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The Spellbook · Cleansing

The Spellbook

Cleansing spells

15 traditional workings for cleansing, from many traditions — each with what you need, how to do it, when, and where it comes from.

15 spells

Indigenous & Ancient ReligionsCarrying Out Morana: A Slavic Spring Cleansing RiteWest Slavic folk custom (Czech, Slovak, Polish), recorded from the 15th centuryCleansingBanishingModerate Vodou & HoodooFlorida Water Spiritual Cleansing of Body and RoomMurray & Lanman's cologne (New York, 1808), used in African American, Caribbean and Latin American spiritual practiceCleansingBlessingsPeaceSimple Witchcraft & WiccaFull Moon Esbat Rite and Making Moon WaterModern Wicca and contemporary witchcraft, mid-20th century to the presentBlessingsCleansingWisdom & studySimple Ancient MagicGreek Mati: Blue-Eye Protection and the XematiasmaModern Greek folk Orthodoxy, with roots in ancient Greek baskaniaProtectionCleansingSimple Ancient MagicHekate's Deipnon: The Household Supper at the New MoonClassical Athens, 5th–4th century BCE; revived in modern Hellenic polytheismCleansingHome & hearthProtectionSimple Vodou & HoodooHoodoo Floor Wash for Blessing a New HomeAfrican American hoodoo, southern United States, 19th–20th centuryCleansingHome & hearthBlessingsSimple ShintoKamidana Offering and Purification at a Home ShrineJapanese household Shinto; kamidana widespread from the Edo period (1603–1868) to the presentBlessingsHome & hearthCleansingSimple High MagickLesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (Golden Dawn)Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, London, c. 1888–1900BanishingProtectionCleansingModerate ChristianityLimpia con Huevo: The Curanderismo Egg CleansingMexican and Mexican American curanderismo, colonial period to the presentCleansingHealingDivinationModerate Black & White MagicMalocchio Oil and Water Test for the Evil EyeSouthern Italian and Italian American folk Catholicism, 19th century to the presentProtectionDivinationCleansingSimple ShintoMorishio: Japanese Salt Mounds for Purifying an EntranceJapanese folk and Shinto purification custom; widespread from the Edo period to the presentCleansingProtectionHome & hearthSimple ZoroastrianismNowruz Rites: Chaharshanbe Suri Fires and the Haft-Sin TableIranian New Year customs with Zoroastrian roots; Chaharshanbe Suri in its current form after the Islamic period, the haft-sin table largely modernLuckBlessingsCleansingModerate Witchcraft & WiccaSweeping Out Bad Luck with a Besom BroomEuropean and African American broom lore; modern witchcraftCleansingBanishingHome & hearthSimple Indigenous & Ancient Religions · historyThe Copal Incense Offering in Aztec and Maya TraditionMesoamerica: Aztec (Mexica) and Maya religion, Postclassic period (c. 900–1521) as described in colonial sources; continuing in living Indigenous practiceBlessingsCleansingAdvanced Vodou & HoodooVan Van Oil: The New Orleans Formula for ClearingNew Orleans and southern hoodoo, late 19th–early 20th centuryCleansingLuckProtectionSimple