Sweetening Spells: Honey, Sugar, And Other Sweeteners

Suppose you have genuinely made an effort to deliver your best on your work, but your boss continues to treat you disrespectfully and unfairly and gives inconsiderately, then Boss Fix. The Honey Jar spell might help sweeten your supervisor or manager and favor you above all others!

Sweetening spells are employed in Hoodoo when you want someone to be sweet to you, that is:

- To favor you. 

- To like you. 

- To love you. 

- To marry you. 

- To stay with you. 

- To return to you. 

- To reconcile with you. 

- To hire you. 

- To give you a raise. 

- To promote you at work. 

- To influence your boss. 

- To influence your colleagues. 

- To speak kindly to you. 

- To treat you kindly in public. 

- To stop talking behind your back. 

- To cease anger, jealousy, and hatred against you. 

- To influence your in-laws. 

- To attract money.

The sweeteners used in these spells vary by period or era, country region, commercial or homemade availability, family traditions, cultural customs, and spiritual guidance. I have known many practitioners from around the globe who use different kinds of sugary products! Here are some sweet samplings:

- Honey 

- White sugar 

- Washed sugar

- Brown sugar

- Muscovado 

- Molasses 

- Sorghum syrup 

- Sweetened water 

- Crystal syrup 

- Maple syrup 

- Pancake syrup 

- Corn syrup 

- Jams and jellies 

- Chocolate syrup 

- Chocolate bars 

- Candies 

- Sweet chewing gum 

- Marshmallows

- Bakers' and sugar confections

- Ice creams 

- Soda or soft drinks 

- Fruit juices and nectars 

- Sugar alcohols 

- Dextrose powder 

- Liquid dextrose

- Stevia 

- Artificial flavorings 

A spell for the return of lost love, friendship, and family bond. This magical work is believed to end the apathy, sorrow, and hostility which sometimes keeps family members, friends, and lovers apart. Sweets such as honey, sugar, chocolates, and candies, along with herbs and spices such as Queen Elizabeth root, damiana, catnip, and Balm of Gilead buds, are often used as part of this emotional healing ritual.

Sweetening spells are commonly worked inside containers such as bottles, jars, and boxes. Still, some are also often worked out loose with or without the additional use of candles, with or without added herbs or minerals, and with or without added powders or oils.

The use of honey and other sweeteners in Hoodoo magic can be traced back to different cultures and religions, specifically, West African, European, and Judeo-Christian, which we know by now, contributed to a lot of different beliefs and practices in Conjure and Rootwork. The myths and folklore of several ancient civilizations indicate that honey is one of the most favorable offerings to some deities and spirits who rule over love, beauty, sex, happiness, and wealth, like Aphrodite in Greek mythology and Oshun from the Yoruba pantheon.

Honey is considered one of the most seductive foods on Earth, as tasting or eating honey is as much a sensual experience as it is a satisfaction. Roman God of desire and erotic love, Cupid is said to have dipped his enamored arrows in honey before wounding a mortal with passion and romance. It is also noted that the Greek physician Hippocrates prescribed it for sexual vigor, advocating that taking milk and honey would induce love and ecstasy. The Orisha of beauty and intimacy, Oshun, used honey and her sensuous dance to bring Ogun back from the forest to the city of Ile-Ife. In the Bible, honey most often symbolizes love, care, abundance, and prosperity. Psalm 81:17 (16) promises God's providence for his people: "They would be fed with the finest wheat, and I would satisfy you with honey from the rocks."

The age-old Hoodoo custom to use honey and eventually other natural and artificial sweeteners convey the spiritual workers' prayer that "may God grant them or their clients their gentle and sweet desires." Why both 'gentle' and 'sweet'? Isn't that redundant?

