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Luck spells

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

28 spells

Herbal MagickBasil Money Charm for Wallet, Shop and DoorwayMediterranean, Latin American and African American folk herbalism; recorded in hoodoo from the early 20th century and in Mexican and Caribbean shop customProsperityLuckSuccessSimple Herbal MagickBay Leaf Wish Spell: Writing and Burning a WishContemporary witchcraft and folk practice, building on classical laurel loreLuckSuccessSimple Black & White MagicBlowing Cinnamon Through the Door on the First of the MonthContemporary popular magic spread through social media, 2020s, drawing on older money and luck customsProsperityLuckHome & hearthSimple Black & White MagicBrazilian New Year Simpatias: White Clothes and Seven WavesBrazil, 20th century to the present, drawing on Umbanda, Catholic and immigrant customsLuckProsperityBlessingsSimple Taoism & Chinese ReligionChinese New Year Rites for Luck and a Blessed HomeChinese popular religion, Han dynasty to the presentLuckHome & hearthProsperitySimple Ancient MagicCornicello: Blessing the Italian Horn Against the Evil EyeNeapolitan and southern Italian folk custom, with roots in Roman apotropaic amuletsProtectionLuckSimple SuperstitionsFirst-Footing at Hogmanay: Bringing Luck into the New YearScottish and northern English New Year custom, recorded from the late 18th century; related customs in the Isle of Man, Wales and northern EuropeLuckHome & hearthProsperitySimple Solomonic Magic · historyGoetic Treasure-Finding Evocations: A HistoryEarly modern European treasure magic: English cunning-folk and clerical magicians of the 16th–17th centuries; spirit catalogues from Weyer's Pseudomonarchia (1577) to the Ars GoetiaProsperityLuckAdvanced JudaismHanging a Hamsa to Protect the Home from the Evil EyeJewish communities of North Africa and the Middle East; Mediterranean folk custom, medieval to modernProtectionHome & hearthLuckSimple Vodou & HoodooHoodoo Mojo Bag for Luck: Making and Feeding a HandAfrican American hoodoo, southern United States, 19th–20th century, with Central African rootsLuckProsperitySuccessModerate Witchcraft & WiccaHorseshoe and Threshold Protection for a HomeBritish and wider European folk practice, attested from the 17th centuryProtectionLuckHome & hearthSimple BuddhismHow and When to Hang Tibetan Prayer FlagsTibetan Buddhist and Himalayan folk practice, medieval period to the presentBlessingsLuckPeaceSimple HermeticismJupiter Talisman for Prosperity, after AgrippaRenaissance astral magic; Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia (1533)ProsperityLuckSuccessModerate Vodou & HoodooLodestone Money-Drawing Jar in Hoodoo RootworkAfrican American hoodoo, southern United States, late 19th–20th century; drugstore and mail-order curio trade from the 1920sProsperityLuckSimple ShintoManeki-neko, Kumade and Daruma: Japanese Lucky CharmsJapanese popular religion of shrines and temples; engimono culture of the Edo period (1603–1868) to the presentLuckProsperitySuccessSimple DivinationNorse Rune Casting and Bind Runes: Ancient and ModernGermanic and Norse runic tradition (2nd–11th century CE); rune casting and talismanic bind runes largely 20th-century developmentsDivinationProtectionLuckModerate 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 ShintoOmamori Charms and Hatsumōde: Japan's New Year RenewalJapanese Shinto and Buddhist shrine-temple custom; omamori from the medieval period, mass hatsumōde from the Meiji eraProtectionLuckBlessingsSimple ChristianityPetitioning St Expedite for Urgent Help and SuccessPopular Catholic devotion; Sicily, France and Réunion from the 18th–19th century, then Brazil and New Orleans, where it entered hoodoo practiceSuccessLuckSimple HermeticismPicatrix Astral Image: Making a Talisman of VenusArabic astral magic of al-Andalus, 11th century; Latin Picatrix (1256) and Marsilio Ficino (1489)LuckPeaceSuccessAdvanced Vodou & HoodooRoad Opener Candle Working to Clear Blocked PathsAfrican American hoodoo and Latino botánica practice, 20th century to the presentSuccessLuckTravelModerate Witchcraft & WiccaSailors' Wind Knots: Three-Knot Cord for a Safe VoyageNorth Sea and Baltic maritime folk magic: Sámi, Finnish, Shetland, Orkney and Manx, recorded from the 14th–19th centuriesTravelLuckSimple HermeticismSun Talisman for Success with Agrippa's Square of 111Renaissance astral magic; Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia (1533)SuccessCourageLuckModerate IslamThe Hand of Fatima: Khamsa Protection in Muslim CustomPopular Muslim custom of the Maghreb and the Middle East, medieval to modern; Shi'i devotion to the Five of the Prophet's householdProtectionHome & hearthLuckSimple Witchcraft & WiccaThe Money Bowl: A Modern Witchcraft Charm for AbundanceContemporary witchcraft and popular magic, late 20th–21st century, drawing on older 'treasure bowl' and money-jar customsProsperityLuckSimple SuperstitionsTurning Your Money at the New Moon: A British Luck CustomBritish and Irish popular custom, recorded from the 18th to the 20th century, with wider European parallelsLuckProsperitySimple Vodou & HoodooVan Van Oil: The New Orleans Formula for ClearingNew Orleans and southern hoodoo, late 19th–early 20th centuryCleansingLuckProtectionSimple Taoism & Chinese ReligionWelcoming Caishen, the Chinese God of WealthChinese popular religion; cult of the gods of wealth from the Song–Ming period, 'welcoming the God of Wealth' on the fifth day of the New Year in Qing and modern customProsperityLuckSuccessSimple