"This is the most famous spiritual supply we manufacture. Over the years there have been two different formulas called FAST LUCK -- ours is the genuine "Algiers-Style" formula, one of the sweetest-smelling -- and reportedly the luckiest -- products you will ever be pleased to try. Used for luck in Gambling and in Love Matters, it is sure to please!"
-- The Lucky Mojo Curio Co. catalogue
The labels shown here are from packages of Lucky Mojo brand Fast Luck crystal salts for bathing, putting in the laundry, or performing a ritual floor wash, self-lighting incense powders for fumigating an area where one wishes ton increase one's luck, sachet powders for sprinkling on love letters or money to be spent gambling, and anointing oil for dressing candles. Like the rest of the Lucky Mojo line, these products contain genuine herbs and herbal essential oils, not synthetic fragrances. The ingredients in Fast Lucky formulas may include Cinnamon, Vanilla, Wintergreen, and other herbs and essences. Lucky Mojo labels are adapted from vintage packaging and in many cases the images are as traditional as the ingredients themselves.
Fast Luck is a popular hoodoo formula for anointing oil, soap, sachet powders, bath crystals, and floor wash. It was sold through the catalogues of companies like the Standard O and B Supply Company as early as the 1940s and it is still manufactured by comapnies such as Sonny Boy Products of Birmingham, Alabama and my own Lucky Mojo Curio Co.. A Double Fast Luck Soap is made by the E. Davis Company of New Jersey and Suerte Rapida (Spanish for Fast Luck) is a pale green sachet powder imported from Mexico.
There are several formulas for Fast Luck, but the best and most popular version is New Orleans Style Red Fast Luck, shown here in a series of products manufactured by the Lucky Mojo Curio Co. This particular Fast Luck formula was given by Zora Neale Hurston in her 1935 book "Mules and Men," detailing New Orleans and Florida hoodoo practices of the 1930s. The major ingredients in Red Fast Luck are Cinnamon, Vanilla, and Wintergreen. These herbal essences symbolize its use in both both money spells and love spells, making Fast Luck an all-purpose formula, intense but of short duration. The Lucky Mojo Fast Lucklabel indicates this dual usage, as the woman who is receiving the blessings of this formula is holding her skirt up to catch a mixed rain of dollar bills, coins, and hearts.
Among gamblers, Fast Luck is preferred by those who play the slots or the lottery -- that is, those who want "luck in a hurry;" it is not as popular with card players who stay up all night at a game and need long-term luck. (For them, there are Three Jacks and a King spiritual supplies.) when it comes to romantic love spells, Fast Luck, like Kiss Me Now!, draws instant results, but they may not last forever and they may not lead to marriage.
New Orleans Style Fast Luck is a flashy bright yellowish-red, resembling the Dr. Martin's dye that is coded as YR4 by old-time comic book colourists, the colour one would expect if one somehow managed to dissolve a handful of Cinnamon Red Hots candies into a half-pint of Extra Virgin olive oil. The fragrance is INCREDIBLE. Even if one only considers its visual and olfactory impact and disregards luckiness entirely, Red Fast Luck Oil is a wonderful item.
How efficacious is Red Fast Luck? Well, in October, 1995, I used it, along with two small lodestones and magnetic sand, to perform an informal invocation to Red Venus (also known as Red Tara). While perfoming this love spell i anointed the corners of my bed with the oil (as Memphis Minnie once sang, "I'm getting SO tired, sleepin' all by myself...") and applied it to my copper Indescribable Lucky Charm and to a 7" dusky-pink candle in an iron frog-shaped candleholder. (Don't try this at home, kids, unless you have Venus conjunct Mars in Aries!)
What happened? Within one week --
Very Fast, very Red, very Lucky.
All in all, i would consider this a signal of Efficacy and Speed on the part of Red Fast Luck With Added Lodestones and Magnetic Sand.
Sincerely,
A Satisfied Customer
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