Household candles, 6″

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Mark the candle into seven sections and burn one each day for a seven-day working.
• Dress with a condition oil and roll in herbs for longer money, love or protection workings.
• Set several candles around a petition, burning them down together over the course of a night.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Burn a white household candle on the altar during sabbats and esbats.
• Use a black candle for release and banishing, burned on the waning moon.

Folk Catholicism & Spiritism

• Light a white or coloured candle before a saint’s image during a novena.
• Keep a candle blessed at Candlemas to light in times of storm or danger.

A Simple Working

• Choose a 6″ household candle in the colour of your aim.
• Use a pin to mark it into seven equal sections.
• Dress it with a suitable oil, toward you to draw or away to banish.
• Set a petition paper underneath the holder.
• Light it, state your aim, and let it burn down one section.
• Snuff it and repeat each day until the candle is finished.

Pairs Well With

• A taper candle holder: to fit the 3/4″ base.
• Condition oils: for dressing.
• Parchment paper: for petitions.
• A carving pin: for marking sections and names.

What You Receive

Household candles, 6″ x 3/4″. Available singly in black, white, red, pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and brown; in sets of 6 in red, pink, purple, blue, green, yellow and orange; and in sets of 36 in black, red, pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and brown.

Origin & Lore

Household candles are plain, sturdy tapers made for everyday light, emergencies and the dinner table. They burn far longer than a chime candle, so they suit workings that run over hours or are burned a little each day. In folk magick and hoodoo, coloured household candles are dressed and carved just like spell candles.

Before electric light, a supply of plain candles in the cupboard was as basic as bread, and a candle blessed in church was kept to light during storms.

On Candlemas, 2 February, churches have long blessed the year’s candles, and in many parts of Europe these blessed candles were taken home to be lit during thunderstorms or at a deathbed. Paraffin wax, refined from petroleum in the mid-nineteenth century, made candles cheap enough for every home, and the plain household candle followed.