This week we look at an important first ingredient in hoodoo, and that’s Graveyard dirt. This weeks project will involve you collecting your own dirt, so pay attention 🙂

CLASS DISCUSSION VIDEO: In this video I give you lots of tips and tricks for Graveyard Dirt. As I am down the cemetery all the time, I am a little more “relaxed” in my approach.

Lesson 2 is specifically on Magical Dirts & Dusts, covering:

• Graveyard dirt, crossroads dirt, foot-track magic: the classic folkloric dirts, central in Hoodoo and folk traditions.

• Household and natural dirts like red brick dust (protection), ash, coal dust, and mixtures like salt with soot.

• Ritual collection and payment: the etiquette of gathering, such as leaving coins, rum, or prayers at the site of collection.

• Spirits of the Graveyards
  • The variety of spirits in a cemetery
  • Specific examples of popular spirits, you could summon

• Exercise: asking students to actually go outside and gather a dirt/dust from their local area that “feels charged,” then reflect on its energy and potential use.

FOCUS AREA #1 Grave Yard Dirt

This week, I want you to go and get your hands dirty! For real. Nothing makes you feel like a real witch or Hoodoo Worker than heading down to the gravesite and digging up your own dirt.

Methods vary widely on how to enter the cemetery, and how to leave. I will show you a few methods, but you are free to do as you feel is right. Every man and his dog will have their opinion on the best method, and I say, that if it works for you, that is all that matters.

Also, I will suggest a “gatekeeper” to call to for this work, but if you feel like you would like to ask another deity, then do so. Do what feels right for you!

Helpful Lesson Book

This 54 page book I wrote years ago, to assist you in learning about Graveyard Dirt. It includes over 30 ways to use the dirt in spells, plus much more. The manner to collect the dirt in my booklet is more formal and I recommend you follow my directions

CLICK the Link here https://drive.google.com/open?id=1el5n0Cc7SeCIRrTVjhxSLB9zkVC4ExrA

or check

• Hyatt, Harry Middleton. Hoodoo Conjuration Witchcraft & Rootwork (field notes and interviews). Sections on “Death and burial and graveyard dirt” are essential reading. Available in scanned/archived editions. Internet Archive+1

FOCUS AREA #2 Foot Track Magic & Spell

Introduction

Magical dirt and dust are some of the most accessible yet powerful ingredients in folk magic. They are not random handfuls of soil — they are living links between place, spirit, and spell. In this lesson, you’ll learn not only the history and meaning behind these ingredients, but also exactly how to collect, prepare, and consecrate them for your own practice.

1. Graveyard Dirt

Why It’s Powerful

Every grave carries the energy of the person buried there. Their spirit may offer protection, curse an enemy, or help bind lovers together. Graveyard dirt is a contract — you aren’t just taking soil, you are making an agreement with the dead.

How to Collect Graveyard Dirt

1. Prepare before you go: bring three coins (nickels or pennies are traditional), whiskey or rum, tobacco, and a small jar or cloth bag.

2. At the gate: pause, knock, and introduce yourself to the guardians of the cemetery. Ask permission to enter.

3. At the grave: choose carefully. A soldier’s grave might give protection. A couple buried together may aid love spells. An ancestor may guide you.

4. Speak aloud: “I come in respect. I ask to take a small portion of your resting place to aid me in my work.”

5. Payment: leave the coins or rum on the headstone, or bury them in the earth as payment.

6. Take the dirt: scoop a small handful into your jar. Do not take more than you need.

7. Seal and label: mark the jar with the name of the deceased, the date, and the intended purpose.

How to Prepare for Use

• Dry the dirt on your altar or in a warm place.

• Grind gently if you want a fine powder.

• Store in a jar labeled clearly: e.g., Grave of Soldier John — Protection.

Magical Grave Dirt Reference Chart

2. Crossroads Dirt

Why It’s Powerful

The crossroads is a liminal place where paths cross and destinies shift. Dirt from this spot carries the power of choice, opportunity, and spirits of the in-between.

