Here’s how you cast Marie Laveau’s lover back/break-up spell:

Cut seven notches, equally spaced, into a blue candle. Burn the candle down by one notch every night for seven nights. Each time you light the candle say the following words: “Liba, help me! Dani, help me.” (Liba is a secret name for St. Peter, Dani for St. Michael).

Write your name, your lost lover’s name, and the name of your rival (the person your ex-lover is now with) on separate pieces of paper.

Now fill a saucer with vinegar and sprinkle some salt and pepper into it. Drop the piece of paper with your rival’s name on it into the mixture.

When you’ve done that, fill another saucer with brandy. Take a match and carefully set alight to the brandy. As the blue flames rise, drop the other pieces of paper – the ones with your name and that of your lost lover on them – into the flames.

As the scraps of paper burn together, so will the passion of you and your ex-lover. You will once again be in the fire of love.

Keep the name of your rival in the vinegar for seven days. Soon your ex-lover’s new relationship will turn bad. The two of them will quarrel and be at each others’ throats. Break up will be inevitable and thus the ground will be cleared for your lover to come back to you.

To add even more power to this working, do the following:

• Write the names of your ex and new partner again on separate pieces of paper.
• Core an apple and insert the scraps of paper into the hollow.
• Go to where your ex is living, and if possible, hide the apple in the house. Alternatively, hide it in the garden or somewhere close to the property.
• As the apple shrivels and rots, so will the love between your ex and your rival.