ribbon
Cocoa butter
Place a little bundle of bejuco de la cruz , tied with the white
ribbon and smeared with cocoa butter next to the bed or under the
pillow. When the sick person recuperates, wrap the bundle in
cotton and throw it away in a hospital.
To settle dissension at home and at work
Sprinkle toasted corn mixed with powdered egg shell around the
area several days in a row.
To prevent problems with the law
Put a white rabbit and a white dove together in a comfortable cage. Feed them well every day and sprinkle drops of holy water and coconut water on their heads.
The day before the court date, free the animals in a field. Tell them that you fed them to give them their liberty, so they should give you your freedom.
To cool off a bad temper
Ingredients:
A lodestone
Poplar slivers
Amansa guapo
Cocillana bark
Eggshell
Cocoa butter
Honey
A ribbon
A white teacup
Write the bad tempered person's name on a piece of paper. Place it
at the bottom of the teacup. Put the lodestone on top of the paper.
Cover the stone with eight slivers of poplar, and eight pieces of
the other ingredients. Add eight spoonfuls of honey.
Cut the ribbon the same length as the circumference of the bad
tempered person's head. Tie eight knots in it and place it on top
off the cup's contents.
Place the cup and its contents before Obatala for eight days .
To keep the police away
Grind sage leaves into a powder and blow on your door.
To have good fortune
Every year, find out what Orishas rule the year and fly banners in
their favorite colors from your front door and at your place of
business.
To have good luck
Spread candies and pennies in the corners of your house. Do the
same at street corners and at crossroads. It will make Elegua
happy and he will favor you.
To have good luck
Wear ornaments of coral and jet around your neck. It is specially
effective for children.
The ornaments should be washed in holy water and coconut water
every now and then to refresh them.
To attract luck
Wear an alligator's tooth around your neck. Never go near the
ocean or a river with it or it will lose its powers.
To have good luck
Ingredients:
A red apple
Five yellow roses
A red rose
A white rose
Seven lettuce leaves
A half quart of milk
Honey
Abre camino , (Bunchosia media)
Wild mint
Cinnamon sticks
Marigolds
Florida water cologne
Cologne
Almond oil
Patchoulli oil
Bath salts
A red candle
Blend the apple, the flowers, the lettuce, the milk, seven spoonfuls
of honey, seven leaves of Abre camino, seven mint leaves, seven
cinnamon sticks, and seven marigolds until a smooth, thick liquid
is obtained. Add a small bottle of Florida water, a small bottle of
cologne, and seven drops of each of the essential oils.
Fill up the tub with hot water and pour in the mixture. Add the
bath salts. Light the red candle and relax in the bath.
Repeat the procedure seven days in a row.
To have good luck
Macerate a handful of laurel leaves in water and add to a hot bath.
and/or
Cover a white bed sheet in laurel leaves. Sleep on them.
For good luck
Ingredients:
Pine needles
Lavender leaves
Laurel leaves
Geranium leaves
Patchoulli
Take out the stuffing from your pillow. Mix equal portions of the
pine needles and other ingredients until you have the same volume
of material as the stuffing you took out. Sprinkle with a couple of
drops of patchoulli and stuff your pillow with the herbal mixture.
Sleep with it every night.
To have good luck
Ingredients:
Parsley
Boneset
Jamaican rosewood
Five yellow roses
Honey
Cologne
Powdered egg shell
A yellow candle
Crush the herbs in water. Add five spoonfuls of honey and a small
bottle of the cologne. Place the mixture in an open container and
leave out exposed to the sun a day and exposed a night to the dew.
Divide the mixture into five equal parts. To each, add a whole
rose.
To bring prosperity
Ingredients:
Orange rind
Dried orange leaves
Brown sugar
An iron pot
Place the ingredients in the pot and burn them. Smother the fire
and leave the smoldering mixture smoking heavily. Offer the
incense to Oshun:
"oshun oguao mi inle oshun igua iya mio igua iko bo si iya mi guasi iya mi omo y alorde oguo mi inle ashe oshun"
Or, respectfully pray to Oshun in your own language for the
money and economic prosperity that you need.
