Magical Rituals Involving Food and Drink

There have been people that have admitted to cooking with breast milk, urine, semen, saliva, and menstrual blood for others to eat. Usually we only hear stories of restaurant workers adding bodily fluids to the food of their least favorite patrons, but sometimes it’s a friend or family member serving foods with these fluids. Many people have no idea they are consuming these things when a friend or family member gives them these strange meals to eat, and some knowingly choose to eat these foods. This is often done for magical purposes.

There is lore that if a woman serves a man food that contains her menstrual blood and urine, he will stay faithful to her as long as he is regularly consuming meals with these bodily fluids.

People who go to spirit cooking dinners are completely aware they are consuming bodily fluids in spirit cakes, which are cakes made with bodily fluids.

Christian churches use a wafer and wine to represent Christ’s body and blood during holy communion. However, this kind of ritual was practiced long before Christ, in pagan times. This practice evolved from the ancient practice of consuming the flesh and blood of a revered person to absorb their attributes.

The ritual of libation, pouring some alcohol out of a glass as an offering to gods or spirits, has also been around since pagan times.    

Sometimes food is shaped in the form of a human being, which represents a human sacrifice during a ritual. Gingerbread men cookies were created to represent child sacrifice during Saturnalia.  

  

Sin Eating is another ritual that involves food. The ritual begins when food is placed on or around a dead or dying person. This food is supposed to absorb the sins of the dying or dead person and transfer them to the sin eater, who eats the food.

The ritual of praying over food before it is consumed began because people believed food was or could be contaminated with evil spirits instead of bacteria that could cause illness. It was believed that praying over the food could exercise these evil spirits or keep them away.