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Marie Laveau Water
This formula is attributed to Marie Laveau, the renowned Queen of New Orleans Voodoo. Born in 1792. Marie Laveau transformed Voodoo from a surreptitious and persecuted cult into an organized, respected (or feared) established tradition. Following her death, she has achieve unofficial saint status and continues to perform miracles from her grave at New Orleans’ St. Louis Cemetery Number One.
This formula is sometimes marketed as Holy Water or as Blessing Water. It may substitute in any spell that calls for either one:
One cup rain water One cup spring water One cup rose water or hydrosol One cup Holy Water Onc cup lavender water, lavender hydrosol or twenty drops of essential oil of lavender
Marie Laveau Water is used for:
- Psychic enhancement
- Protection
- Aura Cleansing
- Cleansing Spells
Lady A’s Spell of the Day for 5/10: Five Fingers Protection Bath
The following ingredients will be required:
Five dried or fresh baby laurel leaves
One cup (or more) of sea salt
Five limes, sliced in half
A splash of vinegar, preferably lemon vinegar
A glass of spring water
A glass of rose-water or rose hydrosol, or one of the charged water.
1. Draw a warm bath.
2. First add the salt and the bsy leaves.
3. Squeeze the limes into the water, tossing the fruit in as well
4. Add the other ingredients.
5. Enter the waster. Submerge yourself completely five times if possible. Stay in as long as you like. Rub your both with the limes.
6. Drain the water while still in the tub allow yourself to air-dry amidst the remnants of the limes and leftover leaves
Lady A’s Spell of the Day: Hexbreaker Bath-Marie Laveau Bath
This spell is attributed in Marie Laveau.
- Draw a bath of warm water.
- Make an infusion by pouring boiling water over a dish containing one head of garlic (broken into cloves, but not peeled), one bunch of basil, one bunch of parsley and one bunch of sage.
- Let the infusion stand. Do not strain.
- Add eight ounces (about 250 ml) of geranium hydrosol.
- Stir in one teaspoon of saltpeter.
- The bathroom should be cleansed and fumigated.
- When you’ve ready get into the tub: either pour the entire dish of clearing materials over you or ladle it gradually. Then soak in the tub.
- Let the water out. Air-dry, let the water dry on you. Don’t worry about clearing up the tub for at least a hour, and preferably wait until the next day.
- Rub your body with Bay Rum