THE CARE & FEEDING OF A GRIS GRIS OR MOJO
Once you have your very own gris gris, you need to establish a bond with it by “working” it. The best way to work a gris gris is to think of it as a living thing, like a spirit in a bag (because it is). You should talk to it and tend it as if it is a beloved, honored, and helpful little friend.
YOU SHOULD:
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Bond with your gris gris by carrying it close to your body for the first seven days.
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Name your gris gris. Wake it up with a little bit of whiskey, introduce yourself, and tell it what its name is.
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Call your gris gris by name and speak to it on a daily basis. Talk to it in loving and encouraging tones. Talk to it about what you would like to accomplish, how you would like to accomplish it, and thank it for helping you.
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Keep your gris gris a secret.
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Provide your gris gris with consistent attention and care.
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Keep your gris gris in a place of honor when it is not being carried in your pocket, purse, bra, or hanging on your neck or from your waist.
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“Feed” it once a week with an appropriate dressing/condition oil, flavored extract, or with some other traditional “food,” e.g. whiskey, rum, Florida Water, Hoyt’s Cologne, your favorite cologne, incense or tobacco smoke, or your own body fluids (urine, semen, vaginal fluids, or blood). Feeding should take place on a day of the week that is appropriate to what the gris gris is for, e.g. Sunday for protection or Crown of Success, Thursday for gambling luck, or Friday for love or money-drawing. Likewise, the “food” offered should be in keeping with the intention of the gris gris – whiskey, rum, Hoyt’s Cologne, or urine for gambling luck and semen or vaginal fluids for sex and love-drawing are but a few examples. To feed your gris gris, place a dot of oil or fluid in the palm of one hand, rub your two hands together to work up some heat, and then place your two hands around the gris gris, touching it lightly with your dressed hands. Alternately, you may wish to dress your gris gris by placing a dot of oil or fluid in the middle, where the material is gathered. Yet another way your gris gris can be fed is by passing it through incense or tobacco smoke or lightly spritzing it with whiskey, rum, any alcohol-based cologne, flavored extract, or spiritual water. In the instance of feeding, do whatever works for you, just be consistent and don’t soak or soil it.
YOU SHOULD NOT:
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Let anyone see or touch your gris gris; keep it away from children and pets.
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Let your gris gris get wet or become heavily soiled.
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Disrespect your gris gris, play with it like it is a toy, drop it on the ground, or forget to pay attention to it.
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Take your gris gris apart.
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Forget to pack your gris gris away from the prying eyes of the TSA and others when traveling.
If someone else sees your gris gris, remove it immediately from their sight, and then keep it next to your skin at all times for the next seven days – feeding and talking to it each day – to reinforce its bond with you and to keep it working strong.
Be warned that the spirit/life force of your gris gris goes “dead” and stops working if someone else touches it, it gets soaking wet (e.g. it gets thrown in a pool or sent through the washer), or it is taken apart. You will need to have a new one made in the event that any of these things happen.