Candle Magic
Candle Magic is a folk ritual of spellcraft, from the Folk Western tradition. It has 5 steps and opens with: Choose the candle colour and dress it with oil from the wick down for drawing, or from the base up for banishing.
Candle magic is the most widely practised folk form in the modern West, and the corpus treats it as practice rather than as a closed system.
Practice
- Purpose
- Spellcraft
- Tools
- Candle
- Difficulty
- Beginner
Nature and meaning
- Category
- Folk
Details
- Elements
- Fire
- Timing
- any time, with the day and hour of the planet of the purpose
- Steps
- Choose the candle colour and dress it with oil from the wick down for drawing, or from the base up for banishing.Carve the name or sigil into the wax.Light the candle and state the intention once.Let it burn for a set time, or burn it through, watching the flame for omens.Dispose of the remains according to the purpose.
- Keywords
- CandleDressingIntentionFolk magic
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