Shut Up oil
Price range: $3.25 through $80.25
One of our most popular oils · Available in 3 sizes
A hoodoo oil for stopping gossip, slander and lies told about you, worked in tongue-tying and silencing.
Quick Uses
- Freezer jar: write the gossiper’s name on paper, anoint it and freeze it in a small jar of water.
- Knot magick: tie a knot in a black cord for each person spreading lies, anointing each knot.
- Candle dressing: dress a black or white candle with the person’s name carved upside down to turn their words over.
- Mojo bags: anoint a slippery elm mojo bag and carry it where people talk about you.
How to Use It
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Tie a knot in a black cord for each person spreading lies, anointing each knot.
- Dress a petition and fold it away from you, sealing it with candle wax.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Write the gossiper’s name on paper, anoint it and place it in the freezer in a small jar of water.
- Dress a black or white candle with the person’s name carved upside down, so their words are turned over.
- Anoint a slippery elm mojo bag and carry it into situations where people talk about you.
Demonology & Black Magick
- Anoint a tongue-binding doll or poppet and wrap its mouth with thread.
- Dress a black candle carved with the target’s name to silence an enemy who will not stop.
A Simple Working
- Take a black chime candle, a square of parchment and a length of black thread.
- Write the name of the person gossiping about you on the parchment.
- Anoint the name with Shut Up oil and fold the paper away from you three times.
- Wrap it tightly with black thread, saying “Your mouth is closed to me.”
- Dress the candle from wick to base and light it beside the bundle.
- When the candle is finished, put the bundle in a small jar or freezer bag and place it in the freezer.
Pairs Well With
- Slippery elm, the classic hoodoo herb for stopping gossip.
- Black candles, for binding and silencing.
- Licorice root, for gaining a measure of control over others’ words.
- Black thread, for binding petitions and poppets.
- Court Case or Justice formulas, when the gossip has turned into a legal matter.
What You Receive
Shut Up oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.
Origin & Lore
Shut Up oil is a hoodoo condition oil in the Stop Gossip family, made to quiet people who spread rumours, tell lies about you or speak against you at work, in court or in the family. It is used to bind speech rather than to harm.
The old conjure cure for a wagging tongue was blunt: a beef tongue split open, a name tucked inside, and the whole thing pinned shut.
Stop Gossip and Shut Up formulas are a long-standing part of hoodoo practice and appear in mid-20th-century spiritual-supply catalogues. Folklorist Harry Middleton Hyatt, who interviewed hundreds of conjure workers in the 1930s, recorded many tongue-tying spells, including splitting a beef tongue to bind a gossiper’s speech.
Did You Know?
Slippery elm’s inner bark becomes slick and mucilaginous when wet, which is the folk reason it is said to make gossip slide away instead of sticking.
| Weight | N/A |
|---|---|
| Size | 2 dram, 1 oz, 16 oz |
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