How to Collect Crossroads Dirt

1. Find a true crossroads (two roads intersecting, ideally in the shape of a cross).

2. Go at a quiet time — dawn, dusk, or midnight are potent.

3. Stand at the center, breathe deeply, and feel the energy pulling in four directions.

4. Place three coins or a splash of liquor at the side of the road as payment.

5. Scoop a small amount of dirt from the center into a jar or packet.

How to Prepare for Use

• Sift out pebbles or debris.

• You may mix crossroads dirt with herbs like mint (to open roads) or cayenne (to confuse).

• Keep a small packet on your altar to draw opportunity.

Crossroads Dirt Reference Chart

3. Foot-Track Dirt

Why It’s Powerful

Where someone walks, they leave behind a spiritual imprint. Capturing that dirt gives you power over their movements.

How to Collect Foot-Track Dirt

1. Find a fresh footprint of your target in dirt, dust, or sand.

2. Use a spoon or stiff card to lift the footprint dirt into an envelope or packet.

3. If it’s not possible to gather dirt, take dust from their doorway or a spot they step often.

How to Prepare for Use

• For cursing: mix footprint dirt with red pepper, sulfur, or war water. Sprinkle back into their path.

• For love: mix footprint dirt with sugar, honey, or rose petals, and keep it on your altar.

• For control: add footprint dirt into a jar spell with their photo and petition paper.

Foot-Track Dirt Reference Chart

General Collection Guidelines

• Tools: small spoon, stiff card, paper packet or envelope.

• Timing: collect fresh footprints whenever possible.

• Payment: sometimes whispered intent or a coin left nearby; not always required.

• Labeling: always record whose footprint, where, and for what intent.

4. Household and Natural Dirts

Red Brick Dust

How to Make It:

1. Find a red clay brick.

2. Wrap it in cloth and smash with a hammer.

3. Grind the fragments into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle.

4. Store in a jar labeled Red Brick Dust — Protection.
   Use: sprinkle across thresholds to keep out enemies and evil.

Fireplace Ash

How to Make It:

1. Collect ash from your fireplace or fire pit once cooled.

2. Sift through to remove charcoal chunks.

3. Store in a jar for purification or banishing work.

Coal Dust

How to Make It:

1. Grind down charcoal briquettes or leftover coal into dust.

2. Keep sealed — it stains easily.
   Use: powerful in baneful magic, curses, and spells that need heavy energy.

Salt with Soot

How to Make It:

1. Collect soot from a chimney, stove, or burned pot.

2. Mix equal parts soot and coarse salt.
   Use: sprinkle at windows and doors to protect a household from spiritual intrusion.

Household & Natural Dirts Reference Chart

Collection Tips for Students

• Always thank the spirit of place (house, hearth, road, workshop).

• Collect only a pinch; label clearly with date, source, and purpose.

• Dry and sift before magical use to remove debris.

• Store in small jars or packets for later blending.

5. Ritual Methods of Collection & Payment

• Graveyard: coins, whiskey, tobacco, flowers.

• Crossroads: coins or rum tossed at the side.

• Foot-track: sometimes a prayer or whispered intention is sufficient.

• Household: offerings aren’t always needed, but thank the spirit of the home when you collect.

Ritual Methods of Collection & Payment Reference Chart

Teaching Notes

• “Always Pay” Rule (Hyatt quote): “Graveyard dirt must be bought from spirit.” Payment seals the bargain.

• Size: a pinch or spoonful is enough. Magic rarely requires more.

• Labeling: always mark jar/packet with place, date, intent.

• Closing: walk away respectfully, don’t chatter, and don’t look back if tradition advises.

Spirits of the Graveyard in Conjure & Folk Tradition

1. The Graveyard Guardian / Gatekeeper

• Role: The first spirit you address when entering a cemetery. Sometimes thought of as the “Keeper at the Gate.” In many African American conjure accounts, Hyatt included, this guardian must be acknowledged before collecting any dirt.

