Bosnian magical formulas

Love formula


A woman would secretly look through the fingers of her right hand and would repeat this formula three times:

You look at me (the name of the man) lovingly,
string pearls,
give your soul for me,
elzalif amin veledalin amin.

Against charms

When a man masturbates and finishes, he would follow the act by this magical formula:

As I had come,
so too may my luck masturbate (walk, go) across the world,
and never let a female put a spell on me.

Magical power of menstruation



When a woman has a menstrual cycle, she utters this formula:

My husband,
your penis wants to enter my vagina.
But my red king forbids it,
your penis head is red but so is my king,
and lucky is your red head.
Here I'm giving you my red king for good luck!

Love formula for arrival

In the past when a Bosnian girl wanted to make a young man visit her using a spell, she would get into bed and repeat the following formula seven times:


I laid on seven mattresses,
onto seven sheets,
onto seven pillows
and my dear N (name) onto seven knives,
onto seven swords
and onto seven rifles - may he not be able to live,
may he not be able to breathe,
may the sun not shine on him,
until he sees me,
kisses me and comes to me!

Love knots

To "tie" her husband to herself and secure a long common life, a woman pulls from her underpants and her husband's underpants a long thread. Then she connects them together and ties seven knots on it. Prior to any knot tying the woman repeats the prayer Ihlas and utters:

"on Friday I tied you to myself and your thoughts, kaf, nun - kun" (blows into the knot)
"on Saturday I tied you to myself and your eyes, kaf, nun - kun" (blows into the knot)
"on Sunday I tied you to myself and your ears, kaf, nun - kun" (blows into the knot)
"on Monday I tied you to myself and your mouth, kaf, nun - kun" (blows into the knot)
"On Tuesday I tied you to myself and your arms kaf, nun - kun" (blows into the knot)
"on Wednesday I tied you to myself and your legs, kaf, nun - kun" (blows into the knot)
"on Thursday I tied you to myself and your entire body! kaf, nun - kun" (blows into the knot).

The thread with the knots is worn for seven days on the right side of the body, in the bra, and then placed under the doorstep of the house.

Ritual involving the sun


When the sun starts setting behind a hill a girl looks at it and utters the following vow three times:



O ye, bright sun,

are you setting behind a hill,

with whom are you leaving me?

Leave me with my dear N.,

he doesn't love me,

he doesn't care for me.

With god's will I have placed three burdens on him;

first one is a toothache,

the second one is the pain of a woman giving birth

and the third is the pain that a man feels when Azrail rips his soul from his body.

Let him die, let him have a fit until he sees me.

Elif zalim lamim!


After that she blows in the direction of the sun three times.

Ritual involving a new moon


When a new moon appears a girl looking at it utters the prayer Ihlas three times and then the following vow:


O new moon, old man, young soldier,

make me as tall as a fir tree,

make me as white as a pearl,

so I can be pretty and dear to all

and to my N. the most beautiful and dearest!



After that she blows in the direction of the new moon three times.

Star ritual


Right after sunset, as soon as the stars appear, a girl takes a knife and sticks it into the ground under the roof of the house, at the location where drops of rain fall from the roof. While doing this she utters:



I'm not putting this knife into the ground,

but in Mujo's heart and liver,

in his 77 nerves,

88 joints (while uttering this she drives the knife harder into the ground),

and 99 bones.



After that she looks at the largest star in the sky and utters:



Small star by god my sister (she moves her hands away from the knife),

wherever you find my Mujo you shall possess him,

where you catch up to him you shall move him from his place,

strike him in his cowlick,

bring him to me!



Then she places her palms onto the ground and utters the following vow:



Dark earth by god my mother!

This vow should not grasp me nor you,

nor the encircled garden,

nor a planted tree,

nor a barren sheep,

nor a cow without a calf,

but my Mujo and his heart and liver,

his 77 nerves,

88 joints and his 99 bones.

He should die,

go crazy until he comes to me and until he talks to me!



