Witch’s Spell oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Dress candles for any spell, rubbing toward you to draw and away to send.
• Anoint cords before knot magick, one drop at each knot.
• Touch a drop to your wrists and brow before casting a circle.

A Simple Working

• Cut a length of red cord long enough to tie nine knots.
• Anoint the cord with Witch’s Spell oil from end to end.
• Dress a white chime candle and light it.
• Tie nine knots along the cord, stating your aim with each one.
• Let the candle burn out.
• Keep the knotted cord on your altar until the spell has done its work, then burn or bury it.

Pairs Well With

• A white chime candle: the all-purpose candle for any spell.
• Red cord: for knot magick.
• Parchment paper: for petitions.
• A cast iron cauldron: for burning papers afterwards.

What You Receive

Witch’s Spell oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz.

Origin & Lore

Witch’s Spell oil is a modern formula made for general spellwork, the kind of oil a witch keeps on the shelf to dress whatever a working calls for. Anointing candles, cords, papers and the body with oil is one of the oldest and most common actions in practical witchcraft.

The word “spell” first meant simply a story or a saying: “gospel” is from the Old English godspel, good tidings.

“Witch” goes back to the Old English wicce (a woman) and wicca (a man) who worked charms. Many Anglo-Saxon healing charms survive in manuscripts such as the Lacnunga, often to be sung or spoken over herbs, which shows how closely spells and spoken words were tied together.