Excerpt from Lucky Mojo
A spell bottle is a bottle into which a magical spell has been cast in the form of physical items used to ensure that the spell results in the desired outcome.
A bottle spell is a magical spell that is contained within a bottle, and which, when finished, is expected to work for the ends one desires.
There are many types of bottle spells used in folk magic traditions from around the world. Almost every culture that uses bottles (or gourds, or animal horns) as containers also has developed ways to use those containers to hold works of magical spell craft.
A bottle spell is a magical spell that is contained within a bottle, and which, when finished, is expected to work for the ends one desires.
There are many types of bottle spells used in folk magic traditions from around the world. Almost every culture that uses bottles (or gourds, or animal horns) as containers also has developed ways to use those containers to hold works of magical spell craft.
Excerpt from Lucky Mojo
The Honey Jar Spell is one of the oldest forms of bottle spell in the world. There are so many variations that i call it a "spell family." Most of them consist of a jar of sweetener into which you place the personal concerns of the person you want to influence, along with spiritually powerful magical herbs, wrapped in a name-paper or petition packet, and then burning a candle on top of the jar after dressing it with an appropriate conjure oil.
This form of hoodoo spell casting is employed when you want to set up a powerful sweetening spell in a small place and keep it working for as long as you wish. Honey jars are extremely convenient and one reason for their continued popularity is that although they can be worked on an altar like other forms of bottle spell, they can also be literally hidden in plain sight in a kitchen cabinet.
This form of hoodoo spell casting is employed when you want to set up a powerful sweetening spell in a small place and keep it working for as long as you wish. Honey jars are extremely convenient and one reason for their continued popularity is that although they can be worked on an altar like other forms of bottle spell, they can also be literally hidden in plain sight in a kitchen cabinet.
Honey jars have only recently really sunk into my magical awareness - don't ask me why it took so long for such a folksy spell type to register with me, considering folksy type stuff is all I do, but it did. *laff* When I lived in Southern California, the botanicas I'd go into all sold honey jars for a variety of specific purposes; I don't think I ever saw a botanica sell just plain honey. (I suppose that if a client wanted -that-, they could just go to the grocery store, right?) The most frequent jars I saw were Honey of Love - Miel de Amor, but there were honey jars for other purposes, too, and the honey inside them was invariably tinted to indicate the kind of work it was for.
The basic idea of a honey jar is that it's generally speaking a long term thing. You can work the same honey jar for -years- if need be to keep a situation sweet (a situation at work, or a home situation with a parent, a sibling, a spouse, a child, etc, or any other purpose where you want to sweeten relationships.)
Bottle spells seem to differ than honey jars in that, while both of them are shaken to 'activate' them as needed, candles don't seem to be burnt on the standard bottle spell as often (though I imagine you could do that too if you wanted.) In the hoodoo way of doing things for honey jars, you write your petition paper, bless it with condition oil, fold it towards you until it won't fold anymore, and stick it in the honey jar. The lid then goes on the jar and a dressed candle is lit atop the lid and allowed to burn out. This is repeated as necessary over time, sometimes for years if a situation's ongoing.
Possible discussion points:
- Have you ever used a bottle spell? (maybe even the old classical European style anti-witch bottle full of rusty bent pins, nails, hair etc, and urine?...)
- If you have used a bottle spell or a honey jar spell, I'd be quite interested in hearing how you did it, regardless of the tradition you were working from (or if you just made it up as you went.)
- Was it a longterm, ongoing thing? How long did you work it for?
