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TO SWEETEN PEOPLE
THE HISTORY OF HONEY JAR SPELLS IN THE HOODOO ROOT WORK TRADITION
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In the oldest version of the Honey Jar spell that i know, there is actually no
"honey -jar," just a plain white tea cup saucer or coffee cup saucer in the
center of which you burn a candle on the person's name, dressed with hoodoo
oils and surrounded by a poured-out ring of pancake syrup or mollasses. This
old-fashioned method has the disadvantage of eventually drawing flies, but it is
extremely easy to work on a short-term basis, say for one to three days. Be
careful, thugh, if the candle burns too hot, it may crack your saucer.
Another early version of the homey jar bottle spell employs a hollowed-out
red apple or red onion to hold honey and the name-paper of the person on
whom you are working. The apple or onion may be shut up in a tin and a
candle burned on the tin's lid - or it can be placed in the bottom of a flower
pot, with a plant grown on top of it to hide the spell. The plant takes the place
of candle, but it radiates the intent of the spell just the same. It can be given
as a gift to the person on whom you are working, and can spread its sweetness
throughout their home.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as packaged sugars, syrups,
and sweeteners became available from grocery stores, another variant of this
spell that developed employed a box of sugar instead of ajar of honey. By the
mid 20 th century, the honey -jar version of the spell gradually replaced the old
cream-saucer, cored apple, hollowed onion, and sugar box versions. The two
honey -jar spells given on this web page are probably the most common bottle
spell variations of this spell-family that you will encounter these days.
This magic bottle spell can be worked on anyone's name you want to sweeten.
Depending on what relationship the person has to you, what special items you
put into the name-packet, the colour of the candle you choose, and the
hoodoo oil you dress it with, this trick will cause the person you name to like
you more, to love you more, to favour your petition, to want to help you, to be
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the bank, a boss from whom you want a raise, a teacher in your school from
whom you want a good grade, a lover with whom you want a reconciliation,
an in-law who has been back-biting you, or friend who has cut you off because
of a foolish quarrel.
Get a small jar of sweetener. This can be honey, Karo Syrup, Crystal Syrup,
home-made brown sugar syrup, Log Cabin Syrup, Vermont maple syrup, Bre'r
Rabbit Blackstrap Molasses or whatever you desire ~ as long as it is in a
container with a metal lid. You can buy the goods in a pint-size glass Mason jar
or pour the sweetening of your choice into a jar of your own at home. All that
matters is that it should be a short, squat jar with a metal lid, filled up to the
shoulder of the jar.
In the old days, when skin colour was a lot more important to people than it is
now, it was recommended that the colour of the sweetener match the skin of
the person you wanted to sweeten. Thus, for a white judge, you might use
Crystal Syrup, and for a Latino loan officer you might use light brown sugar
syrup, and for a dark-skinned lover you might use Bre'r Rabbit Blackstrap
Molasses. Frankly, these days specifying a person's skin colour is not as
meaningful as it once was (for which we can all be thankful), and today many
folks prefer to use honey for the spell, no matter what the target's skin colour
is, because it is a natural sweetener and not man-made. I believe that if you
just follow your own intuition and decide which sweetener you like the best,
you can be confident that you have made the right choice.
Next, prepare your paper. Again, in the old days, we would be told to use
white paper for a white person, tan paper for a high-brown, and rough old
grocery-bag paper for a person of dark colour, but these days the type of paper
you use can simply be a matter of personal style. Manu people prefer the kind
of cream-coloured parchment paper that comes with the Lucky Mojo hoodoo
honey jar mini spell kit shown above. I ofen use a smooth, tan-coloured lightweight shopping bag paper because that is my choice, based on the way i was
taught, which was that such paper is "pure paper." No matter which kind of
paper i use, i prepare my paper by tearing it neatly on all four sides so there is
no machine-cut edge. Of course some folks trim their paper square with
scissors ~ and the spell still works for them. So go ahead and prepare your
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Once you have got your paper together, write the person's name three times
on it, one name under the other like so
Then rotate the paper 90 degrees clockwise and write your own name across
The result will be that the two names are crossed over each other, like a cross
or a tic-tac-toe grid, and the other person's name will be under yours. This is
called crossing and covering their name. If the sweetening is being done for
love, you can use a red ink pen. Otherwise, the colour of the ink does not
matter, and you can just as easily use a pencil.
Now all around the crossed names, write your specific wish in a circle. If you
need a guideline, lightly sketch the circle-shape with a pencil and then follow
around it when writing with your ink pen. You must write your wish in one
continuous run of script letters, with no spaces -- AND WITHOUT LIFTING
YOUR PEN FROM THE PAPER. Do not cross your t's or dot your i's. Just write
the words in one run and be sure to join up the end of the last word with the
beginning of the first word so the circle is complete. Then you can go back and
cross your t's and dot your i's. To make it easy to connect the word together at
the end, i have found it best to make my petition in the form of short
commands, such as "help me favour me help me favour me" or "love me love me
love me" or "forgive me come back forgive me come back."
If you make a mistake -- for instance, if you lift your pen in the middle of
writing your petition-circle -- throw away the paper and start it all over again.
