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The Power of
Cascarilla
Powder WProtect & Cleanse
e’re guessing you’re not that familiar Cascarilla is a shrub, native to the West Indies with this, so allow us to enlighten you! famed for its aromatic husk (bark) which was ground down and used by local people medicinally for Talking of familiars, we would like to point out that diarrhea and fevers. It’s also thought to contain trace
this article was suggested and has been written by Willow, our very own glamour puss who has appeared on the cover of Cat Vogue no less than four times. She came across it in the Flickering Cauldron Library.
Cascarilla Powder (pronounced ka-ska-ree-ya) is such a simple yet powerful tool for protection and cleansing, that you can easily produce from everyday egg shells!
Yes, you can purchase it from the likes of Etsy or Amazon, but if you eat eggs regularly, the ingredients are free, so it will cost you nothing.
First, we need to look at a brief history, to understand the origins of this wonderful magical ingredient and how it became what it is today.
Here’s the history bit and yes! We may ask questions later, so pay attention!
narcotics, so was often used as a painkiller.
Dried out and in powder form it was used as a body paint in tribal rituals.
To begin with, here’s a word for you - Efun (say effon with a soft e like as in he) Efun exists as an essential part of many of the West African diaspora practices and is a combination of the many enslaved tribal traditions.
For example, in the Candomblé tradition, (developed in Brazil in the 19th Century) Efun is a ritual where the head and body are shaved and decorated with tribal markings using white chalk made from lime stone or white clay and eggshells and is still used today.
It’s actually a Yoruba (Nigerian) word that quite literally means ‘chalk’ in English.
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