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Black Witch says….

OK….here is my version of how I collect dirt from the graveyard. Some of

my coven believes people start running when they see me coming…not

true…well….whatever J

Still I am EXTREMELY respectful when I take dirt, and here is my thoughts

and procedure.

Graveyard Dirt or Graveyard Dust is literally dirt, dust, or soil taken from a

grave at a cemetery. Graveyard Dirt is a famous ingredient in many spells

of various magical traditions. Although graveyard dirt is more commonly

associated in the mind of the public with black magic and curses, in

reality graveyard dirt is also an ingredient in various good works, such

as for protection, luck in gambling, and even love-drawing.

In order to harvest graveyard dirt certain rituals must be performed. Rituals

for the gathering of graveyard dirt vary from practitioner to practitioner

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but the following is a good basic guide as to how graveyard dirt is

gathered.

- For legal reasons do not use any tools to dig the dirt. Also do not carry

any containers into the cemetery as well. Ideally one should place any

dirt they gather into their pockets directly but some people choose to use

a small baggie.

- Items needed include a small baggie (optional), and a small gift to

leave behind at the grave. One or more shiny new pennies or dimes, or

items the deceased individual enjoyed in life such as a cigarette, a shot of

whisky, etc., will usually suffice.

- For good works, dirt taken from the graves of family members, friends,

lovers, or people who had a good moral reputation are best. For black

magic spells dirt from the graves of "sinners", evil people, criminals and

murderers are the most powerful.

- Pray and meditate before going to the graveyard.

- Ideally one should only gather dirt from the grave of one's ancestors.

- Upon reaching the grave one has been led to, knock on the headstone

three times and call out to the spirit of the person buried there. Ask them

permission to take the dirt from the grave and then wait for the answer. If

the spirit answered positively then proceed by bending over and

grabbing a fist full of dirt in one hand from the area located over the

heart of the deceased. In the other hand place the gift one brought with

them at the spot where the dirt was taken. Otherwise the gift can be

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placed on top of the headstone. Only gather one fistful of dirt per visit.

- Perform a cleansing on one's self.

- Upon returning home one might want to transfer the graveyard dirt to a

respectable container, as one should show respect to the dead. A small

decorated container should do.

Graveyard dirt can also be purchased in various occult shops; however

let the buyer beware. Very few places seem to sell pure graveyard dirt

and there is no guarantee the dirt was gathered according to the proper

rituals. Usually the dirt sold in these stores has been adulterated by adding

talcum powder or similar powders. In some cases powdered mullein herb

is sold as a substitute for graveyard dirt. Don't be deceived.

Graveyard dirt is also sometimes referred to as 'goofer dust'. Such term

most always refers to a negative or black magic use for the dirt.

Traditionally graveyard dirt is but one ingredient in a powerful recipe for

'goofer dust', which is used to magically kill or harm one's enemy.

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USES AND GATHERING OF GRAVEYARD DIRT

As the theme of this month is around timing of spells – here is information

you can use in conjunction with the dirt collecting.

YOUR HOMEWORK IS TO GATHER ALL THE INFORMATION

YOU NEED IN YOUR BOS TO GO OUT AND COLLECT DIRT

FOR A SPELL YOU ARE WANTING TO PERFORM.

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 believed that one must get a bit of it from the head,center

and foot of the grave.

Below are variations and their correspondence 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

MIDNIGHT

People say that if you have been having tough luck and haven't had

much success, go to the graveyard at midnight and get some graveyard

dirt and put it in little sacks or bags (tiny ones) and wear them around you

waist. And from time to time you will be more successful that if you didn't

do this.

MIDNIGHT-NO MOON SHINING

At twelve o'clock at night you get graveyard dirt. That's mostly for

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harming, that for nothing good. You go there at midnight but when the

moon is not shining. You go there on a dark night. And you take the

graveyard dirt. If you just want a person to have bad luck, you just throw

the dirt at the person - strictly without anything else. They will never be

successful in any undertaking that they do.

NEW MOON - INNOCENTS GRAVE

If she wants to run around on you..you go to the graveyard on a new

moon and get some dirt off an innocents grave, take sulfur and table salt.

And when she leaves the house you go into her room and throw it in the

room, and as she goes out the door you throw it in the name of the father,

the son, and the holy ghost, and go on. Just like she comes in at night, you

know, like she is going out at night and she doesn't want them to be out

looking for her. Well she gets it fresh. She goes there on a new moon. (She

does this so they won't bother her while she goes out at night?} Go

anywhere she wants.

4 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING

Go to the graveyard around four in the morning and buy a pennies worth

of graveyard dirt. And come back and sprinkle it around the house, all

around and sweep off they do step behind them. That will move them.

Sweeping graveyard dirt is both an uncommon and dangerous rite. The

woman here that wants to rid herself of an unwelcome roomer or friend,

sprinkles graveyard dirt about the house outside, leaving herself a dirties

entry. Coming indoors she closes the dirt less entry, the doorstep, with

graveyard dirt. She is a prisoner in her own home. But, as soon as he walks

over the dirt, entering or leaving, she sweeps it away. The spirit in

graveyard dirt, not liking to be swept by the dirty broom, flees back to the

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graveyard; the man, having crossed the dirt, must go away forever; and

the woman, now immune from the graveyard-dirt spirit, is free - for

another roomer or friend. [How much dirt do you get from the

graveyard?] Penny's worth. [How much would that be?] That would be

two ounces.

