How to Use It
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Anoint a photograph of the person and keep it face up under a pink candle for seven nights.
- Dress a red cord and tie knots in it, one each night, naming the person.
- Write their name nine times on paper, cross it with your own, and anoint the centre.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Dress two figure candles and move them a little closer each day until they touch.
- Anoint a lodestone and keep it in a red flannel bag with a personal item belonging to the person.
- Dress a petition written on brown paper and place it under a red seven-day candle.
A Simple Working
- Take a red chime candle and a square of parchment.
- Write the person’s full name three times, then turn the paper and write your own name across it three times.
- Anoint the four corners and the centre of the paper with Return To Me oil.
- Dress the candle from the wick down to the base, pulling toward you.
- Set the candle on the paper and light it, speaking the person’s name and asking them to come back.
- Let the candle burn out, fold the paper toward you and keep it in your bedroom.
Pairs Well With
- Lodestone, the hoodoo stone for drawing and holding a lover.
- Rose petals, to keep the call soft and affectionate.
- Red or pink figure candles, for working on two people at once.
- Damiana, often added when passion has cooled.
- Love Me oil, for coaxing affection alongside the return.
What You Receive
Return To Me oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.
Origin & Lore
Return To Me belongs to the reconciliation family of hoodoo condition oils, kin to Come Back to Me. It is used where a relationship has broken and one person wants the other to think of them, soften and come home.
Return work is some of the most requested love magick there is: not the search for someone new, but the wish to bring back the one who left.
Return and reconciliation formulas appear throughout early 20th-century spiritual-supply catalogues, and the figure-candle method of moving two candles together is described by many conjure workers recorded in the 1930s. The idea is simple and very old: what was together can be brought back together.
Did You Know?
In traditional candle magick, figure candles shaped as a man and a woman were mass-produced from the mid-20th century, but conjure workers used carved or rolled wax figures long before that.



