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eggshell_powder
Kitchen ingredient

Eggshell Powder

Also called Cascarilla
Kitchen ingredient1 tradition
overview

Eggshell powder, called cascarilla in Afro-Cuban and Hoodoo practice, is ground white eggshell. It is used to draw protective marks, outline sacred space, and absorb negative energy.

Uses

  • Protection
  • Drawing protective symbols
  • Cleansing
  • Marking sacred space
ritual

Working with it

Dry clean eggshells in a low oven, grind them fine, and sprinkle a line across a threshold or draw a protective symbol with it.

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Tradition
Hoodoo, the African American folk magic of the South (rootwork, conjure)
Planet
☽︎ Moon
Role
Curio: a charm or tool
Element
Earth
Works for
ProtectionPurificationBoundariesFertility
Forms
powder
How to use
Sprinkle or scatterAltar or offering
Receptive
found_in

Where the traditions place it

  • Moon — Common practice