Most ask Santa Muerte to turn away danger, enemies, and envy from the home or the person, recognizing her as a guide through life's hard moments.
They're almost always accompanied by a black or white veladora, and many devotees repeat them as part of a routine — not only in moments of crisis.
Santa Muerte Negra, you who are the strongest among the seven potencias,
I come first to thank you for what you have already watched over,
for the doors that closed in time, for the harm that never arrived.
I ask you now for firm protection for me and mine,
that you turn away envy, ill will, and energies that don't belong to me,
and that you close the paths through which harm could enter.
Let the cycle that weighs on me now be broken,
let what has stayed stagnant be cleansed,
and let my home and my person remain under your mantle.
In return, I promise not to forget where this protection came from,
and to return to this black veladora with respect, whether it is granted or not.
Amen.