Bayberry oil
Price range: $6.55 through $63.75
A New Year oil for luck · Available in 3 sizes
Bayberry oil carries the scent of the waxy berries once boiled into colonial candles, known for drawing money and good fortune as the year turns.
Quick Uses
- New Year: dress a green candle and let it burn all the way down on New Year’s Eve or the winter solstice.
- Abundance: anoint the kitchen door or the corners of the pantry to keep the house well supplied.
- Money: dress green candles on a Thursday or at the new moon for money drawing.
- Lucky hand: rub a drop into the palms before handling money, signing a deal or playing a game of chance.
How to Use It
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- New Year luck: dress a green candle with bayberry oil and let it burn all the way down on New Year’s Eve or the winter solstice.
- Household abundance: anoint the kitchen door or the corners of the pantry to keep the house well supplied.
- Gift blessing: a drop on a holiday card or gift wrap carries good wishes for the coming year.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Money work: bayberry is added to money and drawing formulas and used to dress green candles burned on a Thursday or at the new moon.
- Lucky hand: rub a drop into the palms before handling money, signing a deal or playing a game of chance.
A Simple Working
- On New Year’s Eve, set a green pillar or chime candle on a plate.
- Dress it with bayberry oil from the base upward, drawing toward you.
- Ring the plate with a few coins and a scattering of cinnamon.
- Light the candle and say the old rhyme: “A bayberry candle burned to the socket brings luck to the home and gold to the pocket.”
- Let it burn completely without blowing it out.
- Keep one of the coins in your wallet for the year.
Pairs Well With
- A green chime candle: for burning to the socket.
- Cinnamon: to add speed to money spells.
- Pyrite: to set beside the candle on a money altar.
- Pine oil: for a seasonal blend of luck and protection.
What You Receive
Bayberry oil, a scented anointing oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz.
Origin & Lore
Bayberry, or wax myrtle, is a shrub of the eastern coast of North America whose small grey berries are coated in wax. Colonists boiled the berries and skimmed the wax to make fragrant green candles, a slow and laborious job that made them a holiday luxury.
“A bayberry candle burned to the socket brings luck to the home and gold to the pocket”: an old New England rhyme for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
Because bayberry wax was so slow to gather, bayberry candles were saved for special nights, and the custom grew of burning one at Christmas or New Year for luck. The shrub was also called candleberry and wax myrtle for exactly that use.
Did You Know?
Bayberry wax is naturally greenish and fragrant, so traditional bayberry candles needed no added colour or scent.
| Weight | N/A |
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| Size | 2 dram, 1 oz, 16 oz |
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