Each metal, like each stone or botanical, projects specific magical energy, although as there are fewer metals than the vast quantities of botanicals or crystals, it’s easier to sum up these powers.

  • Iron: The most powerful magical metal is iron. Used heavily with the LHP  because it is the most magically charged of all materials on Earth.
  • Brass: protection, love
  • Copper: love, healing
  • Gold: wealth, vitality
  • Lead: domination, binding (the most frequent material for curse tablets)
  • Silver: protection, fertility
  • Tin: wealth, luck, divination
  • Lodestones: Love, Luck, Money

More info about Iron

  • Iron provides power and protection. Iron can kill (Think about guns and knives). Iron can heal (Think about all the medicine that requires various types of metal tools)
  • Magically speaking, iron is reputed to restore health, provide vitality, both physical and psychic, and cure impotence.
  • It is said that “Malevolent spirits are frightened of iron: it repels them and chases them away”. I believe this concept comes from the idea of Solomon locking the Demons in an iron box, and now the Demons are scared of iron. This is not true.

LHP Ladies: With the exception of menstrual blood, no single item is more associated with magic than iron. In fact, the two powers, menstrual blood and iron, are intrinsically linked. “While other metals, like stones, may be perceived as Earth’s bones, iron ore is regarded as Earth’s menstrual blood.” So keep that menstrual blood stored for your magical uses!

Lodestones

Lodestones (also spelled Loadstones) are naturally occurring magnetic rocks, known as Magnetite or magnetic Iron ore. They are a source of iron. They are used in Hoodoo magic for their ability to attract! In hoodoo, the Lodestones are considered to be living beings. If they lose their ability to attract or connect to objects they are considered dead.

Does size matter?

Yes. Due to the laws of magnetism, all other things being equal, a large chunk of Lodestone will carry a stronger magnetic charge than a small Lodestone. However, if you’re using 2 Lodestones for love attraction you would use stones of equal size for the maximum benefit to the spell.

Large Lodestones are usually about 2″ by 2″ in size or larger as shown in the photo below. Lodestones of this size are only used in altar work, and a professional would do well to have at least three of them.

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Savannah’s large stone sitting on a money altar, on top of notes. “Feed” each week to keep attracting money.

When you’re starting out it’s common to use stones about 1″ in size.

When you do love magic or have to put the stones into a Mojo bag you would use a smaller stone or stones (1cm in size), because you don’t want your Mojo bag too chunky with 2 large stones.

Common uses In Magic

Love Magic:

The stones are sorted into Male (pointy) and Female (rounded) stones. The easiest way to ensure attraction between the stones is to test pairs that have their poles on their flat faces until suitable mates are found.

If you are gay you’re going to get stones that match your own relationship style. Still, I do think that’s a heterosexual way of looking at it. The idea is that the stones are attracted to each other like you’re going to attract your partner. How can two pointy stones attract each other? How can two smooth round stones attract each other? The answer is they can’t. I recommend that you name each stone, and keep the concept of the pointy stone attracting the smooth stone not male and female.

For love, you use two stones. The paired stones were considered to be male and female, and dressing them was called “feeding the He, feeding the She.” Feeding is done by sprinkling the Lodestones with small Iron particles.

Feeding Materials

Magnetic Sand is the most common “food” for Lodestones. Some call it Steel dust and people will argue over its importance.

Whiskey is popular too.

Interesting uses in Magic & Folklaw

According to the “Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus”, a single Lodestone may be used to test a woman’s faithfulness:

“Lay this stone under the head of a wife. If she be chaste, she will embrace her husband. If she be not chaste, she will fall forth of her bed.”

Should the wife is affected by the Lodestone — it will either attract her or repel her.

In Germany, an old spell utilizing a single Lodestone states that if a woman is having a difficult time in childbirth, placing a Lodestone between her legs will quickly draw the baby out.