Is there anything in French folk magic or French traditional magic about a new home/home protection?
I don't have a specific ritual but ingredients and methods yes!
RURAL FRENCH MAGIC ELEMENTS
You can make crosses to have at the doors! The plants vary according to the regions: houseleek, cross-benites with lavender, immortelles, according to the folk religious holidays however, traditionally it is on dates of specific religious holidays.
We do a fumigation in the home, certainly with prayers, with plants depending on the region: laurel, juniper... we can burn protective plants, make bouquets of them, especially elderberry. All pungent or strong-smelling plants will be protective (elderflower, garlic, hellebore, holly, hawthorn) For protective bouquets: artemisia, foxglove, meadow iris, mint, St. John's wort, walnut branches, fern, verbena, the Queen of french witchcraft.
We can do a ritual where we will pass the plant through the fire to strengthen its power. The cross is the ideal symbol. The perfect day will be Saint John's Day.
Be sure I'll return to you if I find anything else out! Finally if you need a spell to banish negativity from the house I can give you one by messenger too!
HORSHOE
I think a horseshoe would be ideal ( just like garlic). It is not ''french trad craft'', just a method I would use, but I would purify it, dedicate it to the 4 elements, fumigate it, then recite by hanging it or nailing it:
''Vigilavi, et factus sum sicut passer solitarius in tecto'' (Terese d'Avila, Psalm 102)
But it is my own creation! Otherwise there are these spells from The Witch's Almanac by Katherine Quenot, unfortunately her sources are rarely cited. Some are ancient, others modern...
Here is one of these spells that seems interesting to me because it contains verbena:
TO ATTRACT PROTECTION INTO YOUR HOME Make a purple sachet 18 centimeters on a side and put rosemary, verbena, and a lock of hair from each of the inhabitants, and a picture of the house. Close it with a purple cord, put everything in a secret place in the house and never open it.
TO KEEP YOUR HOME HEALTHY
Make a braid with two green laurel branches, then hang it on a red cord above the interior door of the house or gate.
This talisman will also preserve your family from jealousy, backbiting and the evil eye.
And this one which seems to be modern but inspired by traditional principles:
TO PRESERVE YOUR HOME FROM HARM
You will need coarse salt, cracked pepper, an egg and sticky paper.
Take the egg that you will pierce at both ends to empty it of its contents. Mix the coarse salt with the same quantity of crushed pepper.
Fill the egg with this composition after stopping one end with the paper.
Place everything in a closet or wardrobe in your main room. The egg should be changed every three months. When you get rid of it you have to throw it outside the house in a trash can saying:
''Hexes, evil spirits, in this egg I locked you, now you are thrown.
Never come back to my house,
To the world of junk return''
Sources: Christophe Auray - l'herbier des paysans, des guรฉrisseurs et des sorciers โข L'almanach de la sorciรจre de Katherine Quenot
