If you want to talk to passed on friends or relatives, take the cleaning broom of your house and lay it across the threshold of your front door, which will invite them to your presence.

Put small brooms or garlic under people’s pillows as they sleep if they are sick or need to be protected from magickal attack.

Do spring cleaning in the spring before the end of May, and make a ritual out of it, wiping away negative energy purposely as you clean. Anything you wipe, do so in a clockwise motion to set up positive vibrations. Try this ritual for your spring cleaning:

Open the windows to “air out,” and then anoint a white candle with a floral oil and light it. Put a matching flower in front of the candle and meditate for a while on what you’re going to do and its purpose. Visualize your cleaning pushing negative energies from the house and making it completely clean. Then let the candle burn while you do your chores.

Jump over a broom nine times to attract a marriage proposal.

Stand a broom, bristles up, behind the door of your home, adorned by an equal-armed cross made of two needles. It will guard your residence.

Hang a broom on a bedroom door to help get rid of nightmares, visualizing the broom sweeping them away.

Sweep something into the house before using a new broom to sweep dirt out; it will bring you luck. Adorn new brooms with magickal chants or positive phrases written or carved on the handles. Don’t sweep toward the front door.

Source: Cunningham and Harrington, The Magical Household