Winning Number oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Dress a green or gold candle on a Thursday before a big draw.
• Write the numbers you mean to play on a bay leaf, anoint it and keep it with your tickets.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Rub a drop between your palms before buying a ticket.
• Dress a lucky hand root or gambling mojo bag and carry it when you play.
• Anoint the corner of a dream book and keep it by the bed to bring number dreams.

A Simple Working

• The night before you play, take a green chime candle and a slip of paper.
• Dress the candle with Winning Number oil from base to wick and light it by your bed.
• Anoint your forehead and ask to be shown your numbers in a dream.
• Write down any numbers or images you dream, first thing on waking.
• Look up the images in a dream book or trust the numbers as they came.
• Rub a drop of oil on your hands before buying the ticket.
• Keep the ticket with the paper until the draw.

Pairs Well With

• Lucky hand root, carried by gamblers in hoodoo.
• Chamomile, used in hoodoo as a gambler’s hand wash.
• Pyrite or a lucky coin, for drawing money.
• Green candles, for luck and money.
• Lottery oil, a close companion in numbers work.

What You Receive

Winning Number oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Origin & Lore

Winning Number oil belongs to the gambling-luck family of hoodoo condition oils, made for players of lotteries, numbers and other games of chance. It is traditionally used to dress hands, tickets and charms, and to sharpen the intuition for picking numbers.

In the old numbers game of Harlem and Chicago, players read their dreams for digits, and dream books told them which number a dead relative or a black cat stood for.

Dream books were a real part of the 19th and early 20th-century policy and numbers games in African American communities. Titles such as Aunt Sally’s Policy Players Dream Book, first published in 1889, translated dream images into numbers to play, and hoodoo supply houses sold them alongside gambling oils and charms.