How to Use It
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Dress a figure candle representing your partner and burn it in a dish with your own figure candle beside it.
- Anoint the doorstep so your lover returns home each night.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Anoint a name paper with your lover’s name crossed by your own, and keep it under your mattress.
- Add to a mojo bag with licorice root and a lodestone for control in a relationship.
- Dress a purple candle for control over a difficult situation at work or home.
Ceremonial & Occult Magick
- Anoint a Saturn talisman for binding and restriction.
- Dress candles for a binding working timed to the waning moon.
Demonology & Black Magick
- Anoint a binding knot cord or a spirit seal used to bind someone to your will.
A Simple Working
- Write your partner’s full name on a square of parchment, then turn it and write your name over it.
- Anoint the paper with Controlling oil at the four corners and the centre.
- Wrap the paper around a small piece of licorice root and tie it with red thread.
- Dress a purple chime candle and set the bundle beside it.
- Light the candle and speak plainly about how your partner will behave.
- Hide the bundle under your mattress or in the shared bedroom.
Pairs Well With
- Licorice root, the classic herb of domination.
- Calamus root, for control.
- Red thread, for binding a couple.
- A purple candle, for mastery.
- Come To Me oil, to draw before you control.
What You Receive
Controlling oil, available in 2 dram, 4 dram and 1 oz bottles.
Origin & Lore
Controlling oil is a domination condition oil from the hoodoo tradition. It is worked to control a person or a situation, and traditionally to bring a wandering lover back to faithfulness and keep them under the worker’s influence.
When a lover starts to stray, hoodoo has never been shy about reaching for a formula that keeps them home.
Controlling, commanding and compelling oils are a well-documented part of hoodoo, which has always included work for keeping a spouse faithful and controlling difficult people. Name papers, hidden in shoes or under mattresses, are one of the oldest recorded ways of applying them.
Did You Know?
In hoodoo, a lover’s footprint dirt or a sock worn by them is often added to controlling work, so that the spell acts directly on their steps.



