Rompe Brujeria (Break the Witchcraft) ohli-way

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Dress a white candle from the wick down to the base, pushing the work off you and out, and burn it on a Saturday or a waning moon.
• Anoint the crown, nape, wrists and feet after a cleansing bath, sealing the removal.
• Rub a little on an egg used for a limpia before sweeping it over the body.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Dress a black-and-white or reversing candle as part of an uncrossing, setting it on a petition that names the condition, not the person.
• Add a few drops to a hyssop and salt bath, taken in a downward motion and finished by tossing the water toward the east.
• Anoint the corners of the home after a full floor wash, from the back of the house out the front door.

Demonology & Black Magick

• Before removal or reversal work aimed at a known enemy, anoint the hands and the tools so that nothing of theirs clings to you while you work.

A Simple Working

• On a Saturday or during the waning moon, prepare a bath with a handful of salt and a few sprigs of rue or hyssop.
• Bathe, pouring the water from the head downward, and do not dry with a towel that has been used by others.
• Dress a white chime candle from the wick down to the base with Rompe Brujería oil.
• Anoint your crown, the back of your neck, your wrists and the soles of your feet.
• Light the candle and say aloud that whatever was put on you is broken and returned to the ground.
• Let the candle burn down; take the remaining bathwater and any wax outside and dispose of it away from your home.

Pairs Well With

• Rue, the classic Latin American herb for breaking envy and the evil eye.
• Hyssop, the biblical herb of purification used in uncrossing baths.
• Black salt, for laying a line across the doorway once the work is lifted.
• White candles, for clean removal without baneful intent.
• An egg, for a traditional limpia before the oil is applied.

What You Receive

Rompe Brujeria (Break the Witchcraft) ohli-way oil, in a 1 oz bottle.

Origin & Lore

Rompe Brujería is an uncrossing oil from the botánica tradition, named for its job: breaking the witchcraft. It is made with the intention of breaking up and removing any spell or hex placed on you, and it belongs beside the other removal formulas of the tradition, such as Quita Maldición and Destierro, which are used when you believe the trouble came from someone else’s hand.

In much of Latin America a run of bad luck, sudden illness in the house or a lover gone cold is often said to be a trabajo: a work someone has done against you.

The belief that misfortune can be sent by another person runs through Spanish, African and Indigenous traditions in the Americas, and botánica shelves answer it with a whole vocabulary of removal: rompe (break), quita (remove), destierro (banish), contra (against). Rompe Brujería is one of the oldest of these names, and it is typically worked as part of a sequence of bath, candle and anointing rather than on its own.