To attract money
Ingredients:
A multi-colored bowl
A multi-colored cloak
Nine old pennies
Alum Oil
Red ocher
Dust from consecrated ground
Rain water
Place the pennies in the bowl. Cover them with nine pieces of
alum, nine spoonfuls of oil, nine pinches of red ocher and of the
dust. Add enough rain water to cover the ingredients.
Cover the bowl with a multi- colored cloak and place before Oya.
When the money comes, part must be used to buy a sacrifice to
Oya.
To make a man give money to a woman
Ingredients:
A coin
Oil
Red ocher
White, blue, red, yellow, black, green and brown thread
Obtain a coin from the man. Wrap it in the different colors of
thread until no part of the coin can be seen. Place the wrapped
coin in a dish full of oil and seven pinches of red ocher. Let it
soak for seven days.
Keep the coin in a safe place and never spend it.
To attract money
Ingredients:
A lodestone
Rue
Rosemary
Anise
Sweet basil
A silver coin
Holy water
Red and black thread
A red cloth
A black cloth
Place a lodestone in a deep dish. Cross a sprig of rue with a sprig
of rosemary on top of the stone. Cross a line of anise with a sprig
of sweet basil on top of the first cross.
Wind black thread around the coin. Wind crosswise with red
thread. Lay the coin on top of the herbal crosses. Sprinkle three
times with holy water. Say three Hail Marys. Cover the dish with
the cloths and leave before your Elegua for three days.
Always carry the coin with you.
To get money from a rich friend
Ingredients:
A coconut shell
Oil
Red wine
Nine pennies
Write your friend's name on a piece of paper and place it in the
coconut shell. Put the pennies on top. Add nine spoonfuls of red
wine. Fill the shell the rest of the way with oil. Insert a wick
Burn the lamp in your yard for nine days. Then, go talk to your
friend about money.
To make a debtor pay
Ingredients:
Three needles
Honey
Rose honey
A candle
Write the name of the debtor on a piece of paper. Pierce the paper
with the needles. Place it in a glass containing equal parts of the
two honeys. Place the glass before your Elegua.
Light the candle and place it next to the glass. Petition Elegua for
your money. If you receive it, you must make a sacrifice to him.
To get an inheritance
Ingredients:
An egg shell
Rain water
Parsley
Watercress
Rose honey
Write the names of the interested parties and the name of the
lawyer on a piece of paper. Place the paper in a deep dish. Soften
the egg shell in the rain water and cover the paper with the paste.
Finely chop parsley and watercress and mix equal parts together.
Cover the egg shell paste with the chopped herbs. Pour rose honey
over the whole thing.
Place the dish on a high shelf in your house until the matter is
resolved.
To attract money
Ingredients:
Tobacco flowers
Honey
Pompeii perfume
1800 cologne
Mint oil
White roses
Pour the two bottles of perfume into a large bottle. Add seven
tobacco flowers and seven roses. Pour in seven spoonfuls of
honey and seven drops of mint oil.
Pour some of the mixture in your bath every day for seven days. If
your luck is very bad, do it for 21 days.
To attract money
Ingredients:
Three yellow roses
The milk from three coconuts
Florida water cologne
Coconut meat
Dry wine
Cinnamon sticks
Sweet basil
Pumpkin rind
Fill a large container with the roses, the coconut milk, a large
bottle of Florida water, three small pieces of coconut meat, a glass
of dry wine, three cinnamon sticks, three large handfuls of sweet
basil and five pieces of pumpkin rind. Add about five gallons of
water.
Bathe with the mixture for three days in a row. Skip three days
and then bathe with it for five days in a row.
To attract money
Ingredients:
Balsam apple
Peppergrass
Honey
River water
Pompeii cologne
White roses
Yellow roses
Red roses
Holy water
In a large container, put five balsam apples, five sprigs of
peppergrass, five spoonfuls of honey, five of each color rose, and
five drops of holy water. Add about five gallows of clean river
water. Let the mixture sit for a day.
Bathe with the mixture.
To attract money
Ingredients:
Cow's milk
Goat's milk
Coconut milk
Holy water
Mix the liquids in equal parts. Bathe yourself in the morning,
before sunrise.
To attract money
Dress in yellow and go to the ocean or to a river. Walk into the
water, while dressed, with a bottle of honey. Rub your whole body
with the honey, especially your head. Let the water wash it off.
Don't swim.
