Find What’s Missing with One of These Effective Rituals for Locating Lost Items
Whether you’re looking for your car keys, your wedding ring, or your Kindle, taking a quick moment to work a little magic can’t hurt. In fact, in my experience, a spell or ritual to find a lost object can definitely help.
If you’re not sure where you left something and you’re starting to suspect it may be in another zip code, try the first spell. If you’ve temporarily misplaced something in your bedroom, home, car, or workplace (or wherever your immediate vicinity happens to be), the second spell will be just the thing. (If you’re not sure, start with spell #2 and then move on to spell #1 if it doesn’t work.)
Lost Object Spell #1 – Spell to Find a Lost Item
Before I let you in on my own personal favorite finding-lost-objects ritual, I want to share this awesome Spell to Find a Lost Item by my good friend, Ellen Dugan (with whom I co-wrote Every Witch Way: Spells and Advice from Two Very Different Witches). Years ago, when she and I were staying together in a hotel for an author event, I realized I had left my Kindle on the plane. After she counseled me to perform this ritual, the airline not only found it (which was awesome enough in its own right), they also mailed it back to me free of charge, even though it was their policy to charge for shipping in such instances. Needless to say, I was sold. This Spell to Find a Lost Item is especially ideal for when you’ve left something somewhere and you suspect it’s unlikely that you will get it back.
Lost Object Spell #2 – Little Man Ritual
On the other hand, The Little Man ritual is the magical practice I use most often to find missing objects, specifically in cases when I know the object in question is around somewhere (usually somewhere in my home, but I’m just not sure exactly where. It’s more of a visualization to find lost objects than a spell. (This ritual for finding lost objects happens to be an excerpt from my book Holistic Energy Magic.)
In the “Little Man” exercise, you’ll be calling upon the part of your mind that knows all and sees all (including where your missing object happens to be), and you will be assigning an inner vision and personality to this part of your mind. For me it is actually a little man, although I have heard of people for whom it is a computer, a tree, a filing clerk, or a fairy princess. Please do not feel limited by the name.
To illustrate how it works, I’ll describe my personal “little man” exercise. When I’m trying to find a temporarily missing object, such as my keys, I stop my frantic rushing around, close my eyes, and take some deep breaths. Then I visualize myself in an elevator, going up, up, up, and up. I watch an old-fashioned little arrow showing me that I’m going to the very top floor, and then I hear a “ding” indicating I’ve arrived. When the doors slide open, I see that I’m in a Plexiglass room at the top of an extremely tall skyscraper in New York City. I push open the swinging door and feel the air whip around me as I walk to the edge of the roof. There, hovering over the city between two skyscrapers, is a meditating little man who is dressed like a genie. I say to him, “Little man, where are my keys (or whatever is lost)?”
He doesn’t say anything, but I know that he’s heard and that he will bring what I need to know into my consciousness. Then I thank him (sometimes mentally burning him incense or offering him flowers, both of which hover in front of him in honor of his help) and turn back toward the elevator. I open my eyes and continue to go about my day without stressing out too much about the lost object, although I may still look for it, just with confident nonchalance rather than panic. Almost invariably I find it within minutes.
To find your little man (or whatever he/she/it is for you), simply close your eyes and relax, setting the intention to see a visual representation of the part of your mind that knows, sees, and remembers everything. Notice the process of approaching this being, and then ask your question. Notice how your version of the little man responds (or doesn’t). Know in your heart that your little man has heard and is now diligently processing your request. Thank your little man, perhaps giving him an offering of gratitude, and then go on your way.
After opening your eyes, see if you can do something other than actively look for the lost object, or at least do so without panic. If the lost object is indeed still in your vicinity, you will almost certainly find it within a few minutes to an hour.
Did you find your lost object with one of these spells? Where was it? In your bedroom? Your car? Somewhere else in the house? I’d love to hear about it in the comments!
My husband and I have been searching for the keys to our caravan the whole day. At my wit’s end, i did the ‘little man’ spell. In my case I went up St Paul’s cathedral in London and then up an extra tower, to find a butterfly all the way at the top. She nodded after I asked her to help. I gave her a branch of buddleia (butterfly bush) as a way of saying thanks. I was drawn to a cupboard where I saw some things that needed rearranging. Rearranging away, I came in the kitchen and the garage and there I found a little box with my husbands keys in it! Not having found my own keys I continued searching and now have found a favorite towel I’d lost when we moved a year ago, a cheesegrater and a candleholder I’d been wondering about recently. My butterfly found more than I asked for! Now burning a dhoop stick and a candle to say thanks. Awesome this worked!
Maaike, this is great! Thank you for sharing this story.
I was desperately searching for a whole week for a book for my class test. I am still new to witchcraft and its practices and am trying to integrate it slowly into my life. So today two days before the essay I decided to find a spell to find that book. I was still a little skeptical if it would really work since I have huge problems with visualizing something. As I tried “the little man” spell my visualisation kept change from a city to a black void to a lonely big skyscraper wich had long spiral stairs that went to the top. At the top there was a library. There were also some workers. So I went to one of them. Their face kept changing and was mostly a black void. I asked and thank them giving them (for some reason) some unknown pink flowers. I was pretty relaxed after that and went searching for that book, though I was not searching desperately this time. So after 3 or 5 minutes I find the book under a pillow on a coach where I was searching beforehand. I am so happy and so thankful for that spell!!!
*Not essay but a class test wich would be in form like an essay.
*thanked
Please excuse my poor English. It is not my native language.
Yay, Natalie! I’m so glad you found it. Nice work.
My deceased husband had given me a choker necklace just before he died and after 8 years my choker is now missing. You have given me hope, his death anniversary is May 24th. I have LOST so much in my life. Please help me.
I was hanging laundry outside one day and flipped a shirt and my ring flew off my hand. I was upset when I feverishly looked and looked for it, I thought well ill see if a spell or something like that will work. I googled it and your the first one that popped up. I’m a baby witch just starting to study and learn things. I did this meditation and within 10 minutes I walked out to the laundry line and looked down and there it was. My helper is a fairy 🧚♀️!! Thank you so much and I will be on your page learning more.
Oh, I absolutely love this. Thank you for sharing your experience, and welcome to my site.
Thank you for creating this helpful sight! It’s simply magical!
Hello, I was so skeptical of all this, however, I also don’t disbelieve. For over a week, I have been looking for some very special sheet music I have. I decided to try to find any tips for finding things, whatever that meant, and I came across your site. I thought, why not try? I didn’t see a little man, but a car – which is odd because I’m not a car person by any means. It was around midnight but I did everything you said. I went to the garage and started looking around, in all the same places I’ve already looked, but I came across one box, opened it, and closed it because there was so much stuff in it and it was so late I wasn’t going to start going through it all before bed. I woke up, brought the box in the house, went through it, and at the bottom of that box was the sheet music!!! This is phenomenal! You probably are not surprised by what I’m writing, but I am! I’m stunned and I’m thrilled. Thank you so much!