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For those who are not familiar with the Hyatt books, this is
taken from the 5 volume collection "Hoodoo - Conjuration Witchcraft - Rootwork" by Harry Middelton Hyatt.
As some see graveyard dirt,graveyard dust & goofer dust as
synonymous,I have included all these under this one heading
but you will see the differentiation as you read.
Though a predominant ingredient in many hoodoo recipes, I
have read that is is actually a uniquely Kongo practice that
somehow spilled over to other systems of magick. It is
customary to place a coin on the grave that you take the dirt
from out of respect for the deceased. Usually one picks a
grave that will reflect what your intentions are. As for how
one acquires the dirt, it is beleived that one must get a bit of it
from the head,center and foot of the grave. Below are
variations and thier correspondance in regards to the time of
day (or night) the dirt is to be obtained as well as during what
phase of the moon,direction etc...
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TIME CORRESPONDANCES FOR OBTAINING GRAVEYARD DIRT
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9 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT-NORTH SIDE OF THE GRAVEYARD
Go to the graveyard at nine o'clock at night, and get some dirt
out of a grave on the north side of the cemetery. And carry it
to a woman's house that has a husband, and you want that
husband. You get some of your friends to take that dirt there.
And if she can become friendly with the woman in that house
and get a chance to sprinkle it around their bed and in the
house, so she will have to walk over it, this woman, this mans
wife will dwindle away and die. Then you have the opportunity
to get with this man. [Memphis, Tenn.]
MIDNIGHT
People say that if you have been having tough luck and
Take the graveyard dirt and mix with a little mullein, patchouli
and a touch of brimstone (sulphur)to make graveyard dust.
This powder will burn. Shape into a human figure and
ignite..as it burns it is suppose to hex whoever the figure
represented with the result that the individual allegedly
became ill. Another common usage is to sprinkle it on the
doorstep of the one to be conjured, or to place some in a bag
that is hidden on the intended victim's property,hidden in the
dwelling etc.......
TO RID YOURSELF OF SOMEONE
Now, there is no special time to enter the graveyard to get
this. You can pretend to be walking around the cemetery and
pretend to be looking over a loved one that's gone to rest.
Now, in passing you get you a handful of dirt and go on. And
you and your wife or your lady friend, something like that, if
your quarreling or she's done you wrong. You don't want to
kill her, that's going to put you in trouble. You just want to get
rid of her. You take that dust and when she's gone to bed at
night and there's her shoes, a pair of shoes she wears more
than others. You just sprinkle that dust around those shoes.
Quite naturally by sprinkling that dust in there, she's going to
perspire in her feet. Just like you would perspire under your
arm or on your head, and your pores open up. If it wasn't that,
we would never catch a cold, you know. Do this and it will
dissolve just like aspirin. Well when that dissolves, her pores
will be open and her feet right next to that, might as well say
that. That will get right into her pores and will close up in
there. And she will just wither away like anything else-just
leave (this world). [Algiers, La.]
GRAVEYARD DIRT AND SALT IN BOTTLE- SPRINKLE UNDER
STEPS
They get the dirt out of a graveyard and they stop it up in a
bottle and they will come to your house. If they don't like you
they will come to your house with the graveyard dirt. Mix it
with a little salt and sprinkle it under the steps. Then they
stop the other one tight and bury it. But your not suppose to
be home when they do that, and anytime you go back to that
house where your spirit has gone. That drives your spirit
away. You'd go to the house but you can't stay. [Jacksonville,
Fla.]
GRAVEYARD DUST UNDER BED
Get a little graveyard dirt and put on a person, and when you
put it on them - get a little graveyard dirt and carry it, tie it up
realtight and put it up under the pillow and let them sleep on
it at night. And if he's got a wife and his wife wanted to go
out, she would put itup under there and let him to go sleep. If
he's got whiskey in him oranything - anything at all like
whiskey on him she can go on off andstay just long as she
wants. And when she comes back she'll pull it outand he
wakes up. (That's to keep him asleep while she is gone.)
[Florence, S.Car. ]
GRAVEYARD DIRT SPRINKLE ON HAIR OR HEAD
. Take graveyard dust...sprinkle it...over your hair...that will
make you sleep.[Vicksburg, Mis., ]
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PERSONS GRAVE-TYPE CORRESPONDANCES
Just as the times & phases when dirt is taken plays a
significant role in its usage, so does the various types of
graves it is taken from. The dirt is thought to work special
magick in accordance with the type of person who inhabits the
grave as you will see in the following examples:(In
alphabetical order)
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BABY'S GRAVE
If you want two women to get along, wanted them to live in
the same house together. Well, you go to the graveyard where
a baby is buried, run your hand down there and get some dirt
from the head. Come home and sprinkle it around the house
nine morning in a row and that will make peace in the house.