BEFORE SUNRISE - THROW IN DIRECTION

VICTIM LIVES - BIBLE

They can do most anything with it, such as hurting a person. You can take

graveyard dirt and you can cause a person to, if you don't want them to

stay there, you can cause them to move to another place. But you must

go to the graveyard soon, before morning, before the rising of the sun,

get the dirt and cast it in the direction the person lives. If you cast it in the

direction the person lives and read a portion from the Bible, they will move

immediately. (Did you say portion or any peticular portion?) Just any

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portion of the Bible, doesn't matter, just any portion to drive most anyone

away with graveyard dirt.

BEFORE SUNRISE - DIRT FROM THE HEART

There are alot of people who say if you go to the graveyard, say, just

before morning and dig down right about the heart of a person, right

about the breast of a person, dig down way deep into the grave and get

the graveyart dirt, no doubt, and put it in your shoes or wrap it in a rag,

and place in your pocket, this is good for luck in gambling.

FULL MOON-DIRT FROM A FRESH GRAVE TO

BRING IN CUSTOMERS

You use the dead man, and the way they mix it, you mix the dirt taken

from a fresh grave on a full moon. Mix the Sulphur and red pepper and

bury it under the foot of a step, and it brings in customers/persons.

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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

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

CATHOLICS GRAVE

You go to the Catholic Graveyard and reach down in there, dig down in

there and get some grave off the breast. (A woman's?) It doesn't make

any difference but it has to be a Catholics grave where you get the dirt.

Take that dirt and you get some gourd seeds (green seeds) and you get

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some red pepper and take nine grains out of the red pepper. Then you

get a good bit of the mixture and go to the fork in the road and sprinkle a

little bit there. Do this for 3 nights and on the third night call out the party's

name and they will return.

CHILD'S GRAVE

They say if you have an enemy around and you want to drive them away

from you, go to the graveyard, to the grave of a child. You run your hand

down there to the elbow and grab a handful of dirt. You go to the

persons house, you can go all around [circumambulate] his house, and

scatter dirt [also] on his step. You will cause a fuss in their house and they

will be gone

GAMBLERS GRAVE

You can cause a whole lot of confusion in the house by taking graveyard

dirt , red pepper, and if he died for instance a man gambling, a man that

was swearing all about you, the worse a fella acted when he was living

the worse it will make people act, the people you use it on. If you take the

dirt from a Christian grave it won't do anything because that's a good

spirit. Its the evil spirit the man that died that had been a gambler and a

drunkard. The way he acted when he was living 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

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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.

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 the grave. That's in case of an emergency if the person you

know or not, is a religious person died. You give them the penny that day

and take some dirt. For you take that dirt which is why it will cause an evil

spirit to follow you, because you got something that belongs to them.

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Now they get in around you home which is why it causes confusion and

will cause a separation. Now you'll have to be around and take the

method with a good man, with a spiritual man, he met the spirit. You can

head home when the spirits come, you know what time to meet him and

you cure him if he's not too far gone.

[Informant says if you are HOODOOED, A SPIRITUAL MAN WOULD KNOW

WHAT TO DO]. You must pay for graveyard dirt or the spirit will follow you

home,evil or good, depending who is buried there. A SPIRITUAL MAN

(USUALLY A PERSON WORKING LARGELY WITH SPIRITS) can sit home and

wait for the coming of the good mans spirit, and use it for curing. If the sick

or hoodooed person is not too far gone.

SINNERS GRAVE

Go to the graveyard and carry 3 pennies in your hand, reach down, if it is

the grave of a sinner, if it is someone who didn't have a religion. You dig a

little hole and leave the 3 pennies and take some dirt with you. (Then you

use the dirt?) You can take the graveyard dust and sprinkle it around your

home and this will break up you and your husband. It will cause confusion

in your home but it has to be from a sinners grave

You can also sprinkle it in the corners of one room where people

penetrate, like the front room and theirs minds will be stirred up, and they

will have to leave.

GRAVE OF YOUR NEAREST RELATIONS

If your scared of the law or an enemy coming upon you, that's going to try

to venge you, they say to go to the graveyard. If any of your nearest

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relations have died, you dig a hole at the head of the grave and put any

amount of money you want to pay them there, .50 cents to a dollar

anything you wouldn't mind paying. Take a tablespoon full of dirt out of

the hole. Put the money in the hole and cover it back up. And tell him/her

to keep your enemies from you. After that you take the dirt and go to your

enemies place, you'll have to know your enemy and sprinkle the dirt

around their steps or in front of their home. You won't have to worry

anymore.

SUNKEN GRAVE

If a man breaks up with his wife and the wife wants him back? She should

go to the graveyard and get some dirt from the head of a sunken grave.

She should take that dirt and bury it under the first doorstep. If she can get

her man to come back and step over the first doorstep and over the

graveyard dirt? She will get him back and he will stay with her., she'll

come home.

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