Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CA3E4A2.8F7@luckymojo.com> From: catherine yronwode Reply-To: cat@luckymojo.com Organization: Lucky Mojo Curio Co. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic,alt.lucky.w Subject: Re: bottle trees and graveyard dirt References: <260320021612016218%full@woe.lately> <3CA0EE9B.37A@luckymojo.com> <270320022019033152%full@woe.lately> <3CA27FCE.60C2@luckymojo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 37 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 03:38:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.150.96 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1017373107 209.204.150.96 (Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:38:27 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:38:27 PST Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic:33824 alt.lucky.w:11346 Mike R. wrote: > > catherine yronwode at cat@luckymojo.com wrote: > > > i try to select dirt from people who died during WWI or WWII. > > i find i want to use a pendulum to make sure of what i'm getting > communication-wise from the grave spirit, if they are willing to > help me or not. is this kosher in a hoodoo sense? I have personally never tried a pendulum for this, but the use of the pendulum is quite old and respected in hoodoo. The weight or plumb-bob is usually a root, not a piece of metal. Queen Elizabeth Root is the most common pendulum i've seen, and it is hung from a red thread. The next most common is John the Conquer Root, usually wrapped up in red thread to make a Jack ball. > for example one time i was in the cemetary and getting a really > strong reaction and pull to this one grave, but when i tried the > pendulum i got a negative. i must have been getting a strong > emotion period, like they didnt approve of what i was doing. i found > another grave tho who was a soldier in WWII as it turns out and got > a positive response to my query, but the initial feeling was more > subtle than the first grave. Great story -- i like to hear how other people work with these spirits. I have noticed that some are not eager to help, but others almost seem to say, "take me! take me!" -- and sometimes, with those, when we get the dirt home we will find little "extras" in it -- a perfectly mummified lizard, for example, or a button, or a small round rock. I keep those in a special place, as gifts from the graveyard. cat yronwode Hoodoo in Theory and Practice -- http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html Lucky W Amulet Archive --------- http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html Lucky Mojo Spells Archive ------ http://www.luckymojo.com/spells.html