I suppose they could be...If they aren't the kind of eggs one buys at a grocery store. I personally wouldn't write a spell for fertility using an egg, though.
To figure this out, you would need to look up what eggs symbolize in whatever culture/religion/practice your grandfather was involved with. Symbolism depends quite a lot on location and religion. Most agree that it is a symbol of birth, creation, and motherhood. The yolk of the egg resembles the sun, and can also be used to represent it. As ladygrey stated, eggs, along with onions and potatoes are most commonly used as "absorbing" items that are used to pull illness or negativity from a body or room, and then discarded or destroyed afterward.
From what I know from experience and literature, this article is very accurate.
http://www.widdershins.org/vol1iss8/o9605.htm
Eggs can also be used to break fevers by placing the whites on the bottom of the sick person's feet (I drop the egg whites in a pair of socks, put it on their feet, wrap it in plastic wrap, then put clean cotton socks over the plastic). I've done this for my daughter before, and it broke her 102F fever in 30min flat. (Be sure to wash your own hands and their feet well afterwards because eggs can carry bacteria). I'm explaining this because (1) I can foresee pms asking me how to use eggs for fevers if I didn't explain thoroughly lol and (2) I wanted to give an example of how eggs can be used in medicine. What your grandfather performed could have been some form of healing. I chant over anything I use to heal myself or my family, even chicken soup.
3 is symbolic as well. For me it is mind, body and spirit.
I cant speak with my grandpa,he is dead.i was like recalling what i've learnt from him in the past.he taught me many things..and thanks mum for the info.
Interesting information! Just last night I learned that it is a Chinese tradition, one month after a child is born, to hold a family gathering. The mother paints boiled eggs red, and gives them as gifts to her guests. They symbolise prosperity and fertility. One of the eggs is gently rubbed over the baby's head as a blessing. Great thread :)
I was taught at an early age how to make Ukrainian pysankas (most spell it psyanky but my step family pronounced them pysankas, I'm guessing a plural form?) Anyway, the colors, patterns, and art on each egg has great symbolism, so I can really relate to that chinese tradition. I plan to teach my daughter and husband how to when my daughter gets a little older. Hot wax, needles and flames don't mix with five year olds!
I would say that an egg could be used to rid someone of negativity in their life or home. The mother is a symbol of hearth/home which is protective. Birth is the opposite of death. Creation is opposite to destruction. I think eggs would be a great item to use in a warding ritual.
Eggs are really important to some cultuers. in my expearance with my mentors they used eggs to catch ghost, call back the spirits of people, break spells or curse, fend off bad sprits and keep them away for good, heal pain and sickness by having the egg suck out the bad energy. I remember the time when i became a beliver with on douts, they help a sick girl, she had all these bumbs and worts all over her body and all thay did was boil the egg and roll it over her body chanting, at the end when they crack and peal the egg it was black and all gooy, it was disgusting. They did so ten or so more times of three days a week, for three month and the girl was cure of the worts. It was amazing the egg got clearer and clearer towards the end, now when i hlod an egg i hold it with respect.