• Offerings: 3 coins at the gate, a shot of whiskey, or tobacco.

• Invocation: Knock at the gate (or symbolically at the fence) and say aloud, “Keeper of this place, I come in peace and ask permission to enter and take only what is given.”

• Notes: If ignored, practitioners report bad luck, sickness, or the dirt “not working.”

2. The Spirit of the Specific Grave

• Role: Each grave has a resident spirit (or echo of the deceased). You negotiate with this spirit when taking dirt.

• How to Work: Speak to them by name if known, or describe their qualities (“Soldier, I ask your courage,” “Mother, I ask your protection”).

• Offerings: Coins directly on the headstone, rum or whiskey poured on the soil, flowers, or candy.

• Notes: The spirit can refuse. Practitioners sometimes leave and try another grave if the energy feels resistant.

3. The “Unknown Soldier”

• Role: Graves of soldiers, especially unnamed ones, are often considered strong protectors. Their spirits are believed to fight for those who honor them.

• Offerings: Coins, small flag, whiskey.

• Uses: Protection, courage, strength, or defensive work against enemies.

• Notes: Be mindful of the causes they fought for — don’t enlist a soldier spirit at cross-purposes with your intent.

4. The Child Spirit

• Role: Innocent, gentle, and often associated with sweetness and charm. Dirt from a child’s grave may be used for new beginnings, innocence, or friendship.

• Offerings: Candy, toys, flowers.

• Notes: Sensitive. Only approach for works of gentleness or sweetness, never for baneful intent.

5. The Spirit of the Wronged Dead

• Role: Graves of those who died unjustly (murdered, executed) often hold restless spirits. Practitioners call on them for revenge, justice, or exposure of lies.

• Offerings: Rum, coins, tobacco, prayers for justice.

• Notes: Powerful but dangerous; these spirits may act with more force than intended.

6. The Ancestors (Personal or Collective)

• Role: Your own bloodline or chosen kin buried in a cemetery. Ancestors are often the safest and most willing spirits to work with.

• Offerings: Food from family table, flowers, water, personal mementos.

• Uses: Protection, blessing, wisdom, long-term spiritual backing.

• Notes: Ancestors may refuse harmful work that violates their values.

7. Pet Spirits

• Role: Beloved pets buried in cemeteries or home plots are considered loyal guardians even after death.

• Offerings: Toys, treats, fresh water.

• Uses: Loyalty, household protection, comfort in grief, devotion spells.

• Notes: Safe and accessible way to begin grave-dirt work.

Teaching Notes for Students

• Etiquette: Always speak aloud, introduce yourself, and state your purpose.

• Payment: Dirt is never free — Hyatt records repeatedly that “Graveyard dirt must be bought.”

• Relationship: Think of this as hiring help. You must offer fair exchange and respect.

• Discernment: If the grave feels “cold,” “angry,” or “silent,” do not take dirt — try another.

Graveyard Gatekeepers & Rulers

1. Oya (Yoruba / Afro-Caribbean)

• Role: Orisha of the cemetery gates, storms, and winds. Often seen as the one who ushers spirits into and out of the graveyard.

• How to Honor: Leave 9 pennies, purple cloth, eggplants, or offerings of wine at the cemetery gate.

• When to Call: When entering or leaving the graveyard, or when working necromantic or ancestral rites.

• Notes: In many African Traditional Religions, no one enters the graveyard without acknowledging Oya first.

2. Papa Legba (Vodou / Haitian tradition)

• Role: The opener of gates and roads. He is not the keeper of the dead per se, but no spirit world work begins without him opening the way.

• How to Honor: Leave candy, tobacco, rum, or coins at a crossroads or cemetery gate.

• When to Call: Before any ritual involving the spirits of the graveyard, to ensure safe passage and clear communication.

3. Baron Samedi (Vodou)

• Role: Head of the Gede (the dead), ruler of the cemetery, often depicted with top hat, dark glasses, and rum.

