7 Day Novendialia Candles
Our 7 Day Novendialia Candles are truly unique and original in the witchcraft and devotional world. Each candle features beautiful original art and devotional prayer created by Tarn Nemorensis.
Each devotional piece is important to us- we don’t let it leave our workshop until we’re happy with it.
We also only stock devotional pieces of the spirits we have worked with, to ensure you get the best experience.
If you ever want a custom made candle let us know! We get requests for different wax colours for our devotional candles a lot. Some people connect deities to different colours more than others Sometimes, we all want a specific colour for our candle- and we can do that for you. Ping us an email, or a message on messenger and we can discuss that with you!
If you want a refillable candle, please look at out 7 Day Novendialia Candles (Pull out) selection. They’re glass jars with the art and prayers on, that have fitting pillar candles. That way, if you need a refill, you can buy one off of us!
Of course, you can refill the candles on this page- they’re perfectly safe in that way. You might just find it a little more tricky!
The History of the Novendialia and the Novena
A Novendialia is a custom of Religio Romana- it was a period of roughly nine days spent to engage with a spirit. Often it would be part of a mourning funerary custom, or a space for devotional prayer to a god or spirit. You might recognise the most common and modern iteration of the term- a novena. With the change of Paganism to Christianity, The Novendialia became the novena, and  began to last for only Seven days, although 9 days Novenas are still common and are the most widely accepted by the modern catholic church. There is also some suggestion that there was a similar practice elsewhere with the Franks and the Anglo-saxons, which further fuelled the transition.
Wherever the Catholic church went, they took the practice of Novenas with them. However, in this form it was happily used by folk magic practitioners across Europe. The use of Sanctuary lamps, or Novena candles spread. They began to be used as Devotional spirit and saint worship, each often varying from 5-9 days. (Although these days can you can buy them in 3 day form as well, it’s just not as common)
How Novendialias still crop up under different names…
The use of glass containers varied , but glass candles are easy enough to come by now in their 5-9 day versions. To the extent that most modern living traditions use them to continue the practice of Spirit work, saint worship and candle magic. Nowadays, we have more than just red and white colours. We have all the colours of the rainbow at our disposal. This allowed folk magic practitioners to use both their candle magic, glass magic and colour magic in unison.
In particular, within the tradition practiced by Bramble & Bone, the practice of lighting candles was a very big part of the workings. Days and types of candles depending on the spirit at hand, much like the saints of the Church. Scotland had varying waves of Catholic influence throughout the years. It did have a particularly strong Marian Cult and Obscure Saint Cults. This was helped by their brand of dual faith Celtic Christianity. Catholicism survived underground during the reformation years. A third of the nobles and gentry remained catholic, and the more remote areas, such as the Highlands and the Islands remained very Catholic. There was also a large boom in Catholicism in the 1800s due to immigration from Italy and Ireland.