Spearmint oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Spiritual healing: dress a green or blue candle with spearmint for someone recovering in body or spirit.
• Love: Culpeper gave spearmint to Venus; a drop on a pink candle or in a love sachet suits gentle affection.
• Home: add a few drops to a floor wash or spray for a fresh, peaceful house.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Money: mint is a classic money herb; dress a green candle or the cash drawer of a shop with spearmint.
• Cleansing baths: a few drops in a bath with salt to wash off heaviness.

A Simple Working

• On a Friday, set a green chime candle on a small plate.
• Dress it with spearmint oil from wick to base.
• Place a few fresh or dried mint leaves around the base.
• Light the candle and name the person you are holding in your thoughts for healing.
• Let the candle burn down.
• Steep the mint leaves in hot water and pour the cooled water at your front door.

Pairs Well With

• A green chime candle: for healing and money work.
• Peppermint oil: a sharper mint for clarity and study.
• Sea salt: for a cleansing bath.
• Rose oil: to turn a mint working towards love.

What You Receive

Spearmint oil in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz (1 lb) sizes.

Origin & Lore

Spearmint (Mentha spicata) is a mint of Europe and western Asia with pointed, spear-shaped leaves and a sweeter scent than peppermint. It has been grown since antiquity for cooking, teas and household use, and is the mint of North African mint tea and many Middle Eastern dishes.

In Greek myth the nymph Minthe caught the eye of Hades, and Persephone, in jealousy, turned her into the low, sweet-smelling herb we still call mint.

Strabo and Ovid both preserve the tale of Minthe and her transformation. The Gospel of Matthew mentions mint among the herbs on which tithes were paid, and Pliny wrote that the scent of mint stirs the mind. Nicholas Culpeper, the seventeenth-century English herbalist, called spearmint ‘an herb of Venus’.