Burn both candles as the sun rises or as the hand of the clock goes up for one hour every day for seven days, each day moving the money candle closer and closer to your candle while continuing your prayers and the recitation of Psalm 23:1.
Carry a buckeye in your pocket and feed it with whiskey every full moon.
Take the ten of diamonds from a deck of cards and write your name on it three times horizontally. Then turn it to the right and write your name three times again, crossing over the previous writing to form a sort of tic-tac-toe. Write these with your date of birth between the names each time. Fold the card toward you three times, then bind it to a dried ginseng root with red string that has been anointed with your first urine of the day. Baptize it as you would a poke bag and feed it with a few drops of whiskey.
Carry powdered Chewing John or Low John with a mixture of baby powder, cinnamon, and arrowroot powder each month. Never let anyone else touch it.
DRAW PAYING CUSTOMERS
Running a business was oftentimes the main income for a family, whether it was selling things at the local farmer's market or flea market, or selling shoes, saddles, and other leather goods. However, times get hard, and paying customers run thin; and there's no point in selling if nobody's buying. This was a type of work especially done by folks who lived in the valley cities such as Knoxville. Whether they learned it themselves or they bought the charm from a conjurer for a pretty penny, they put it to use to help their business.
Make a solution of warm water, your first morning's urine, sugar, buckeye shavings, and whiskey. Wash your floors and doorstep (or sidewalk) with the solution. Do so in the morning and work your way from the front of the store to the back.
Place a 4-inch by 7-inch piece of coon skin in a brown paper bag with a scrap of red flannel and some brown beans. Moisten the contents with whiskey while praying Psalm 4:6–7:
6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Repeat this on the first Friday of every month.
Burn red onion skins in the store every Thursday before opening.
Scrub the doorstep with a brine made from washing rainbow trout in saltwater.
Fill the bottom of a glass jar with quarters and cornmeal. Cover this with some dirt from the business's property. Fill it with sweet syrup. Close the jar tight and roll it toward you on the floor from the door of the store to you. Roll it a total of twenty-one times every Thursday while praying Psalm 4:6–7 (see page 125). On the other days, shake it at least three times a day while praying for customers to come in and buy from you.
MONEY CONJURE CHARM
To attract money, take one of your left socks, worn but not washed, and write your initials on it going from toe to heel and surround it with money symbols: $$$ J. M. S. $$$. Cover this with a dab of molasses. Sprinkle ginger root shavings, dirt from a bank, hair from a white rabbit, tobacco, and arrowroot powder on top. Roll the sock toward you, from toe to heel. Once it is completely rolled up, roll it to you six more times for a total of seven while saying Psalm 23:1: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” Wrap the bundle in new string, wrapping toward you by curling the string under and over and under and over again. Tie it off with three knots. Carry this with you to attract money and feed it on the first Friday of every month with a bit of whiskey.
CONJURE JAR FOR EMPLOYMENT
Jar workings were a common form of tricking in these hills, and they were able to be hidden just as easily as a conjure lamp. See, back in the day every family had canned goods stored in the basement or in the spring house (a separate building that was usually underground), including canned soups and tomatoes, pickles, okra, or corn. It was quite easy to take a jar filled with conjured roots and hide it among these other jars in the back and on a high shelf. Then every day you'd go down there to “get something” and you'd work the jar while you were down there, whether that consisted of shaking it or rolling it toward you.
Candles weren't burned on jar workings in Appalachia. Jar workings done this way in the Deep South are usually for longer works that take a while. For that, we'd just make up a conjure lamp and keep that burning, its contents being hidden by the colored kerosene or colored glass of the lamp basin. Jars were worked for the same things lamps were, usually after some of the lamps had works in them. It'd be odd to have five or ten lamps burning throughout the home, especially when the homes back then only had one to three rooms, maybe more for folks with a bit more money.
For the jar, you'll need:
The heel cut from your worn left sock
Ginseng root
Syrup
Low John (trillium)
Sugar
Fresh spring water (distilled)
Molasses
Bless each ingredient as you add it to the jar to have it bring you good luck in gaining work:
May this ginseng, old mountain climber, help me climb that mountain to find good work.
[Psalm 90:17]
May this syrup sweet every man whose door I knock on for work.
[Psalm 90:17]
May this Low John show the beauty of my work to all who see it.
[Psalm 90:17]
May this sugar sweeten each one whose hand I shake.
[Psalm 90:17]
May this water bring clarity in the agreements I undertake.
[Psalm 90:17]
May this molasses sweeten each opportunity I meet.
[Psalm 90:17]