• How to Honor: Leave rum (often with hot peppers), black coffee, cigars, or black roosters (traditional sacrifice) at the cemetery.

• When to Call: For graveyard dirt collection, necromancy, healing of the sick, or justice against enemies.

• Notes: Known for bawdy humor but also deadly seriousness. Requires respect.

4. Maman Brigitte (Vodou)

• Role: Female counterpart to Baron Samedi, protector of graves, especially of women and children.

• How to Honor: Offer rum spiced with hot peppers, candles, or bread.

• When to Call: Protection rites, working with child graves, healing and justice work.

5. The Graveyard Guardian (Hoodoo / Conjure)

• Role: The unnamed “Keeper of the Gate,” distinct from African Traditional Religion deities. Hyatt’s informants frequently stressed that every graveyard has a guardian spirit.

• How to Honor: Knock at the gate and leave three coins or whiskey.

• When to Call: Always, before collecting dirt or speaking to any spirit within the cemetery.

• Notes: If not respected, practitioners often reported their work failed.

6. Ancestral Dead

• Role: Your personal or family spirits, who hold sway in any graveyard where your kin are buried.

• How to Honor: Leave family food, flowers, prayers, or items they loved in life.

• When to Call: Safest choice for beginners — protection, blessing, guidance.

7. Local Land Spirits (Genius Loci)

• Role: Every graveyard sits on land with its own spirit. This spirit oversees not just the dead, but the entire environment.

• How to Honor: A libation of water, milk, or rum poured directly onto the earth.

• When to Call: For harmonious entry, long-term work, or when building an altar using local dirt.

Graveyard Gatekeepers & Ruler Spirits Reference Chart

Teaching Notes

• Cross-Tradition Respect: Not all traditions work together. Hoodoo may only acknowledge the Gatekeeper and the dead, while Vodou honors Oya, Legba, Baron, and Brigitte.

• Rule of Entry: Never enter without knocking, speaking, and paying.

• Discernment: If you are not initiated in ATRs (African Traditional Religions), you can acknowledge respectfully but should not attempt to “command” Oya, Baron, or Maman Brigitte. Stick to the Gatekeeper, ancestors, and land spirits in Hoodoo contexts.

Homework:

1. Collect Your Own Graveyard Dirt

Every worker has his or her own way of doing this. One way is not better than the others. This is my way, and you have to decide the right way for you.

Make sure you tell us about your experience as I am sure you had an interesting time!

NOTE: If you didn’t feel brave enough to collect your own dirt yet, then you will need to buy the dirt from your local occult store

2. Try one of the 9 cursing spells i give you in my workbook

Reference section

Types of Graves, how to choose them, and practical instructions

Graveyard dirt is technical, specific folk craft: it’s an ingredient, a contract with place and spirit, and a tool you handle with intention. Harry Middleton Hyatt documented decades of fieldwork on how people in southern U.S. conjure tradition collect and use grave dirt, and one of his emphatic practical rules is this: buy the dirt from spirit — that is, treat the grave and the dead with respect and leave an offering.

Hyatt’s work records many recipes and precise instructions for which graves are used for which ends and how to handle the spirit-side of the work. Internet Archive

Short Hyatt quote for students to memorise: “Graveyard dirt must be bought from spirit.” Internet Archive

How to read this list and make choices

What sort of grave you take dirt from depends on your intent. Hyatt’s informants and subsequent compendia list many grave types and recommended uses. Treat the lists as practical guidelines, not moral prescriptions. Follow your instincts, respect local laws, and never desecrate graves or take human remains.

If a type of grave is inaccessible, choose a close substitute (see substitution section below). Many of these correspondences come directly from Hyatt’s collection of field interviews and conjure notes. Internet Archive

Quick, practical collection protocol (use before the listed types)

1. Prepare: small jar or cloth packet, trowel or spoon (or paper envelope), three coins (dimes or pennies), a small offering (rum/whiskey, tobacco, flowers, candy), label tags, pen. Internet Archive+1

2. Arrival: Approach calmly. Introduce yourself aloud: “I come with respect. I ask permission to take a small portion of the earth. I leave this payment.” Leave payment visibly or bury a coin at the grave’s edge.

