Candles

Most of the work done in this shop starts with a candle, so this is the shelf we mind closest. Chime candles by the box for quick, single-purpose burns. Six-inch household tapers in the traditional colors. Seven-knob candles for work that runs a week, jar candles that burn five to seven days, and figural candles, cats and skulls and human forms, for the older styles of working. Our own planetary-hour candles live on the house shelf and are listed here as well.

Color follows the usual correspondences, and we say so on each page: white for clearing and blessing, black for banishing, red for heat, green for money, purple for power. Sizes are exact in the description; a half-inch chime and a three-quarter-inch household candle need different holders, and the holders are on this shelf too.

Never leave a burning candle alone. The old practitioners didn't either.