Myrrh essences oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Anoint a blue or white candle for spiritual restoration after loss or a long illness.
• Dress a candle on an ancestor altar when speaking to the dead.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Consecrate tools and the altar together with frankincense, the old paired resins.
• Anoint the candles of rites to lunar and underworld powers.

Demonology & Black Magick

• Dress the candles of necromantic workings and anoint the bones, dirt or tokens of the dead you are calling.
• Anoint offerings left for spirits of the dead at a grave or crossroads.

A Simple Working

• Set a photo or keepsake of someone who has died on a clean cloth.
• Place a glass of water and a white candle beside it.
• Anoint the candle with the oil and touch a drop to the keepsake.
• Light the candle and speak their name three times.
• Tell them what you want them to know, and ask for their blessing.
• Leave a little food or drink as an offering.
• Let the candle burn out and refresh the water weekly.

Pairs Well With

• Frankincense, myrrh’s partner in temple incense for thousands of years.
• White candles, the usual colour for the dead and for blessing.
• Graveyard dirt, for necromantic work that needs a link to a specific grave.
• Myrrh resin, to burn on charcoal while the oil is worn.
• A glass of water, the simplest ancestor offering.

What You Receive

Myrrh perfume oil, in a 1/2 oz bottle, blended in cosmetic-grade oils.

Origin & Lore

Myrrh is the resin of Commiphora trees of Arabia and Northeast Africa. It was used in Egyptian embalming, in temple incense and in the holy anointing oil described in the Book of Exodus. In magick it is used for blessing, spiritual restoration after hard times, and work with the dead and the underworld.

The Egyptians packed myrrh into the bodies they embalmed, and the resin’s name comes from a Semitic root meaning bitter.

In Greek myth Myrrha was turned into a tree, and her tears became the resin; Ovid tells the story in Book Ten of the Metamorphoses, where she gives birth to Adonis from the trunk. Myrrh was one of the gifts of the Magi, often read by Christian writers as foreshadowing Christ’s death and burial.