Jala Jala ohli-way

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Anoint the pulse points before a date or a gathering where you hope to be noticed.
• Dress a red or pink candle and burn it on a Friday, the day of Venus, with a written description of the kind of love you want.
• Add a few drops to a sachet of rose petals and lavender carried in a pocket or tucked under a pillow.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Dress a red figure candle or a red offertory candle from the top down, pulling love toward you.
• Anoint a name paper and fold it toward you before setting it under a candle or in a honey jar.
• Touch the oil to the soles of your shoes so that your steps carry the attraction with you.

A Simple Working

• On a Friday, write your own name on a square of paper, and around it describe the love you want in a few honest words.
• Anoint the corners of the paper with Jala Jala oil.
• Dress a red chime candle from the wick down to the base, saying jala, jala as you work.
• Set the candle on the paper in a safe holder and light it.
• Sit with it while it burns, thinking of what you would do together, not of a specific person’s will.
• When the candle is done, fold the paper toward you and carry it in a pocket for seven days.

Pairs Well With

• Rose petals, the oldest love herb on the botánica shelf.
• Rose quartz, a stone kept for tenderness and self-love.
• Red or pink candles, for passion and romance respectively.
• Honey, for sweetening a name paper in a jar.
• Damiana, traditionally added to lust and passion sachets.

What You Receive

Jala Jala ohli-way oil, in a 1 oz bottle.

Origin & Lore

Jala Jala is one of the classic attraction formulas of the botánica tradition, the Spanish-language world of oils, candles and baths sold for love, money and protection. Its name comes from jalar, to pull or haul, and the oil is made with the intention of love, passion and romance: drawing someone in rather than pushing anything away.

Jala means pull, and Jala Jala is an order said twice: pull, pull, bring them closer.

Botánica attraction oils such as Jala Jala, Ven a Mí and Amor sit in the same family as the English-named hoodoo love formulas, and both lines were sold side by side in American spiritual-supply catalogues for much of the twentieth century. The names work like spoken commands, so that dressing a candle with the oil is also speaking the intention aloud.