Actually jar spells are pretty interesting on the whole. Especially some jars which are not meant to be touched, handled, or otherwise disturbed unless youâre breaking the spell thatâs in them. For instance, styles of souring jars or hexing jars - which Iâve used particularly well with ammonia (yes, ammonia), which were meant for dissolving and/or removing and/or stripping of a particular thing from a particular item. Slowly. Meant to sit in a dark hidden spot.
Granted a lot of witch jars or bellamine jars are buried (sometimes in the fire place, flipped over), but the concept there is the same. You make the jar, you turn it over, you bury it at your fire place, and you look for the nearest person with an intense ass headache. Some bellamine jars stay for centuries, and are dung up, and promptly⌠reburied right in the place that they were originally put. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartmann_jug
This isnât the first concept of sitting jar, in fact, some jars are meant to be shields. Meant to âgrow moldâ or become cloudy, because thatâs when the jar has done itâs job. It has a purpose, to be hit. To take in. To absorb. In the same way that another witchâs bottle works. In the same way that any talisman or amulet that falls works or breaks or suddenly âdisappearsâ.
Itâs true a lot of jar spells in Hoodoo requires extra details to work. Shaking jars certainly by the name are like that. Honey Jars / Sweetening jars require you to lick your fingers after you put the target in the jar, to sweeten them and you to them. Itâs true other hexing jars require burial and require prayer, ritual and treaties with spirits. They need to be well oiled, well fed, well kept.Â
But jar spells arenât limited to Hoodoo, and arenât limited to certain folk magic type spells either that i have exemplified here.Â
Oh, and pot pourri? Pot pourri, properly handled, is oiled and fed to keep it fresh and managed. You have to stir it. I would call any jar spell that requires that the equivalent of pot pourri. Otherwise, youâll just have moldy herbs. Anyone who knows how to make pot pourri would know that a good one will last for years as long as you manage and take care of it by stirring it and keeping it activated. Your metaphors are bad.Â
One more thing and on a personal note, in my mind the act of a witch or in some cases, as is this one, the spell caster, their act is not without power. The glance of a witch can curse. The spit of a witch can curse. Even the hair of a witch can lay claim, the grip, the handshake of a witch can cause something. Donât mistake a witchâs movement for lack of power.Â
So when a witch or a spell caster takes a sprig of rosemary and puts it somewhere purposefully, letâs say, in a corner, or in the claw of the rooster, itâs not just because the rosemary contains something special about it. Something buried in itâs spirit. Itâs because the witch chose that sprig specifically. I carefully choose every piece of thing that I work with.Â
I check to see itâs health. I check to see itâs wealth. I check to see itâs form is most perfect for what I need. A thing chosen, selected by a witch has much power, in my opinion.
See I can play this game as well, where I teach you a backwards lesson. Where I make assumptions about your practice, your doing, your actions, and by which I mean to shame you for my presumption of your lacking.
If you want to talk about spells, you know the blog handle. I love them. Jar spells are very interesting. Iâve thrown a few jars into some rivers, much to the anger and surprise of some of my followers. Iâve broken my jar spells before. Â
I do like much of tumblrâs willingness to experiment with jars, and most other spells. I would be very interested to see how a jar with flour, salt, yeast, sugar, would sit. I wouldnât necessarily add water here, but I might. A specific selected water. It might be interesting.Â
After all, there are a few home protection spells which include flour, salt, sugar, and a few other things, as well as a penny with the year that the house was built, meant to be stored in the heart of the home, to not be interfered with. Because it works passively as a protection amulet.Â
Even the jars themselves are important, just like the bellamine jarâs shape. Some vessels work the form, and thatâs why you choose them. Some of them are meant for the color of the jar. Blue Jar spells have been spoken about for years for specific kinds of binding spells, or domination spells.Â
So thereâs a strong history of jars being âsetâ and âforgotten.â The work is done because you, the worker, has worked it. Adding more on to it, is not needed and may disrupt the jarâs purpose. Especially if someone catches you, and you accidentally drop the jar and shattering it - as is the case in one particular blue jarâs story that I remember circling around the ânet. Best left to alone to do itâs job, rather than handled.Â