(What do you mean have two women in the house and have
them get along?) If you have two of them and you just want
them to get along. If they stay in separate houses it will be all
right but you have to sprinkle it in both houses. (I see) You
could put them in the house together is you use the dirt. (You
mean the two women?) Yes. [Vickburg, Miss.]
Get dirt off of a baby's grave and sprinkle it in your room. That
will keep peace there [Memphis, Tenn.]
To keep the law away, you take this same graveyard dirt but
instead of throwing it in your house (when you throw it into
your house, that's for luck, that's to make your business big).
To keep the law away you go around your house in the
morning between eight and nine o' clock and you draw a cross
and you make your wishes. [where do you draw the cross?] At
each door before they come in. Well they might come out
there but they never come over there. [You put this dirt down
in a cross?] The dirt, sulphur, graveyard dirt and table salt.
[graveyard dirt from a infants grave] Yes. [Fayetteville, N.
Car.]
Now, I've heard this to be a positive fact. Now they say if you
go to a woman you like and you cross the water and you go to
the graveyard, and get some dirt off an infants grave-childthey say it will effect her to come back. But if you get it off a
murderers grave she will go further. (I don't quite understand
what you said. If its a woman you like, you cross water and
get this dirt?). He doesn't have to cross the water, she's
across the water. You get the dirt and send it in a letter. [This
violates an ancient rule, a spirit cannot cross water! Is mailed
in a letter an exception?] Yes. (You got to get it from an
infants grave to bring her back, but if you get the dirt from a
murderers grave, then what?) That drivers her further.
[Elizabeth City,N. Car.]
Well if you want a job of any kind, you get a dirt dauber and
go to a baby's grave in the cemetery and reach your hand
down in the same direction. And if you want a job anywhere,
you mix the same dirt, the dirt dauber nest with the other dirt.
And sprinkle in in front of the place and around the office
where the boss has got to go in, and just say, "Little baby, in
the name of the father, son and the holy ghost, give me my
job back". And they give it to you. [Brunswick, Ga.]
I heard that you can take a dirt dauber nest and some
graveyard dirt from a little baby. If you know it and mix it
together and put it somewhere, about the bed or in the corner
of some hidden place, and the baby terrify you and cry so - the
spirit will - that will leave out of the room. (That is to make
you move) [Sumter, S. Car.]
Get some graveyard dirt, dig to you elbow on the left side not
on the right. On the left side dig to your elbow and after you
get to the elbow, then you get what you want out of there. Get
a brand new box of pepper, red ground pepper. And get a
brand new box of salt and mix them together. If you want a
person to move you could throw it on their house, or up on the
house, or carry it in the house, just one time. And then you
can take and get you 9 rocks off a baby's grave. Get 9 rocks
and this is true because I tried it myself-and take the 9 rocks,
and if you want them to move throw them over their window,
up over the porch, just anywhere, just so it hits the house
over the window. Whoever you want to move from there [will
move]. Go like tonight and then the next night , until you use
up the 9 rocks and call them by their name and they will
move. (You throw 1 rock each night?}. Each night.
[Fayetteville, N. Car.]
GRAVE OF BABY THAT NEVER CRIED
Take some broom straws and dirt from a baby's grave that
never cried, and some parched eggshell and put them on a
persons doorstep. And they say it will make them lame in the
legs. (You take the broom straw?) You take the broom straws
nine of them from a large broom, and eggshell (parched), and
some graveyard dirt, and mix it up. And they say that it make
them lame. (What about this baby that never cried?) You get
the dirt off a baby's grave that never cried, you know that may
have been born dead. [Fayetteville, N. Car.]
CATHOLICS GRAVE
You go to the Catholic Graveyard and reach down in there, dig
the same the dirt will have an effect. Take the graveyard dirt,
red pepper,black pepper and sprinkle it in the house
anywhere, the dirt is dry you see and it will cause confusion
between a man and his wife. [New Orleans, La.]
