This Brazilian formula utilizes dried pulverized bamboo leaves, which are common in Brazil but may be purchased from herb supply stores elsewhere.

1. Place the bamboo leaves into a mortar together with some sugar cane and grind them together.
2. Burn the herbs, wafting the fragrance as needed.

If necessary, substitute granulated brown sugar for the sugar cane, however, it’s not exactly the same. You may wish to add a few drops of dark rum in addition, but be aware that rum is extremely flammable and the flames may shoot up higher than is normally the case with incense.

Blend dragon’s blood powder and frankincense and burn.

This cleansing formula incorporates the herbs most frequently be used in sacred rites. It removes the negative and the tainted, leaving an aura of holiness behind.

1. Blend and grind the ingredients into a fine powder.
2. Sprinkle onto a lit charcoal and burn.

Grind dried pine needles to powder and sprinkle on lit charcoals to cleanse an area of negative energy and entities.

There aren’t only spiritual reasons for cleansing spells; sometimes they’re necessary to set the stage for new love by removing all vestiges of the past. Burn myrtle and dried rose petals.

Supplies:

• tree branch
• brightly colored long-stemmed flowers
• string or thread

Procedure:

Before dawn, take a branch from any tree. Thank the tree for its gift and leave a coin or semi-precious stone at its base in payment. Next, obtain several brightly colored flowers on long stalks. Tie these flowers to the branch to fashion a sort of broom, then sweep the floor in every room of the house, visualizing the flowers of the broom absorbing negativity and “evil” as you work. Then, still before sunrise, leave the broom at the crossroads. Traditionally this ritual is repeated at the first of each month.

Make a strong infusion by pouring boiling water over peony roots. Asperge as desired.

Blend ocean water with Indigo Water. Sprinkle as needed using fresh rue as the asperging tool.

Unless you live by the sea, this spell may involve more work and preparation than sprinkling with salted fresh water, how the potential power is also greater.

1. Carry ocean water to the area to be cleansed in a glass or metal flask. (For maximum effect, request permission and offer thanks to the Spirits of the Sea).

2. Asperge as needed, ideally with a rosemary or sea lavender wand.

Make an infusion by pouring boiling water over black snake root/black cohosh, asperge with a rosemary wand to erase evil influences.

When moving into a new home, do not bring your old broom with you. Do not use any brooms the old inhabitants may have left behind. Start with a brand new broom.

1. Obtain a new broom to use exclusively in your new home.

2. The first time it’s used, soak it in salted Florida Water and sweep away.

Hyssop and vervain are particularly ancient space cleansers. Hyssop is cited in biblical accounts of Temple cleansings, although there is some doubt as to whether the herbal species now identified as hyssop is actually the same  as the one in the Bible. Regardless, what we know today as hyssop has been used as a potent spiritual cleanser for centuries.

Vervain was used to cleanse the temples and altars of ancient Greece and Rome. Effective separately, the two herbs share an affinity and combine well together.

1. Make a strong infusion from the herbs.
2. Add this to a bucket of salted floorwash water together with white vinegar.
3. Make a single use broom, particularly from vervain and/or hyssop. Use it to asperge and scrub with the infusion.
4. When you’ve completed the cleansing spell, dispose of the used water outside your home. Take the boom apart and scatter the parts outside.

Any broom may be used in this spell, homemade or commercial, however it must be discarded at the conclusion of the spell.

1. Add an infusion of lemongrass and some white or rice vinegar to a bucket filled with water. (If you have time to make lemongrass vinegar, this is even more effective than the infusion.)

2. Dip a broom into the bucket of floorwash and sweep the area from the center working your way outwards. This does not need to be a commercial broom. A branch with attached stiff herbs is fine, however a mop may not be substituted.

3. When complete dump the wash water outside and discard the broom at a crossroad.

This spell incorporates a single-use magickal purification broom.

1. Use one or any combination of the following herbals: broom, cedar, fennel, hyssop, rosemary, sage, vervain.

2. Arrange the herbs and tie them to the bottom of a branch with raffia, visualizing, charging and knotting. (Any branch may be used, however an ash branch is considered particularly powerful.)

3. Sprinkle with salted water or any preferred purification formula.

4. Sweep the area.

5. Disassemble the broom outside, away from the cleansed space.

6. Bury the components in the ground or toss them into living waters, flowing away from you.

1. Use any broom to sweep the dust from the west to the east.

2. Burn this dust and toss the ashes outdoors.

3. Complete the ritual by mopping the floors with a magickal floorwash followed by a protective incense fumigation.

You thought witches’ brooms were only for flying? Or perhaps they’re for ambience? Think again: a broom is as effective a spiritual cleanser as it is a household cleaning tool. Some maintain special ritual brooms for magickal use only. Some spells call for really special ritual brooms, intended to be used only once then destroyed, while other spells utilize any available broom, including the one you use for regular daily sweeping.