Salt, smoke and ancestors
🌿🔥 Salt, Smoke & Ancestors: African Spiritual Practices for Breaking Dark Spells
By Dr. Arshad Afzal (Pen Name: Faraz Parvez)
Former Faculty, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, KSA
🔮 MysticWisdomHub.blogspot.com
“Before medicine touched the body — the drum touched the soul.”
Before the healer spoke — the ancestors whispered.
And before the curse arrived — the earth knew how to break it.
Across the African continent, spiritual knowledge is not written in books — it is carried in songs, soil, fire, and salt.
When dark magic (juju, ndoki, obayifo) strikes, the African mystic doesn’t panic.
They listen.
They feel.
They return to the earth and the ancestors.
In this sacred post, we uncover 5 powerful African remedies against black magic — drawn from Yoruba, Congo, Akan, and diaspora traditions — to cleanse your spirit, restore your chi, and reconnect you to divine protection.
🌍✨ 1. The Salt Bath of Severance: Release What Was Sent to You
🧿 Why it works: In African traditions, salt is not seasoning — it is a spiritual purifier that deactivates negative energy and severs evil cords.
🌿 Mystic Practice:
- Fill a basin with warm water
- Add:
- 1 cup sea salt or coarse salt
- Juice of 1 lime
- 7 basil leaves (or mint)
- Stir counterclockwise while praying:
“I return to the womb of the earth. Let what was sent — return to sender.”
🕯️ Bathe in silence. Let your body drip dry. Do not towel off.
🪘 2. The Talking Drum Invocation: Call Back Your Lost Energy
🧿 Why it works: Drumming is not rhythm — it’s language. It calls home lost soul fragments that black magic tries to trap.
🌿 Mystic Practice:
- Use a hand drum or a flat surface
- Tap rhythmically and chant:
“Ase… Ase… Ase… I call back what was mine. My peace. My light. My fire.”
- After drumming, light a candle and sit with your eyes closed for 5 minutes in stillness
🎶 Many elders say: “The drum knows your true name before you speak it.”
🔥 3. Smoke of the Ancients: Break the Spell with Sacred Herbs
🧿 Why it works: African traditions use herb smoke not to mask — but to move spirits. Mugwort, frankincense, and African myrrh (opoponax) remove malevolent energy.
🌿 Mystic Practice:
- Light a charcoal disc or incense burner
- Burn:
- Mugwort
- Myrrh
- A small piece of palm frond
- Waft the smoke around your body, whispering:
“From the crown to the sole, may no darkness hold.”
🕊️ Do this at sunset for 3 nights in a row.
⚱️ 4. Speak to the Ancestors: They Know What You Don’t
🧿 Why it works: In African cosmology, you are never alone. Your ancestors — righteous ones — protect and guide if you honor them.
🌿 Mystic Practice:
- Place a white cloth on the ground
- Offer a bowl of water, a candle, and a coin
- Say aloud:
“Ancestors of light, protect me. Speak truth to me in dream or sign.”
- Sleep with a pen and paper near your bed — the answer often comes in symbols or dreams
🔮 This is not idol worship — it is spiritual lineage reverence, a sacred dialogue.
🪬 5. The Cowrie Shell Cleanse: Ancestral Yes or No
🧿 Why it works: Cowrie shells once symbolized wealth, divine communication, and oceanic energy — sacred currency and seer’s tool.
🌿 Mystic Practice:
- Hold 4 cowrie shells in your right hand
- Whisper: “Should I remain in this place / relationship / path?”
- Throw them onto a flat surface
- 3 or more open-side up = Yes
- 3 or more down = No
🕯️ Always end the ritual with thanks to The Creator, and recite:
“Ya Nur, illuminate my knowing.”
🌙 Final Reflection: Not All Magic Is Yours to Carry
“If you have been cursed — you were likely born with a greater calling.”
If dark hands have reached for your light — it is because they fear what that light will reveal.
The earth protects her children.
The ancestors guard those who remember.
The Creator does not sleep — and the light is always one prayer, one leaf, one drum away.
📿 For more earth-rooted remedies, ancestral rituals, and sacred protection practices:
👉 MysticWisdomHub.blogspot.com
Stay aligned. Stay awakened. Stay mystic.
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