Female candle, 8″

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Come to me: dress a red figure with a love-drawing oil and burn it a little each night while calling the woman’s name.
• Sweetening: set a pink figure in a dish of honey or sugar so that the woman is kind and gentle toward you.
• Pairing: work it alongside a male figure candle, tying the two together at the waist with red thread on the last night.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Glamour: carve your own name on the pink figure and dress it with a rose or jasmine oil before a date or event.
• Venus timing: burn on a Friday, the day of Venus, in her hour if you follow planetary hours.

A Simple Working

• Carve the woman’s name across the chest and your own name down the back.
• Dress the candle with a few drops of honey-scented or rose oil.
• Set it in a saucer and pour a ring of honey around the base.
• Light it on a Friday evening and speak sweetly to it as if to her.
• Burn it for about an hour, then snuff it.
• Repeat each Friday until it is burned down.
• Bury the wax and honey near your front step.

Pairs Well With

• A male candle: to work a couple together.
• Honey: for sweetening the figure.
• Red thread: for tying two figures together.
• Rose oil: for dressing love and glamour work.

What You Receive

An 8″ female figure candle in red or pink. Moulded candles vary slightly in size and shape and may need levelling at the base to stand straight.

Origin & Lore

Like all figure candles, this is a modern candle-shop form of image magick, where a likeness is worked as the person it stands for. The larger size suits longer workings, burned in stages across a week. Red is chosen to stir passion and desire; pink for tenderness, romance and friendship.

At eight inches this figure gives you room to carve a full name, a birth date and a line of petition, and still have wax to burn over several nights.

The Roman poet Horace, in his Satires (1.8), describes the witches Canidia and Sagana in a graveyard using two effigies, a large one of wool and a smaller one of wax, the wool figure standing over the wax one as if to punish it. It is one of the clearest Latin descriptions of figure magick.