Myrrh oil, 16 oz (Espiritu blend)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Use the oil to anoint every candle on a coven altar, a practical size for groups.
• Dress the candles of Samhain and ancestor rites, when the veil is thin.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Add to a floor wash for a house that feels haunted or heavy, washing from the back of the house to the front.
• Anoint the doorways after a cleansing to seal the house.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Consecrate robes, altar cloths and tools at the start of a working cycle.
• Anoint the lamen and the circle before an exorcism or the banishing ritual of the pentagram.

A Simple Working

• Set a bowl of salt water and a white candle on the altar.
• Dress the candle with myrrh oil and light it.
• Add three drops of the oil to the salt water.
• Sprinkle the water around the room, moving counterclockwise, saying that all unclean things must leave.
• Anoint the doors and windows with the oil.
• Burn a little myrrh resin on charcoal to finish the rite.

Pairs Well With

• Myrrh resin, to burn on charcoal.
• Frankincense, its traditional partner.
• Sea salt, for salt-water purification.
• Black and white candles, for banishing and blessing.
• Hyssop, the Biblical herb of purification.

What You Receive

Myrrh oil, Espiritu blend, in a 16 oz bottle.

Origin & Lore

This oil is a blend named for myrrh, the resin of the Commiphora tree that grows in the dry lands of Arabia and northeast Africa. Myrrh was treasured as a temple incense, a perfume and a sacred anointing ingredient, and it remains one of the core resins of purification and exorcism in Western occult practice.

For three thousand years, the smell of myrrh has signalled that something holy is about to happen.

The Greeks told how Myrrha was turned into the myrrh tree, her tears becoming the resin. Myrrh is listed in Exodus as the first ingredient of the holy anointing oil, and Greek and Roman temples burned it widely.