Help needed! Disposing of 'Corpse Water'.

[pollymere]

So I found an old drinks bottle in my DC room labelled "Corpse Water". Apparently they filled it from a puddle in the local cemetery. It is likely that it HAS been through graves, both consecrated and unconsecrated.

They don't live at home anymore and I want to dispose of it because whether it's genuine or not, I want to be rid of it and destroy it.

I know it can be used in black magic and I genuinely don't know whether DC was attempting anything. I don't feel comfortable just binning it because I feel that would be dabbling with things beyond my understanding.

If anyone has advice on the correct way to dispose of it, please advise. I am able the visit the Cemetery it came from and have access to crucifix, Bible and Holy Water. I also have certain "gifts".

And because homeopathy is pseudoscience.
Snake oil.

I should clarify that I don't have any respect for either, and I was just helping wash a body.

But I don't see a Catholic coming on here to ask what to do about a bottle they found in their child's room that had been filled with puddle water from the local cemetery, I see a woman who thinks that disposing of a bottle of water risks dabbling in something 'beyond her understanding' (which admittedly seems to be small) and believes she has 'gifts', and whose idea of the power of Christian symbols seems to come from Hammer horror rather than any actual belief.

That to me deserves to be laughed at. It's certainly more likely to be better than saying 'Oooh, corpse water has definite powers, and you need to find a way of getting it back into a grave while reciting 'Our Father' backwards.

This!

But if you happen to see an old wooden door with signs of bloodstains on the way there. Please Do not open it!.

All i can think of reading about this was GERMS. Just reading the phrase "Corpse juice" makes me want to vomit and springclean the entire house

If it was me I would dispose of it thus.

• Wearing Marigolds, and holding the bottle at arms lenght with tongs...
• I'd walk out the front door having genuflected and made the sign of the cross
• and tip it all into the glass recycling bin...
• and then wash my hands about 10 times
• and use hand san gel for good measure.

Joing the chorus of down the toilet.

I'd also suggest a chat with your DC about the find but you seem to have quite a strange view of it yourself so perhaps not.

I think if you're worried about it, just return it to where he collected it from. Or if it's too far, maybe tip it into a river.

If you're worried you could tip it onto the ground in the cemetery because then it's returning to the natural course the water would have taken if your DC hadn't collected it.

Personally I wouldn't care about the bottle. If it helps, we spread our daughter's ashes carefully but binned the plastic container and I think that's fairly normal.

Can think of a purification ritual that would satisfy you @pollymere ?

Drink it.
(I couldn't resist 😂)

If it would make you feel better, take it back to where it came from.

What comes to my mind is something like: transfer into a shallow container recite the lord's prayer over it and let it evaporate in the sun.

It's water and magic doesn't exist. Go and pour it back in a cemetery if you're determined to be illogical about it.

Just checking it's not April 1st... what is going on here today?? Is it a full moon? 🙄

The earth purifies all things. Pour it back into the earth preferably in a cemetery.

This really made me laugh a lot.

But OP, it's just puddle water, chuck it. Or maybe use this as inspiration to write a fantastic horror novel, there's an air of Stephen King about it.

It is actually a full moon, or just past the full.

I really need to know just exactly what magical powers you think this water has?

The correct way to dispose of old puddle water is to pour it away outside somewhere, down a drain, on your garden, or wherever. Then wash your hands.

If it makes you feel happier then pour it away at the cemetery.

Stick it on Facebook marketplace.

I don't know what your own religious belief or philosophy is but if you think that things like this water are iffy, can I suggest:
open the bottle and put a generous pinch of salt in the water.
Make a sign of the cross with your right hand over it with the intention of clearing any negative associations/vibes.
Dispose of the water and bottle any way you like.

Maybe have a chat with your kid about respect for the dead and the misuse of anything to do with dead bodies.

So... I'd originally planned to pour it away and put the bottle in recycling. Then various people told me I shouldn't touch it as it's used in necromancy and that I needed to send it to my DC.

I googled it and was a bit stunned to find there were lots of suggestions of what I could do with it but not many about how to get rid of it. I think I also am conscious that it has decidedly been through several dead bodies before ending up in a puddle. It apparently has the same "properties" as water used to wash a corpse. I am respectful of the spirituality and beliefs of others so I felt there might be people on MN who actually knew the answer. I don't want to get into a discussion about healing hands/auras/tarot/mediums/spell casting etc. I wanted advice from (potentially) pagans or Wiccans who might be able to shed light on this.

Some posters have given me some great advice. Others, in keeping with MN have just been rude and/or unhelpful... 😂

Profound!

Never corpse water but my kids used to love making “potions” in the kitchen garden. Made from bits of whatever was lying around. Zombie potions (green smoosh) , vampire potions ( lots of squished red berries). Used to really like freezing potions in winter in a pan with water and we’d hang them from tree branches. Children are delightfully bonkers.

If you feel like that about this bottle... I don't think I'd send it to my DC in the post.
It would be quite a wierd thing to open.

Just quietly dispose of it and don't bring up the subject unless they do. Chances are they've forgetten all about it.

Honestly OP, if its from a puddle, it has settled from rain. It won't have had any contact with deeply buried graves.
It sounds like a typically silly attempt to be edgy that some teens like, I'm sure me and my friends did similar. I remember a friend making a ring of salt around her entire sitting room when her parents were away 🙄
The most I would do if bothered, is return to the place it came and with good intention, pour it on a yew tree in the graveyard or some other tree or shrub.

If it's just stored water, then i agree, just pour it away.

It's no different to 'moon water' in that it simply IS, it only gains some energy when actually used IN another spell.. just in that bottle, it is of no use nor consequence.

Pouring it away, and washing it down with fresh clean water is fine.. then please just rinse the bottle out and discard it. If it helps you feel better, when you rinse out the bottle, swish the new water around inside and think some positive intentional thoughts, then pour it out.