How To Make A Charm Bag: A Simple Witch’s Guide

Find out how to create your own charm bag for attracting love, healing, or any other intention you have in mind.

A magic charm bag is a small pouch holding charms, herbs, or other items associated with a specific intention.

Making your charm bag is a great way to personalize your magical practice and create something uniquely suited to your needs.

And so, when choosing items for your charm bag, it is essential to consider what each element represents and how it can contribute to your overall intention.

So, for example, if you are creating a bag to attract abundance, you might include items like:

greenstone (for growth)
a coin (for prosperity)
a piece of ginger (for good luck).

Magic charm bags are often kept close at hand, such as in a pocket or purse, so their energies are always nearby. However, they can also be placed strategically around your home or office to create a more powerful effect.

For example, you might place a bag filled with love charms near your front door to attract more love into your life or keep a bag of protection charms by your bedside to ward off negative energy.

No matter what type of charm bag you create, the most important thing is that it comes from a place of positive intention and contains items you genuinely believe will help you achieve your goal.

Charm bags rank as one of the simple methods of making your amulets.

Here are detailed instructions on crafting charms bags! Remember, charm bags are simple yet powerful magical tools and practical magic.

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Brief History of Charm Bags and Charms

Spiritual traditions in multiple cultures have utilized the magical art of crafting charm bags. And more specifically, charms come in many different ways.

One of the most beloved forms of a charm (or one of the most well-known and recognized) is the evil eye charm. This originates with the belief that a curse comes onto someone from an evil, malintent, or malevolent stare that the person doesn’t know about.

We see these charms in the popular style of a Nazar and a Hamsa.

The Nazar is a typically blue, eye-shaped amulet that’s put onto bracelets, strings, key chains, necklaces; you name it!

The Hamsa is another famous symbol. It’s a hand with a palm facing you and a large eye in the middle. Archaeologists found this charm in tomb inscriptions in Phoenicia and Mesopotamia as early as the 8th century BCE!

There are charms like the Omamori. A Japanese Shinto and Buddhist amulet. This amulet is used for luck and protection. It’s also a charm bag, and it’s made from paper, wood, or other materials. It’s a brocade bag decoration bag with small items inside.

In traditional Daoism, there are paper talismans (or petitions worn as talismans) called Fulu. According to Wikipedia about Fulus, the etymology of the word (and the use of the word) is this:

“Fu (Chinese: 符) are instructions to deities and spirits, symbols for exorcism, and medicinal potion recipes or charms to assist with ailments. Lu (Chinese: 籙) is a register of the membership of the priests, as well as the skills they are trained in.”

Additionally, there’s the Eye of Horus, the Ankh, and so much more we don’t have time to cover in this article!

The Gris Gris Bag (Or Mojo Bag)

The charm most closely related to the charm we mention in this article is the African gris-gris. This amulet originated in Africa and went to the United States with enslaved Africans.

It became a staple by the practitioners of Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, and practitioners of HooDoo or Conjure.

It also made its way to Latin American folk magic, in Santeria and others, because of the influence of enslaved Africans being brought to South America.

In HooDoo, the gris-gris bag is also called a mojo hand, a conjure bag, or just a mojo. Mojo bags are flannel or other cloth bags filled with herbs, wood, charms, personal items, or petitions.

They are generally kept on the person in a bra, pockets, socks, etc. Or just left in their bags, car, at the altar, or at home.

Timing When You Make Your Charm Bags

Next, let’s talk about timing.

Using the time of the day can strengthen the ritual of crafting charm bags and the actual charm bag itself.

To do this, look for the following:

phases of the moon
planetary days and hours
primary transits of the day or election chart for the day you want to make your charm

We have an in-depth section on timing in the article about spiritual baths. Give that a read!

Correspondences

Utilizing color associations with the cloth or candle can impact your energy and intention.

Candle colors have their energy and magical intent. Your candle color of choice can depend on the type of spell you’re doing!

Apply these color correspondences to your enchanted candle, a ribbon of choice, and a cloth of choice.

White

White is general. It can be used as a replacement for any color for any spell, any ritual, and any situation.

Black

Black is for darker magic and protection magic. Use black to hex or curse someone, to send negative energy, or to banish negative energy.

Red

Red is for love and lust spells. Use a red candle shaped like a skull to enter your lover’s or target’s mind.

Blue

Blue is for divination, ancestor worship, and astral rituals. Use blue when contacting any spirit and to connect to your higher self.

Green

Green is for money, prosperity, luck, and abundance. Use green to draw money to you, get a raise in your job, get the job you want, or send lucky energy to someone you care about.

Orange

Orange is for bringing opportunities to you. Use orange in road opener spells and uncrossing spells.

