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I, like many of you, love coffee. I decided to look into coffee drinking habits of various countries. Here is what I found. This information was obtained from the Huffingtonpost.

Germany: Pharisäer

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The Germans know how to warm up a cup of coffee: sneak two ounces of rum in it. Mix dark coffee, rum and sugar to taste, and top it with whipped cream.

Vietnam: Egg Coffee 

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This decadent coffee is more like a full-on dessert: beat two egg yolks with a half teaspoon each of condensed milk, honey and vanilla extract until fluffy. Pour into a cup and top with hot black Vietnamese coffee. The egg mixture will float to the top, where you can spoon it into your mouth or drink right away.

Spain: Cafe Bombón 

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This popular Spanish coffee is for those who like it sweet. Mix equal parts strong coffee with sweetened condensed milk.

Turkey: Turkish Coffee

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It’s said every Turkish family has its own recipe for this tradition. Super-finely ground coffee is brewed in a copper pot called a cezve, sweetened and boiled several times over heat. It’s kind of complicated, but well worth the work.

Here’s how it’s done

France: Cafe au Lait

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Traditional cafe au laits are essentially equal parts brewed coffee and steamed milk. To spice it up, we like to add chicory, like they do at New Orleans’ Cafe du Monde.

Austria: Kaisermelange

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As much as I love tea, I have got to have my morning cup of coffee. I notice that not a lot of witches talk about the benefits of coffee and all the things you could add to your coffee to help aid you in your magical workings.

Maybe this will inspire your next cup of coffee and make it a more magical experience.

C O F F E E

Can help get rid of nightmares and negative thoughts and overcome internal blockages. Provides peace of mind and grounding.

ADD APPLE

For love, garden magick, immortality, friendship and healing.

ADD BLUEBERRY

For protection

ADD COCONUT

For protection, and purification

ADD CINNAMON

For spirituality, success, healing, protection, power, love, luck, strength, and prosperity. As well as raise spiritual and protective vibrations, draw money, and stimulate psychic powers.

ADD MINT

For energy, communication and vitality.

ADD NUTMEG

To attract money/prosperity, bringing luck, protection, and breaking hexes.

ADD PECANS

To help with matters involving work or employment.

ADD PEPPERMINT

To increase the vibrations of a space or to promote healing & purification.

 ADD PUMPKIN

To help aid you when doing any kind of lunar magick. 

ADD STRAWBERRY

To help attracts success, good fortune, and favorable circumstances.

ADD VANILLA BEAN

For love, lust, passion, and restoring lost energy as well as increase energy & strengthen mental abilities.

ADD WALNUT

To access divine energy, bringing the blessing of the Gods and wishes.

ADD HAZELNUT

For healing, protection, luck, clairvoyance, divination, inspiration, wisdom, defense, fertility and wishes.

To learn more about herbs and their magical properties go here

This is just a helpful guide, feel free to use whatever feels right for you. Make sure to check that whatever herbs you’re using isn’t poisonous.

Have a magical day! 

In Finland, coffee can be used as a means of fortune telling by the way in which the froth formed on the coffee’s surface - if a bubble formed after it has been poured in an moves towards the drinker, it would mean more money. However, if it moved away, it would mean that they would lose money.

In Romania, if you spill coffee it means that you will receive money from somewhere. 

If a girl spills coffee, it means that her lover is thinking of her.

Dropping a cup in which the coffee is in will bring bad luck.

If the coffee pot boils more than usual, it means that rain is coming.

If drinking Turkish coffee, there will be residue at the bottom after the cup is finished; the shape which forms will be symbolic. 

In Brazil, there is a superstition in which you should always put sugar in before coffee, and one day you will become rich.

In Greece, it is bad luck to cheer with coffee.

I, like many of you, love coffee. I decided to look into coffee drinking habits of various countries. Here is what I found. This information was obtained from the Huffingtonpost.

Germany: Pharisäer

clg20171/Flickr 

The Germans know how to warm up a cup of coffee: sneak two ounces of rum in it. Mix dark coffee, rum and sugar to taste, and top it with whipped cream.

Vietnam: Egg Coffee 

oh contraire/Flickr

This decadent coffee is more like a full-on dessert: beat two egg yolks with a half teaspoon each of condensed milk, honey and vanilla extract until fluffy. Pour into a cup and top with hot black Vietnamese coffee. The egg mixture will float to the top, where you can spoon it into your mouth or drink right away.

Spain: Cafe Bombón 

Diego Martínez Castañeda/Flickr

This popular Spanish coffee is for those who like it sweet. Mix equal parts strong coffee with sweetened condensed milk.

Turkey: Turkish Coffee

Michael Sugrue via Getty Images

It’s said every Turkish family has its own recipe for this tradition. Super-finely ground coffee is brewed in a copper pot called a cezve, sweetened and boiled several times over heat. It’s kind of complicated, but well worth the work.

Here’s how it’s done

France: Cafe au Lait

Getty Images

Traditional cafe au laits are essentially equal parts brewed coffee and steamed milk. To spice it up, we like to add chicory, like they do at New Orleans’ Cafe du Monde.

Austria: Kaisermelange

Peter Wilson via Getty Images

Yeah, if you drink 6+ cups a day, or have it at night when it compromises sleep. But some in the morning is fine. Helps me focus.

“It’s hard on your stomach though!”

Have it with food then. Drink it during or after breakfast.

“But-’but-”

I, like many of you, love coffee. I decided to look into coffee drinking habits of various countries. Here is what I found. This information was obtained from the Huffingtonpost.

Germany: Pharisäer

clg20171/Flickr 

The Germans know how to warm up a cup of coffee: sneak two ounces of rum in it. Mix dark coffee, rum and sugar to taste, and top it with whipped cream.

Vietnam: Egg Coffee 

oh contraire/Flickr

This decadent coffee is more like a full-on dessert: beat two egg yolks with a half teaspoon each of condensed milk, honey and vanilla extract until fluffy. Pour into a cup and top with hot black Vietnamese coffee. The egg mixture will float to the top, where you can spoon it into your mouth or drink right away.

Spain: Cafe Bombón 

Diego Martínez Castañeda/Flickr

This popular Spanish coffee is for those who like it sweet. Mix equal parts strong coffee with sweetened condensed milk.

Turkey: Turkish Coffee

Michael Sugrue via Getty Images

It’s said every Turkish family has its own recipe for this tradition. Super-finely ground coffee is brewed in a copper pot called a cezve, sweetened and boiled several times over heat. It’s kind of complicated, but well worth the work.

Here’s how it’s done

France: Cafe au Lait

Getty Images

Traditional cafe au laits are essentially equal parts brewed coffee and steamed milk. To spice it up, we like to add chicory, like they do at New Orleans’ Cafe du Monde.

Austria: Kaisermelange

Peter Wilson via Getty Images