How to Use It
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Dress a red or orange candle for luck and to speed up a working.
- Anoint your hands before gambling or taking a risk.
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Anoint a red candle for inner strength before a challenge.
- Add to a charm bag for luck.
A Simple Working
- Take a red chime candle.
- Carve a symbol of luck into it, such as a horseshoe or star.
- Anoint it with the oil.
- Anoint your hands.
- Light the candle and ask for good fortune.
- Let it burn out and carry a bit of ginger root for luck.
Pairs Well With
- Ginger root, for heat and speed.
- Red candles, for power.
- Cinnamon, for luck.
- Carnelian, for courage.
- Alligator foot or a rabbit’s foot, traditional luck charms.
What You Receive
Red Ginger perfume oil, in a 1/2 oz bottle, blended in cosmetic-grade oils.
Origin & Lore
Red ginger is Alpinia purpurata, a tropical plant of the ginger family with bright red bracts. In folk magick ginger root is used for heat, speed, luck and personal power. This oil brings that fire to luck and courage work.
Ginger is one of the hot spices of folk magick, added to a working to make it act faster and burn hotter.
Ginger has been traded from tropical Asia for thousands of years and was a prized spice in medieval Europe. In folk magick ginger is added to love and luck workings to heat them up and speed them along.
Did You Know?
Red ginger’s bright red parts are not petals but bracts; the true flowers are small and white.