To attract money
Ingredients:
Wild flowers
Coconut oil
Coconut soap
Green tobacco leaves
Rosemary
Wild mint
Maiden's hair
Myrrh
Pompeii cologne
Gather three handfuls of wild flowers along three different paths.
Put them in a large container. Add three spoonfuls of coconut oil
and three bars of coconut soap, three tobacco leaves, three sprigs
of rosemary and three of wild mint, three sprigs of maiden's hair
fern.
Add three drops of myrrh and a bottle of the cologne. Pour in
about five gallons of water.
Bathe on three Mondays in a row. After each bath, give Elegua a
little bit of his favorite food.
To attract money
Ingredients:
Rose petals
Gladioli
White lilies
Jasmine
Marigold
Sunflowers
Pompeii cologne
Guerlain cologne
Sol de Oro cologne
Florida water cologne
River water
Coconut water
Place seven rose petals in a large container. Add seven of each of
the flowers, a small bottle of each cologne, and the water from
five coconuts. Add about five gallons of river water. Bathe with
the mixture before sunrise for seven days in a row
To obtain a job
Rub your hands with corojo oil and honey. Lick your hands three
times and ask for the job.
To get a raise at work
Ingredients:
Star anise
Alum
Peanuts
Grind each of the ingredients into a powder. Mix equal parts
together and sprinkle it around your work place.
To purify your house after moving in
Ingredients:
Dried sweet basil
Dried eucalyptus leaves
Myrrh
If you have just moved into a house and feel strange vibrations or
entities, prepare a large quantity of equal parts of basil and
eucalyptus. Add a little of the myrrh.
Fill a large fireproof container such as an iron pot with the
mixture. Set fire to the leaves, smother the fire and walk the
smoking mixture all over the house.
Close all doors and windows, place the smoldering iron pot on a
fireproof surface such as pieces of metal or tile and leave the
house for four to five hours.
When you return and air out the house, all strange influences will
be gone.
To remove a curse against your house or business
Ingredients:
Banana leaves
Six Espanta Muerto sticks
A stick from the rose apple
Corojo butter
Rope from agave fibers
Dry eucalyptus leaves
Smear the banana leaves and the sticks with lots of corojo butter.
Wrap the sticks in the banana leaves and tie the bundle together
with the agave cord.
Place the eucalyptus leaves in a plate and burn them until they
smoulder and produce a lot of smoke. Take the smoking leaves all
through your house or place of business, making sure that the
smoke gets in all the corners. Stop at each door and ask that the
curse be lifted from you.
When you have thoroughly fumigated your house or place of
business, leave the eucalyptus ashes and the banana leaf bundle at
the door of the person who cursed you (if you know who it is). If
you don't know who cursed you, spread a bed sheet on the street
and leave the ashes and the package on it.
Return home and give yourself a herbal bath to drive away any
traces of the spirits of the dead.
To remove evil influences from your house
Ingredients:
A coconut
Powdered egg shell
Whiten the coconut with the powdered egg shell. Go to the room
farthest from the front door. Place the coconut on the floor and
kick it from room to room until you reach the front door. Give the
coconut a good kick out the front door.
Perform this ebo whenever your house feels "uneasy".
To remove negative influences from a house
Paint a live turtle blue. Allow it to walk around the house for
seven days. Let it wander around the yard as well, but don't let it
get lost.
At the end of the seven days, take the turtle to the water and let it
go. Offer a watermelon to Yemaya.
To keep enemies and rivals away from your house
Ingredients:
Boneset root
Rusted iron
Arsenic
Sulphur
Red ocher
Ground deer antler
Rock salt
Balsam
A scorpion
Cooking oil
Fry the scorpion in the oil until the scorpion is dissolved. Save the
oil.
Write the person's name on a piece of paper. Place the paper at the
bottom of a clay pot and burn it to ashes. Put the boneset on top of
the ashes. Add three slivers of rusted iron. Cover all with the
powders. Add three grains of the rock salt and the balsam. Cover
all the ingredients in the oil. Insert a wick.
Place the lamp in front of Elegua and light it. Leave it lit for three
days.
While the lamp is lit, pray that Elegua drive your enemies away.
Throw water out the front door three times after each prayer.