3. Amount: A small scoop or two — you don’t need much. Hyatt emphasizes minimal disturbance and payment rather than theft. Internet Archive

4. Label: Immediately mark jar/packet with date, cemetery name, and which grave (if you used a name), plus intended purpose. This is both magical bookkeeping and practical ethics. Internet Archive

5. Consecrate/Close: On your altar, speak to the spirit, thank them, and seal the jar. Example wording below. Internet Archive

Types of graves, practical uses, and step-by-step mini-recipes

Below I expand your original list into actionable instructions and spell pairings. Each entry gives: brief intent, how to find/verify, how to collect, and quick recipe ideas.

1. Adolescent (Ages ~11–19)

• Intent: Stir distraction, increase reckless attraction, ignite adolescent-style lust/infatuation, or create naive charm. Useful where you want someone to behave impulsively or to kindle raw sexual interest.

• How to find: Look for headstones with dates indicating late-teen death. Read the marker respectfully.

• Collect: Leave a small offering (coins, a sweet). Take a small scoop from the topsoil near the headstone name. Label Adolescent dirt — <date> and intended use.

• Recipe examples: Mix with powdered cinnamon and a pinch of sugar for a “heat and attraction” floor or sprinkle; or combine with honey on a petition paper for sweet obsession.

2. Adulterer/Adulteress

• Intent: To encourage infidelity or to destabilize existing lovers. This is sensitive and ethically fraught — use only if you accept consequences.

• How to find: Grave inscription clues are rare; often this is knowledge from local oral tradition. If you can confirm the person’s life story (family knowledge, obituary), proceed with caution.

• Collect: Offer a coin, leave a whisper of rum. Small scoop into packet labeled clearly.

• Recipe: Blend with red pepper, sulfur, and a shred of fabric from a garment (or shoe ash) to make a conjure bag or to add to a breakup jar. Hyatt records combinations like shoe ash + grave dirt in baneful bags. Internet Archive

3. Child (Ages 2–10)

• Intent: Innocence, new friendships, dependency, or assistance in gain of basic necessities. Hyatt notes poorer child graves are used for needy outcomes.

• Collect: Leave a small toy, candy, or coin. Take surface soil near the stone. Keep tiny amount only.

• Recipe: Mix with soft herbs (chamomile, calendula), sugar, and place on an altar for “softening” influence or to encourage benign attention.

4. Doctor

• Intent: Healing or illness (intent matters). Grave dirt from a respected doctor can be used to attract skill, or inverted intent can cause malaise.

• Care: Consider whether the doctor treated in ways that align with your aims; an ideologically opposed doctor might “work against” your goal. Internet Archive

• Recipe: For healing, mix with salt and rosemary; for disruption, combine with bitter herbs and a spoken curse.

5. Executed or Murdered

• Intent: Powerful for revenge, prosecution, or strong justice work. Extremely volatile — handle with full moral responsibility. Hyatt documents many uses with this category. Internet Archive

• Collect: Leave a heavy offering (rum, coin) and be conservative in amount.

• Recipe: Often combined with heavy baneful ingredients like sulphur and graveyard mud cakes (Hyatt notes dried mud cakes used in some recipes).

6. Gambler

• Intent: Increase luck or, inverted, create ruinous risk-taking. Only use the “luck” side if the person had demonstrable success in gambling; neutral/failed gamblers supply opposite energy.

• Recipe: Mix successful gambler dirt with lodestone, allspice, and a talisman for money-drawing work.

7. Infant

• Intent: Blindness to an action (poor eyesight metaphor), dependency, or to create total reliance on someone. Very sensitive; use ethically.