Then she blows in the direction of the star and without turning around she goes home. Tomorrow morning, before sunup, she takes the knife out from the ground.

LOVE ORAL CHARM

When a woman sees that her husband is angry she places her hands on her face and looks at him through her fingers without him noticing and utters three times:

Here comes my NN,
his mouth are a twig and my vagina his tongue,
from God amin veledalin amin.

Some women which practice this spell believe that it can soothe and calm even a man that found his wife in bed with another man.

Charms with magic formula


To invoke the feelings of love in the person that one desires a string from his/her clothes needs to be pulled out and burned. While the string burns the following formula is repeated three times:

Ćuhum ćuti lehum leti
eyu beyu kulhuveyu
ehad allah kulhuvellah.

then: As the thread burns by fire so shall you burn with love for me!

or

Before going to sleep the girl turns her pillow 99 times and says:

Ćuhum ćuti lehum leti
eyu beyu kulhuveyu
ehad allah kulhuvallah
and then “I'm not turning my pillow but N's heart and mind for me!.

Bah bahti


In their practice the Bosnian witches used various ways to cast love spells on men, and the most famous one is the one with white beans. The ritual was performed as follows:

At night, when no one is around, the witch would take an axe and place it behind the entrance door along with nine white beans on which she urinated on. Then the witch goes to the fire place inside the house and places the beans in the ash near the fire. She would then utter:

the beans crackle,
bah bahti,
the axe behind the door and X in front of it.
Die, burst until you come to me,
with Gods power and my merit,
veledalin amin!

She would then blow three times in the direction of the man and then she would swallow her spit. The witch stirs the beans in a circle with a metal spoon, takes the axe and brings it and places it next to her feet, and then she stirs the beans with the spoon one more time and brings the axe back behind the door. While doing this she utters:

I am placing the axe behind the door;
I am not placing the axe but the brain and wits of X behind the door.
Die, burst until you come to me,
with God's power and my merit.
Veledalin amin!

After that she repeats the following words three times:

Basmice, basmice sisters as ordained by God,
bring me X there is the dark and the cloud,
I am his shining sun and moon.
Dark all around him and I am his only light,
elzalif amin.

At the end she blows down her bosom three times, turns around and goes to bed.

I'M LOOKING AT YOU THROUGH FIVE FINGERS ...


A girl which wants to spark attention in a man she fancies, she needs to look at him through the spread fingers of her right hand and then utter three times:

I'm looking at you through five fingers
and you are looking at me through five hearts,
veledalin amin!

The girl does it discretely taking care that he doesn't notice her, if he does the magic will not work.

Fortune telling

On the eve of Eid (Bajram) the girl repeats three times verse Ihlas and then looks at the shiniest star in the sky and repeats the following formula nine times without even blinking:

Tell me O star who loves me,
tell me star if its N. (name of her love) which I love?

Then she goes to bed to sleep. If she dreams of the man which she mentioned that night, that means that the answer is positive.

Love charm with thorn apple


When the sun sets the girl takes a few stems of thorn apple (Datura stramonium) and throws it into the fire uttering:



Thorn apple divides thorn apple,

šendeli bendeli,

ni šendeli ni bendeli,

NN will go crazy after me!



then she turns the palms of her hands towards the fire and utters:



Fire, by God a sister,

this spell hasn't been tied either to me nor you

but to my loved NN and his 77 veins and 88 joints.



After that the girl goes to bed.

Ritual with a frog


To make a man come visit her, a woman would perform a ritual with a frog. The woman places a live frog inside the ash where there is a fire burning and covers the frog with a metal dish uttering:

As the frog is croaking my N is crying.
If he doesn't come to me while the frog is alive
he should die with his next step.

Love charm with sugar cubes



In the past the women used to give advice to one another about using sugar cubes for love magic, in order to awaken love and lost passion within their husbands. As advised by elderly women a woman would rub a sugar cube on her vagina and place it into her husband's coffee. While placing the sugar cube inside the coffee she would utter the following words three times:

However sweet this coffee might be to you,
I will be even sweater to you,
veledalin amin.