To make a neighbor move
Ingredients:
A wasp's nest
Coal
Guinea pepper
Rock salt
An egg
Red ocher
Powder a piece of wasp's nest, coal and four grains of Guinea
pepper. Add three grains of rock salt. Mix equal parts of the
powder.
Let the egg soak in oil and red ocher for three days and nights.
Throw the egg at your neighbor's door and blow the powder after
it so that it sticks to the remnants of the egg.
To make a neighbor move
Ingredients:
Powdered egg shell
An egg from a black chicken
Nightshade
Dry and powder the egg. Dry and powder the nightshade. Mix
with equal parts of powdered egg shell. Blow this powder inside
your neighbor's house.
To make a neighbor move
The white of an egg
Seven needles
Cowhage
Iron filings
Peppercorns
Dust from the four corners of a crossroads
A feather from a Guinea hen
Pierce the egg and blow the white out. Stick the needles into the
egg.
Burn the feather and reduce to ashes. Grind the rest of the
ingredients into a powder and mix in equal parts.
Throw the egg at your neighbor's door. Blow the powder after it.
To prevent the rental of a house
Ingredients:
Carbon dust
Rock dust
Benzoin resin
Grind the ingredients into a powder and mix in equal parts.
Sprinkle the mixture inside the house.
To have your lawyer win a property suit
A peacock feather A guinea hen feather
Earth from the four corners of the property
Toast the feathers and grind them to a powder. Mix in equal quantities with the earth. Sift the mixture to a very fine powder. The lawyer is to sprinkle the dust on the floor of the courtroom where the case is being heard.
To protect your house
Ingredients:
Anamu , (petiveria alliacea) garlic herb native to Cuba
Three large iron nails
Red, white and black thread
Wax
Powdered egg shell
An egg
Water Wine
Cut the thread into seven inch sections. Twist three of the white
threads, two of the black threads and two of the red threads
together. Rub with wax to make a stiff twine. Make three pieces
of the twine.
Put the nails in a fire until they are red hot. While still hot, wrap
each nail in Anamu leaves and wind tight with the twine.
Cover the egg in the powdered egg shell. Make a triangle with the
nails. Stand up the egg in the triangle. Sprinkle the amulet with
water and wine every day.
To win a woman
Ingredients:
Coral
Cinnamon
Creme de Menthe
Anise
Powder the ingredients and mix them with a few drops of the
Creme de Menthe. When drunk or eaten, the mixture will turn the
most indifferent woman into a passionate lover
To conquer a lover
Chew a small stick of Jamaica rosewood and either chew it or leave it inside your mouth while you speak to the person you are trying to seduce.
This works equally well in a business meeting.
To resolve romantic problems
Ingredients:
Parsley
Honey
Cinnamon sticks
Dry corn
Mix all the ingredients together, reserving a sprig of parsley. Place
the mixture in a high place in your house.
Every time you speak with the one you love, you must have the
sprig of parsley with you.
To win a lover
Write the person's name with India ink on a small piece of
papyrus. Put the slip of paper under a gourd filled with an Omiero
made with seven herbs belonging to Yemaya and Oshun.
Herbs of Yemaya:
cucaracha, chinzosa, Yellow mombin, indigo, anamu (garlic herb
native to Cuba), water hyacinth, seaweed, purple basil, green
pepper, chayote fruit, Bermuda grass, Florida grass, sponges,
coralline, majagua linden, salt water rushes
Herbs of Oshun:
Rose, sunflowers, Indian lotus, morasun, alambrilla, frescura,
cucaracha, hierba nina, arabito, mazorquilla, paraguita morada,
hierba fina, ale and female ferns, creeping crowfoot, purslane,
oranges and orange leaves, papaya, amber, anise seed and flower,
peppergrass, marigold, sow thistle, river weeds, seaweed, white
hamelias, plantain, vervain, lantana, purple grapes, maidenhair
fern, rosemary, wild lettuce
To arouse virility in men and passion in women
Ingredients:
Sea turtle eggs
Honey
Cinnamon sticks
Dry the turtle eggs and powder them. Brew cinnamon tea, stir in
the powdered eggs and sweeten with honey. Drink three times a
day.
To attract a lover
Ingredients:
Sea water
Indigo dye
Sugar cane syrup
Corojo butter
Pork lard
Vegetable oil
Mercury
Cocoa butter
A cotton wick
Seven pins
Blue thread
Write the lover's name at the bottom of a large pot. Fill the pot
with the oil. Add small quantities of the rest of the ingredients.
