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I’m not sure exactly what their purpose was but garlic and strong smells are considered to either attract or repel spirits. It’s customary for many practitioners to shower before rituals and use pleasant incense to attract spirits for summoning. I think strong smells would probably repel them. As for the coins, it was most probably St Benedict coins or medallions used by Catholics (Filipino’s are almost alway Catholic).

For traditional Judaic Kabbalah, you might want to learn Hebrew and Gematria first and then pop open the Torah.

Sefer Yetzira is the main text dealt with "magic-wise" but it is still very much "Jewish Kabbalah" even if it's also "Hermetic Kabbalah".

But as [deleted] said as well: get at least the first (of like 12?) volume of Matt's translation of the Zohar.

He was tasked with creating a critical edition of an Aramaic, highly symbolic, incredibly textured, and massive body of work.

He studied in Israel under some of the best experts in the world on traditional Kabbalah and his ~100 page introduction to the magnum opus of extant, public Kabbalistic texts is both a walk through the very history you seek and so much more (in fact it's probably worth a couple dozen New Age Kabbalah books in its own right: just the intro).

I didn't get very far into the Zohar itself though because it's quite literally an undertaking in its own right to even start to study (best with a comparative Hebrew/English Bible to cross-reference with the Zohar: spiritual insights a major aid too).

It just occurred to me, the Goetia can probably help you. This book has an easy to use method that should be relatively safe and you can even recieve communications as to whether or not what you want is possible.

Check the table of powers and look under "influence" and see if any stand out as being able to help.

Just a quick note about Tarot. Not everyone views Tarot as mystical, magickal, or even general "woo woo". This is a very commonly misunderstood aspect of Tarot.

Many people view Tarot ONLY as a tool of introspection (i.e., Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack that has nothing to do with fortune telling, etc.