• Collect: Offer small flowers or a soft item, take only a dusting from the grave’s surface.

• Recipe: Combine with milk (symbolic) in sympathetic works or carry on an altar for dependence magic.

8. Insane (mentally ill)

• Intent: Hyatt lists this as used to sow madness — dangerous and unpredictable. Practitioners note spirits of the mentally ill may not obey your bidding in the ways you expect. Proceed with extreme caution or avoid.

9. Lawyer/Judge

• Intent: Win court cases, improve legal outcomes, sway judgement. Highly prized for legal work.

• Recipe: Include in court-case packets with petition, lawyer’s name, and legal herbs (bay leaf, salt).

10. Magical Practitioner (root doctor, conjure man/woman)

• Intent: Extremely versatile. Hyatt notes dirt from magical practitioners is useful for many ends because the spirit is already practiced in working. Internet Archive

• Collect: Offer tobacco or rum; ask the spirit to lend its craft.

• Recipe: Combine with a practitioner’s favored herbs (check historical notes) and use in advanced conjure.

11. Pet

• Intent: Protection, loyalty, comfort. Safe and often emotionally resonant.

• Collect: If it’s your pet’s grave, this is a perfect ancestor-substitute for household loyalty spells. No heavy offerings required; a small coin or a fur sample suffices.

12. Physically or Emotionally Abused

• Intent: Courage, liberation, and strength to escape abusive situations. Hyatt reports such dirt is used to empower victims to leave. Not a substitute for legal or safety action.

• Recipe: Mix with ginger, red jasper, and empowering prayers; place in an “escape” jar and combine with practical safety planning.

13. Serial killer / murderer (extreme)

• Intent: Reserved for lethal or extremely heavy harm. Many practitioners recommend never using this. Hyatt warns of lethal outcomes when combined with certain recipes. Internet Archive

14. Nun or Priest

• Intent: Protection, appearance of innocence, or coverings of reputation. Useful where you need a façade of sanctity.

15. Soldier

• Intent: Strength, bravery, obedience, protection in conflict. Hyatt suggests checking the soldier’s causes and background before use to avoid conflicting karmic aims. Internet Archive

• Recipe: Add to protection powders, combine with iron filings or a soldier’s token (if available).

Sample collection scripts (spoken words to use at the grave)

Use a short, respectful script; modify to your voice:

• Permission & Payment script: “Spirit of this place, I come with respect. I ask permission to take a small portion of the earth for the purpose of [state your purpose]. I leave these coins/this offering in trade. Accept this with gratitude and know I will treat it with care.” Then scoop, label, and step back to leave the offering. Hyatt records informants using short, explicit bargains like this. Internet Archive

• Consecration on altar: After returning, hold jar and say: “I give thanks to [name or spirit of place]. This earth is consecrated for [purpose]. Be with me and this work.” Seal jar.

Preparations and blends: how to make usable powders, cakes, and packets

• Drying and sifting: Lay dirt on a clean plate or baking sheet indoors to air-dry. Sift with a small tea strainer to remove pebbles and root fragments. Internet Archive

• Powder mix: 1 part grave dirt + 1 part sugar (for sweet works) or + 1 part red pepper (for baneful), or + 1 part herbs appropriate to intent (rosemary for protection; bay for victory).

• Mud cakes: Historically, some recipes call for mixing grave dirt with vinegar or water, shaping into cakes, drying, and cutting into quarters for placement

• Packaging: Use dark glass jars for long storage. Label with cemetery, grave, date, and purpose. Include a short instruction slip for future use.

Short Hyatt quotes

• “Graveyard dirt must be bought from spirit.” Internet Archive

• “You can take the dirt up out their foot track.” (Hyatt records informants on foot-track magic). Internet Archive

• “Mix that graveyard dirt with… shoe dust…and put sugar and cinnamon.” (on sweetening floors and household success).

FOCUS AREA #2 : Foot Track Magic

Optional lesson – if you want to take it to the next level and practice some of this type of baneful magic this week, I will provide additional tips below.

