Bottle Up and Go! The Magic of Hoodoo Container Spells in Boxes, Jars, Bags, Bowls, and Buckets

This book is so cool. It has good instructions for how to make up the works, but the best part for me is the way that stories and anecdotes are included in the instructions. For me and my background it was just so charming and really humanizing to the whole thing.For example: “Miss Cat tells how a sugar jar saved the baby: Back around 1966 an older Black woman told me how she had made a healing jar for the sickly little baby of the woman she cleaned house for” and the story goes on explaining in detail how the jar was made. I LOVED this format and read it like a fun book, not just an instruction manual or recipe book. Also, these things work. They do.

This little book is filled with info on traditional ways that subjugated and impoverished people have used magick against their powerful oppressors and personal enemies to obtain justice and protection in an unjust world. This is NOT the right book for a peaceful Wiccan, with white privileges, who follows the threefold rule and is into always turning the other cheek no matter what.

Perfect spell book

An amazing book chock full of useful information. If you want to know how to create your own container spell, this is a must have! What I like best about this book is the organization and ease for the reader to assimilate quickly. This book isn’tfor dilettantes; it’s a practical book for people who are serious about container work for different conditions. A book I will refer to many times. Catherine Yronwode proves once again her sublime expertise in the magical arts. The editing, sheer perfection. Highly recommended!

This is a great book. I like that the spells come from a wide variety of sources instead of just one author's collection. It gives it depth and makes it interesting. I also loved all of the history included in this book. It references a lot of interviews with actual root workers in the early to late 1900s that gives spells how they were done in the old days. It covers a wide range of topics giving spells and practical advice on all of them. I'm sure I'll be using this book a lot.

I would have like more details on crafting some of the spells in these book.

So, again this book was a little different than I was expecting. Although, it's got some really great stuff in it. I'm already utilizing a lot of the recipes from this book & made myself a nice Black Hawk Bucket. I recommend it; the books are not a huge investment so even if you don't enjoy it, or don't have much use for a lot of the stuff in it, it's worth it.

Love this little book! Old school hoodoo like it should be!