Drawing oil

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Dress a candle from the wick down toward the base to pull something to you.
• Feed a lodestone with a drop each week so it keeps drawing.
• Anoint the doorframe of a shop or office to draw in customers.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Anoint a sachet of herbs tied to your aim and keep it close.
• Rub a drop on a coin, a photo or a written wish to fix what is being drawn.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Dress a talisman of the planet that rules your goal, Jupiter for wealth or Venus for love, before consecrating it.

A Simple Working

• Decide clearly what you want to draw.
• Write it on a square of parchment in the present tense, as if it is already yours.
• Dress a candle in the colour of your aim, green for money or red for love, with Drawing oil from wick to base.
• Place a lodestone or magnet on the paper beside the candle.
• Light the candle and call what you want toward you.
• Let it burn out.
• Fold the paper toward you, anoint it once more and keep it with the lodestone.

Pairs Well With

• Lodestone, the natural magnet of hoodoo drawing work.
• Magnetic sand, used to feed lodestones.
• Five-finger grass, for grasping what you reach for.
• Coloured chime candles matched to your aim.

What You Receive

Drawing oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Origin & Lore

Drawing oil belongs to the family of named formula oils in hoodoo and folk magick, made for general attraction rather than a single aim. It is used to bring in money, clients, friends, lovers or luck, depending on how the working is framed. Because it is so flexible, many practitioners keep it as a base to combine with more specific oils.

In rootwork, there are two great movements: sending away and drawing in. This oil is made for the second.

In the early twentieth century, spiritual-supply houses in cities such as Chicago, Memphis and New Orleans sold named condition oils by mail order, each label promising help with one specific need. General drawing and attracting oils were sold beside more specific money and love formulas, and the habit of feeding lodestones with oil and magnetic sand is well recorded in Southern conjure.