Graveyard dirt, that causes a fuss. A man that would die and
he's a gambler, underworld man, all his life. Go to the
graveyard at midnight,get a pocket knife and get some dirt,
put it in your pocket with John the Conquer, and you luck will
change the same day and night. Now is you want any fuss out
of the graveyard dirt, you get the graveyard dirt after its dry,
it can't be wet, add some red pepper (as hot as you can get),
mix it with the powdered dirt. Go into a persons home and
during the time you are there, sprinkle the dirt around, it will
cause practically a killing scrape in the home for weeks on
end.
GOOD PERSONS GRAVE
You go to the grave and you get dirt from a good persons
grave, if you want peace in your home. And then you sprinkle
it around and in the house, well then you go to work and then
you find peace there when you return.
INFIDELS GRAVE
They go to the cemetery, now listen according to the Bible,
some people believe they have a God and some don't. Well the
man and woman that don't believe they have a God is an
Infidel. Or a man that gambles practically all his life, and dies,
they figure he is gone to hell. He doesn't dwell where the good
dwells. Go to the graveyard at midnight and take some mud
from the infidels grave with a knife, bring it back and let it dry
well. Get some red pepper and mix it well, and if you want to
disturb here, just sprinkle that here and the two parties, I
guarantee won't be together long. [New Orleans, La.]
RELIGIOUS PERSON GRAVE
Now if there's anything done that's going to ruin you mind or
just anything done to your home, or if somebody hoodoos you
to keep you from a job. Which is why you use this method
here. If there is a man you know that killed a religious man, a
relative, you can take a penny and you put it in the middle of
daily. On the 8th day,wrap the items in a black cloth and bury
over a grave.
---------------------------------------------------------------------TO DOMINATE AN INDIVIDUAL
Place photo of individual on a white plate an sprinkle with dirt
form the bottom of your shoe. Sprinkle dirt from 4 cemeteries
over the photo.Burn a black 7 day candle that has been fixed
with "Domination" oil by the plate. Instill a bit of this oil in
candle daily. On the 8th day,wrap the items in a red cloth and
bury in a wooded area.
DOMINATION OIL
To 2 oz. base oil, add contents of one Vit.E capsule and:
7 drops Snake
3 drops Patchouly
3 drops Apple
---------------------------------------------------------------------TO CAUSE CONFLICTS
Write the individuals name six times on a piece of brown
paper bag and insert nine needles into the paper and then
place on a white plate. Sprinkle a mixture of black cat & black
dog fur over the paper. Next, sprinke powdered Palo Cambia
Rumba and Palo Muerto (or "Separation" or "Confusion"
powder) and then dirt from where two dogs have fought over
the paper.
Burn a black 7 day candle that has been fixed with
"Separation" or "Confusion" oil by the plate. Instill a bit of
this oil in candle daily. On the 8th day,wrap the items and
dispose of in a cemetery.
SEPARATION OIL & POWDER
To 2 oz. base oil add contents of one Vit. E capsule and:
3 drops vetivert
3 drops Sandalwood
1 drop Clove
drops
drops
drops
drops
drops
Coconut
Lavender
Violet
Black Pepper
Ginseng
Black Pepper
Precipitado Rojo
Sulpher
John The Conqueror
Grind ingredients and add to a rice flour/corn starch base for
powder.
For oil,add to base dosed with a capsule or two of Vit. E ,or
use solids and let sit and shake daily for several weeks then
strain through cheese cloth and bottle.
GET AWAY POWDER OR OIL
Red Pepper
Black Pepper
Patchouly
Ginger
John The Conqueror
Grind ingredients and add to a rice flour/corn starch base for
powder.
For oil,add to base dosed with a capsule or two of Vit. E ,or
use solids and let sit and shake daily for several weeks then
strain through cheese cloth and bottle.
PRAYER TO THE INTRANQUIL SPIRIT
"Oh, Intranquil Spirit, you that in hell are wandering and will
never reach Heaven, hear me, hear me!
Nobody calls you, I call you. Nobody wants you, I want you.
Nobody needs you, I need you. Listen to me, Listen to me. I
want you to get the five senses of (insert name) and you
should not let him rest in peace, either seated, standing or
sleeping. That he should find himself as restless as the waters
of the seas. That he should run until he humbly falls at my feet
because nobody would help him. Neither a divorcee or a
married woman or a widow should love him.
(insert name), I conjure you before this cross and God, that
you are to run after me as the living after the cross and the
dead after the light. Amen."
---------------------------------------------------------------------All spells slightly modified versions of those found within the
pages of C. Montenegros "Santeria Formulary & Spellbook".
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