How to Use It
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Dress a purple candle and burn it while you focus on the person you need to yield.
- Anoint your hands before a meeting with someone who usually refuses you.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Dress a figure candle of the person, anointing the head and shoulders, and burn it over their name paper.
- Add a drop to calamus and licorice root powder sprinkled where the person will walk.
- Anoint a name paper and keep it under your shoe.
Ceremonial & Occult Magick
- Anoint a Saturn talisman for restriction and control.
- Dress candles for a working of personal will.
Demonology & Black Magick
- Anoint the seal of a spirit asked to press a person into compliance.
A Simple Working
- Write the person’s name on a square of parchment, then write your own name across it.
- Anoint the paper with Bend Over oil.
- Sprinkle a pinch of licorice or calamus root powder over it.
- Dress a purple chime candle and set it on the paper.
- Light it and say, “As I will, so you bend”.
- When the candle is done, fold the paper toward you and keep it in your left shoe when you see the person.
Pairs Well With
- Licorice root, the domination herb.
- Calamus root, for command and control.
- A purple candle, for mastery.
- Commanding oil, to add authority.
- High John the Conqueror root, for personal strength.
What You Receive
Bend Over oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.
Origin & Lore
Bend Over oil is a traditional domination condition oil in hoodoo, used to bend others to your will. It is worked to make people pliable and willing to do as you wish, and to overcome the resistance of a boss, partner, official or rival.
Bend Over is one of the bluntest names on the hoodoo shelf, and that bluntness is the point: it is worked to make people yield.
Bend Over is one of the old domination formulas of the hoodoo tradition, sold alongside Commanding, Compelling and Do As I Say by twentieth-century supply houses. These oils were used in very practical situations, from keeping a job to winning an argument at home.
Did You Know?
Calamus, the hoodoo herb of control used alongside this oil, is the same plant as sweet flag, and many scholars identify it with the fragrant cane in the holy anointing oil of Exodus.



