They work really well. One thing that is popular back home along the same lines, in case you are interested, is getting a red piece of yarn or a red bracelet on the left hand and as you tie it, you pray over each knot or recite an incantation. e.g "I discern what I should allow into me, this bracelet protects me and guards the gate of my well-being". It works better if somebody else does it, but self-tying also works.
Usually, they sell them with an evil eye charm or a St. Benedict's medal on them. Eyes have a real pull on things, so a similar string is also tied to personal belongings that you don't want moving towards others --like a backpack when traveling. Mothers also use it with their newborns and young children. If it starts untying, it can be tied again but it should be changed. Untie it and dispose it, don't cut it with metal.
Another thing that is done out of the syncretism between Mesoamerican traditions and Christianity is doing a yauhtli (the fog plant, also used in the trad recipe of chocolate) or a mexican marigold cross "cruces de pericon" on Michaelmas eve and hanging it from the main entrance and the front of cars because it is said it is his day-off and the gates of hell (Or Mictlan, the Mexica underworld) are unguarded.
They were associated with the god Tlaloc in one of the codexes, either Badiano Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis or Hernandez Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus
They look something like this. A small bit, as it is an incense, burnt in a cauldron with coals also cleanses a place really fast an it is used from the cross when fights or grief happen in the house during that year, but this should be done with windows open as it creates a lot of smoke and it is mildly anethestic.
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They work really well. One thing that is popular back home along the same lines, in case you are interested, is getting a red piece of yarn or a red bracelet on the left hand and as you tie it, you pray over each knot or recite an incantation. e.g "I discern what I should allow into me, this bracelet protects me and guards the gate of my well-being". It works better if somebody else does it, but self-tying also works.
Usually, they sell them with an evil eye charm or a St. Benedict's medal on them. Eyes have a real pull on things, so a similar string is also tied to personal belongings that you don't want moving towards others --like a backpack when traveling. Mothers also use it with their newborns and young children. If it starts untying, it can be tied again but it should be changed. Untie it and dispose it, don't cut it with metal.
Another thing that is done out of the syncretism between Mesoamerican traditions and Christianity is doing a yauhtli (the fog plant, also used in the trad recipe of chocolate) or a mexican marigold cross "cruces de pericon" on Michaelmas eve and hanging it from the main entrance and the front of cars because it is said it is his day-off and the gates of hell (Or Mictlan, the Mexica underworld) are unguarded.
They were associated with the god Tlaloc in one of the codexes, either Badiano Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis or Hernandez Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus
They look something like this. A small bit, as it is an incense, burnt in a cauldron with coals also cleanses a place really fast an it is used from the cross when fights or grief happen in the house during that year, but this should be done with windows open as it creates a lot of smoke and it is mildly anethestic.