http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977080041&nav=MyGather
Here's a link to my ghost story except it's not a story. It's a true haunting. It happened over a seven year period, but in my other house. The house I live in now has been quiet for four years, but lately, I believe and so does my daughter that she's come to pay us a visit.


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here.. this might work.
http://www.the7thfire.com/smudging_with_sage.htm
"Smudging has been used since ancient times by many people as a ceremony of purification--among pre-Christian pagans as well as Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, among Hindus and Buddhists as well as Cherokee and Lakota. Called "incense" in some traditions, it can be made of a variety of fragrant plant materials. Native Americans have used their local plants of obtained more exotic materials through trade with tribes of other regions. Among the plants used for smudge are tobacco, sweetgrass, calamus, red willow bark, red osier dogwood, cedar needles and sage. (This is not culinary sage of the genus Salvia, but is one of the species of the genus Artemisia, which includes the landscape perennials, silver mound and silver king, as well as sagebrush and mugwort.) We gather my favorite sage in the Rocky Mountains of Utah, Nevada, and northeastern California. Its fragrance is wonderful before and during the smudging."