Mojo Wishing oil

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Dress a new mojo bag with a few drops as you close it, breathing on it to bring it to life.
• Feed the bag with a drop each week to keep it working.
• Dress a candle and burn it on top of a written wish.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Anoint a wishbone, a lucky coin or another charm when making a wish.

A Simple Working

• Write your wish on a small square of parchment.
• Fold it and place it in a red flannel bag with a lucky root or coin.
• Anoint the bag with Mojo Wishing oil.
• Breathe on the bag and tell it its purpose.
• Dress a candle with the oil and burn it beside the bag.
• Carry the bag on you, hidden from others.
• Feed it with a drop of oil every week.

Pairs Well With

• Red flannel bags, the traditional mojo cloth.
• High John root, a common mojo root for power.
• Lucky Hand root, for wishes and luck.
• Lodestones, to draw what you wish for.

What You Receive

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

Origin & Lore

Mojo Wishing oil belongs to the hoodoo tradition of feeding mojo bags, small flannel bags of roots, herbs and curios carried for luck and wishes. It is used to dress the bag when made and to feed it regularly afterward. It can also be used on candles for wishing work.

A mojo bag in hoodoo is treated like a living thing: it is fed, kept secret and never touched by anyone but its owner.

Mojo bags are one of the oldest and best-recorded practices in hoodoo, sometimes called a hand or a toby. Feeding them with oil, whiskey or perfume is well documented, and spiritual-supply catalogs sold Mojo and Wishing oils for the purpose.