Beeswax pellets yellow

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Hand-made candles: melt pellets with herbs or oil and roll or pour your own spell candles.
• Poppets: soften the wax, model a figure and work it for love, healing or influence.
• Balm base: melt into oil to make a ritual anointing balm.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Virgin wax: grimoires such as the Key of Solomon call for new, unused wax for magickal candles and images.

Demonology & Black Magick

• Binding figures: the Greek Magical Papyri describe wax or clay figures pierced with needles to bind a target.
• Melting: an image of the enemy is warmed and melted before a fire so that they waste as the wax does.

A Simple Working

• Melt two tablespoons of beeswax pellets in a heatproof bowl over hot water.
• Let the wax cool until it is warm and pliable.
• Shape it into a simple human figure.
• Press a slip of paper with the person’s name into its chest, or a strand of their hair.
• Breathe on the figure and name it aloud.
• Wrap it in cloth and keep it on your altar while you work it.

Pairs Well With

• Rose petals, to work into a love poppet.
• Angelica root, for protective or healing figures.
• Olive oil, to make an anointing balm.
• A red chime candle, to dress with the same wax.

What You Receive

Yellow beeswax pellets, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

Beeswax is made by honeybees to build their comb. For millennia it has been used for candles, sealing letters, waterproofing, polishes and salves, and the Church long required its altar candles to be made of it.

Wax has been shaped into human likenesses for magick for thousands of years, from the figures of Egyptian and Greek spells to the poppets of the English witch trials.

In an ancient Greek poem a woman melts wax over the fire so that her faithless lover may melt with desire. Wax figures pierced with pins have been found in Egyptian burials of the Roman period.