Lady Victoria Eclectic Pagan's blog: "Witch's Jars"

Worries and anxieties that are becoming too big and interfering with daily life benefit from this spell. Take and cleanse a jam jar or box with a tight fitting lid. Write the problem on a slip of paper Pass it through the 4 Elements, and pop it in the jar, reciting the following spell. Leave the jar in the moonlight, but visible to yourself. Each time the problem sneaks into your mind, think of the jar. You are only permitted to worry if you go and remove the lid and the slip of paper. You'll find that soon, you can't be bothered to even give it thought. When the problem is resolved, remove the slip and bury or burn it, giving thanks to the Lady. Into this vessel secured up tight I place my anxieties that they might Find their right level within my life Be only acknowledged when I say it's right. I swear that I will not give thought to my woe Until such time to this vessel I go And take off the lid and grieve, for I know That unless the lid's missing, trapped is my foe. It may not escape into my daily way And trouble my thinking during the day. Some time in the future when I feel I may Dispose of this vessel with no debt to pay.

To make an herbal cleansing bottle, pour a layer of sand in a large clear bottle. Add layers of dried herbs, one at a time: first rosemary; then lemon peel, sage, cedar, black peppercorns, lavender, dill, bay leaf, and rowan. When the bottle is full, focus cleansing protective energy into the herbs and sand, and see a golden light radiating from the bottle. Visualize the herbs driving away negative influences. Cork and seal the bottle with white wax. Using a permanent marker, draw the Algiz rune on one side of the bottle, and on the other side draw a pentagram. Set the bottle near your front or back door, and every six months, uncap. Pour herbs out into the woods or your compost heap, and thoroughly wash and dry the bottle before filling it with a new round of herbs.

The following are the ingredients for a Witch's Protection Bottle and it works in two ways. It not only protects you, but it will deflect the harm towards you back to the originator. Get a glass jar such as a Mason jar, or even a baby food jar, anything that has a lid to it. Fill the jar halfway with small sharp objects such as pins, metal scrapings, broken glass, razor blades, etc. Be careful when you are filling the jar! Once the jar is half full with these objects, fill the jar up with a holy water mixture of salt and water. Put the top on the jar and be sure it's secured. This jar should be buried in the ground at least twelve inches deep. As long as the bottle remains in the ground, you will be protected from harm that is sent your way. If you bury the jar somewhere away from home, and you wont know if it will still be there in a year (City Witches don't always have backyards), then be sure to repeat this process each year.