Graveyard Dirt

A fantastic post, Mentis. I have to add that I think that just becaue a system of knowledge and belief is outside the realm of one's own experience, it doesn't mean it is invalid or untrue.

Thanks Mentis! This holds true to a lot of what I've read. More read up on the Louisiana hoodoo rather than voodoo though haha.

To discredit graveyard dirt is to discredit the whole of sympathetic magic: like equals like, something that has been in contact with a target or a place is able to influence same target or place. Graveyard dirt is but one example.

To say such things also discredits an entire body of Afro-Caribbean spellwork that employs such materia magica readily and has for centuries.

Mentis, great post! I really enjoy reading such articles - it's what keeps me coming back to the forums ;)

Very good thread well put and interesting!

Brilliant post Mentis, I for one highly appreciate the sharing. In New Orleans Voodoo - Hoodoo, most "universal blend" is dirt from 9 graves, for crossing work one of the graves is usually that of a criminal or well known notorious person, and for healing and positive work one should come from a child's grave.

Also paying in some sort of spirit ( alcohol ) and money is common. Some use Canaga water, for it's associations with spiritual work, work with the ancestors and deceased. Florida water and whiskey could be used as well.

Another non-graveyard dirt used ( I heard off ) is racetrack soil, used in some versions of condition oils and sachet powders for gambling luck, though mostly by those practitioners that except Voodoo and Hoodoo incorporate Palo or Santeria into their work.

@Brysing That is such a blanket statement, that i felt need not to comment on it at all. First of all, it is utterly rude to "correct" other people tradition-bound beliefs, or religious beliefs. Besides, if nothing else Graveyard dirt is blessed, hollowed, when graveyard is made in first-place, and it's devotional place conected to our ancestors. Ancestral cult is a crucial part of African religion of Vodoun and consequently y religion s and traditions that derive from it. Also graveyard dirst was always important in folk witchcraft, which makes it part of general occult experience.


Many Blessings dear Mentis :) and thanks once again for Your helpful input

Wonderful post Mentis. :)

That certainly exceeds disrespect. In a manner of speaking it is the equivalent of digging up a corpse and doing despicable things to it. Though on a smaller scale it is still a defiling of their home.

That was in reply to Brysing. Sorry if I was not clear enough.

thanks for the info mentis. just the other day i went to visit my friends grave site for the first time and i totally felt the energies that were present as a whole that consumed the cemetery. i even wanted to collect grave yard dirt but realized i had know idea what to do with it. and i wouldnt want to get stuck with it and never use it... more importantly it never accured to me to ask permision and leave offering. but i never collected the dirt and decided to cross that bridge when i get their :D

Thanks for the wonderful information Mentis :)