Chime candles, 1/2″ (spell candles)

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Choose the colour for the work: green for money, red for love, white for blessing, black for banishing or crossing, purple for power.
• Dress the candle with a condition oil and roll it in powdered herbs before lighting.
• Burn one a day over several days, moving the candles closer together to bring two people together.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Carve a name, sigil or rune into the wax with a pin before dressing.
• Burn the candle in one sitting and read the wax drippings when it is done.

Demonology & Black Magick

• Burn a black chime candle upside down, with the base trimmed to expose a new wick, to reverse a curse or send harm back.
• Stick pins through the candle and light it, letting each pin drop as a marker of the work.

A Simple Working

• Choose a chime candle in the colour of your aim.
• Carve your name or the name of the person concerned into the wax.
• Dress it with a suitable oil, from base to wick to draw or wick to base to banish.
• Roll it in a pinch of matching herb, such as cinnamon for money.
• Stand it in a holder and light it while stating your aim aloud.
• Let it burn out in one sitting, then dispose of any remaining wax at a crossroads.

Pairs Well With

• Chime candle holders: sized for the half-inch base.
• Condition oils: for dressing.
• Cinnamon: for rolling money candles.
• A carving pin: for names and sigils.

What You Receive

Chime candles, 4″ x 1/2″, in packs of 20, available in black, white, red, pink, purple, lavender, dark blue, light blue, emerald green, dark green, yellow, orange, brown, silver and assorted colours. Also available 5″ long in red or white in packs of 20, and in assorted colours in a pack of 100.

Origin & Lore

A chime candle is a small taper about half an inch across, made to burn in a single session. Its first job was powering angel chimes and other small holiday decorations. Spellworkers took to it because a short burn means a working can be finished in one sitting, and the wide range of colours lets the candle match the aim.

Chime candles take their name from Christmas angel chimes, where the heat of tiny candles turns a brass wheel of angels that strike little bells as they spin.

Colour candle magick took its familiar form in twentieth-century American hoodoo and spiritual supply shops, where small coloured candles were sold alongside oils and powders. The angel chime itself is a Scandinavian Christmas decoration, known in Swedish as änglaspel, “angel play”.