Cinnamon powder (Cinnamomum cassia)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Candle dressing: roll an oiled candle in cinnamon powder to add speed and warmth to money or love work.
• Petition dust: sprinkle a pinch over a written petition before folding it.
• Sweetening: stir a pinch into honey for a sweetening jar to warm a relationship.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Money drawing: cinnamon is a core ingredient in money-drawing and fast-luck formulas.
• Sachet powders: it is blended with powdered herbs and talc to make sachet powders for dusting the body, wallet or shop counter.
• Business: shopkeepers sprinkle money-drawing mixtures containing cinnamon at the door to bring customers in.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anointing oil: cinnamon is one of the ingredients of Abramelin oil, based on the Exodus holy anointing oil and used to consecrate tools and practitioners.
• Solar incense: practitioners include it in incense blends for solar operations.

A Simple Working

• Set out a green chime candle, a few drops of olive oil and a teaspoon of cinnamon powder.
• Carve the amount you need or your business name into the candle.
• Rub the oil on the candle from the ends toward the middle.
• Roll the candle in the cinnamon powder until lightly coated.
• Place the candle on a written petition stating your money aim.
• Light it, speak the aim aloud, and let it burn out completely.
• Fold the petition toward you and keep it in your wallet.

Pairs Well With

• A green chime candle, for quick money workings.
• Bay leaf, for written petitions.
• Chamomile, for luck in gambling and business.
• Honey, for sweetening jars.

What You Receive

Ground cassia cinnamon powder, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

This is ground bark of Cinnamomum cassia, an evergreen tree cultivated in southern China and Southeast Asia. For thousands of years it has been a cooking spice, a perfume ingredient and a prized trade good, carried overland and by sea long before Europeans knew where it came from.

One of the oldest recipes on record for a holy oil, given in the Book of Exodus, calls for sweet cinnamon alongside myrrh and cassia.

Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BC, reported that cinnamon sticks were gathered from the nests of great birds in Arabia, a tale that helped hide the spice’s real source in Asia. The holy anointing oil of Exodus 30 lists both cinnamon and cassia, and later grimoire tradition built on that recipe.