Lammas oil
$15.35
A harvest oil of gratitude
A Lammas oil honouring the first harvest, its abundance, gratitude and prosperity, worn as perfume and used in Lammas and Lughnasadh rites.
Quick Uses
- Candle dressing: dress a gold or orange candle at Lammas to give thanks for what has come in this year.
- Altar: anoint a homemade loaf or a corn dolly before placing it on the altar.
- Petitions: anoint a petition listing what you have gained and what you want to harvest next, and keep it in your money drawer.
- Lugh: dress a candle for Lugh, the many-skilled god honoured at Lughnasadh.
How to Use It
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Dress a gold or orange candle at Lammas to give thanks for what has come in this year.
- Anoint a homemade loaf or a corn dolly before placing it on the altar.
- Wear as a perfume oil at harvest gatherings and Lammas rites.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Anoint a petition listing what you have gained this year and what you want to harvest next, and keep it in your money drawer.
- Add to a prosperity floor wash at the start of August, working from the door inward.
Ceremonial & Occult Magick
- Anoint the altar and tools for the Lammas or Lughnasadh sabbat.
- Dress a candle for Lugh, the many-skilled god honoured at Lughnasadh.
A Simple Working
- On or near 1 August, bake or buy a small loaf of bread.
- Anoint a gold candle with the oil and light it beside the loaf.
- Name aloud three things you have harvested this year, in work, home or spirit.
- Dab a drop of oil on the crust and break the loaf in two.
- Eat one half with thanks and leave the other outdoors as an offering to the land.
- Let the candle burn down.
Pairs Well With
- A loaf of fresh bread, the heart of the loaf-mass.
- Wheat stalks or a corn dolly, for the harvest altar.
- A gold candle, for abundance and the late summer sun.
- Sunflowers, in bloom at Lammas and a flower of the Sun.
What You Receive
Lammas oil, in a 4 dram bottle.
Origin & Lore
Lammas falls on or around 1 August and marks the beginning of the grain harvest, celebrated in Anglo-Saxon England with loaves baked from the first wheat. Its Gaelic counterpart is Lughnasadh, named for the god Lugh, and in modern witchcraft the sabbat is a time of gratitude, abundance and the first fruits of your labour.
Lammas takes its name from the Old English hlafmæsse, loaf-mass, the day the first bread of the new harvest was brought to church to be blessed.
Lammas appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in Old English texts as one of the fixed points of the farming year, when the first loaves were blessed.
In Ireland, Lughnasadh gatherings on hilltops and at holy wells continued for centuries, often under names like Garland Sunday or Reek Sunday.
Did You Know?
The annual pilgrimage up Croagh Patrick in Ireland, held on the last Sunday of July, is widely thought to continue an older Lughnasadh hilltop gathering.
| Weight | 0.16 lbs |
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