You want it to be perfect.
of marriage, a square of camphor for cleaning out bad things of the past, and
so forth.
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If you are sweetening someone for love, then in addition to the name-paper and
whatever optional herbs, roots, or minerals you choose, you must also get one
of the person's hairs and one of your hairs. If the hairs are long enough, tie
them together. Otherwise, just lay them crosswise to each other. In either
case, place them on the name-paper. Don't ask me what to do if you can't get
their hairs 'cause i can't help with that. Either work the spell without the hairs
and expect a much lower rate of success or get the hairs! Don't load the paper
up with lots of other stuff thinking that if you can't get the hairs that six
different love-herbs and two lodestones will be as strong as two hairs. They
won't be.
Fold the paper toward you to bring what you want your way and speak aloud
your wish as you do so. Turn the paper and fold it again, and again, always
folding toward you, to bring what you want your way. Speak aloud your wish
each time you fold the paper toward you. Fold it until it will not fold any more.
Open the jar of honey or syrup. To make room for the folded paper packet, you
will need to eat some of the contents. Take out a spoon's worth, and as you eat
it, say, "As this honey [or syrup] is sweet to me, so will i become sweet to John
Russell Brown [or the name of the person you are working this on]." You can
do this three times ~ taking out three small spoonsful of sweetener and
speaking your wish aloud each time. Push the folded paper packet down into
the jar and close up the lid.
Dress an offertory candle (a 50 cent, 6" long candle or a 25 cent 4" long one,
nothing fancy) with an appropriate anointing oil or a combination of hoodoo
or conjure oils, or use Special Oil No. 20, which is a ready-made
combination specifically indicated in this type of bottle spell. Use a white
candle for general blessing and healing, a red one for sexual love, a pink
one for reconciliation, a brown one for a court case, and so forth. (For a
longer list of colour symbolism, see the page on candle magic.)
Stand the candle on the lid of the closed-up jar and light it. You can melt the
candle to the lid with hot wax if need be.
Let the candle burn all the way out. Do this every Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, for as long as it takes. Add teach new candle on top of the remains of
the last one. I have seen people's syrup-jar bottle spells like this done for
court cases that were continued for so long and required so many candles
that you could not see the jar under all the dripped-on wax!
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Hi,
"Ana Plenagua"
Thanks,
Andrea made no mention of finding candle wax on the honey jar, so it is likely
that writing out the names and the petition and placing them in the honey jar
constituted the entirety of this particular magical bottle spell. I replied to
Andrea's questions as best i could, given that my Spanish is not too good:
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Tradition.
Another poster, familiar with Dominican Spanish dialect, clarified the wording
of this honey jar bottle spell in a subsequent Usenet post:
Good job, but let me add to it. The Spanish is phonetic and nearly
illiterate. Note that some unlettered Dominicans aspirate their S or
drop it, and interchange R and L, final R of infinitive dropped
completely. Sloppy speech, like a Midwesterner "gonna" instead of
"going to." Hence:
should read
Regards,
I want to thank Andrea for bringing this Dominican variant of the honey jar
bottle spell to my attention and Mephistophelesl3 for making it
understandable. What it demonstrates is that honey jar spells are adaptable to
many magical desires, can be worked in a number of ways, and are widely
popular around the world.
Many women who are faced with a situation where their baby's father will not
pay child support try to hurt the man, or rule him, or control him, but there is
a better way, and that is to cause him to WANT to pay what the law says he
must pay -- and to love his baby while he pays, as well.
To work the sweet side of a case like this, you can make a honey jar bottle
spell on the mama, the baby and the daddy -- all of them in one honey jar. Try
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to get something personal from each individual -- a hair, for instance. If the
daddy is estranged or lives far away, his hair may be hard to capture, but do
try to get it -- and if that won't be possible, then get his handwriting, or
something he touched, like maybe a fiber from a stuffed animal that he gave to
the child.
Put the personal items in a name paper with the mama and the daddy names
written 9 times each, side by side in two columns (because they are no longer
a couple) and the baby name crossed over both, holding them all together.
Then, around and around the names write: "We are family, forever and in all
ways, and let no one put this family asunder."
Next, in the corners of the paper, draw four eye-shapes, but just the outlines
with no eye-lashes or iris and pupil in the centers. Now, inside each eye-shape,
draw a heart (one heart in each eye-shape) and inside each heart, write a
dollar sign. Then, using the eye-shapes as a guide, write, in very tiny letters,
like the eye-lashes of the eyes, top and bottom, the words "PAY CHILD" (on the
top line) and "SUPPORT" (on the bottom). If you do it neatly, it'll look like an
eye is in each corner with a heart for the iris of each eye and a dollar sign for
the pupil of each eyeball, and the words "PAY CHILD SUPPORT" as the
eyelashes of each eye. The meaning of this symbol in each corner is GOD IS
WATCHING YOU (the eye shape) - SO LOVE THE CHILD (the heart) AND PAY
THE MONEY (the dollar sign).
After you have prepared the paper, dress it with Pay Me Sachet Powder and
put it in a honey jar as explained above. Use a green candle for money or a
pink one for the father to care more for the child, and dress it with Pay Me
Oil.
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