RED BRICK DUST

      

                                                                                                              

Red Brick dust is a powerful magical remedy that will protect you and your home from enemies.

It is an old New Orleans tradition to “clean” your front stoop with red brick dust to protect the entrance to your home and to keep bad energy and negativity away. Locals here have been passing this tradition on for generations.

It got it's beginning in an abandoned brick yard on

Dumaine Street

in New Orleans. This was a place for Vodou Queens to gather and hold rituals. Repeated police raids on the brickyard drove the practitioners to Bayou St. John and Lake Pontchartrain to hold their ceremonies.

Red brick dust is famous in Hoodoo and Vodou Communities for its protective properties. New Orleans is a haven for Hoodoo and Vodou practitioners and you can still go into many stores and homes here and cross over a line of red brick dust. To use, simply lay a line across the doorways and entrances to your home or business. No one who wants to cause you harm can enter. If you really want to be thorough you can run a line of red brick dust completely around your home or business.

It has been used by Hoodooists for centuries to scrub their front stoop in order to ward off curses, evil, and bad juju. Adding the dust to chamber lye (urine), ammonia, or vinegar is called "reddening" and used along with blueing, produces a very powerful effect with cleansing and protecting a home.

To lay red brick dust around your home will keep those who wish to steal, or do any other harm from crossing your door or coming onto your property. Allegedly, evil can not step over the line of dust. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, get up before dawn without speaking to anyone and wash your doorstep with your own urine and water. When it dries, sprinkle this dust across the doorstep. To make the wash stronger, write the name of the Captain of Police on paper, burn the paper to ashes and add the ashes to your scrub water.

 I will be offering red brick dust on my website soon. I use only the dust that I have made with the use of slave-labor bricks from here in New Orleans.
This dust has mystical energy and spirit than any other brick dust made from regular, newer brick due to all of the paranormal activity here.  There are certain prayers and rituals that I must do prior to the dust being bottled. After I collect the bricks, they are smudged with sage to help remove any negativity from them and then placed around an altar in my home where they recieve empowerment and blessings from the Lwa. After this is done, I then grind the bricks by hand into dust so that I can bottle it for your use.
Please keep the website watched. I will give you an update when I have it to offer.

Peace, Love and Blessings!

Gypsy V

P.S. My products are sold at Hex - 1219 Decatur St. in New Orleans, Hex - 246 Essex St. - Salem, Mass., and Island of Salvation Botanica at 2372 St. Claude - New Orleans, La.