Witches: Is it a good idea to put a Witch's bottle in the ocean?

Witches bottles were meant for protection. That's why they were filled with sharp and nasty things. I've never heard that they should be buried far away though. In fact, the two places I've seen it used most were hung from trees and buried at the cardinal points of your home or in the foundation. The third suggested placement is usually on the property of your known enemy. In all of these cases, the contents of the bottle would cause anyone who meant you harm pain.

However moving water of any kind can be used to carry negativity away. So if you symbolically put whatever is bothering you into the bottle, seal it, and drop it in the ocean, that should be just as good as burying it. In fact, the salt should stop it from wandering back to you. Just make sure the tide is moving out, not in, or the bottle will be carried back to shore (symbolically bad!).You can perform a similar spell just by taking a stone, telling it your problem and throwing it in the water. The benefit of this is that the stone will sink (while the bottle will float). It would take the water a lot longer than your life span to bring that stone back to shore. Another way would be to write down the problem you want to get rid of, burn the paper to ashes and scatter it to the four winds.

Edit: You're welcome :)

In that case, the stone spell would probably be the best choice. Just concentrate on putting whatever negativity is affecting your life into the stone and toss it into moving water. It will carry the negativity away from you. Mirror spells are usually used for turning someone's negativity back on them.

Mel, I tend to view ANY spell work that requires the practitioner to put anything into the environment without regard to the effects that such a placement will have upon the local bit of nature that will host the object. A stone, or a piece of food or liquid will quickly break down or add to the environment and add beneficial things to that environment. A bottle is NOT among those things, A bottle is glass, dangerous to wildlife that may encounter and break it and try to ingest it.

All too often we casually place things of a spell nature in the natural world and include the caveat, "with harm to none" and we forget that "harm to none" includes the wildlife in the area as well as the higher beings (humans). So the spell itself may not be the source of harm to the living things BUT, the tools and physical components of such a spell ARE. And those are things that the Witch must ALSO assume responsibility for, in addition to the results of the spell itself.

Brightest Blessings,

Raji the Green Witch

Normally, it would be a mistake to drop your witch's bottle in the ocean. You are correct that witch's bottles, hex bags, voodoo dolls, warlock's fanny packs and any other spell-related tchotchkes must be deposited into the earth for full efficacy. Remember that our powers derive from the earth (not the seas-- we aren't mermaids for God's sake!).

You are, however, "good to go" to drop Witch's bottles into the ocean. I just hooked you up with a sweet incantation -- "Protect and empower any spell, written or oral from Witchy Mel, Be it curse or potion, that she may drop into the ocean" Yeah, it rhymes, and I wrote it with a crow's feather dipped in hampster blood (the only animal readily at my disposal) on old parchment. I burned it in a totally gnarly warlock ritual. Your welcome.

The spell only works if somebody pick`s up the bottle and reads the letter inside of it .