Unconventional Ingredients

Some pagans and witches like to have certain items to incorporate into their rituals and spells. A classic example of this is rose quartz stones for healing or love workings.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with these classic correspondence ingredients. However, not everyone can afford to spend a bunch of money on fancy items. So with that in mind, this post is going to be a list of nonconventional items that can be used for magical workings and what kind of workings they are good for.

Acorn - security, abundance, longevity, good luck, youth, good health

Animal Toys/Stickers - relates to correspondences of that animal; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, etc

Birthday Candles - wishes and intentions, color correspondence magic, number correspondence magic

Black Tea Bags - (used) earth magic, grounding, strength, stability, banishing negativity, endings, death

Bottle Caps - prosperity, luck, material gain

Bubble Bath - self-love, relaxation, emotional healing, serenity, scent correspondence magic

Bubbles - wishes, joy, imagination, fantasy

Buckeye Nuts - luck, sexual energies, warding

Butter - femininity, flattery, friendship, warmth, happiness, fae work

Candy Bars - love, romance, happiness, lust, fertility, emotional healing, healing of the heart, forgiveness, friendship

Candy Foil - sweetness, secrets, protection of one's emotions, color correspondence magic; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, etc

Charcoal - (can be artist's charcoal or activated charcoal for fish tanks, for example) banishing negativity, protection, cursing, purification/cleansing

Chocolate Syrup/Milk - happiness, love, lust, romance, sweetening relationships

Clay - earth magic, grounding, balance, stability, creation, change; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, etc

Cocktail Sword - strength, assertiveness, competition, cursing, revenge, ending rumors

Cotton Balls - beauty, gentleness, warmth, sleep

Dice - chance, opportunity, luck, number correspondence magic

Dirt - grounding, earth magic, growth, prosperity, patience, home and family, cursing

Dish Soap - cleansing/purification

Duct Tape - binding, storing energy, cursing

Energy Drink - energy, motivation, creativity

Envelopes - messages, communication, protection during travel

Epsom Salts - purification, cleansing, protection, pain relief, serenity, comfort, stress relief, color correspondence magic, scent correspondence magic, bath magic

Fish Sauce - prosperity, water magic, curses

Foil - glamour, protection, storing energy, binding; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, etc

Glue - sealing, immobility, divination, curses; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, etc

Googly Eyes - vision, divination, scrying, creativity, protection, imagination, curses, paranoia, nightmares

Grass - growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss

Hand Soap - curse removal, cleansing, purification

Hole Punch - good for cursing

Hot Sauce - motivation, lust, confidence, cursing, anger, revenge, emotional pain

Lip Balm - glamour, confidence in speaking, honesty, beauty

Lollipop - sweetness, innocence, ending rumors and lies, lust, sexual energies, love

Lotion - protection, beauty, glamour

Laundry Soap - cleansing, purification

Marshmallows - friendliness, comfort, gentleness, fidelity, sleep, dreams

Metal Crafting Wire - binding, shape correspondence magic, rune magic; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, etc

Mud - grounding, earth magic, curses

Muslin - change, creativity; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, etc

Noodles - longevity, good health

Pompoms - gentleness, comfort, love, sleep, dreams; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, etc

Paper Clips - balance, focus, organization, curses, binding

Play Money - wealth, prosperity, could be used as ancestor money

Penny - wealth, prosperity, luck

Pickle Juice - curses to sour things

Plastic Bags - protection, binding

Plastic Ribbon - happiness, glamour, delight, binding, color correspondence magic; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, etc

Plastic Wrap - binding, storing energy, cursing

Popsicle Sticks - good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, etc

Razor Blades - curses, cord-cutting, witch bottles

Recycled Bottles/Jars - good for various pagan crafting projects such as jar spells, Yule snow globes, etc

Scissors - offensive magic, curses; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, etc

Seltzer Water - purification, removing negativity, curses, flavor correspondence magic

Sewing Needles - curses, pain; also good for various pagan crafting projects such as Yule ornaments, dream catchers, wands, deity statues, poppets, witch bottles, etc

Shaving Cream - cleansing, patience, calmness, glamour, beauty

Stamps - travel, communication

Sour Cream - cursing

Soy Sauce - protection, banishment, cursing

Sticky Notes - communication, memory, color correspondence magic

Strawberry Milk - love, self-love, beauty, sweetness, friendship

Syrup - sweetening one's emotions or relationships, joy

Tissue Paper - softness, serenity, color correspondence magic

Toothpaste - cleansing, purification

Toothpick - curse

Used Tea Bags - for bath magic

Walnut Shells - protection, warding, abundance, wealth, earth magic (black walnut shells can also be used for cursing, as black walnut trees are very competitive and give out toxins to kill other plants)

Wasabi - energy, curses, anger, energy

Whipped Cream - beauty, light-heartedness

Whistles - communication, attention-grabbing, warding, raising energy