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To: alt.lucky.w,alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic,alt.magick.tyagi From: catherine yronwodeSubject: Re: candle magic...um, Cat? Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:40:02 GMT bunghole_999@hotmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > Here's a question on candle color (btw nice article cat, will read it > more thoroughly tonight when i have more time): Thanks. > I just consulted a root doc/spiritualist as planned and was told that > green candles were for health not money. Brown are for money. I > shopped online and ive found mention of BOTH being used for money. > Some voodoo/hoodoo workers claim the brown, wiccans and certain other > hoodoo'ists claim green. Which is it? I've even found contradictory > info on the many wiccan sites in this matter. First, you must iunderstand that coloured paraffin candles are a 20th century invention. Thus candle colour symbolism arose in the minds of several writers almost simultaneously and the various systems they came up with are almost mutually exclusive. For instance: In Europe, many people use yellow candles for money (because gold canles were until rcently very hard to find) and to them, green candles symbolize a good harvest and thus health and harmony. In the USA, where our paper money is always green (unlike in other nations), most hoodoos have come to accept that green candles represent folding money and yellow candles symbolize pocket change. The use of brown candles is equally varied -- in some quarters dark blue candles represent the law (dark blue deing a common colour for the uniforms of police officers) and thus blue candles are burned for court cases. But in areas where the police wear brown or olive uniforms or where people of Catholic persuasion call upon certain brown-garbed saints for help in legal matters, brown candles have come to be identified with court cases. This conflict or confusion continues into the colours of dressing oils: Court Case Oil is usually brown and Law Keep Away Oil is usually blue. Wiccans are a whole 'nother kettle of fish and, frankly, i think that their colour symbolisms are sometimes so individualistic that i can't keep track of the ways they vary from hoodoo, which is internally more consistent, despite its many variations. (Ditto for Wiccan oil recipes; they are all over the map in terms of ingredients, as far as i can tell.) > Also, I've been told by some: "burn black candles to drive out evil > influences from a home" and by others "NEVER burn black candles > unless you know what you are doing" as they are primarily used in > negative energy spells to cause harm. Black candles are used both ways -- to do evil and to drive off evil. In hoodoo, you must also consder that candles can be manipulated (e.g. estinguished, turned upside down, or used to burn an artifact representing someone) so using black candles to drive off evil is easier to accomplish in hoodoo than in Wiccan or neo-Pagan magic, where candles are usually set to burn straight through. Many hoodoos burn black candles in conjunction with other candles to drive off evil wihie drawing good. A special form of candle made just for this purpose is the so-called "double action" (two-colour) jumbo candle, half black and half another colour to drive evil away. For instance, the half-black and half-green candle drives away people who are jinxing your money luck, the half-black and half-red drives off love jinxes, and the half-black and half-white sends back crossed conditions and unnatural illness. Also, the so-called "reversible" candle (red inside, black outside) is widely used to drive off jinxes of all kinds as well as to purify any prmises that are under a jinx. . Black cat figural candles are burned for gambling luck, too, there being no heavy fear of black cats in the African-American tradition as there is in European folk-magic. By the way, i tend to not give people "scary" warnings like the one you mentioned. If they know enough to want a black candle, then let them work with it, i say. > Btw Cat, the info you provided regarding root doctors and what to > look for and look out for was extremely helpful. Thanks again. The > person I consulted fit the criteria for an honest and skilled > doctor that you listed . Glad i could help. As i noted already, those posts formed the core of my newest web page, "Readers, Root Workers, and Black Gypsies" which is now online at http://www.luckymojo.com/blackgypsies.html Cordially, cat yronwode Free Spells Archive ------------ http://www.luckymojo.com/spells.html Hoodoo and Blues Lyrics --------- http://www.luckymojo.com/blues.html No personal e-mail, please; just catch me in usenet; i read it daily. Lucky Mojo Curio Co. http://www.luckymojo.com/luckymojocatalogue.html Send e-mail with your street address to catalogue@luckymojo.com and receive our free 32 page catalogue of hoodoo supplies and amulets This post copyright 2000 catherine yronwode. All rights reserved.
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