In addition to filling gris-gris bags with herbs and stones, the bags can be filled with a variety of objects and materials which hold different meanings.
- Nail: protection from negative effects
- Rainwater or river water: protection from negative effects
- Soil from cemetery: protection, good luck in gambling
- Gold, gold coins: money
- Illustration of “$”: good luck in gambling
- Keys: love
- Horse chestnut: male potency, success in business, getting a job
- Black cat’s bone: attract fortune, luck in gambling (the bone can be replaced with a chicken’s leg, dyed in black)
- Cross: blessing and spiritual protection
- Piece of red brick: home protection, attraction of money, success in business
- Magnet: attract fortune, gifts, attention from people
- Copper medals: health
- Coins: money
- Arrow’s head: love, spiritual protection
- Ammonia: cleansing, protection from adverse effects
- Dice: good luck in gambling
- Sugar, candy: attract love, success in relationships, attract money into business, profit
- Wedding ring: love
- Holy water: spiritual protection
- Silver: money
- Salt: spiritual cleansing, blessing, removal of bad luck
- Wedding flowers: love
- Neck chain: spiritual protection
- Four leaf clover: good luck in gambling