To settle dissension at home and at work:Sprinkle toasted corn mixed with powdered egg shell around the area several days in a row.
To cool off a bad temper:Ingredients:
A lodestone
Poplar slivers
Amansa guapo
Cocillana bark
Eggshell
Cocoa butter
Honey
A ribbon
A white teacup
Write the bad tempered person's name on a piece of paper. Place it at the bottom of the teacup. Put the lodestone on top of the paper.
Cover the stone with eight slivers of poplar, and eight pieces of the other ingredients. Add eight spoonfuls of honey.
Cut the ribbon the same length as the circumference of the bad tempered person's head. Tie eight knots in it and place it on top off the cup's contents.
Place the cup and its contents before Obatala for eight days .
To keep the police away:Grind sage leaves into a powder and blow on your door.
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