Description

Origin & Traditional Use

Binding oil is a traditional hoodoo condition oil used to tie up, restrain or hold a person, situation or spirit. Rootworkers use it to stop gossip, keep a lover faithful or bind an enemy from doing harm.

Uses in the Work

Dress a black candle with a petition naming the target, wrap a poppet or photo in black thread soaked in the oil, or anoint a jar spell to keep a situation still. In demon work, use it to bind a hostile spirit that will not leave, or to seal the terms of a pact so both sides are held to it. Work it during a waning moon.

Pairs Well With

Coffin Nails – Consecrated; Bat’s Blood Ink – 1 oz; Soapstone Genie Jars – Set of 3

Lore

Binding spells are some of the oldest written magic. Greek curse tablets, called katadesmoi, literally “bindings”, were scratched onto lead and dropped into wells and graves to tie up a rival’s tongue, legs or love.