And It'a another Meet the Author event here on the blog, today's Guest is Kris Bradley.
Who is Kris?? Why, my loves she's the witch behind the awesome blog: Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom & creator of the awesome Voodoo Dudes on her etsy shop Mrs B's Brews& Baubles. When i heard Kris was coming out with a book I was all too excited and fangirled all over my FB page. Lol. Then a copy came in the mail and I squealed and fangirled out again. Kris is an awesome person to read and to get to know. She has encouraged me and given me some awesome advice in the last few months. So it's with great pleasure that I share with you her awesome post and recipe.
One of
the great things about Domestic Witchery is that it really gives you the option
of pulling from different tradition and practices to create magic in your
home. In reading about the Hoodoo,
I was completely thrilled to find how much I could create using items that I
already had on hand.
Black
salt is one of those things that has multiple uses and can be created quite
easily. In fact, it can be created in several different ways. As with much of
magic, it’s more the intention you put behind it than the ingredients or tools
that you use.
Black
salt is sometimes called Sal Negro, Witches’ Salt, Drive Away Salt, Voodoo Salt
or Santeria Salt. It can be used for driving away evil or negative
energies, it can be added to war water. You can sprinkle it in the
doorways and corners of a room or business to drive away negativity or give you
protection against unpleasant neighbors or co-workers. Sprinkle it around your
property or garden for protection. It can be used to cast circles of
strong protection. Black salt has also been traditionally used in
removing hexes and jinxes.
So how
do you make black salt? There are several different ways, which include
mixing 2 parts salt to 1 part of another substance; cast iron scrapings, ash
from a fire place, charcoal, black pepper or black dye are the most often used.
For my
mix, I use the scrapings from my cast iron cauldron, which includes a bit of
cast iron, a bit of ash from burning things, and a bit of charcoal. In
fact, I intentionally burn herbs of protection on self-lighting charcoal so I’ll have plenty of
matter – with a boost of protective energies- for my black salt.
An old
metal spoon is the perfect tool to scrape out the burnt bits from your
cauldron, giving the sides a good scrape to get a bit of the cast iron into
your mix.
Remove
any large, unburnt chunks, then mix together with twice as much salt, always
concentrating on protective energies.
It’s a
great idea to whip up a batch of this salt and have it on hand before you need
it. I’ve made a tradition of adding it
to the protective herbal mix that I strew around my property line each
Samhain. A little extra boost of
protection never hurt!
Well how'd you like that?? I'm on my way to whip up a batch right now, after all it's best to be used around Samhain and that's fast approaching. Make sure to click on the Giveaway to enter to win a copy of Mrs B's newest book!!!. (images are ©MrsB's, please don't take without permission)
Have a Witchin' Good Day my loves.
