White Pine Bark cut (Pinus strobus)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Cleansing: burn pine on charcoal to clear a room, or add to cleansing baths and washes.
• Protection: place pieces of bark over doors or windows, or carry it in a protective sachet.
• Evergreen blessing: as an evergreen, pine is burned and hung through the winter for health and endurance.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Money: pine is used in money-drawing washes and incense, often alongside its needles or tar.
• Cleansing: added to floor washes to clean out a house before new work.

A Simple Working

• Light a charcoal disc in a heatproof dish filled with sand.
• Grind a teaspoon of white pine bark with a pinch of frankincense.
• Open a window.
• Sprinkle the blend on the charcoal.
• Carry the smoke through each room, ending at the open window.
• Close the window and light a white candle.

Pairs Well With

• Frankincense, for cleansing and blessing incense.
• Juniper berries, a fellow evergreen for protection.
• Rosemary, for cleansing washes.
• Cinnamon, to turn pine work toward money.

What You Receive

Cut dried white pine bark, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

Pinus strobus is the tallest conifer of eastern North America, with soft blue-green needles and light, straight wood. Its trunks were cut for ships’ masts and its inner bark was traditionally used in teas and syrups.

Under a great white pine, the Haudenosaunee nations buried their weapons and founded the Great Law of Peace. The tree still stands as their Tree of Peace.

In Greek and Roman myth, the pine belonged to Attis, the consort of Cybele, who died beneath one; a pine trunk was carried in procession at his spring festival in Rome. In colonial New England the largest white pines were marked with the King’s Broad Arrow, reserved for Royal Navy masts.