Bat’s Blood ink, 1 oz

$6.55

A 1 oz bottle of Bat’s Blood ink, the traditional dark-work ink of the craft. It is used to write petitions for hexing, binding, domination and work with spirits of the night.

‘Wool of bat’ goes into the witches’ pot in Macbeth, and the bat has been a creature of night magick in European imagination ever since.

Origin & Traditional Use

Bat’s Blood ink is a named magickal ink in the American occult and hoodoo supply tradition; the name refers to its use, not to bat blood. It is kept for the darker side of written work: hexes, bindings, separations and pacts. Writing a petition in a named ink is a way of setting the work’s purpose into the paper itself.

Uses by Tradition

Hoodoo & Rootwork

Hexing petitions: write the target’s full name and the condition you wish on them, then burn the paper with a black candle or bury it in a graveyard.
Separation: write two names back to back on one paper and tear it in half, then dispose of the halves in different directions.

Demonology & Black Magick

Sigils and seals: draw a spirit’s seal in the ink on parchment for evocation or for an offering bowl.
Pacts: the terms of an agreement with a spirit are written out and signed in the ink, then burned or kept on the altar.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

Binding: write a name on paper, fold it away from you, wrap it in black thread and freeze it or bury it.

A Simple Working

On a waning moon, cut a small square of parchment paper.
Dip a pen nib in the Bat’s Blood ink and write the full name of the person whose actions you want stopped.
Write ‘bound’ across the name three times.
Fold the paper away from you and wrap it in black thread.
Burn a black chime candle over the packet until it is spent.
Bury the packet, with the wax, far from your home.

Pairs Well With

Parchment paper: the classic surface for petitions.
A black chime candle: to burn over a hex or binding.
A dip pen: for clean lines with bottled ink.
Dragon’s Blood ink: for petitions where force rather than darkness is wanted.

Lore & History

Bats appear in older hoodoo as luck charms as well as dark ones: carrying a bat’s heart for luck at cards is recorded in Southern folk practice. In European lore the bat was tied to witches, the devil and the night, and medieval artists often gave demons bat wings to set them apart from angels.