When I made this bottle, I did it out of kindness for a friend; I pictured someone

   When I made this bottle, I did it out of kindness for a friend; I pictured someone close to me in a state of distress and pressure, and someone bearing the evil eye or some other form of malevolent intentions into this loved one. I consider this to be an offer of personal protection for this friend, and because of it much of the power it draws upon is personalized to me as a practitioner.How I make this bottle:◉ Start with a black salt base mixed with a little bit of camphor oil.◉ Fix two googley eyes on the inside of the bottle’s glass, facing outwardly; you want it to be in the direction the wearer is facing, as if the pair of eyes are staring out at what is before the wearer.◉ Place a good tuft of rosemary needles in the glass, and then liberally bury it under brick dust or cascarilla powder. (Cascarilla powder is used traditionally for warding off maleficent intent or negative energy. Brick dust is traditional to southern conjure and Hoodoo, incredibly protective and barrier-like, and stops people who mean you harm in their tracks. I find that brick dust in a little more territorial in nature, however, and might not be conducive for this bottle.)◉ Fill the remaining space with a small black bird’s feather; I specify here that it’s the black bird of a witch’s home. I’m from a part of Long Island where small black birds and crows are very abundant, swarming in clusters over our buildings during the transitional seasons; for me they can represent multiple things: omens, spirits, something different in the air… The same way the left hand can be associated with occult work, I associate those swarming black birds with the underside of my home and my craft. I’m not really sure how this aspect of the bottle can be personalized for others, but for me I feel like this addition is the “oomph” behind this protective bottle because it imparts my efforts as a practitioner and protectorate of this person!  In the picture I also mention using a black hen’s down feather in lieu of the local blackbird’s. This I take from southern roots, though it is to be noted that black hens aren’t really associated with the kindest of things. I personally find that in practice, the things that we find are often used for malevolent intent can become the best protectors against malevolence itself - which is why I state that this is best used if there is a specific evil, a driven malevolence, coming at the wearer’s back. Just wearing it for general protection makes me uneasy, personally.◉ Tie the bottle with twine and fix the bottle to a black cord. I like to use the roped around twine as a means of fixing a metal ring to the bottle, so that the cord has a place to loop through. (The metal ring I make by cutting up a paper clip and twisting the segment in on itself.) -- source link

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