Cinnamon oil

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Money drawing: dress green candles with cinnamon oil, or add a drop to the corners of bills in your wallet, to draw money in quickly.
• Fast luck: cinnamon is the heat in many fast luck and drawing formulas; anoint a lottery ticket or the palms before a game.
• Love and lust: a drop on a red candle heats up passion between partners.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Doorway money: a drop on the front door frame on the first of the month is a popular modern custom for drawing prosperity in.
• Success: anoint an orange or gold candle before a career push, and wear a tiny trace on a pulse point.

A Simple Working

• On the first day of the month, take a green chime candle.
• Dress it with cinnamon oil from the base to the wick, drawing toward you.
• Roll it lightly in a pinch of ground cinnamon.
• Place three coins in a triangle around the candle.
• Light it and say, “Money come quickly, money come to stay.”
• Let it burn out, then put the coins in your purse.

Pairs Well With

• Ground cinnamon: for rolling candles and money powders.
• A green chime candle: for money drawing.
• Bay leaves: to write wishes on and burn.
• Pyrite: to keep on a money altar.

What You Receive

Cinnamon oil, a scented anointing oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz.

Origin & Lore

Cinnamon is the inner bark of trees in the genus Cinnamomum, native to Sri Lanka and southern Asia. It was one of the most valuable spices of the ancient world, used in temple incense, perfume and anointing oils. In Exodus, sweet cinnamon is one of the ingredients of the holy anointing oil.

Herodotus reported that cinnamon came from the nests of great birds in Arabia, which men tricked into dropping the sticks by leaving out heavy chunks of meat.

Exodus 30 lists sweet cinnamon with myrrh, calamus and cassia in olive oil as the holy anointing oil of the Tabernacle. Herodotus’s story of cinnamon birds was likely spread by Arab traders who wished to keep the true source in South Asia secret.