Abracadabra oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Dress a candle while speaking your intention, letting each word focus the work.
• Anoint your hands before spellwork.
• Apply a drop to the throat before spoken affirmations or chants.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Charge a written petition by anointing it and reading it aloud.
• Add to a mojo bag for luck on the road toward your desire.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint a triangle charm of Abracadabra written on parchment.
• Dress a Mercury talisman for eloquence and persuasive speech.

A Simple Working

• On a square of parchment, write ABRACADABRA, then below it ABRACADABR, and so on, removing one letter each line until only A remains.
• Dab the oil on the four corners of the paper.
• Anoint a yellow candle and light it.
• Read your intention aloud three times over the triangle.
• Touch a drop to your throat as you finish.
• Fold the paper and carry it until your wish comes to pass, then burn it.

Pairs Well With

• A square of parchment, for writing the triangle charm.
• A yellow candle, for Mercury and the power of words.
• Citrine, for focus and confidence.
• Bay leaves, written with wishes and burned.

What You Receive

Abracadabra oil, in a 4 dram bottle. Scented with cardamom, bergamot and lavender.

Origin & Lore

The earliest known record of Abracadabra is in the Liber Medicinalis, a Latin poem from the Roman world around the third century, which describes writing the word in a diminishing triangle and wearing it as an amulet. This oil takes that idea of condensing will into a single point and uses it for manifestation, focus and words spoken with power.

Abracadabra began as a written charm, not a stage word: written in a shrinking triangle so that whatever troubled the wearer would shrink with it.

The Liber Medicinalis of the Roman world records Abracadabra as a written amulet, worn around the neck in a triangular form that dwindled letter by letter.

The charm was still in use in seventeenth-century England, and an English novel of 1722 about the Great Plague of London describes people wearing the word as protection.