Black Chime Candle

Black Chime Candles are used for many things in different traditions, but no matter what- these are perfect for your ritual needs.

They can either be used as a devotional light for a spirit that works well with the colour black, or for use within candle magic. Black Chime Candles come from a tradition of dyeing wax, pressing petals into wax, lamp magic and colour magic and conjuration -but in a more accessible form.

These are suitable for annointing and dressing for magical use.

Here’s some ways that Black is used traditionally in British folk magic, spirituality, folklore and conjuration:

• Death and misfortune- with the dangers of the night, the ferociousness of the storm clouds and the horrors of the black death, I think it’s easy to see why the colour symbolism here stuck.
• Death and night in the White-Red-Black Colour Trio. In the white, red black colour spectrum, black represents old age, death and night. Historians label this as being the most stable colour scheme in Indo-European Cultures.
• Protection- The colour black was also used for protection. Many protective charms call for black coloured objects to be used as protection for a person or place. It’s especially protective from death – when death is around, this ties into both the death magic and concealment magic- using black when visiting a home of mourning stops death from following you..
• Boundaries- Black was also the colour of boundary workings, often used in conjunction with blessing work or road-workings. This ties into it’s protective properties.
• Gateways of a chthonic nature- Caves are dark, pitch black. The colour connects to the deep spirit of the caves.
• Concealment- Black as a colour was also tied to concealment in folk magic, as a type of camouflage for the night.
• Earth- the colour of well nourished soil. Magic to do with the earth is often coded with brown or black for soil, and green for living plants.
• The Absence of Light- “Isn’t that just darkness?” – not so much in folk magic. You have a definite difference between usual darkness and living darkness. Both can be either good or bad depending on your situation. (And that isn’t always the same as void workings either)
• In Indigenous Canting Tribe Traditions, it is part of the Black-White colour spectrum of necromancy. Black represents the underworld and rotting flesh, as seen in the original oral tale of the Three Dead tale. It is also the colour of natural rebirth and new growth, as we’re all compost in the end. This is the type of magic often frowned upon by the church. (While white represents the soul and bone, which is often more appreciated by the church, especially Catholic and CofE- Saint Relic magic is often White Magic.) This type of magic can be used just as much for cursing as for healing, which is why it’s not just branded ‘malefica’.
• The Devil, the Fair Folk and the Gentry Dyath- The devil is almost always clothed in black, as are many of the fair folk. This links to the the themes of the night, chthonic connections, gateways and boundaries. This is seen across British Folk magic, as well as Indigenous Canting Tribe folk magic. (Folk magic when summoning the devil with bones will often use a white or natural coloured camera- this is a hold over from Canting Tribe magic). The Gentry Dyath, often thought of as being a mantle of the devil, but is truly known as “The Great Death”, was seen to have black as a sacred colour, as well as gold and white.
• Fertility- a rarer form of the colour symbolism but still relevant. It stems from the fertile soil and also the birth of the universe “from nothing”.
• Purification and release- Black is often used as a deep cleansing and the first part of the process of purifying. It absorbs, before releases things back to the earth so a person an be later raised up and blessed.
• Banishing- Black is also used traditionally for banishing, especially when tid in with either cleansing or protection.
• Transformation- Linked to the idea of decay, composting and creating new life- changing forms.

More Resources:

• https://colour-illuminated.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore/colour-and-meaning
• https://electricscotland.com/history/articles/charms9.htm
• https://www.holytrinityamblecote.org.uk/colours.html
• https://www.scribd.com/document/488024119/Heather-1948-Colour-Symbolism-Part-I-Folklore
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/col.10212

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Other Information

H12cm x  D1.2cm, burns for 90 mins approx. This price is for one black chime candle. Colour may vary between batches. Paraffin wax.