White Chime Candle

White 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 white, or for use within candle magic. White 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 White is used traditionally in British folk magic, spirituality, folklore and conjuration:

• Much like Black, white sits between a wide positive-negative axis, encompassing death, joy, purity, sacredness, the otherworld and omens.  White also encompasses the phrase “Shining”- which is important contextually.
• Uncanny- White, much like blue can represent divinity, but also the uncanny. It’s the colour of things not quite of the mortal world. This is one of the oldest symbolic meanings. It’s also why some ghosts are coded as being “white”- because of this colour understanding.
• Truth and Innocence- In later understanding, white was used to symbolise truth and innocence from it being the understanding of being the most pure light. This is of course slightly at odds with it’s uncanny earlier nature- but if you talk to the right spirits with this colour offering, it’ll see you true. Light illuminates all that is hidden in the dark, and also illuminates all knowledge. It shares these understandings with another colour linked to light- yellow.
• Enchantment- White is a colour often used to symbolise enchantment- many magical creatures where seen to have a white glow surrounding them.
• Birth and Day in the White-Red-Black Colour Trio. In the white, red black colour spectrum, white represents daybreak, birth and youth. Historians label this as being the most stable colour scheme in Indo-European Cultures.
• Death and Necromancy- In Indigenous Canting Tribe Traditions, it is part of the Black-White colour spectrum of necromancy. White represents Bone and the Soul- the parts of the body that can’t be naturally corrupted, as seen in the original oral tale of the Three Dead Tale. This type of magic was allowed by the church, as it fit in smoothly with Saint Relic worship. (Conversely, Black represents the underworld and rotting flesh-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. This type of magic can be used just as much for cursing as for healing, which is why it’s not just branded ‘malefica’.) White colour magic can be used to curse just as much as for healing, according to Canting Tribe Tradition.
• Omens- The colour white was used for larger omens. Not small acts of divination, but larger aspects of life, such as life and death.
• Purification and blessing- White has always been a colour of divine favour- in one way or another.  It is standing in truth, knowledge and in divine favour.
• Protection- Being protected by light. The ultimate sword against spiritual darkness.
• Cleansing- white is used for cleansing, whether of the body, mind or soul. This is reflected in church rituals too. (This is also seen in many cultures across the globe)
• Mourning and Cleansing- In the Medieval Era, many would wear white for funerals and mourning for both protection and cleansing. Bodies too were wrapped in white shrouds to protect the living but also to give the body and the soul one last cleansing.
• Angels and other heavenly messengers. As black links to the underworld, white often links to the shining heavens (as opposed to the celestial night). As such, angels, angelos and other heavenly or ‘upper’ world spirits are often clothed in white and respond well to white candles.
• White candles are often used as a substitution for all other colours, as pure light splits into the other colours.

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
• https://archive.org/stream/carminagadelicah03carm/carminagadelicah03carm_djvu.txt

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Other Information

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