Banishing oil (Envision Crystals blend)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Dress a black candle on the waning moon while naming what must leave.
• Anoint a doorframe or window ledge after cleansing to keep the space clear.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Add a few drops to a floor wash, scrubbing from the back of the house out the front door.
• Dress a petition for a person or influence to leave and burn it at a crossroads.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint the brow before a banishing ritual and trace banishing pentagrams with oil at the quarters.
• Use to cleanse ritual tools before they are reconsecrated.

Demonology & Black Magick

• Dress the edge of a circle before spirit work so it can be closed and dismissed cleanly.
• Anoint the hands after spirit work and wipe the tools down, so nothing called in lingers once the session is closed.

A Simple Working

• Open the windows and sweep the room toward the door.
• Light a black candle anointed with the oil from base to wick.
• Walk the room counterclockwise with the candle, saying that anything unwelcome must leave now.
• Dab the oil on each doorframe and windowsill.
• Set the candle by the front door and let it burn down.
• Finish by sprinkling a line of salt across the threshold.

Pairs Well With

• Sea salt, to lay a line across the door once the work is done.
• Cedar or rosemary, burned afterward to freshen and protect the space.
• Black tourmaline, kept near the door as a guard stone.
• A black candle, for banishing and removal.

What You Receive

Banishing oil, in a 2 dram bottle.

Origin & Lore

Banishing oil is one of the named condition oils of folk magick and hoodoo, used to remove unwanted energies, influences and people. Practitioners traditionally work it on the waning moon and follow it with protection.

A banishing is only half done until the space is sealed, and anointing oil is one of the oldest ways to draw that seal.

Banishing appears in every layer of Western magick, from the sweeping and salting of household folk practice to the formal banishing rituals of nineteenth-century ceremonial orders.

As a bottled condition oil, Banishing belongs to the American spiritual supply tradition that grew up in the early twentieth century alongside hoodoo and Spiritualist churches.