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Sekhmet: yeah, hoodoo oils, etc., are proprietary formulas - docs guard them just like McDonalds guarded the recipe for their "special sauce." Hell, I'm in cat's [LuckyMojo owner] class, and we don't even get her oil recipes (though we get plenty of instruction on how to formulate our own, as well as some widely-used traditional blends).
If you go here, though, you will find a small collection of her recipes and recipes shared by other contributors (along with a ringing denunciation of Herman Slater's "Magickal Formulary" - the source of most of the "potion" recipes I've found online).
Here's a quick one, courtesy of Zora Neal Hurston: Red Fast Luck Oil. Blend cinammon oil, vanilla oil, and a little wintergreen oil in a carrier (dilute like a motherfucker - cinammon burns!), and color bright red with a few chips of alkanet root (add a chip at a time and let it steep - a little goes a long way). Vanilla is really really expensive these days, so real vanilla extract or oil infused with vanilla pods will work. What does it do? What it says on the bottle: Fast Luck. Money spells are great for building up your business and your savings, but if it's Friday morning and you need a few buck for the weekend, you don't have time for the green 7-day candle. In the past Fast Luck has helped me make small hits on scratch tickets (for that extra $50 before payday), find money I didn't know I had (check your pockets!), get surprise offers of assistance from family, and even have violin students pay me a week early for the following month (a good one, that!). It can work for "love," too, if you're into the one-night hookup, but don't expect much more. Good stuff to have around.
And wolfangel, the structure you observe comes from the general body of American hoodoo folk magic, which I've been studying. I wouldn't say, though, that hoodoo herbal practice is so much structured as it is established - with a lot of variation. Still, there are general areas of concern that can be roughly grouped (like Love Attraction, Money Attraction, Crossing, Uncrossing, Protection, Court Case, etc.), and groups of herbs known to be efficacious in each. Of course, there will be differences between hoodoo and other traditions (like various European herbal folk magics). As for how I got into it, I started by reading every page of Hoodoo in Theory and Practice at the Lucky Mojo website, then I got Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic by cat yronwode, and finally I enrolled in cat's year-long correspondence course, which has taught me a lot. I'm far from being a top-rate root doctor, but I'm getting a good grounding for further study and experimentation.
~L
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I have also received compliments on the scent (Florida Water is sharply floral to begin with, the HJ Root lends some musky undertones, and the Deers Tongue adds a vanilla note. The Five-Finger Grass is a little chlorophylly in the bottle, but it's fairly fugitive on the skin).