A mojo bag is a fixed cloth hand carrying roots, curios, and prayer for one purpose and one person. The rules, the red flannel history, and how to carry one.
A mojo bag is a small cloth bag carrying roots, curios, and prayer, fixed for one purpose and one person. The old workers called it a hand, a toby, or simply a mojo, and it is one of the oldest forms the work takes. It is not decoration and it is not a souvenir. A fixed mojo is a working thing.
Sewn in red flannel
The classic mojo was sewn from red flannel, so strongly that the cloth and the hand shared a name in some mouths. Red has carried power in this tradition for generations, which I broke down in What Red Candles Mean in Hoodoo. What goes inside depends entirely on the assignment: roots, stones, coins, scripture, and things I will not list, because a mojo's contents belong to the person it was made for and to the worker who fixed it.
The rules of the mojo
It stays closed. A mojo is sealed when it is fixed. Opening it lets the work out, which is why ours is named Touch Not. I wrote more on the sealing in why a mojo stays sealed.
It stays private. The old teaching says a mojo loses its force when strangers handle it or even see it. Keep it on your body or close to it, and keep it out of conversation.
It stays fed. A mojo is tended, and the tending schedule for ours comes on the ritual card in the box.
It serves one purpose. One bag, one assignment, one person. A protection hand is not a money hand, and a hand made for you is not a hand for your cousin.
What people carry them for
Protection first, always. Then luck, love, court matters, and money. The mojo travels where candles cannot: the workplace, the courtroom, the glovebox, the purse. If your hand has gone quiet on you, what to do when your mojo bag stops working covers the tending side, and the road-opening pairing lives in Mojo Bags & Road Opening.
Touch Not is our fixed protection hand, sewn, loaded, sealed, and prayed over before it ships. The mojo teachings that stay off the feed go out on the email list, at the bottom of this page.