Essential Ingredients For Charm Bags

The magical potency of your charm bags will rely on these three things:

your intention
your connection to your ultimate creator (your highest self, your deity, etc.)
your belief and faith in your tools,

To make a charm bag, you will need the following:

A small pouch or bag (This can also be a piece of cloth, traditionally flannel, that is sewn or tied closed)
Charms, herbs, or other items associated with your intention
A blessing cord or ribbon (optional)
A personal identity marker (optional)

For the last ingredient, a personal identity marker is a nail, hair, a personal pin, or a piece of paper with your (or the target/client’s) name.

Alternatively, this is optional but can give your desired outcome more strength and potency.

Brief Instructions

Gather the items you will need for your charm bag. If you use charms or herbs, you will want to charge them with your intention before adding them to the bag.
Place the items inside the pouch or bag.
If desired, tie the cord or ribbon around the bag to keep it closed.
(Optional) Move your charm bag over incense smoke and a candle flame (don’t burn the bag). Speak intention into the candle.

The candle is your gateway to the spiritual realm and connects to your power. The incense smoke acts as an offering to the energies and spirits working with the bag.

After this, pray over your charm bag. Pray your intention over it and thank the higher powers you believe in.
Carry your charm bag with you, or keep it in a particular place where it will be exposed to your intention (such as on your altar).

Breathing Life Into Your Charm

Before you make your charm bag, cleanse your space. Casting and creating magic circles can be a good ritual before crafting your charm bag.

Here’s an in-depth article about how to cast a magic circle and the history of the magic process.

In short, a ritual and clear intentions breathe life into crafting charm bags, and it embeds it with your energy.

Protection Charm Bags

All spiritual and magical practitioners of any level would have some form of the ward, cleansing spell, or protection spell.

This protection spell can quickly come in the form of a protection charm bag that you keep in your pocket, in your bags, or in your home.

Many herbs used in protection charm bags are also used for exorcisms, banishments, and cleansings.

Herbs to use:

Angelica Root
Salt (make protection salt)
Hyssop
Rue
Mugwort
Mint
Basil
Sage
Rosemary
Dragon’s Blood
Garlic
Vinegar
Red Clover
Turmeric

Divination Charm Bags

The magical practitioner relies on the power of their higher self, ancestors, deities, or spirit guides to aid in their spell casting and magical will.

Furthermore, practicing your connection with the other world and divination is essential, allowing you to understand, see, or intuit things about the past, present, and future.

To divine is to connect to the other world.

Herbs to use:

Hibiscus
Valerian
Mugworth
Damiana
Chamomile
Acacia
Frankincense and/or Myrrh
Marjoram
Marigold
Star Anise
Egyptian Blue Lotus
Catnip

In either of these charms, you can add roots, petals, dried and ground herbs, woods, charms like the hamsa or nazar, your hair or nails, or whatever else you desire!

Charm Bags Remedies & Practical Spells

Finally, here’s a list of all the kinds of charm bags you can create! Creating charm bags is relaxing, fun, and easy!

You can make a charm bag for almost any desire.

You can also make charm bags that remedy specific pains, traumas, and problems. By remedies, we don’t promise that this will fix the things mentioned above in your life permanently or instantaneously (or at all!).

But, we believe that crafting charm bag remedies can aid, enhance, and back up healing in multiple ways.

Love: Enhance your lover’s feelings. Fan their desire and make them adore you. Pair this charm bag with love herbs or an obsession spell.

Herbs to use: rose petals, spikenard, cumin, meadowsweet, black cohosh rosemary, southern wormwood, fennel, honey, cinnamon (combine this with love crystals for a more robust mojo bag), fenugreek

Quick Money: Use for speeding up fast money. Late on rent? Need bills? Or maybe extra to buy something nice.

Herbs to use: cinquefoil, John the Conqueror, bay leaf and cayenne pepper, clove, peppercorns, dried allspice, dill weed, black cohosh, calamus

Prosperity, Abundance, Luck: For long-term success, a successful outcome in business, a successful outcome in the comfort of life, and an overall increase in luck.

Herbs to use: bay leaves, jade plants, aloe vera, Balm of Gilead, dill weed, ginger, thyme, coffee, calamus, kava kava, lotus root, spikenard

Self-Love, Self-Confidence: for grounding, connecting with the self, self-love, self-care, self-friendship, confidence, calming anxiety, and healing traumas.

Herbs to use: lavender, dandelion, sunflower, damiana, orris root, nutmeg, poppy seeds, rosemary, vanilla, lemon balm

Tips & Tricks For Crafting Charm Bags

Tip 1: You can use any pouch or bag for your charm bag, but it should be small enough to carry easily.

#2: There is no right or wrong way to charge charms or herbs – hold them in your hands and state your intention clearly. You may also want to meditate on your intention while holding the items.

#4: If you are making a charm bag for someone else, get their permission before adding any items.

#5: Charm bags are for any intention, so get creative and have fun with them!

#6: Don’t forget to periodically cleanse and recharge your charm bag to keep its energy fresh.

#7: Check out this video from our YouTube channel! Magic with Megan will show you more about magic, tarot, astrology, love, and spiritual practice!

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