Guide to Black Magic

Making Black Candles

For sorcery you need two things:

Call Me your Father.

So that I may call you My son.

© The Devil

Buy Candles or Make Black Candles Yourself?

In sorcery, fully dyed black candles are used. So when buying, you must make sure the candles are black not only on the outside, but also inside. But which ones are better to use — bought in a store or made by yourself, for yourself? And considering that the page is called “Making Black Candles,” the talk here will be about making them.

Equipment:

There can be many variants of equipment, and you decide for yourself what to choose and what to replace it with. Here I will indicate what I myself have tested and have been using for many years — a very long time.

  1. A container for melting the candle material (wax, paraffin, candle stubs
    etc.).
  2. Dye for candles. I use my own homemade one — crushed charcoal. How to make it and where to get it — everyone decides for themselves. I will not describe in detail the making of the “dye” here. In a personal consultation.
  3. Wick. You can buy it separately or use the wick from melted candles (I do it this way).
  4. An electric hot plate with 1 burner.
  5. A piece of black cloth. I use it as a tablecloth.

The equipment listed below I use purely for comfort and convenience:

  1. A second, smaller container for melting the candle material, 200–250 ml. For melting, mixing and topping up the large container as it is used up. A ceramic or porcelain stoneware tile of at least 45×45 format. I place it under the electric hot plate and there is still a lot of space left for laying out the candles and other things. It is easy to clean with a small narrow construction spatula.
  2. A construction or painting spatula 30–50 mm. For cleaning the work surface (ceramic tile).
  3. A knife (not a sorcerer’s knife) for stirring the melted wax and other work on making candles. I use a simple kitchen knife with a long blade so that the blade sticks out above the melted wax (paraffin, mixture) by about 2 cm to the handle.
  4. Scissors for trimming the wicks and candles.
  5. A mortar and pestle for making the “dye”

Instructions for Making Black Candles for Sorcery

  1. Spread the black cloth on the table.
  2. Place the ceramic tile.
  3. Put the container with wax (paraffin, mixture) on it to heat up. In my case two fit on the tile at once (they are about 25 cm high, and 15 and 5 cm in diameter).
  4. Prepare the wicks of the size I need. I cut a lot of them at once, so I just take them from the “stack”. The wick size is approximately 20–23 cm. But for such a wick size the level of the melted wax should be 13–15 cm. And keep in mind that its level gradually decreases as it cools and as you dip the candles, so I periodically add melted wax from the smaller container into the larger one. And another life hack: the temperature of the melted wax in the smaller container is much higher than necessary, so that when added to the main container the overall temperature rises, because it cools quite quickly. Of course, you can keep the “bucket” (I use a simple but “nice” small bucket) constantly on the electric hot plate and regulate the burner temperature, but in that case drops often fall on the burner and smoke heavily. But you can use it however you want.
  5. Take a previously prepared black candle or a church one (inverted), draw an inverted pentagram on it and put a drop of blood. Light it and read the prayer before making Black Candles.
  6. Next. The wax is melted, add the “dye” to it. Calculate the amount yourself, because the dye is different. I put two teaspoons of the powder prepared in the mortar. If this is not enough, you can order a special black candle dye online and add a little of it. But there is no need to chase a perfectly black color — the point is not the color, but the dye. It must be present.
  7. Thoroughly stir and periodically stir the melted material for the black candles, because the “dye” gradually settles, and for even distribution of the wax (paraffin) temperature.
  8. Start dipping the wicks into the wax. I dip several pieces (5–6 pieces) at once (one by one) and lay them out on the ceramic tile to set. Because more wax sticks to the already set wax on the next dip. With each dip I turn the wick over so that it is covered with wax on all sides. Dip one candle, hold it vertically over the “bucket”, you can blow on it so that the wax sets, and carefully place it on the ceramic tile, then take another. Dip a couple of times (dip – turn – dip – turn – dip), hold a little (20–30 sec) for setting and carefully place it on the tile so that it doesn’t crack. Then move on to the next one. And so on with all 5–6 candles. Then go back to the first one and repeat everything again, in a circle, until the candle reaches the thickness you need. As soon as it has reached the needed thickness, set it aside for complete cooling and hardening. Just put some paper under them, otherwise they stain everything. And start all over again with the wicks.
  9. Read the prayer when dipping the wick into the wax (read as many times as you want).

Tips for Making Black Candles

You can increase the thickness of the candles — then they will burn longer. They can be used for prayers and Psalms. For copying the text of prayers, rituals, Psalms, etc. from the internet into a notebook. Such candles after reading or copying, or during cleansing, or as an additional light source during a ritual — can be extinguished and then lit again.

If you take 3 candles of roughly the same thickness 4–5 mm and, while they are still warm, twist them together and then dip the resulting one several times in wax to a total diameter of 3–3.5 cm, you will get a twisted candle with three wicks. Such candles are useful outdoors in wind and light rain. Because they have three burning wicks, and if one goes out, it will light again from the others.

So, you have made the candles, they have cooled and hardened, and here the scissors come into play. With them I cut the candles in half (remember, our wick size is 20–23 cm) and clean the top of the wick a little for convenient lighting. I also trim the bottom of the candle down to the wick, because when dipping a place without a wick forms, and if you put it in a candlestick, when it burns down to the end of the wick the candle may fall — or rather the burning wick.

And don’t forget to read the prayer at the end

For a more detailed personal consultation, where you will learn about making the dye, about how and where to collect the material for making black candles, and other support regarding making candles for sorcery.