I love mojo bags. The effect that they can have on the reality that surrounds you can be awe inspiring. Mojo bags can be made and charged for any manner of things. Want the love and attention of women or men? Made yourself some badass gris gris! Want luck in business or gambling? There’s a bag for that. Want spiritual protection? Bag it. Want your enemy to suffer and feel the wrath of restless spirits? Make them a bag and leave it in their house!
Okay so your probably thinking “How do I make a mojo bag, FM?” Well I’m about to tell you. The bag itself must be small enough to fit into your pocket or other place. Purses and shoes are excellent places to stash one. A small cloth drawstring bag is usually preferred although leather drawstring bags are sometimes used as well, especially suited for protection. Herbs, stones, planetary squares, sigils and symbols, dried animal parts (usually feet or teeth), bones, and links (hair, blood, sexual fluids, etc.) are all parts that can go into the bag. Select and choose the proper parts according to the properties of the item and the goal of the bag. Traditionally speaking, mojo bags can have up to thirteen items in them but tradition varies. The method I use to create my mojo bags, is to gather the items by my working altar. Then I call a Lwa corresponding to the result into the temple (ex. Ogun for protection). I offer to the Lwa and begin building the bag. I add piece by piece into the bag, charging and blessing each item by the power of the spirit and by my power. When it’s completed, you have to tie it off with string, sealing the contents within the bag. The next part is important and great care must be put into it. Speak your request to the bag and state it’s intention. Be careful what you say. And finally, breathe life into the bag, either with cigar smoke or by you actually breathing on the bag. You are literally breathing life into the bag. My next act would be to anoint the bag with a corresponding oil, such as VanVan oil for luck. Alright! Now that you’ve got your bag, what next? Well, you’ve got to carry the bag with you! Carrying the bag in your pocket attunes the bag to your energy, which it should already have a portion of if you put your hair, nails, blood, or sexual fluids into it. Carry it for two weeks, daily. If you created the bag to curse someone, just bury it or leave it near them. But if you created to bag to benefit you, keep it with you. After the two weeks is up, you can leave the bag at home if you so choose. To maintain the charge in the bag, feed it oil and/or smoke weekly. Feed it.
Now for the airy philosophical shit. This understanding greatly helped me so I’ll pass it onto you all. Mojo bags are essentially a spirit that you create, building a body for it as a vessel. The herbs, stones, sigils, and links that go within the bag, function as the organs. The bag itself that holds the organs functions as a body and as skin. The oil functions as the blood but also as food. The breath and smoke function as the literal breath of the spirit. And the intentions function as the thoughts that move the spiritual/astral body. The Mojo bag concept comes from Africa and is essentially a form of fetish magick and this concept is as old as Africa. I love bag magick and bottle magick because you are essentially creating a spell-in-a-bag or a spell-in-a-bottle and the potential is vast. Hope this helped