Return To Me oil

Price range: $3.25 through $80.25

A reconciliation oil used to call back a lover, friend or partner who has drifted away. Traditionally dressed on figure candles, photographs and petitions.

Return work is some of the most requested love magick there is: not the search for someone new, but the wish to bring back the one who left.

Origin & Traditional Use

Return To Me belongs to the reconciliation family of hoodoo condition oils, kin to Come Back to Me. It is used where a relationship has broken and one person wants the other to think of them, soften and come home.

Uses by Tradition

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

Anoint a photograph of the person and keep it face up under a pink candle for seven nights.
Dress a red cord and tie knots in it, one each night, naming the person.
Write their name nine times on paper, cross it with your own, and anoint the centre.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

Dress two figure candles and move them a little closer each day until they touch.
Anoint a lodestone and keep it in a red flannel bag with a personal item belonging to the person.
Dress a petition written on brown paper and place it under a red seven-day candle.

A Simple Working

Take a red chime candle and a square of parchment.
Write the person’s full name three times, then turn the paper and write your own name across it three times.
Anoint the four corners and the centre of the paper with Return To Me oil.
Dress the candle from the wick down to the base, pulling toward you.
Set the candle on the paper and light it, speaking the person’s name and asking them to come back.
Let the candle burn out, fold the paper toward you and keep it in your bedroom.

Pairs Well With

Lodestone, the hoodoo stone for drawing and holding a lover.
Rose petals, to keep the call soft and affectionate.
Red or pink figure candles, for working on two people at once.
Damiana, often added when passion has cooled.
Love Me oil, for coaxing affection alongside the return.

Lore & History

Return and reconciliation formulas appear throughout early 20th-century spiritual-supply catalogues, and the figure-candle method of moving two candles together is described by many conjure workers recorded in the 1930s. The idea is simple and very old: what was together can be brought back together.

What You Receive

Return To Me oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Did You Know?

In traditional candle magick, figure candles shaped as a man and a woman were mass-produced from the mid-20th century, but conjure workers used carved or rolled wax figures long before that.