My teacher said that 'gentle' per se can remain on a lofty spiritual level, so we add the adjective 'sweet' - we should merit to enjoy tangible gentleness and goodness, as natural as the physical honey and sugar that we taste in our food. As humans, we generally place a lot of importance on the tangible aspects of life; we like to see, feel, touch, hear, and 'taste' things to become fulfilled. Our senses are genuinely demanding, and we need those senses served and stimulated. Another conjure man also explained this on a Kabbalistic level: "Tova" (good) refers to the esoteric spiritual attribute of kindness, while "mesukah" (sweet) transforms and sweetens the exalted 'power.' Sweet also means dear, precious, inviting, enjoyable, satisfying, delightful, gratifying, and something most pleasing. Well, that about sums up our hopes and prayers when we perform love, attraction, influence, or money spells. Therefore, sweeteners and other sugary products serve as our representatives in expressing these fervent hopes and prayers.

Teacup that our client's husband has been using for his morning tea has been ritually fixed employing red candle and honey. 

The oldest form of sweetening spells is traditionally performed using a plain teacup saucer or coffee mug (owned by the person whom you are working) and a candle being burned at the center of the cup and on the person's name, dressed with oils and surrounded by a poured-out ring of honey, molasses or maple syrup. Many Hoodoo practitioners assumed it is the most ancient member of the sweetening spell family as it resembles West African rites. Devotees, practitioners, priests, and priestesses from some African ethnic tribes such as Yoruba, Fon, Aja, and Ewe usually present their offerings and libations to their ancestors, local spirits, or deities by pouring honey or molasses along with red palm oil into their pots, stones, power figures, and other representations while asking for the favor they seek. 

Honey and red palm oil are poured into a river stone representing Orisha Oshun. 

 

Other simpler methods just involve writing the target's name on a piece of paper with their intentions, rolling it up, and sticking or burying it in a sugar or sugar dispenser bowl. While for those folks who would like to conceal their spell as hidden as possible, they were often told by some conjure doctors to keep a strand of their hair or the hair of their target in a can of sweet biscuits, candies, chewing gums, and other confectioneries, pray over it and put the lid or cover back on. This is a pretty unnoticeable and subtle kind of sweetening spell. 

Sugar-box spell to sweeten and win over the client’s lover's heart and at the same time protect him from malicious and round-heeled women.  

Another early version of these sweetening spells that made rounds among conjure workers, probably in the mid-19th century, employs a hollowed-out red apple or red onion to hold honey, jam, or sugar, plus the name-paper of the person. After praying, it can be placed in the bottom of a flowerpot, with a plant grown on top of it to hide the spell. The plant, therefore, serves the purpose of the candle.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as packaged sugar, honey, syrup, and other sweeteners became available from grocery stores, another variant of this spell was developed that employed a box of sugar. This spell is customarily done by cutting off the top of the box, putting the name paper in, sticking a candle in the sugar, and burning it. After the candle is finished, the remnant wax from the sugar is removed and buried in the house's front yard or back yard. Folks who perform this spell should ensure they use that sugar when cooking or baking or see to it that the person is feeding himself that 'fixed' sugar every time he sweetens his coffee.

Another old-fashioned spell I learned from a conjure worker from Georgia requires you to recite Psalms all night, fervently praying for your sweet desires to come true and concluding the recital of Psalms with an apple and piece of bread dipped in honey.

To bless a child with pleasing speech and eloquence, my mentor also taught me their family tradition in which they place a little honey on the letters of the alphabet and then the Bible, which the child then licks happily, so the child learns to associate his words with delight and good taste.

One more trick that necessitates tasting is the widespread love conjure method that involves a finger food or small fruit like cherry or strawberry that should be stuck inside the vagina or dressed with menstrual blood and then dipped and covered with chocolate coating, honey, or any sweet syrups before feeding it to her male lover to make him stay with her and keep him from wandering. 

Tasting sweet foods in Hoodoo originates from West African traditions and has the function of counter-balancing the bitterness that can make life rough and burdensome. African folklore and folk medicine are evident that sweetness has a much-needed place in daily life as a source of joy, inspiration, abundance, wealth, good health, longevity, and fruitfulness.  

Choosing the Sweetener 

Among those aforementioned sweeteners, honey is still my best choice. This is not to say that those other products are not potent ingredients for spells. I just personally prefer honey due to its unique qualities.

