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will move on to protecting the home. Just as Superman needs his for­ tress of solitude when things get rough, a witch's home should be a refuge even amidst the strongest attacks. The home (and car and office) is in many ways a magickal extension of ourselves. If an attacker lacks a good personal item, such as hair or clothing, to use as a magickal link, the cunning sorcerer will usually target the home instead and use it as a giant magickal link. Throwing Goofer Dust or planting a gris­ gris on someone directly is a bit more noticeable than going to his or her home in the dead of night and planting it on the doorstep or bury­ ing something in the yard, and so it is one of the time-honored ways of delivering a curse.

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Apart from attacks by other sorcerers, the home of a witch is often the site of many rituals that will attract all kinds of varied spirits and forces. Contrary to popular occult teachings, spirits and forces are not instantly and permanently shut off when the circle is closed or a ban­ ishing ritual is done. Nor should they be. A witch's home should be a house of the spirits, where not only can they be conjured and ques­ tioned, but they can approach you in return. This is how a relationship with the intelligences and spirits is built, and we should not mistake the instructions for protecting the home as instructions for shutting off all contact with the other worlds, powers, and denizens. We should, how­ ever, have some defense set up to repel forces that are hostile or drain­ ing to us, that may get snared into our home by our magickal actions. Most of us have many different visitors come and go from our home, not all of whom have been vetted and shown to be safe. We feel safe in receiving visitors because we have some kind of security at our disposal (even if it's only knowing how to dial 911) if one of our visitors gets threatening or violent. We must learn to do the same with the spirits.

I will be referencing the "home" in this chapter, but most of the instructions can also be applied to the car, to the office, or to anywhere else that you spend a lot of time. Likewise, instructions for the ��house" are usually applicable to an apartment and what isn't able to be done to the letter can be altered with some ingenuity. Instructions that call for something to be buried in the yard, for instance, can also be buried in a potted plant in an apartment.

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magick that are especially prevalent in hoodoo practice. There are floor washes to serve every magickal end-from stopping gossip, to draw­ ing trade to brothels, to making peace-but we are concerned here only with those washes that are used in magickal defense. More infor­ mation on other types of washes can be found by consulting the sources listed at the end of the book.

A floor wash to repel harm is applied from the rear of the house toward the front door and out, as if you were gathering up the un­ wanted influence and pushing it out through the door. A floor wash for attracting is done exactly the opposite and moves from the front door toward the rear of the house. If your house or building has many floors, start from above and work down to repel, and the opposite to attract. If your house is carpeted, you can mix up a batch of the wash in a spray bottle and use it to spray the carpet, or if you are more traditional, you can use a feather or an aspergillum to sprinkle the wash onto the car­ pet. The general pattern of either back to front or front to back should be followed whichever method you use, and it will be necessary to take map out your path through the house before you begin.

As with the bath, the floor wash is ideally made with water gath­ ered from a natural source such as a river, spring, or collected rainwa­ ter. Water from the tap will do in a pinch, but water from a natural source is traditional and should be used if you can get it. A relatively small amount (a tablespoon to a cup) of ingredients are added to a gallon or more of water and prayed over fervently. If you don't want to add the ingredients directly because of the mess, you can often brew them into a tea and add that to the water.

I have listed some formulas that are useful in defensive and protec­ tion magick. Again, I have kept the formulas to simple three-ingredient

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washes. Those interested in more complex formulas are invited to con­ sult the many magickal herbals:

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