Ginger Root split (Zingiber officinale)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Heat: a slice or pinch added to any working to give it speed and force.
• Money: a piece carried in the pocket, or a whole root planted and tended so that money grows with it.
• Love and lust: added to love sachets, or brewed into a warming tea shared before a night together.

A Simple Working

• Set out a piece of ginger root, a cinnamon stick, a green chime candle and a small dish.
• Carve your money aim into the candle with a pin.
• Rub the candle with a cut face of the ginger, from the middle to each end.
• Stand the candle in the dish and lay the ginger and cinnamon at its base.
• Light it and say your aim aloud, then let it burn out.
• Carry the ginger piece in your wallet until the money comes in.

Pairs Well With

• Cinnamon for fast money and warmth.
• Galangal root, ginger’s cousin, for success and court work.
• Orange peel for a bright, drawing money blend.
• A green chime candle for quick money work.

What You Receive

Dried split ginger root, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

Ginger is the rhizome of Zingiber officinale, domesticated in tropical Asia so long ago that it is no longer known in the wild. It travelled the spice routes to Rome and became one of the most traded spices of medieval Europe, going into gingerbread, sauces and preserved sweets.

On the island of Dobu, off New Guinea, sorcerers chewed ginger and spat it toward the sky to turn back an approaching storm.

Ginger appears again and again in the magick of the Pacific, where it is chewed and spat at the site of trouble. In England, gingerbread sold at fairs as fairings was given as a love token, and unmarried women were said to eat gingerbread husbands to bring a real one.