She would then blow three times towards the coffee and swallow her spit.

Love oath


When a girl or a wife wants to make a love potion for her lover or husband she takes a glass of water and an empty bowl in which she will perform ritual washing of the body. This ritual is done after the woman has taken a shower, since according to folk belief love oaths (basme) have power only when they are uttered by a person with a clean body. Before she commences ritual cleansing the woman repeats the verse Ihlas five times.



N. me elif, you elif,

you were muti

whatever I'm doing you are doing

look with my eyes (wash eye lids three times)

hear with my ears (wash ears three times)

speak with my mouth (wash mouth three times)

operate with my hands (wash hands three times)

walk with my feet (wash feet three times)

veledalin amin from God amin.


The water which was used to wash the mentioned body parts is stored in a small bottle and is kept until a suitable moment when it can be poured in the lovers/husbands coffee or juice. When she completes this she then blows three times in the direction of the juice or coffee and swallows the spit in her mouth.

According to old Bosnian belief, faeries when angry and vengeful, if someone hurts them on purpose or accidentally, can hit people with their arrows; so called “heavenly arrows”, which cause people to be sick.



When someone has a sudden headache, pain in the leg, arm sleeps poorly and has puncturing pain in the body, it is believed that he has been pierced by faeries. Help is sought from stravarka, which melts lead for the person and utters with a low voice:

Nine faeries flew,
from nine clouds,
from nine mountains,
from nine forests,
from nine seas,
from nine meadows,
from nine crossroads,
from nine streams,
from nine rocks,
from nine rue plants,
they sang along the way,
danced in circles,
their path crossed by Ahmed*,
he angered the faeries.
They hit him with their arrows in the head,
in the heart, in the legs,
they floored him completely,
Ahmed got sick.
Ahmed yelled: “Help me Mujo, help me Halil,
I’m shot by faeries!”
When the faeries heard this,
each of them took out their arrow out of fear,
Ahmed was cured.
Out of nine faeries and arrows,
with my formula and god’s will,
only eight remained on Ahmed,
out of eight only seven remained,
out of seven only six remained,
out of six only five remained,
out of five only four remained,
out of four only three remained,
out of three only two remained,
out of two only one remained,
out of one none remained.
By my hand, formula and lead – good deed,
and from god salvation, peace and cure, amen!

*or however the diseased is called.


Lead is being poured three times: above the head, chest and legs. It is poured until in the molten lead, at the bottom of the vessel with water, one finds nine needles (thorn). In the first pouring above the head one can find one or two needles, then one observes how many will there be above the chest and legs. If there are a total of nine in the end or more the healing is finished. If they’re not located, then the procedure is repeated in three days. After nine or more needles, the diseased is cured. Those needles are thrown down the water or one by one is placed in nine holes in the ground. The diseased washes his face with the water, his arms and legs and drinks some water, the rest is poured on a nacre bush.

Formula for stomach

Come Hazrat Fatima,
take your feather
and remove from this patient
all his/her pain,
and return his/her gastritis in place,
veledalin amin!

Magical formula against evil eyes

Sijerma has nine children;
out of nine - eight,
out of eight - seven,
out of seven - six,
out of six - five,
out of five - four,
out of four - three,
out of three - two,
out of two - one,
out of one - none.
Go, Uročice,
from the grease into bones,
from bones into flesh,
from flesh into skin,
from skin into hair,
from hair into the high mountain
where the rooster doesn't sing,
where the Imam's call can't be heard,
where the sheep doesn't give birth,
where the cow doesn't give birth,
where the mare doesn't give birth.
Go disease across the world
like bees on the flowers,
brake and disintegrate.

Magical formula against evil eyes

Bilobrk crosses the blue see to dear god,
from dear god he brings N (name of diseased)
health and happiness
and takes away začud and zazor,
veledalin amin.