Dragons Blood oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Add a drop to any spell to strengthen it, the way a pinch of dragon’s blood resin is added to incense.
• Anoint your doors and windowsills to protect the home.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Dress a red candle to draw back a lover who has strayed, burning it over their photo or name paper.
• Add to a protection mojo bag with dragon’s blood resin and a little salt.
• Anoint the corners of your workplace to secure your position and power.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Mix a drop into ritual ink for drawing sigils and seals, an old use of the resin.
• Consecrate an athame or sword, the tools of Fire and Mars.

A Simple Working

• Write the name of the person you want back, or what you want to protect, on a square of parchment.
• Dress a red chime candle with dragon’s blood oil from wick to base for protection, or base to wick to draw someone back.
• Anoint the four corners of the paper.
• Set the candle on the paper and light it.
• Speak your intention clearly while it burns.
• Fold the paper toward you to draw, away from you to protect, and keep it on your altar.

Pairs Well With

• Dragon’s blood resin, to burn alongside the oil.
• A red candle, for power, protection and passion.
• Frankincense, which magnifies the resin’s power in incense blends.
• Red jasper or carnelian, stones of Mars.
• Salt, for adding a protective line.

What You Receive

Dragon’s Blood oil, in a 16 oz bottle.

Origin & Lore

This oil is named for dragon’s blood, the deep red resin taken from several trees, including Dracaena cinnabari of Socotra and the rattan palm Daemonorops draco of Southeast Asia. Traded since antiquity as a dye, varnish and incense, it became one of the most widely used resins in folk magick, listed under Mars and Fire for power, protection and love.

Pliny the Elder believed dragon’s blood was exactly what it sounded like: the blood spilled when a dragon and an elephant fought to the death.

The Greek and Roman name for the resin was cinnabaris, and Pliny wrote that it was formed from a dragon’s blood mingled with that of a dying elephant. Medieval apothecaries sold it under the same name, and Italian violin makers are often said to have used it to colour their varnishes.

In hoodoo, dragon’s blood is an all-purpose power ingredient, added to inks, incenses and candles to give any spell more force.