Cast Off Evil oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Dress a white candle to cleanse a room that feels heavy, opening a window as it burns.
• Add a drop to a cleansing bath when something feels stuck to you.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Add to an uncrossing bath and wash downward from head to feet, then throw the water out at a crossroads.
• Dress a black candle from wick to base to strip away evil influences.
• Anoint a petition for breaking a bad habit, and burn a candle on it for seven days.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint the circle and yourself before the banishing ritual of the pentagram.
• Dress a Saturn talisman for ending what must end.

A Simple Working

• Fill a basin or bath with warm water and a handful of salt.
• Add a few drops of Cast Off Evil oil.
• Stand or sit in the water and pour it over yourself from the head downward, saying, “All evil leave me”.
• Save a little of the bathwater in a cup.
• Dress a white candle with the oil and light it as you dress.
• Throw the saved water toward the sunrise or onto a crossroads.

Pairs Well With

• Salt, for cleansing baths.
• Hyssop, the Biblical herb of purification.
• A white candle, for purity.
• Rue, for protection after cleansing.
• Uncrossing or Against Harm oil, for the protection that follows.

What You Receive

Cast Off Evil oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Origin & Lore

Cast Off Evil is a traditional condition oil from the hoodoo repertoire, worked to rid a person, their household and their spaces of negative influences. It is used in uncrossing and cleansing work, and many practitioners also use it to break free of a bad habit or a destructive way of living.

Some evil is sent by enemies and some grows from inside; Cast Off Evil has been worked against both.

Cast Off Evil is an old hoodoo formula sold by spiritual-supply companies through the twentieth century. Hoodoo uncrossing baths, in which the worker washes downward and throws the used water out toward the east or onto a crossroads, are well documented in interviews with practitioners from the 1930s onward.