5 Day Novendialia Candles
Our 5 Day Novendialia Candles are truly unique and original in the witchcraft and devotional world. Hand poured from a eco-friendly blend of soy, coconut and beeswax
We have a range of coloured and devotional 5 day candles for you to choose from! Each devotional candle features beautiful original art and devotional prayer created by Tarn N.
We also only stock devotional pieces of the spirits we have worked with, to ensure you get the best experience.
These candles come with stickers, for both the coloured and devotional candles. The coloured candles will have an un-obstructive sicker on the back containing information about the candle, as well as an intention box. If you want a completely sticker free novendialia candle, you'll have to go for our 7 day candle jar range.
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 have easy acces to them, and 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.
