Queen of the Witches oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Anoint the forehead, wrists and heart at the full moon before calling on Aradia and Diana.
• Dress a white or silver candle with the oil to consecrate a new athame, wand or chalice.
• Add a drop to your initiation or dedication robe, or to the cover of your book of shadows.

Demonology & Black Magick

• Aradia’s gospel includes curses against the cruel and the powerful: dress a black candle with the oil for justice-hexing against an abuser.
• Anoint a name-paper of an oppressor before binding it in a jar, as the witches of the gospel were taught to fight back.

A Simple Working

• On the night of the full moon, set a silver chime candle in a holder before an open window.
• Dress it with the oil from the middle outward.
• Anoint your forehead with a drop as well.
• Light the candle and call on Aradia, daughter of Diana, by name.
• Ask for her teaching and say plainly what you want from your craft this month.
• Sit with the candle and watch the moon until it burns down.

Pairs Well With

• A silver chime candle: for the moon and the goddess.
• Moon oil: for full-moon rites alongside it.
• An athame: to consecrate with the oil.
• A white household candle: for longer esbat rituals.

What You Receive

Queen of the Witches oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz.

Origin & Lore

Leland’s “Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches” claimed to record the lore of Tuscan witches, passed to him by an informant he called Maddalena. In it, Diana is the goddess of the witches and Aradia her daughter, the first witch, who tells her followers to meet once a month at the full moon. This oil is a modern blend named for that tradition, used to honour the goddess of the witches.

In Charles Godfrey Leland’s 1899 book, Aradia is sent to earth by Diana to teach witchcraft to the poor, so that they might strike back at the lords who oppressed them.

Much older than Leland, the tenth-century Canon Episcopi, preserved by Regino of Prüm, condemned women who claimed to ride out at night with Diana, goddess of the pagans. Leland’s Aradia later shaped modern Wicca, and Gerald Gardner’s early Charge of the Goddess borrowed directly from its words about meeting at the full moon.