Insert the wick.
Go to the sea shore. Tie the seven pins together with the thread.
Hold them up before you and walk out to the surf, calling out your
lover's name seven times.
Light the lamp.
Take the burning lamp back home and allow it to burn for seven
days. At the end of seven days, take the lamp back out to the sea
shore and let the waves sweep it away. Petition Yemaya to have
your lover at your feet.
To attract a lover
Ingredients:
Red ocher
Sulphur
Borax
Powdered poplar leaves
Three pins
Cooking oil
Write the loved one's name on a piece of paper four times. Place
the paper inside a large colorful teapot. Add a pinch of the four
powders and the oil. Insert a wick and burn the lamp for nine
days.
To attract a lover
Ingredients:
A red apple
Corojo oil
Six okras
Corn meal
Mercury
Place the apple in a gourd. Cover it with the oil. Add a small
amount of the other ingredients. Insert a cotton wick and light the
lamp before Chango's tureen.
To seduce a man
Ingredients:
Cooking oil
Red wine
Aguardiente
Seven needles
Black thread
White thread
Pour the cooking oil, a cup of red wine and a cup of aguardiente
in a new pot.
Write the man's name on a piece of paper and pierce it with the
seven needles. Roll the paper up into a cylinder and wind the
black and white thread around it.
Float the paper on the oil. Insert a wick.
Light the lamp and burn it for nine days. At the end of the ninth
day, take out the needles and bury them.
To attract a lover
Ingredients:
A dove
Seven pins
Sesame oil
Olive oil Almond oil Honey
Red ocher
Cut out the dove's heart. Write the person's name on a piece of
paper and wrap the heart in it. Pierce the packet with the seven
pins and place inside a pot.
Pour in equal parts of the oils. Add a pinch of the powder and a
spoon full of honey. Insert a wick.
Light the lamp and allow it to burn for five days. On the fifth day,
bury the pot and go visit the desired person.
To attract and dominate a lover
Ingredients:
Cooking oil
Black ink
Mercury
Seven peppercorns
A length of narrow ribbon
Pour the cooking oil into a pot. Add a few drops of ink, mercury
and the peppercorns.
Remove all your clothes and stand before your Elegua. Tie the
piece of ribbon around your waist. While tying seven knots in the
ribbon say:
"By the seven words that Christ said on the cross. With two, I
look at you. With three, I see you. With the Father, the Son and
the Holy Ghost, let (name) come and be at my feet."
To attract a lover
Ingredients:
A dove
Four pins
A round river pebble
Olive oil
Red ocher
Rock candy
Sesame oil
Place the pebble in a pot. Sacrifice the dove and let the blood drip
on the pebble. Cut the heart out of the dove and pierce it with the
four pins. Place the heart in the pot along with the rest of the
ingredients and cover with oil. Insert a wick and light.
When the lamp goes out, remove the pebble and wear it as a
talisman.
To attract a lover
Ingredients:
Whale oil
Almond oil
Corojo oil
Balsam
Mercury
Water
Mix the oils together in a small container. Add a drop of mercury
and a spoonful of water. Write the lover's name on a piece of
paper and put it in the oil. Insert a wick and burn the lamp.
To attract a lover
Ingredients:
A glass of water
Honey
Camphor
Poppies
Mercury
A candle
At noon, write the loved one's name on a piece of paper and place
it in the glass of water. Add a small quantity of the other
ingredients. Light a candle next to the glass.
To seduce a lover
Ingredients:
A large new tea cup
A lodestone
Five needles
A dove
Five varieties of sweet wine
Olive oil
Honey
Mercury
Five cotton wicks
Write the name of the person you love on a piece of paper. Pierce
the paper with the needles. Place the paper at the bottom of the
cup. Weigh it down with the lodestone. Sacrifice the dove over
the cup and allow the blood to pour over the stone. Add a spoon
full of each of the wines, five drops of mercury, and five
spoonfuls of honey. Fill the rest of the cup with olive oil. Insert
the wicks.
Light and burn for five days.
