For Luck

To have good fortune:

Every year, find out what Orishas rule the year and fly banners in their favorite colors from your front door and at your place of business.

To have good luck:

Spread candies and pennies in the corners of your house. Do the same at street corners and at crossroads. It will make Elegua happy and he will favor you.

To have good luck:

Wear ornaments of coral and jet around your neck. It is specially effective for children.
The ornaments should be washed in holy water and coconut water every now and then to refresh them.

To have good luck:

Ingredients:

A red apple
Five yellow roses
A red rose
A white rose
Seven lettuce leaves
A half quart of milk
Honey
Abre camino , (Bunchosia media)
Wild mint
Cinnamon sticks
Marigolds
Florida water cologne
Cologne
Almond oil
Patchoulli oil
Bath salts
A red candle

Blend the apple, the flowers, the lettuce, the milk, seven spoonfuls of honey, seven leaves of Abre camino, seven mint leaves, seven cinnamon sticks, and seven marigolds until a smooth, thick liquid is obtained. Add a small bottle of Florida water, a small bottle of cologne, and seven drops of each of the essential oils.
Fill up the tub with hot water and pour in the mixture. Add the bath salts. Light the red candle and relax in the bath.
Repeat the procedure seven days in a row.

To have good luck:

Macerate a handful of laurel leaves in water and add to a hot bath.

To have good luck:

Cover a white bed sheet in laurel leaves. Sleep on them.

For good luck:

Ingredients:

Pine needles
Lavender leaves
Laurel leaves
Geranium leaves
Patchoulli

Take out the stuffing from your pillow. Mix equal portions of the pine needles and other ingredients until you have the same volume of material as the stuffing you took out. Sprinkle with a couple of drops of patchoulli and stuff your pillow with the herbal mixture. Sleep with it every night.

To have good luck:

Ingredients:

Parsley
Boneset
Jamaican rosewood
Five yellow roses
Honey
Cologne
Powdered egg shell
A yellow candle


Crush the herbs in water. Add five spoonfuls of honey and a small bottle of the cologne. Place the mixture in an open container and leave out exposed to the sun a day and exposed a night to the dew.
Divide the mixture into five equal parts. To each, add a whole rose.

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