The Return of Lost Items

Hello my Occulties,

Many of you had written in wanting me to share some spells, charms, or even "mystical practices" as one person put it for finding lost and misplaced items. I have more than one way of locating items I've lost, though I warn you the first 2 are Catholic in nature. This isn't meant to offend my Atheist, Agnostic, or Non-Christian readers (these tricks work regardless of what religion you practice and work if you practice none at all,) rather I recount these 2 methods here solely on the merit that some readers will find them easy to use and in that, valuable to know how to do. ;)

If you lose an item, get a small length of string or twine, and as you tie this to a chair leg, say "Saint Dismas, bring me back my (name of lost item) and I shall set you free!" The item should turn up reasonably quickly, and when it does, untie the twine from the chair leg, saying "Thank you, Saint Dismas, for returning my (name of lost item) to me. Now I set you free."

A "prayer for retrieving a lost item" once taught to me by a relative goes like this: "Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony, hear my plea! Please return my (name of lost item,) to me!" In my personal experience with this, additionally promising prayers to St Anthony should he retrieve the item often speeds its return.

Interesting St Anthony story... So, some time ago, I'd gone to a Halloween music festival (yes, it was awesome, thanks for asking,) and at the time I'd just gotten a new cell phone perhaps a week earlier. My companion and I had rented an RV (again, as I said, yes, it was awesome, thanks for asking,) and at the time I had about a pallette worth of tubes of 50 glowsticks each (um, probably in the neighborhood of 5000 glowsticks.) So, everything was, as you can assume, a huge mess, complete with 4 tripping kids I'd never met in my life who had found the eerie glow of my glowsticks irresistable and were now bumbling about my RV uninvited, and guess what your friend Cat did? She lost that phone. Well, after frisking the tripping kids I'd never met in my life (you all loved it and you're welcome - not everyone gets a butt pat from me,) I said "St Anthony, St Anthony, hear my plea - return my cell phone to me!" Yeah, nothing. The tripping kids just sat down, cracked some glow sticks and were totally enjoying themselves now that the trauma of getting manhandled by a hot red head was behind them. ;) So, all that night, I kept asking St Anthony to help me get that phone. The tripping kids did leave and I did have to go to bed, but before I went to sleep, I was like "C'mon St Anthony - I'll say a novena to you if you get that phone back for me." Nothing. The next day, I continued to plead with St A, but to no avail. I wasn't exactly rich at the time (actually I had more money than compared to now, which is scary,) so losing a cell phone was a totally big deal. As night fell the tripping kids of the day before returned to my RV (apparently now they were rolling which made them even more dedicated to cracking all my glowsticks,) and having become accustomed to them - as they did spend a lot of time with me, and were camped near me so as to be wholly unavoidable, - I was like "You know what everyone?" Everyone kindly looked at me as I was making an announcement. "I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna promise something big and then if it doesn't come back, I'm gonna forget about that phone. St Anthony, hear my plea, give my cell phone back to me, and if you do, I will buy your statue and say a novena to you!" Literally within five seconds, my cell phone falls out of the pocket of a sweatshirt belonging to the friend I brought with me and on to the floor. We looked in that sweatshirt before. The previously-tripping-now-rolling kids dropped their already slackened jaws in amazement, staring at the phone and then at me, as they were sitting between the two. One kid chewed on a glowstick, and remarked "Holy s***, I guess I shoulda gone to church and learned that s***." I kindly told him not to chew the glowsticks, they have little bits of glass in them, and then I thanked St Anthony. I did buy him a statue, and I did say a novena to him - St Anthony that is, not the wasted kids! ;)

When I was in college, a Pagan/Ceremonialist friend told me that one way he would return lost items was to visualize his silver cord shooting out of his navel/solar plexus, and try to attatch this to the lost item, and visualize "reeling in" the lost item. I've tried that method with mixed results.

BUT of course, this is a HOODOO-LOVIN' blog, is it not? So let's turn to Hoodoo for some other mystical methods of returning our lost (and possibly stolen?) items.

Stolen items is an interesting one... I have seen a wagon wheel alternate of this, but I was taught to do this with a bicycle wheel. So, basically, you first determine how the thief or thieves entered the premesis. Presumably this will be a door or a window, so, you take a chip out of the frame of a door or window for each suspected thief. If you suspect you know the thief/thieves, write the name of this person on one side of the chip of wood (or whatever material,) you took out of the door or window frame, and if there are multiple people, use one chip of the window/door frame they entered through per chip. If you do not know who stole from you just write "Thief Of" on this side. Now, on the other side of each chip piece you write the name of the item stolen. Now, laying a bicycle on its side, wrap these chips to the spokes of one of the bike wheels using purple thread. When they are firmly attatched, spin the bikewheel counter clockwise nine times, and each time you have it complete a revolution, (for a total of nine turns of that wheel,) you say "(Name of Thief, thieves, etc,) bring me back my (name of lost item) this very minute or you have no peace!" The last turn of the wheel is spun hard so it does several revolutions (so, literally the first 8 turns are timed, the last is a hard spin) you repeat the command: "(Name of Thief, thieves, etc,) bring me back my (name of lost item) this very minute or you have no peace!" and then say "So be it." Walk off without looking back. This is done every day for 9 days or until the items are returned, whichever comes first.