To seduce a man
Ingredients:
Seven earth worms
Menstrual blood
Excrement
Hair
Genital hair
Collect seven earth worms. Lay them in the sun to dry. Also
collect a little of your menstrual blood, a pinch of your excrement,
hairs from your head and hair from your genitals. Lay them on a
plate and let them dry in the sun.
When thoroughly dry, take all the ingredients and grind them to a
very fine powder.
Administer the powder in the man's food or drink.
To seduce a man
Ingredients:
Menstrual blood
Nail trimmings
Hair
Genital hair
Armpit hair
Poppy seeds
Root of rue
Amansa guapo
A hummingbird heart
Collect a bit of your menstrual blood, nail trimmings from each of
your fingers, hair from your head, armpits and genitals.
Lay all the ingredients on a plate and add the hummingbird heart,
three poppy seeds, and the Amansa guapo. Set everything in the
sun to dry.
When thoroughly dry, grind everything to a very fine powder. Put
the powder next to your Elegua for three days. Administer the
powder in the man's food or drink.
If a man wants to prepare this powder to seduce a woman, replace
the menstrual blood with semen.
To be seductive
Ingredients:
Talisman
perfumed body powder
Hair from a stray bitch
Powdered egg shell from an infertile dove egg
Ground antler
Incense
Borax
Valerian powder
Cinnamon powder
Five pieces of coral
Grind the five corals and the five hairs from a stray bitch into a
fine powder. Mix with the body powder. Add five pinches of the
powdered egg shell, the antler, the incense, the borax, the valerian
and the cinnamon.
After the powder has been thoroughly mixed, sprinkle on your
body.
To attract a lover
Ingredients:
Pompeii face powder
Cinnamon
Powdered valerian
Holy water
Mercury
Add a pinch of the other powders to the face powder. Make a
cross on the surface of the mix with the holy water. Add a drop of
mercury.
To marry the person you want
Rub your hands with powdered egg shell before you shake hands
with him or her.
To stop a husband from being unfaithful
Ingredients:
Yellow cloth
Dried corn
Honey
Cinnamon sticks
Cinnamon
Cotton
Two lodestones
A candle
When you know that your husband is unfaithful, take a little
cutting of his hair and a few of his nail parings. Place them and all
the ingredients, except the candle and the cinnamon oil, in the
yellow cloth and make a tight bundle.
Sprinkle the bundle with cinnamon oil and burn the candle to
Oshun daily for five days.
If the unfaithful husband has actually left the house, add the blood
of a chicken to Oshun's tureen before making this Ebo.
To hold on to a wandering husband
Ingredients:
Almond oil
Honey
Holy water
Egg yolk
Yellow cloth
Red ribbon
Fill a gourd with almond oil. Add small quantities of honey, holy
water and egg yolk. Insert a wick.
Light the lamp as you petition Oshun. Wrap the yellow cloth
around your middle and tie it tight with the red ribbon. Wear the
girdle for five days.
To have a lover return
Ingredients:
A large gourd
Two chicken feet
An egg
Linseed oil
Florida water cologne
Marjoram
Paprika
A piece of your lover's clothing or jewelry
A cotton wick
Write your lover's name on a piece of paper. Place the gourd on
top of the paper. Put five chicken nails, the egg, Florida water, a
little paprika, marjoram and a strip of the clothing or the piece of
jewelry in the gourd. Fill it up with the linseed oil and insert the
wick.
Petition Oshun for your lover's return as you light the lamp. Allow
it to burn for five days. Dispose of it in a river.
To tie a lover to you
Obtain seven ribbons the colors of the Seven African Powers
(white, blue, red, yellow, black, green and brown). Weave them
together in a cord.
Smear the completed cord with plenty of corojo butter and a little
bit of coconut oil. Make seven knots along the length of the cord
and place it in front of a photo or the name of the person you want
to tie to you.
Burn a candle before the cord for seven days.
To tie a lover to you
Ingredients:
Olive oil
Mercury
Sulphur
Sweet wine
Aguardiente
Five small dolls
Yellow thread
Buy a metal pot and fill it with olive oil. Add small quantities of
the mercury, and sulphur. Pour in five spoonfuls of wine and
aguardiente. Make up the dolls to look like the person you want to
tie to you. Tie them together with yellow thread and float them in
the oil. Place a cotton wick in the oil.