Now you tryin’ to take my life, and all my lovin’ too
You laid a passway for me, now what are you tryin’ to do

-Robert Johnson  “Stones in My Passway”

In this lesson, you will learn a very popular way to curse somebody using foot track magic or hot foot magic. Additionally, we will cover a variety of different spells that you can employ to curse somebody you don’t need in your life.

I’ll also add some links to the various stores should you need to grab some of these products yourself. But if you would like to make the powder I’m going to leave you a recipe to give it ago for yourself!

Foot track magic has a past in both Germanic folk magic spells and American hoodoo practices. It involves cursing someone by a wide variety of methods, such as placing stones in a certain configuration in the person’s path, sprinkling goofer dust or graveyard dirt in his shoes, or placing dirt from his footprint into a bottle. The curse can range from giving the hoodoo’d person bad luck or memory loss to causing incurable disease and death.

The most common modern use for Foot track magic is to have someone move away from you! Hence why some of the other popular names for this type of magical spells include “getaway”,&  “hotfoot”. The idea is that the target will step into the magical powder and get away from you. For this magic to be successful, the target must step in or walk over the powder.

One idea of the origins of this type of magic comes from the African concept that magic influences enter and exit your body through your feet. Chinese also believe that the souls of your feet are connected to every major organ in your body, still, I could not find Chinese spells to curse through the feet. There is a large body of spells from the German tradition, where they will say a specific spell while driving a nail into the footprint of the target. In this case, it is called Foot Print Magic! So I guess the first lesson is to always watch where you walk!

Hot Foot Powder is one of the oldest and most traditional sachet powders used in hoodoo. It is mainly composed of all manner of hot chili, sulfur and other highly irritating or “hot” ingredients, ground into a fine powder mixed with either talcum powder or cornstarch. Many people will mix the powder with some dirt, to blend it in a little better, making the powder less conspicuous.

Hot Foot Powder is a great way to drive someone away without others knowing, and without inherently harming them.

• Drive unwanted people away
• Make enemies leave
• Make others go away

Recipe for hot foot oils & powders

It’s very easy to make your own powder, and I promise you that it will be just as good or even better than anything you can buy from the store. I will give you three different recipes from my own collection, and feel free to chop and change these as you feel comfortable. For example, I will often add a pinch of my DUME powder into the mixture, just because I love my cursing powder, and I love to add it to most things if I’m going to curse somebody.

Remember – mix together on a Saturday, under the influences of Saturn.

#1 – Hot Foot Powder

To make your own hotfoot powder, use cayenne pepper, cinnamon powder, goofer dust or graveyard dirt

#2 – Hot Foot Powder

Chili powder, red sandalwood, black pepper, cinnamon, and a pinch of sulfur.

#3 – this can be used for either oil or powder

For Powder – red chilli pepper, black pepper, sulfur, John the Conqueror in a base of corn starch.

For the Oil – Mix the above with a few tablespoons of vitamin E oil, and let’s sit and shake daily for several weeks. Then I recommend that you strain it through a cheese cloth and leave it in the bottle until you need it.

Hot Foot Powder Uses:

Hot Foot Powder is usually deployed by sprinkling it on the ground where your target will walk over it. This works through the principle of foot track magic: magically affecting your target through the feet, as the feet are what carry a person through life. Additionally, a person will typically track substances into their home or car after walking through it thus introducing it into their private space.

• Lay down a line of Hot Foot Powder in your target’s tracks when they cross over it, they will be compelled to get the hell out of your life.
• Put a pinch of Hot Foot Powder in their shoes to “hot foot” them out of town.
• You can even dust the tires on their car with Hot Foot Powder to get them to drive out of your life!

Ideally, if you want someone to move away, you should sprinkle the hot foot powder all around their premises.

You can also sprinkle powder such as goofer dust or graveyard dirt inside someone’s shoes or in a place they’re likely to walk through, in order to administer a curse.

