It is the essence of folk magic to use the natural things around you to effect desired change in your life.

Eggs have long been used in Pow-Wow medicine. Eggs laid on a Friday are considered the most powerful for magical purposes.

A Love Spell

Take feathers from a rooster's tail; press them three times into her hand. She will love you.

Get a chicken, kill it without shedding blood; boil it, feathers and all, make soup out of it--this, when eaten, will cure constipation.

Rub warts with the blood of a chicken which has nothing but black feathers; or the head of a rooster that has just been killed; roast chicken-feet and rub the warts with them. Then bury them under the eaves.

If chickens moult on the forepart of the body first, then the early part of winter will be severe; if on the rear, then the end of winter.

Take a new fresh laid egg, still warm. Pour whale oil over it, and boil the egg in it; the oil then should be poured into a running stream. Then open the egg a little and bury it in a red ant hill. As soon as the ants have devoured the egg, the weak and troubled person will be restored to former strength and vigor.

In the morning or evening take a black hen from its nest, cut its throat, throw it upon the ground, cut the stomach of the hen out of the body, but nothing else, and be careful to leave everything else inside. Take a piece of gold quartz the size of a saucer. Take an egg laid on Green Thursday and wrap it up together with the quartz and hen stomach in bees'-wax and put them all in an octagon pot of clay. Cover the pot tightly, and bury it under the house doorsill. Such a house is protected from all dangers of fire, although the flames may surround it.