When a lover starts to stray, hoodoo has never been shy about reaching for a formula that keeps them home.
Origin & Traditional Use
Controlling oil is a domination condition oil from the hoodoo tradition. It is worked to control a person or a situation, and traditionally to bring a wandering lover back to faithfulness and keep them under the worker’s influence.
Uses by Tradition
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Dress a figure candle representing your partner and burn it in a dish with your own figure candle beside it.
- Anoint the doorstep so your lover returns home each night.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Anoint a name paper with your lover’s name crossed by your own, and keep it under your mattress.
- Add to a mojo bag with licorice root and a lodestone for control in a relationship.
- Dress a purple candle for control over a difficult situation at work or home.
Ceremonial & Occult Magick
- Anoint a Saturn talisman for binding and restriction.
- Dress candles for a binding working timed to the waning moon.
Demonology & Black Magick
- Anoint a binding knot cord or a spirit seal used to bind someone to your will.
A Simple Working
- Write your partner’s full name on a square of parchment, then turn it and write your name over it.
- Anoint the paper with Controlling oil at the four corners and the centre.
- Wrap the paper around a small piece of licorice root and tie it with red thread.
- Dress a purple chime candle and set the bundle beside it.
- Light the candle and speak plainly about how your partner will behave.
- Hide the bundle under your mattress or in the shared bedroom.
Pairs Well With
- Licorice root, the classic herb of domination.
- Calamus root, for control.
- Red thread, for binding a couple.
- A purple candle, for mastery.
- Come To Me oil, to draw before you control.
Lore & History
Controlling, commanding and compelling oils are a well-documented part of hoodoo, which has always included work for keeping a spouse faithful and controlling difficult people. Name papers, hidden in shoes or under mattresses, are one of the oldest recorded ways of applying them.
What You Receive
Controlling oil, available in 2 dram, 4 dram and 1 oz bottles.
Did You Know?
In hoodoo, a lover’s footprint dirt or a sock worn by them is often added to controlling work, so that the spell acts directly on their steps.
| Weight | N/A |
|---|---|
| Size | 2 dram, 4 dram, 1 oz |
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