Woman figure candle, 6 3/4″

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Naming: carve the woman’s full name across the chest and her birth date down the back, then dress the figure with an oil suited to the work.
• Loading: hollow a small cavity in the base and pack it with herbs, hair or a folded petition before sealing it with warm wax.
• Drawing work: move the candle a little closer to a matching male figure each day, burning a short time each night.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Self-work: carve your own name to work on yourself, using pink for self-love or green for prosperity.
• Healing: a white figure is dressed and burned while the person is held in mind, as spiritual support.

Demonology & Black Magick

• Domination: a figure is dressed with a commanding oil and pinned or bound with cord to bend the person to the worker’s will.
• Wax remains from domination or binding work are kept and buried, never thrown casually away.

A Simple Working

• Choose a pink figure for gentle attraction toward yourself.
• Carve your own name across the chest of the candle.
• Dress it with a little rose-scented oil from the feet up to the head.
• Sprinkle dried rose petals around the base in a fireproof dish.
• Light it and say what you want others to see in you.
• Let it burn for a set time each night over three nights, snuffing between sessions.
• Keep the leftover wax with the petals in a small pink bag.

Pairs Well With

• A man figure candle: to work the two together in love or reconciliation.
• Rose petals: for sweetening and self-love work.
• Red cord: for binding the figure in fidelity or domination work.
• A carving tool: for clean names on the wax.

What You Receive

A 6 3/4″ nude female figure candle in red, pink, purple, green or white. Moulded candles vary slightly in size, shape and colour and may need levelling at the base to stand straight.

Origin & Lore

Figure candles belong to the old practice of image magick, in which a likeness made of wax, clay or cloth is treated as the person it represents. American candle shops of the 20th century began moulding nude male and female figures for rootwork and folk magick. The colour chosen sets the aim: red for passion, pink for affection, purple for power, green for money, white for blessing and healing work.

A figure candle is a stand-in: once a woman’s name is carved into the wax, whatever is done to the candle is meant for her.

Wax figures in love magick reach back to ancient Greece. In the second Idyll of Theocritus, written in the 3rd century BCE, the young woman Simaetha melts wax while chanting that her lover Delphis should melt with desire in the same way. Plato also mentions wax images set at doorways and crossroads in his Laws, as something that frightened ordinary Athenians.