Cloves whole (Syzygium aromaticum)
Price range: $5.45 through $54.95
A sharp bud for stopping gossip · Available in 3 sizes
Whole cloves, the dried flower buds of a tropical tree, used to stop gossip, draw money and friendship, and protect the home.
Quick Uses
- Stop gossip: burn a few cloves on charcoal to quiet talk behind your back.
- Pomander: stud an orange with cloves and hang it in the home for protection.
- Friendship: string cloves on red thread or carry them in a sachet to draw warmth from others.
- Money mojo: count cloves into a money mojo bag or jar alongside cinnamon and other spices.
How to Use It
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Stop gossip: burn a few cloves on charcoal to quiet gossip and talk behind your back.
- Protective pomander: stud an orange with cloves and hang it in the home, a custom still kept at midwinter.
- Love and friendship: string cloves on red thread or carry them in a sachet to attract warmth from others.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Friendship and kindness: cloves are carried or added to mixtures to draw friendship and stop malicious talk.
- Money drawing: they are counted into money mojo bags and jars alongside cinnamon and other spices.
- Protection: rootworkers add whole cloves to protective sachets and to bathwater.
A Simple Working
- Set out an orange, a handful of whole cloves and a length of red ribbon.
- Hold the orange and state what you want to protect and welcome into the home.
- Press the cloves into the skin in rows or a pattern, one at a time, repeating your aim.
- Dust the studded orange lightly with cinnamon.
- Tie the ribbon around it so it can hang.
- Hang it near the main door and leave it to dry in place.
Pairs Well With
- Cinnamon, for money and warmth.
- An orange, for a traditional pomander.
- Red thread or ribbon, for hanging charms and stringing cloves.
- Charcoal discs, for burning cloves as incense.
What You Receive
Whole dried cloves, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.
Origin & Lore
Cloves are the unopened flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum, a tree native to the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, the original Spice Islands. They have been a kitchen spice, a breath sweetener and a preservative for well over two thousand years, and the trade in them shaped wars and empires.
Courtiers of the Han dynasty in China were expected to hold cloves in their mouths when addressing the emperor, so that their breath would be sweet.
Cloves reached Rome and the Mediterranean through Indian Ocean trade centuries before anyone in Europe knew where they grew. In the seventeenth century the Dutch tried to control the whole supply by restricting clove trees to a single island and destroying others.
Did You Know?
The word clove comes from the Latin clavus, meaning nail, after the shape of the bud.
| Weight | N/A |
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| Size | 1 oz, 2 oz, 1 lb |
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