RITUAL BATH or WASH: The ancient art of ritual bathing has been negleted in our quick shower society. Relieve fatique, tension and the strain of everyday living . Want to draw in good lconditions? Rub the body only in an upward direction after pouring the bath. Remove of evil conditions? Rub in a downward direction only. FLOOR WASH: MAGICKAL FORM: liquid (sometimes steeped in herbs that you add) Santeria, Voodoo, and Wicca all use the ritual of washing down floors. The floor wash may include various ingredients depending on its purpose, the most common being lemon, drop of ammonia, crushed bay leaves and salt, which are used for general household cleansings. There are washes for love, health, protection, success, and prosperity. The floor must be swept and mopped properly, cleaned of all dirt before the magical floor wash is administered
Ritual floor-washing is also divided into two classes of work. Washing to draw in good luck, attract customers, bring in a lover or friend, or help prepare the way for good influences to enter, rise before dawn and before one ever speaks a word to anyone, scrub the front doorstep inward, to draw in what is wanted. Washing to remove evil - start at the back of the premises and end by washing outward at the front doorstep. The used wash-water may be thrown into the front yard toward the East at or before sunrise.
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