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“I’m Cat, and for a long time, Cat’s Rants, the longest running occult based blog was over at TypePad – since 2004. Sadly, TypePad shuttered permanently as of September 30th 2025. Please be patient while I export 21 years of blog posts over to my new WordPress location. With a much easier url to remember and all your favorite posts all the way back to 04, Cat’s Rants should hopefully improve over its former location.” Cat has practiced and studied the occult, tarot, and spellcasting for over 35 years, and has shared her expert teachings on how to cast your own spells, including original spells and recipes on the Cat’s Rants blog since 2004. A professional tarot reader since the 1990s, she’s also an internationally-known psychic reader and tarot expert. As a published and respected occultist for over two decades, and an expert in the fields of rootwork, hoodoo, and Catholic folk magic, she continues to serve the public by teaching authentic spell casting and offering readings and services.

Category: On Spells and Spellwork

  • Techniques For Encouraging Communication

    Hello my dearies, Dara Anzlowar has a wonderful post on methods for encouraging communication using a photo over on her blog. I highly recommend it to my readers. ~C

  • Charm to Protect Against Someone Who Gossips About You

    Hello my Occulties, This is a good charm against someone who is running off at the mouth about you. It does require you to have some proximity to this person and to be able to get near them. Pre-emptively, yes you need the listed bioligical item, and I will recommend what type of ways to…

  • Unrealistic Expections, Mythological Beasts, and the Neophyte

    Hello Occulties, Over the years, I have come into contact with many different types of people with all different levels of experience all seeking out knowledge about spellcasting and the occult for many different reasons. While some people have had a long time interest in spellcasting, rootwork, or the occult, others have sought out the…

  • Charm for Drawing Money to your Home or Business

    Hello Occulties, Just a quick charm for you. You will need: A small vial or jar Alkanet root, powdered Irish moss flakes Cinnamon Chamomile flowers Frankincense resin, crushed/powdered Confectioner’s sugar A small lodestone or magnet Gold paint (preferably that which holds up to exposure to water – I recommend acrylic based paints,) Cloth ribbon (in…

  • I Guess We Might Legitimately Fear Fear Itself…

    UPDATE 6/13/12- EW, someone broke the rules! I had to change the link to this post. If you are posting links to this site to any other spellcasting, spell review, or occult site, please be sure you have my express permission to link back. 🙂 Otherwise you risk me removing the post entirely, and the…

  • Mama Cat’s Get a Job Oil

    Hello Occulties, Since everyone has been asking me recently for help getting a job, I figured this may be of interest. 🙂 To create the oil you will need: Five-finger grass, Bay laurel leaves, High John the Conqueror (jalap) root chips Solomon’s seal root chips Alkanet root pieces or powder, Guinea pepper seeds (grain of…

  • 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…

  • Making Unwanted Neighbors Move and/or Leave You Alone

    Hey Occulties, Holy Mars-retrograde, kids – my most common requests presently are for revenge, moving bad people away, and protection spells… Well, I’m gonna get a protection spells post up soon, but today let’s examine using spellcraft to get unwanted neighbors and vistors to leave you alone. 🙂 I’ve gone over this in here before,…

  • Easy Charm to Make Another Speak Sweetly of You

    Hey Occulties, Just a quick offering today. 🙂 You will need: A used napkin from your target Confectioner’s sugar 9 relatively long pieces of knotweed, preferably fresh, Procure a used napkin (particularly one used to wipe the mouth while eating,) from your target, and in the center place about a teaspoon of confectioner’s sugar. Then…

  • A Brief Discussion on Hoodoo Spells that Use Human Poo as an Ingredient – Not for the Sensitive of Stomach

    Hello my dear Occultey-friends! Alrightey, one of my dear readers has challenged me to actually post traditional Hoodoo spells that use feces. Not being coprophagiac…or in any way enamored of poo (I really don’t like poop at all, frankly, and would entirely give up pooping if that wouldn’t cause me to explode from it building…