[Help] Origin and Question about Witch Bottle/Draja's keeping a person out of your place spell

[Omee]

This following spell from Draja Mickaharic's book "A Spiritual Worker's Spell Book ":

If there is a particular person that you wish to keep out of your quarters, a similar spell will do this for you. Prepare a small bottle with pins, needles, nails, and broken glass. Write the name of the person you wish to keep out using a lead pencil, writing the name on a piece of scrap paper. Put the paper with the person's name on it in the bottle. Now fill the bottle with water and about a teaspoon full of black ink. Close the bottle tightly, and place it upside down by the front door to your home.

Welp for context I did it for a freeloading relative that was staying in my home for 5 months, after some minor surgery he chose willingly he stayed with his girlfriend and "decided" to not comeback(Thank god!), I think it's almost a month now and he didn't come back.

Now personally my husband is wondering what we should do with the bottle considering it is hiding beside the front door and it is menacing for him. I was thinking of leaving it there for 3 months then disposing of it in the ocean/at the ocean but I was worried it might be harmful to throw glass shards in the ocean alongside ink, and nails. I was wondering if someone have an idea to dispose of it safely without harming the person inside or the people in general or nature?

Other than that I was also thinking of the origin of the spell, I checked Hyatt's Hoodoo 5 volumes but couldn't find any and I don't know where to go from there to find the origin of this spell actually if it is more of European kind or I don't know what clue or thing to look for and where to look for it. I would be happy to have some pointers for this.

 

[Yazata]

Aren't you normally supposed to bury these (in your front yard or somewhere close to your home)? It seems to me you would undo the effect if you were to throw away / break the bottle.

 

[Omee]

Aren't you normally supposed to bury these (in your front yard or somewhere close to your home)? It seems to me you would undo the effect if you were to throw away / break the bottle.

Yes! I don't have a frontyard and I am currently in an apt so it is a bit hard to do so I put it opposite to my door's opening/so it is basically hiding behind a small table that's opposite to the door's hinge. I don't know if that made sense lol!


I am thinking so it would undo the spell, I am thinking of a way to dispose of it without having the freeloader coming back to live with me lmao..if there is a way.

 

[Ziran]

I am thinking of a way to dispose of it without having the freeloader coming back to live with me lmao..if there is a way.

Make yourself another talisman, something more pleasing, which corresponds to the first. Then the first one can be moved or even deconstructed without reversal.

 

[Rowena]

I was also thinking of the origin of the spell, I checked Hyatt's Hoodoo 5 volumes but couldn't find any and I don't know where to go from there to find the origin of this spell actually if it is more of European kind or I don't know what clue or thing to look for and where to look for it. I would be happy to have some pointers for this.

This type of witch bottle is taken from medieval European folk magic, traditionally they were more generally protective rather than being aimed at a single individual, and were buried under doorways, or inside walls to keep them intact.

I was wondering if someone have an idea to dispose of it safely without harming the person inside or the people in general or nature?

Traditionally, breaking the bottle will break the spell, after which it can be safely disposed of like any other broken bottle.
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[Asteriskos]

I think it's great that this has worked out for you as you've said, folk magic is often highly under rated IMO! But, I have a question which may be a bit simplistic. In Your Home (your Castle, your Domain) what prevents you from merely stating something to the effect of "This is our Home, you've outworn your welcome and need to make plans of your own!" I simply wanted to ask if that was a consideration prior to resorting to magic?