Also called sweetening spell for family, peace in the home sugar bowl, make-up spell
A Hoodoo-style sweetening for patching things up with family or friends who are also open to it. A small paper with your shared wish rests in a sugar bowl that everyone uses, so each spoonful softens things a little.
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Take care: Keep the paper wrapped so it cannot be eaten, and do not add anything to sugar that guests would not expect, such as essential oils. Never use sweetening to keep someone in a situation that is unsafe for them or you.
Lucky Mojo describes working a sweetening spell in an ordinary sugar bowl, with granular sugar or cubes. Everyone who sweetens tea or coffee from it is sweetened toward the household, which makes it a favoured spell for family peace.
Uses: sugar bowl, sugar
The more common form puts a name paper in honey or syrup with a candle burned on the lid over days. For reconciliation, many modern workers write both names crossed together and work it only with the other person's knowledge or as a general peace jar.
Uses: honey, jar, candle
Sweetening magic runs through African American Hoodoo: what is kept in something sweet becomes sweet to you. Harry Middleton Hyatt's interviews with more than 1,600 Southern informants between 1936 and 1940, published as 'Hoodoo-Conjuration-Witchcraft-Rootwork' (1970 to 1978), record many spells made from kitchen sugar, syrup and honey. The sugar bowl version keeps the work hidden in plain sight on the family table.
catherine yronwode of the Lucky Mojo Curio Company, who has written widely on the tradition, lists sugar bowls alongside jars, onions and apples as containers for sweetening work, and notes the sugar-bowl variation for household harmony. Hoodoo is an open folk practice, but it grew out of Black Southern life, and that history should be credited when you use it.
A loaf and a little salt carried into a new home or offered at its door, so the household will never go hungry and life there will keep its savour.
A spell to draw new friends or strengthen an existing friendship by knotting a wish into a bracelet and sharing bread and salt. It joins the friendship-bracelet custom with much older rites of shared food and sworn kinship.
A small jar of honey, sugar or syrup holding a written name, worked with candles over days or weeks so that a person or situation turns sweet toward you. In Hoodoo it is used for love and also for bosses, judges and family peace.
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