{"id":433,"date":"2022-04-06T06:07:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T06:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/?p=433"},"modified":"2024-12-04T17:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:45:28","slug":"deacon-millett-brings-good-fortune-bayberry-candles-a-christmas-eve-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/deacon-millett-brings-good-fortune-bayberry-candles-a-christmas-eve-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayberry Candles A Christmas eve Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Several of my clients asked me this year for bayberry vigil candles, so I purchased some bayberry root chips and bayberry oil and set out to\u00a0fashion these green money and house blessing candles.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoodoo.news\/images\/d96a97d3-12e0-2d95-9105-80143ea2e223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"230\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I&#8217;d heard the poem many times, of course, and even gave Lady Muse a set of bayberry-scented lights to celebrate her shop opening. But little did I realize that\u00a0the fixed vigils and scented candles seen most often were based on a much older tradition, dating to the colonial era.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The berries of the wax myrtle shrub, grayish white and waxy, can be boiled down into a brittle wax. It takes about four pounds of berries to make one pound of the light oli<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoodoo.news\/images\/f4f04336-9771-8c58-a80d-2b1eaee5e625.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"216\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>ve green wax, which is clean burning and deliciously scented, unlike the tallow candles used in colonial times.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Saved for special occasions, these candles came to be associated with Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve. Try as I might, I can&#8217;t date the poem&#8217;s origins, but it does accord with the traditional use of bayberry in conjure!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I pray the holidays are warm and bright for you all.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of my clients asked me this year for bayberry vigil candles, so I purchased some bayberry root chips and bayberry oil and set out to\u00a0fashion these green money and house blessing candles. I&#8217;d heard the poem many times, of course, and even gave Lady Muse a set of bayberry-scented lights to celebrate her shop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lore-and-legend"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}