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Posted by Storyteller on April 6, 2006, 8:55 am, in reply to "Re: Goofer dust .. who knows something about it ?" --Previous Message-- Thanks Sarah .... for the "formula" for Goofer Dust. "I" don't use HooDoo magick much (if ever) too. I have PLENTY .. and I mean PLENTY of graveyard dirt. I collected it from my (dead relatives) grave(s). The "spellbook" that I use is by Judika Illes .. "The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 SPELLS" .. "The ultimate reference book for the magical arts" .. page 1058. If I HAD to venture a guess as to what it is .. I'd say it is pretty close to your own anvil dust .. ya know ? Rhetorical question. Thanks in advance to my query .. eeh ?
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: : I'm preparing a certain "spell" ..
: and it includes using "goofer
: dust/graveyard dust".
:
: Goofer dust and graveyard dirt are both
: common ingredients in hoodoo (rootwork)
: spells and also in some non-hoodoo spells. I
: am not really into hoodoo, but use both
: items in my spellwork fairly regularly.
:
: Graveyard dirt is pretty much a no brainer -
: it's dirt from a graveyard.
:
: Goofer Dust is a mix of various ingredients.
: Last time I made Goofer Dust I pretty much
: nabbed the ingredient list from
: Luckymojo.com (a wonderful website, by the
: way). Anyhow, into my Goofer Dust I put
: Graveyard Dirt (the real thing from a
: graveyard), powdered sulfur (which you can
: buy or make yourself by powdering match
: heads but be careful as the heads of matches
: are ignitable), powdered sea salt, powder
: made from the shed skins of rattlesnakes,
: powdered bone, powdered jalapeno pepper,
: powder made from black peppercorns, anvil
: dust (lucky that we had horses and my
: brother was a farrier), mullein and sage. I
: did not use any set amounts of each, mainly
: because I had limited amounts of anvil dust
: and snake skin (I used skin from a very
: small rattle snake that some friends of mine
: who taught science in high school had but
: I've talked to folks who think that the skin
: from any snake will do). Sooo, when I mixed
: up the Goofer Dust, since I had no recipe
: that listed how much of each thing to use, I
: used what felt 'right' to me of each
: ingredient. The only ingredient that I added
: to my Goofer Dust that luckymojo.com didn't
: mention is that I added some soil from the
: swamp behind our house... I liked having
: something in the dust that was 'mine'. I
: also made the Goofer Dust minus the
: recommended snail powder, because I wanted
: to use only ingredients that I had or could
: find on my own,and frankly, while I had
: access to snail shells, I just really really
: didn't want to have to go to the trouble of
: killing whole snails, drying them and then
: powdering them.
:
: By the way, if you can't make your own
: Goofer Dust, you can buy it on-line and I'm
: pretty sure that you can buy some of the
: ingredients too and mix your own.
:
: The formula that
: I spied in my "spellbook" .. says
: to use something called .. "church bell
: grease" as part of the overall formula
: .. ya know ? *looks puzzeled* Anyone know
: what that IS ? Just curious.
:
: If I knew what spellbook it came from and
: who might have written it this would help
: figure out what was meant by church bell
: grease.
:
: By the way, of you want a really good book
: that is historically accurate about Hoodoo
: practices, and that will give you lots of
: good information on Goofer Dust and
: Graveyard dirt, I'd highly recommend
: Catherine Yronwode's book "HooDoo Herb
: and Root Magic: A Materia Magica of African
: American Conjure". 
:
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