Bat’s Blood oil

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Crossing candles: dress a black candle from the bottom up, carve the target’s name into it and burn it on a Saturday night.
• Domination: dress a name-paper with a drop of oil and place it under your shoe for the day, to keep someone under your heel.
• Separation: anoint two figure candles back to back and move them apart each night.

Demonology & Black Magick

• Night evocation: anoint the edges of a spirit’s seal before working with nocturnal or chthonic spirits.
• Hex jars: add a few drops to a jar of vinegar, black pepper and the target’s name, then shake it whenever they act against you.

A Simple Working

• Write the person’s full name on brown paper in black ink.
• Dress the paper with three drops of Bat’s Blood oil, drawing it away from you.
• Fold it away from you and place it under a black chime candle.
• Anoint the candle from the bottom up and sprinkle a little black pepper around it.
• Light it after dark and state plainly what you want done.
• When it has burned out, take the paper and wax to a crossroads and leave them without looking back.

Pairs Well With

• A black chime candle: the standard light for crossing and hexing.
• Black pepper: adds bite to any dark working.
• Graveyard dirt: a classic companion in hex jars and powders.
• Bat’s blood ink: for writing the petition in the same current.

What You Receive

Bat’s Blood oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz sizes.

Origin & Lore

Bat’s Blood is one of the “blood” named formulas of American conjure, alongside Dove’s Blood and Dragon’s Blood, and contains no blood: the name is symbolic. The bat, seeing in darkness and flying at dusk, became an emblem of the night and of the witch’s craft in European folklore. The oil is a modern blend used to give dark workings that nocturnal, unsettling edge.

Medieval artists gave angels the wings of birds and devils the wings of bats. That old association between the bat and the infernal is the whole character of this oil.

The witches of Shakespeare’s Macbeth throw “wool of bat” into their cauldron, and Elizabethan audiences would have recognised the bat as a witch’s creature. European demonology often pictured devils with bat wings, a convention that runs from medieval manuscripts to Gustave Doré. Bat’s Blood oil and ink are twentieth-century conjure products; the bat’s dark reputation is far older.