BUT, this is more focused on LOST not stolen items, so let me digress back... ;)

This is best done around the time you are going to be sleeping. Using a pin or nail, inscribe a white candle UP (base to wick) with the command, "(Your full name or full name of person who lost item) has (lost item) in his/her hands right now!" Anoint the candle in virgin olive oil, anointing UP (base to wick,) with seven strokes of your hand (preferably that one which you use to write with.) Sprinkle this with Queen of the Meadow (sometimes called gravel root,) five finger grass, and star anise - about equal parts each. Place the candle securely into a candle holder (and on a heat proof surface - often recommend placing these in pie plates to collect wax drippings.) Now taking a scrap of virgin paper (in other words, no one ever wrote on it,) with all edges TORN not cut, and using a black-inked pen write the name of the lost item 7 times, for example, if Hagitha McDumpity lost her wallet (I know, I make horrible fake names) she might write:

Hagitha McDumpity's Wallet
Hagitha McDumpity's Wallet
Hagitha McDumpity's Wallet
Hagitha McDumpity's Wallet
Hagitha McDumpity's Wallet
Hagitha McDumpity's Wallet
Hagitha McDumpity's Wallet

or even simply:

My Wallet
My Wallet
My Wallet
My Wallet
My Wallet
My Wallet
My Wallet

Now, turn the scrap of paper so that the names are running vertically and write across this seven times, a command like this

In my hands right now
In my hands right now
In my hands right now
In my hands right now
In my hands right now
In my hands right now
In my hands right now

Spit into the center of the paper, and take a pinch of each of the herbs you had annointed the candle with (Queen of the meadow, five finger grass, star anise,) and place this so it sticks to the spit. Fold in half towards you. Fold in half again, also towards you. Place the folder paper beneath the candle.

Picturing your lost item in your hands, say "(Lost item,) in my dreams, in my mind, in my hands. (Lost item,) return to me, it is my demand!" Then say "So be it." Allow the candle to burn out. The name paper may be buried or hidden by your front door or left near your head as you sleep. The spell is supposed to either draw the item back to you by positive chance or show you were it is in a dream. I will admit, I'm not in love with this spell...from the herbs it has it is more based on amping up your intuition and luck than it is actually pulling something back to you. It WAS a spell I made when I was around 20 (judging from the guy who's last name I had applied to my name in the margin with some really dorky hearts on the page, that is,) so, while its based on Hoodoo and it has worked in the past for me, its not the best work I ever did at all. Hey, I only have like 8 lost item spells that are actual spells, so I figured it was at least simplistic, which is usually something people like. ;)

A more traditional spell for a lost item (and not of my creation or from my days of juvenalia when dinosaurs roamed the planet and people still knew what the Macarena was,) is to make a cross (or x shape) in front of the enterance to your home in the dirt for three successive days at sundown. On the first sundown you make the x and demand your lost item back in the name of your mother's family. On the second sundown you demand your lost item back in the name of your father's family (ie, your mother's immediate family before she had children, and your father's immediate family before he had children,) and on the third sundown you demand your lost item back in the name of yourself. It should be back within the next 6 days after this third sunset.

Well, alrightey kids, that's a lot for today...hope this tip of the iceberg on finding lost objects through magic has been enlightening. :)

~Cat

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Comments

[L]

This kicks ass. Not enough "Lost items" spells out there. Thanks for posting. If you found the time could you do something on lodestones? How do you "wake them up" before they start working for ya. How do you connect to them? I'm interested in lodestones drawing career success especially.

[nicole]

I was able to locate my $50 check...funny I found it after I promised St. Anthony a statue. In any case, I like the idea bout lodestones. I have a pair, and I have not worked with them yet, but I enjoy your articles so when you find the time...I would definitely appreciate it!

[Suz]

St Anthony always gives me so much that I ask for, not just lost things. It's so uncanny. I'd say 'St Anthony, i'm not well can you help me just to get home' and suddenly i'd feel okay until I get home (I have a chronic illness) or just the other day, I had a cold ontop of my chronic illness (just great) and I couldn't stop coughing no matter what I did, so I just said 'St Anthony please it's the middle of the night, all I want to do is sleep can you help me get rid of this cough?' and that's it, I fell asleep didn't cough until I woke up again the next morning.
St Anthony helps me find things i've lost, I pray to him to help me obtain advice and I love him
for being there for me. Now that i've read this, i'm going to organise for a statue of St Anthony in my new bedroom and he will be my patron saint, because he's always there for me when I need him.
Thanks St Anthony :)

[luis portalatin]

okay . so im trying really hard to locate my lost wallet i have asked Saint Anthony for help guidance ... and i have had no luck yet .. i really am desperate and i need help ! It has so much value to me . it had my social my credit card . everything ... someone please help me !

[Cat]

While I'm not sure which someone's you're referring to (this is my blog, and there is just me, generally,) I would say you can appeal to him or to St Dismas, but if the wallet doesn't return....well, not everything is meant to be found. There is no guarantee they will bring it back to you. I've had my wallet stolen and it had things which were irreplaceable (forget the credit cards and replaceable stuff...this had a poem written for me by a friend who passed a way, a picture of someone I cared for very much...only one I had, etc,) and it never returned. Ever. Whatever shit took it made sure of that. So, while you can petition to a spirit, a saint, or God (which might up the chances of it's return,) there is absolutely no guarantee you are getting it back. It sucks if that's what's to be, but that's just how things go sometimes.