Protection incense sticks

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Warding the corners: burn a stick in each corner of a room in turn, moving clockwise, and say a short line of protection at each.
• Before ritual: light it first to clear the space and keep unwanted spirits away while you work.
• Personal shield: stand in the smoke before going somewhere difficult and picture it settling over you like a cloak.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Psalm 91: read the psalm of protection, “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High”, while the incense burns by the front door.
• Threshold work: smoke the doorframe, then dress it with protection oil and lay a line of salt beneath it.

A Simple Working

• Light a black chime candle near your front door.
• Light one stick of Protection incense from the flame.
• Walk through the house clockwise, holding the smoke at each window and door.
• At each, say “Nothing that means harm comes in here.”
• Finish at the front door and sprinkle a line of sea salt on the threshold.
• Let the candle burn out and leave the salt for seven days.

Pairs Well With

• Black chime candle: for warding and absorbing harm.
• Sea salt: for thresholds and windowsills.
• Protection oil: to dress doors and candles.
• Black tourmaline: a stone to set by the door.

What You Receive

Protection stick incense, a box of 6 packs with 20 sticks in each (120 sticks).

Origin & Lore

Protection incense is a modern general formula for warding work. Burning aromatic smoke to drive off harm and guard a dwelling is found in folk practice across the world, and in witchcraft and hoodoo a protection incense is one of the most-used everyday supplies, lit in the home, in the car or before any ritual.

Roman families offered incense every day at the lararium, a small shrine to the household guardians. The idea is older than any recipe: a house that is tended with smoke is a house that is watched over.

The Lares were the guardian spirits of the Roman household. Their small shrine, the lararium, stood in the atrium or kitchen, and they were given incense, wine and garlands on family occasions and at the start of each month. Many lararia survive at Pompeii, painted with the Lares themselves and a protective serpent.