There are many, many items that can be found in your local grocery store that you can use for your magickal workings. This is especially useful during the winter months when wildcrafting is not possible or practical, as well as throughout the year when you need something in a pinch.
If you are just starting out, an good way to build up your inventory of herbs and supplies is to take a list with you each time you go to the grocery store and purchase a couple of items off of the list. This way, it won’t break the bank and your supply will steadily grow.
Following is a list of some things you can get at your local grocery store that can be used in rootwork.
The uses listed next to the various items are by no means exhaustive. Refer to the tables in Chapter 5
1. ALUM – Enhances talismans and amulets, power booster
2. ALLSPICE - An ingredient for all good luck charms, gambling mojos and money gris gris; is said to increase business and prosperity.
3. AMMONIA - Used in cleansing baths and floor washes. Only a tablespoon or so is needed as too much ammonia can have the opposite effect.
4. BASIL – Love, protection, happiness, peace, money.
5. BAY LEAVES – Protection, health, success, wisdom, repels evil.
6. BLACK PEPPER – Revenge, cause pain in enemies, prevents unwanted people from visiting your home when sprinkled outside the front door.
7. CANDLES – You can find plain household candles to fragrance candles and 7 day glass encased saints candles to use in any number of works.
8. CAYENNE PEPPER – Hot foot, drive away ingredient; also used to heat things up and speed up works.
9. CINNAMON – A staple in all love and money drawing spells, sweeps and baths; heats things up.
10. CLOVES – Used in money drawing and friend drawing oils and spells
COW TONGUE – Stop gossip spells; the main ingredient in the infamous cow tongue spell where the tongue is slit longwise down to the bottom but not all the way through, special herbs and a name paper is placed inside and the tongue is either sewn shut or pinned closed with numerous straight pins and needles.
12. FLOWERS – Common offering to the spirits and saints; usually placed on altars. Different flowers have different qualities.
13. HONEY – Used in sweetener spells and works when you want to someone to speak nicely of you, or used in love spells. A popular honey jar spell consists of placing a name paper inside a jar of honey and burning a red candle on top of the jar.
14 KOSHER SALT – Said to be a good substitute for blessed salt and used in floor sprinkles and cleansing baths.
15 MASON JARS – Great for storing roots herbs, and mixtures, perfect for jar spells of all kinds.
16 MINT - Believed to be good for protection, repelling enemies, uncrossing, increasing money and finances. Add to mojo bags or fix green candles with the powdered herb.
17 NUTMEG – Believed to bring good luck and fortune to those who play games of chance. The famous fixed nutmeg consisted of boring a hole in the nutmeg and filling with liquid mercury. A more current version fills the hole with some sort of money drawing herb and is then sealed with wax. The nutmeg is anointed with Fast Luck oil and then wrapped in a dollar bill. The whole thing is then tied with red string and kept as a fast luck amulet.
18 OREGANO - Reported to keep away the law and any meddling, troublesome people.
19 PAPER BAGS – Excellent for drying herbs and disposing of spell remains. Simply place fresh herbs into a paper bag and close. Leave for a few days and the herb will be dried and ready for use or storage.
20 PARRAFIN – making jack balls. Herbs are mixed in with melted paraffin and rolled into a ball. The ball is then wrapped tightly with red string and tied off. A long piece of string is left so that it can be used as a pendulum. Rootworkers have been known to name their jack balls as they believe they come to life.
21 POPPY SEED - Used for court case spells to cause confusion and make others “act a fool” in important decisions.
22 PUMPKINS – Hollowed out and used for container spells.
23 ROSEMARY – Said to empower women, provide protection; bring luck in family matters.
24 SALT - Used in cleansings and protection floor sweeps and baths.
25 SWEETENERS – White, brown, confectioner’s sugar, honey, Karo syrup, maple syrup, molasses and all other sweeteners like are used to sweeten people to your cause, be it love, a promotion, or quelling conflicts and unpleasant disagreements. Some old timers would use light and white sweeteners when working with White folks and brown sweeteners when working with people of color.
26 THYME – For peace of mind; used to increase and protect money.
27 VINEGAR – Used to sour things, used in bottle and container spells.
Excerpt from the course Foundations in Southern Rootwork 1 offered by Crossroads University.
Copyright 2013 Denise Alvarado All rights reserved worldwide.
13. HONEY – Used in sweetener spells and works when you want to someone to speak nicely of you, or used in love spells. A popular honey jar spell consists of placing a name paper inside a jar of honey and burning a red candle on top of the jar.
14 KOSHER SALT – Said to be a good substitute for blessed salt and used in floor sprinkles and cleansing baths.
15 MASON JARS – Great for storing roots herbs, and mixtures, perfect for jar spells of all kinds.
16 MINT - Believed to be good for protection, repelling enemies, uncrossing, increasing money and finances. Add to mojo bags or fix green candles with the powdered herb.
17 NUTMEG – Believed to bring good luck and fortune to those who play games of chance. The famous fixed nutmeg consisted of boring a hole in the nutmeg and filling with liquid mercury. A more current version fills the hole with some sort of money drawing herb and is then sealed with wax. The nutmeg is anointed with Fast Luck oil and then wrapped in a dollar bill. The whole thing is then tied with red string and kept as a fast luck amulet.
18 OREGANO - Reported to keep away the law and any meddling, troublesome people.
19 PAPER BAGS – Excellent for drying herbs and disposing of spell remains. Simply place fresh herbs into a paper bag and close. Leave for a few days and the herb will be dried and ready for use or storage.
20 PARRAFIN – making jack balls. Herbs are mixed in with melted paraffin and rolled into a ball. The ball is then wrapped tightly with red string and tied off. A long piece of string is left so that it can be used as a pendulum. Rootworkers have been known to name their jack balls as they believe they come to life.
21 POPPY SEED - Used for court case spells to cause confusion and make others “act a fool” in important decisions.
22 PUMPKINS – Hollowed out and used for container spells.
23 ROSEMARY – Said to empower women, provide protection; bring luck in family matters.
24 SALT - Used in cleansings and protection floor sweeps and baths.
25 SWEETENERS – White, brown, confectioner’s sugar, honey, Karo syrup, maple syrup, molasses and all other sweeteners like are used to sweeten people to your cause, be it love, a promotion, or quelling conflicts and unpleasant disagreements. Some old timers would use light and white sweeteners when working with White folks and brown sweeteners when working with people of color.
26 THYME – For peace of mind; used to increase and protect money.
27 VINEGAR – Used to sour things, used in bottle and container spells.
Excerpt from the course Foundations in Southern Rootwork 1 offered by Crossroads University.
Copyright 2013 Denise Alvarado All rights reserved worldwide.
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