Petition Oshun as you light the wick. Burn the lamp for five days
and dispose of it in a river.
To tie a lover to you
Ingredients:
Cooking oil
Honey
Brown sugar
Rock candy
Five pins
Five needles
Five cotton wicks
Write your lover's name on a piece of paper. Pierce the paper with
the pins and needles and place it at the bottom of a large tea cup.
Cover the paper completely with small amounts of the honey,
sugar and candy. Fill the cup the rest of the way with the oil.
Insert the five wicks.
Light the lamp and allow it to burn for five days.
To tie a lover to you
Ingredients:
Elegua's herbs
Smoked fish
Smoked jutia
Holy water
Red ocher
Sulphur
Borax
Balsam
Valerian powder
Powdered poppy seeds
Powdered rue root
Two small dolls
Small wooden chains
A lodestone Three iron nails
Sesame oil
Balsam oil
Patchoulli oil
Poppy oil
Honey
Aguardiente
Cotton
White thread
Black thread
A wooden box
Prepare an Omiero with Elegua's herbs. Write your lover's name
on a piece of paper and wrap the paper in cotton. If the person to
be tied is a man, add a little of his semen; if a woman, a few drops
of her menstrual blood. Place the paper wrapped in cotton
between the two dolls. Tie the two dolls together with the wooden
chains.
Sprinkle the dolls with the essential oils, aguardiente and honey.
Begin winding them with the thread. As you wind, insert the nails
into the mummy as well as the lodestone. Continue winding with
thread and intermingling the rest of the ingredients until the dolls
are completely hidden.
Soak the doll mummy in the Omiero as you petition Elegua to
make your relationship as tight as that of the dolls. Leave the
bundle soaking in the Omiero for three days.
After the three days, place the wrapped dolls in the box, nail it
shut and bury it at the base of a kapok tree or a palm tree.
Elegua's Herbs:
Abre camino, (Bunchosia media), Cuban spurge, sargasso, wild
convulvulus, foxtail, nettles, manyroot, crowfoot, neat's tongue,
white pine nuts, jack bean, spiny blite, nightshade, black eyed
peas, ateje, (cordia collocea), heliotrope, pigeon peas, mastic tree,
camphor leaves, chili peppers, corn stalks, corn leaves, and corn
silk, avocado leaves, avocado roots, coconut husk, coconut palm
stem, corojo, guava, wild croton, coffee, cowhage, peppergrass,
dried rose buds, senna, soapberry tree, bitter bush, and mint
among others
To tie a woman to you
Ingredients:
Sugar cane
Corn starch
Taro
Immature corn
A fox's tail
Ginger
Five pieces of coral
A ball of cotton
Pubic hairs taken while she is menstruating
Tie all the ingredients into a bundle and bury it.
To keep a man faithful
Ingredients:
Five coral crosses
A piece of amber
Honey
Ferns
A coin
Indian lotus (nelumbo)
In a jar before Oshun's tureen, place 25 drops of honey. Grind the
coral and the amber to a fine powder one by one. Do a Moyuba
for Oshun as you add the powder to the honey. Take the jar to a
river and pray to Oshun.
Take a large leaf of Indian lotus. Leave a coin for Osain in
exchange. Place the leaf in the jar and wrap the jar in the ferns.
After five days, unwrap the jar. Press out the juice from the leaf
and wash your genitals with the juice. Moisten a piece of cotton
with the honey mixture and insert it in your vagina. Take the
cotton back out and make love with the man you want to tie.
To tie a lover to you
Ingredients:
A male and a female lizard
Black, white and red thread
Seven needles
Aguardiente
Tie the lizards together with the three colors of thread. Pierce the
lizards with the needles and pack them in mud taken from you
lover's shoes.
Obtain a piece of your lover's sweaty clothing. Soak it in
aguardiente. Wrap the mud ball in the piece of clothing and place
it before your Elegua. Petition Elegua so that he will help you
hold on to your lover.
To tie a man to a woman
Ingredients:
A white handkerchief
Aguardiente
Three basil roots
Gather some of the man's semen and place it on a white
handkerchief. Let it dry.
When the semen is dry, tear the handkerchief into 14 strips. Tie a
knot in each strip. Tie all the knotted strips end to end and place
them under your Elegua along with the roots and a glass of
aguardiente.