It’s just not all about sprinkling powder. There are other hot foot style spells where you collect the dirt from where your target has walked, and perhaps place it in a red flannel bag, and then throw it in a body of moving water.

Harry Hyatt (Hoodoo — Conjuration — Witchcraft — Rootwork), suggests taking the dirt from your target’s left foot, bind it in a red piece of flannel, then throw it in a river that is flowing north. As you throw it turn back around and say go from me. He says that in nine days your target will be gone!

How to disguise the Hot Foot Powder from the target

To hide Hot Foot Powder from being recognized (it has a distinctive color), mix it half-and-half with local dirt from the area before sprinkling it. Most people will mistake it for dirt that someone has simply tracked in on their shoes and not think twice about stepping on it.

You may have seen in some movies, that powder will be blown onto or into the path of the target. In this case, the powder is placed in your left hand, and then blow the powder into the 4 quarters.

How to let someone know that they have been hotfooted!

In some cultures, they will draw in the dirt, specific lines, such as 4 wavy lines, and then spit on the ground to activate the curse. This is called “setting a trick”. Personally, I believe in hiding all the magic that you are performing on other individuals, and as we live in a very clever world, I wouldn’t leave any signs or symbols around that could highlight the fact that the target is cursed, so that they step around the powder and not through it.

Traditional Hot Foot Spell w Candle & Jar

Bottle Spell to Remove an Asshole Husband

1. Take the right foot track of your hateful husband and put it in a dark bottle or jar.
2. Add a dirt dauber’s nest and some cayenne pepper to the foot track and parch it in an old tin frying pan.
3. Put all of this into a dirty sock and tie it up.
4. Turn the bundle away from you as you tie it.
5. Carry it to the river at twelve noon. When you get within forty feet of the river, you must run fast to the edge of the water, whirl suddenly and hurl the sock over your left shoulder into the water and never look back.
6. Say, “Go, and go quick in the name of Lucifer (or your Goddess or demons name).”

HotFoot a Room Mate!

If you are sharing a living space with someone and want to make them go away or move out, you need to hit them with a harder Hot Foot Spell and this Hot Foot Spell is just the trick.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• 1 packet of Hot Foot Powder
• 1 empty bottle
• 1 used dirty sock belonging to your target

Make sure to use a dirty sock that has not been cleaned for this trick. It will have your target’s sweat on it and this will hit them on a physical level.

Method:

• Put the sock in the bottle and add in about half a packet of Hot Foot Powder.
• When you cap the bottle pray over it and ask(God) to drive the pestiferous roommate away from your house, force them to move away and leave you alone for good.
• Take the bottle to a river that runs out of town and throw it into the river over your left shoulder and don’t look back. The person will run out of your life just like that river runs out of town. (If you do not have access to a river, then you can also toss the bottle into a crossroads way out on the edge of town to drive that person out of town.)
• Next return home and sprinkle Hot Foot Powder in the roommate’s shoes. Put some in their bedroom under their bed. Put some in their foot powder if they use some, or in their talcum powder if they use that on their body.

Ideas:

You can even double down your curse with these nasty tips:

• Use Hot Foot Oil on the doorknobs
• Dripping some in their shampoo bottle or body wash
• Give a gift. Sprinkle some of the powder in a potted plant, and leave it at their door.

Removing the “Hot Foot Curse” from YOU

But what if you are the one stepping in the hotfoot powder. What can you do to fix this situation? It is suggested that you will need to take a spiritual bath, or a cleansing bath. When you have finished the bath the idea is to throw the water onto the path crossed with the hot foot powder. That is said to remove the jinx and it will protect you. However, in this century it’s going to be very hard to throw water everywhere that you have walked without causing people to look at you weird. The best thing you can do is have a spiritual bath and continue on with your general spiritual protection.

Older suggestions from the hoodoo tradition, suggest wearing black pepper in your shoes to keep an enemy from being able to hotfoot you!