Honey both absorbs and preserves its contents. Kabbalistically, the gratifying property of honey helps channel the infinite spiritual energies, so they will be 'preserved' and can descend to the lower spheres (as opposed to vanishing on a lofty plane). This concept is known as 'power within gentleness or kindness.' We thus pray that the power (or "ashe" in Yoruba) be transformed to good as the spell influences the minds and hearts of other people. I also prefer using raw honeycomb, as the Hebrew word for raw is "chai," which is also translated as 'life,' and our prayer is to enliven ourselves and our clients. 

But in the olden days, when skin complexion was a lot more important to people than it is now, it was recommended that the color of the sweetener match the skin color of the person you are working on. Thus, for a white man, you might use crystal syrup, and for a mulatto you might use light brown sugar or light-colored honey or syrup, and for a dark-skinned person, you might use molasses or muscovado. 

Molasses, melon fruit, sweet potato, and seashells were used in this work to invoke sweetness and delight in the home and family. 

 
During this time, though, specifying a person's skin color was not as significant as it once was, and today many folks prefer to use honey and sugar for the spell, no matter what the target's complexion is.

Court Case - Sweetening Jar Spell

Spells concerning legal matters, court cases, and keeping off the law can use some sweetening - that is, a change of attitude on the part of the judge, jury members, other judicial personnel, witnesses, and even your opponents so that they come to view you as a kind and gentle person and to wish you well and favor your case.

The best way to sweeten people in a court case is with a honey jar spell made out in their names.

Materials Needed:

- A sweetener 

- An empty jar 

- A piece of brown grocery bag paper 

- A red ballpoint pen 

- Photo of the judge 

- Piece of red fabric, preferably silk

- Dirt from the courthouse 

- Little John to Chew root 

- Tobacco 

- Calendula flowers 

- Deer's tongue leaves 

- Dill seeds 

- Guinea peppers

- Brown or Orange candle 

- Justo Juez glass-encased candle 

- Court Case oil 

- Influence oil

Ritual Procedure:

Once you have ready your paper, write the judge's name three times on it in red ink, one name under the other, and then write your intention. Before folding the paper, sprinkle it with dill seeds and wrap it in red silk.

Now prepare the photo of the judge, and open the empty jar. Place some dirt or soil from the courthouse where your hearing is being held inside the jar and place the photo on the soil.

Take hold of your tobacco, light it and blow some smoke on the photo as you call on the spirit of the judge to hear your commands. Next, pour a small amount of Court Case oil and Influence oil into the photo. Then put your petition paper covered in silk just above the image, and pour little amounts of conjure oils again.

Get your Chewing John root and chew on it as if chewing on gum while you envision the judge's face. Spit a bit of the cud in the jar as you pray loudly and rub some between your hands. 

After that, take some calendula flowers, which are reputed to help people win court cases, and deer's tongue to make your words convincing and compelling. Add them into the jar, covering the photo and petition paper completely.

Grab your honey or syrup and pour it to the top while commanding the judge to favor you. You can do this once or thrice, as you wish, speaking your command aloud each time. Then close up the lid.

Dress your brown or orange candles with Court Case oil and use Justo Juez (Just Judge) glass-encased candles or candles of any saints or spirits that you think could help you with your petition. 

Stand the colored candle on the lid of the closed-up jar and light it. Also, light your glass-encased candle, then pray to Justo Juez passionately as you chew on seven pieces of guinea peppers. Hold them in your mouth as you recite Psalms 35, 38, and 39 to empower your spell and spit them on the jar. You can melt the candle to the lid with hot wax if necessary. Let the candle burn all the way out. Do this every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, for as long as it takes. Add each new candle on top of the remains of the last one. 

This particular honey jar spell you see below continued for so long and required so many candles that I could not see the jar under all the dripped-on wax.

Court Case Honey Jar Spell - designed to help my client gain the favor of the jurors and judges, block the opposition in court, and make her lawyers do well during tribunal proceedings and hearings. One of the successful court cases we performed. This spell called upon Latin American Brujeria's Justo Juez (Just Judge) presence, power, and assistance.