Description

Origin & Traditional Use

A candle holder holds a candle safely upright on the altar. In ritual the choice of holder matters, because a candle may burn for hours or over several nights. This is a brass chamberstick with a handle and drip tray, the classic carrying candle holder.

Uses in the Work

Carry a lit taper through the house during a cleansing or blessing, and walk the circle with it before a rite. Its drip tray catches wax for reading. On the altar it holds tapers for the quarters or the working candle. Use it to burn dressed and carved candles safely through a working, at the quarters, or on either side of a statue or sigil. Keep a holder dedicated to each kind of work, for example one for protection and one for love, so the energy is not mixed. Clean out the wax between workings and read the remains of the candle for messages about how the spell went.

Pairs Well With

9″ Gold Taper Candle; Brass Hand Bell 7.5″; Pentagram Brass Bell 4″

Lore

Chambersticks were used for centuries to carry light through dark houses. Dickens’s Scrooge carries one to bed on the night Marley’s ghost appears.

What You Receive

This classically styled, brass chamberstick style tapered candle holder, a finger loop for easy carrying from room to room, making a wonderfully old fashioned accent for household C6’s candles. 2 1/2″ tall, holds 1/2″ round candle.