To tie a lover to you
Write out your lover's first name on a piece of paper. Turn the
paper 90 degrees and write the last name so that it crosses the first
name. Place a scissors on top of the piece of paper.
To tie a lover to you
Ingredients:
Salt
Saffron
Anise
Cumin
Seven pebbles
Three dried twigs
A hermit crab
Two bags
Dry wine
Dampen the salt, anise, saffron, and cumin and mix into a stiff
paste. Make five figurines (either male or female).
Gather seven pebbles from the four corners of the block where
your lover lives. While gathering the pebbles, also gather the
twigs.
Go to the seashore and capture a hermit crab.
Sweep up a little dust from your lover's footprints. Write his or
her name on a piece of paper.
Put the figurines and all the other items in a bag. Sew it up and
place it inside a second bag. Sprinkle the package with dry wine
and leave it at a street corner.
To tie a lover to you
Swallow a grain of corn whole, without chewing it. Pick it out of
your excrement once it passes through you. Add the grain of corn
to the food of the person you want to tie to you.
To keep a lover from leaving town
Ingredients:
A glass
Coffee grounds
Water
A candle
Corojo butter
Write your lover's first and last names backwards in the form of a
cross on a piece of paper. Place the paper in the bottom of a glass.
Cover the paper with coffee grounds and fill the
rest of the glass with water. Place the glass next to your Elegua.
Cover the candle with corojo butter. Place it next to the glass. As
you light it, petition Elegua to prevent your lover from leaving.
To make your lover come back to town
Cut out a paper silhouette the same size as your lover. Write your
lover's name upon it seven times. Cut the names out of the paper
figurine with new scissors. Place the strips of paper at the foot of
your Elegua. Leave them there for seven days.
On the seventh day, burn the silhouette and the strips of paper
with your lover's name. Toss the ashes in the direction where your
lover is.
To make your lover come back to town
Ingredients:
A new deep white plate
Almond oil
Coconut oil
Three cotton wicks
Write your lover's name on a piece of paper and lay it inside the
plate. Fill the plate with equal parts of the oils. Insert the wicks.
Light and let the lamp burn for three days.
To make your lover come back to town
Ingredients:
A lodestone
Three needles
Sweet wine
Mercury
Red ocher
A glass of water
Write your lover's name on a piece of paper. Write your name so
that it makes a cross over it. Pierce the paper with the needles.
Place the paper at the bottom of a small clay pot. Weigh it down
with the lodestone. Add three pinches of red ocher, three
spoonfuls of wine and a small dollop of mercury. Put a glass of
water next to the pot.
To tie a lover to you
Ingredients:
A lodestone
Dry wine
Three horseshoe nails
An egg
Amansa guapo
A candle
Obtain your lover's wash cloth. Write your lover's name on a
piece of paper and place it on the cloth.
Wash a lodestone in dry wine and put it on top of the paper. Place
the rest of the ingredients on the paper. Wrap the cloth around
everything and make a tight bundle.
Sprinkle the package every Friday with dry wine and light a
candle next to it.
To tie a lover to you
Ingredients:
A nail
Aguardiente
Heat the nail until it is red hot and plunge it into aguardiente. Let
it soak for seven days.
On the seventh day, reheat the nail and sprinkle it with aguardiente. Drive the nail into a beam or wall in your house while calling out your lover's name.
To tie a lover to you
Ingredients:
A lodestone
Sea water
A rooster
Red ocher
Sulphur
Borax
Mercury
Seven pieces of poplar root
Watercress juice
Sweet wine
Cooking oil
A cotton wick
Write your lover's name on a piece of paper. Place it at the bottom
of a deep pot. Weigh it down with the lodestone.
Sacrifice the rooster over the pot and let all the blood drain over
the paper and the lodestone.
Add seven pinches of the three powders, seven drops of mercury,
the seven roots, seven spoonfuls of the juice and of the sweet
wine. Pour in seven cups of sea water and fill to the top with
cooking oil. Insert a wick and burn for seven days.
I think this just about covers everything. Remember, for the most part these must be done with the proper ritual/ceremony. Especially the ones calling on the Orishas. For anything where herbs are to be placed on the body or consumed, be sure that you/they are not allergic to them.
Blessings!
Image: Voodoo Woman Painting - Geoffrey Greene
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