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From: MSN NicknameLadySylvarMoon  (Original Message)Sent: 2/28/2007 2:00 AM
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War Water & Peace Water

War Water is basically a suspension of iron rust in water, with other ingredients added according to the desires of the manufacturer. Since the Roman god Mars was the god of war and his symbolic metal was iron, it seems pretty clear that War Water is a European contribution to hoodoo. It may have originally been compounded as a blood tonic or strengthener of courage, but in the hands of African-American folk-magicians, it became a tool for laying tricks against an enemy by means of hostile foot track magic, causing "poisoning through the feet" and making everyone in the household quarrel and fight one another.

Additional ingredients included in War Water to make it stronger are magnetic sand and a rusty nail or coffin nail. Spanish moss, an evil-looking twisty grey herb which rots away in the water quite nicely, provides the proper blackness to the red-ochre colour of the basic mix and imparts an appropriate "swamp water" scent when you break the bottle open. A few practitioners also include creosote in the bottle. (This is a toxic, carcinogenic substance and must be handled with gloves.)

In regard to the use of rusty nails to strengthen War Water, my correspondent OmiJuba ([email protected]) made some great suggestions, "You can add nails from specific locations: a hospital, to cause injury; a court house, to make someone lose a court case; a jail, to get someone arrested; the person's job site, to make them get fired; or a graveyard, to ... well, you get the idea."

War Water is always sold in glass bottles. To use it, you shake a bottle up and hurl it at the doorstep of your enemy, where it should break, leaving a rusty, dangerously sharp mess for him or her to step in. When i was a young woman coming up in the East Bay in the 1960s, War Water was used by fractious root workers to declare occult war on each other. Since these folks were already at odds to the extent that they could not simply walk into each other's yards and smash the glass bottle on the doorstep, they would make "drive by" attacks, rumbling through the residential streets of Oakland in the midnight hour and tossing bottles of War Water into the yards of their enemies, like occult Molotov cocktails. Ah, those were the days ...

The opposite of War Water is, of course, Peace Water, which is used to soothe a home and ensure that only good sirits and friendly people enter.  

Peace Water is a wonderful hoodoo product that originated, i believe, as an antidote to the more commonly-mentioned War Water. It is a tool for laying tricks against enemies by means of benevolent foot track magic, causing those who step in it to treat each other respectfully and with kindliness, and preventing hostile people or evil spirits from entering the premises. Thus, it is not only used for protection, but also to work on the minds of those who come into contact with it, rendering them gentle and mild in temper.

Peace Water draws its symbolism from the Biblical injunction to "spread oil on troubled waters." It consists of two pale blue liquids and a watery-clear liquid, each scented with a different herbal essence. When at rest in its bottle, the three fluids in Peace Water naturally separate into layers, each with its own fragrance, one of which is quite similar to Florida Water.

To use Peace Water, you shake up the bottle thoroughly, blending and mixing the three layers into a single pale-blue, cloudy emulsion. Then, walking backward, you sprinkle drops of Peace Water at the four outside corners of the house or in the four corners of each room. For a really strong job, you can circle the house, sprinkling as you go, or sprinkle on the four corners of a larger piece of property.

Where household quarrels or in-law troubles have been of long standing, it is advised to ritually cleanse the home first with Chinese Wash to clear out any old messes before sprinkling Peace Water in the corners. For an even stronger job, an outer ring of Fiery Wall of Protection sachet powder can be laid down around the perimeter of the property, and Peace Water sprinkled within at the corners and center.

 

More information on hoodoo can be found on the following pages:

an introduction to African-American hoodoo magic
using anointing and dressing oils in the hoodoo tradition
using incense in the hoodoo tradition
using bath crystals and floor washes in the hoodoo tradition
using sachet powders in the hoodoo tradition
candle burning in the hoodoo tradition
laying tricks and disposing of ritual remnants in the hoodoo tradition
foot-track magic in the hoodoo tradition
mojo bags and conjure hands in the hoodoo tradition
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