Purification refers to the elimination of unwanted impurities or influences, toxins, dirt, negative energies, etc. To leave a pure product or, at least, less contaminated.
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Purification is a fundamental practice in witchcraft, aimed at cleaning energies and spaces to enhance magical works.
Many witches use purification rituals before launching spells, guessing or entering sacred spaces to guarantee the purity of intention and concentration.
Purification by smoke, which is achieved by burning herbs such as sage, incense or Palo Santo, is a popular method to eliminate the negative energy of objects and environments.
Salt and water are also powerful purification tools: salt absorbs negativity and water eliminates impurities, often combined in ritual baths or as consecrated solutions.
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- How and when is it used?
- Smoke purification
How and when is it used?
Many magic practitioners perform purification ceremonies before carrying out a magical work.
They can purify themselves, their tools and/or their ritual space to begin their magical work with a clean blackboard.
Like water, it can be purified by boiling it to destroy bacteria, filtering it to eliminate sediments or heavy metals or distilled it to eliminate virtually everything but water, magic practitioners use various means to purify their space, themselves and themselves and their tools and other materials.
Some methods are asperging, break or fumigaciól use of saly bathrooms rituals.
Smoke purification
Smoke cleaning or purification by smoke consists in using smoke, usually of burning aromatic herbs or incense, to purify the body or space, normally to scare away unwanted energies and entities.
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I am a home witch that grew on the banks of the Hudson River and has lived among the big lakes during the last 20 years. Together with my husband, musician, and my youngest son, administer a minigranja of an acre with gardens of herbs, vegetables and flowers, chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits, and areas reserved for native plants and wildlife.
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