Frankincense oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Consecration: anoint new tools, candles and altar items with a drop of frankincense oil to set them apart for magickal use.
• Purification: add a few drops to a ritual bath with sea salt before major rites.
• Meditation: touch a drop to the brow before divination, prayer or trance work.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Solar rites: frankincense is the classic incense of the Sun; the oil is used to dress gold candles and consecrate solar talismans.
• Banishing and temple work: anoint the four quarters of the temple before ritual, and the oil is used alongside the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Blessing: frankincense is used in blessing and church-style formulas, dressed onto white candles for peace and spiritual protection.
• Exorcism: added to cleansing floor washes and smoke to clear a house of troubling spirits.

A Simple Working

• Before a ritual, take a ritual bath with a handful of sea salt and five drops of frankincense oil.
• Dress in clean clothes.
• Anoint a white chime candle with the oil and light it at the centre of your altar.
• Touch a drop of oil to each tool, saying, “Be clean, be holy, be ready.”
• Touch a final drop to your brow and heart.
• Begin your work by the light of that candle.

Pairs Well With

• Frankincense resin: to burn on charcoal with the oil.
• Myrrh resin: its ancient partner in temple incense.
• A white chime candle: for consecration and blessing.
• Sea salt: for purification baths.

What You Receive

Frankincense oil, a scented anointing oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz.

Origin & Lore

Frankincense is the hardened gum of Boswellia trees from southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa. It was burned in temples across Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, and is still the principal incense of Catholic and Orthodox churches. It was one of the gifts of the Magi.

Queen Hatshepsut sent ships to the land of Punt around 1470 BCE and brought back living incense trees, carved in their baskets on her temple walls at Deir el-Bahari.

The incense routes of southern Arabia carried frankincense by camel to the Mediterranean, and the trade made cities like Petra rich. Oman’s frankincense trees and ancient caravan sites are protected as the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Land of Frankincense”.