The Magickal Properties of Incense

The Magickal Properties of Incense

ACACIA:
Burned with sandelwood to stimulate the psychic powers.

AFRICAN VIOLET:
Burned for protection and to promote spirituality within the home.

ALLSPICE:
Burned to attract both good luck and money.

ALOES:
Burned to attract good fortune, love, spiritual vibrations, and strength.

ALTHEA:
Burned for protection and to stimulate the psychic powers.

ANISE SEEDS:
Burned as a meditation incense.

BASIL:
Burned to exorcise and protect against evil entities (such as demons and
unfriendly ghosts), and to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy, and
wealth. This is also an excellent incense to use when preformiong love
divinations.

BAY:
Burned to facilitate the psychic powers, and to induce prophectic dream-visions.

BAYBERRY:
Burned mainly to attract money.

BENZOIN:
Burned for purification and to attract prosperity.

BISTORT:
Burned (often with frankinsense) as a powerful incense to aid divination.

BRACKEN:
Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain.

CEDAR:
Burned for purification, to stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, attract
love, prevent nightmares, and heal various ailments, including head colds.

CINNAMON:
Burned for protection and to attract money, stimulate or strengthen the psychic
powers, and aid in healing.

CITRON:
Bunred in rituals to aid healing and also to stregthen the psychic powers.

CLOVE:
Burned to dispel negativity, purify sacred and magickal spaces, attract money,
and stop or prevent the spread of gossip.

COCONUT:
Burned for protection.

COPAL:
Burned for purification and to atract love.

DAMIANA:
Burned to facilitate psychic visions.

DITTANY OF CRETE:
Burned to conjure spirits and to aid in astral projection (especially when mixed
with equal parts of benzoin, sandelwood, and vanilla).

DRAGON'S BLOOD:
Burned to dispel negativity, exorcise evil supernatural entities, attract love,
and restore male potency. Many Witches also burn dragon's blood for protection
when spell casting and invoking. When added to other incenses, dragon's blood
makes their magickal powers all the stronger.

ELECAMPANE:
Burned to strengthen the clairvoyant powers and scrying (divination by gazing)
abilities.

FERN:
Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain. Also used to exorcise evil
supernatural entities.

FRANKINCENSE:
Burned to dispel negativity, purify magickal spaces, protect against evil, aid
meditation, induce psychic visions, attract good luck, and honor Pagan deities.

FUMITORY:
Burned to exorcise demons, poltergeists, and evil supernatural entities.

GALANGAL:
Burned to break the curses cast by sorcerers.

GINSENG ROOT:
Burned to keep wicked spirits at bay, and for protection against all forms of
evil.

GOTU KOLA:
Burned to aid meditation.

HEATHER:
Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, and to magickally produce rain.

HIBISCUS FLOWERS:
Burned to attract love.

HOREHOUND:
Burned as an offertory incense to the ancient Egyptian god Horus.

JASMINE:
Burned to attract love and money, and also to induce dreams of a prophectic
nature.

JUNIPER:
Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and also to break curses and
hexes cast by evil sorcerers.

LAVENDER:
Burned to induce rest and sleep, and to attract love (especially of a man).

LILAC:
Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract harmony into
one's life.

MACE:
Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers.

MASTIC:
Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, stimulate or increase the psychic powers,
and intensify sexual desires. The magickal powers of other incenses are greatly
increased when a bit of mastic is added.

MESQUITE:
The magickal powers of all healing incenses are greatly increased when mesquite
is added.

MINT:
Burned to increase sexual desire, exorcise evil supernatural entities, conjure
beneficial spirits, and attract money. Mint incense also possesses strong
healing vibrationsand protective powers.

MYRRH:
Burned (often with frankincense) for purification, consecration, healing,
exorcism, and banishing evil. Myrrh is also aids meditation rituals, and was
commonly burned on alters in ancient Egypt as an offering to deities Isis and
Ra.

NUTMEG:
Burned to aid meditation, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to
attract prosperity.

PATCHOULI:
Burned to attract money and love, and also to promote fertility.

PINE:
Burned for purification, and to banish negativeenergies, exorcise evil
supernatural entities, and attract money, as well as to break hexes and return
them to their senders.

POPPY SEEDS:
Burned to promote female fertility, and to attract love, good luck, and money.

ROSE:
Burned to increase courage, induce prophetic dreams, and attract love. Rose
incense is used in all forms of love enchantment and possesses the strongest
love vibration of any magickal incense.

ROSEMARY:
Burned to purify, aid in healing, prevent nightmares, preserve youthfulness,
dispel depression, attract fairyfolk, and promote restful sleep and pleasant
dreams.

RUE:
Burned to help restore health.

SAGE:
Burned for protection against all forms of evil, and to purify sacred spaces and
ritual tools, promote wisdom, attract money, and aid in the healing the body,
mind, and soul.

SAGEBRUSH:
Burned to aid healing, and to banish negative energies and evil supernatural
entities.

SANDALWOOD:
Burned to exorcise demons and evil ghosts, conjure beneficial spirits, and
promote spiritual awareness. Sandalwood incense is also used by many Witches in
healing rituals and in wish-magick.

SOLOMON'S SEAL:
Burned mainly as an offertory incense to ancient Pagan deities.

STAR ANISE SEEDS:
Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers.

STRAWBERRY:
Burned to attract love.

SWEETGRASS:
Burned to conjure beneficial spirits prior to spellcasting.

THYME:
Burned for the purification of magickal spaces prior to rituals, to aid in
healing, and to attract good health.

VANILLA:
Burned to attract love, increase sexual desire, and improve the powers of the
mind.

VERVAIN:
Burned to exorcise evil supernatural entities.

VETIVERT:
Burned to break curses, and for protection against sorcery (black magick) and
thieves.

WILLOW:
Burned to avert evil, attract love, and promote healing. It is also used by many
Witches as an offertory incense for Pagan lunar deities.

WISTERIA:
Burned for protection against all forms of evil.

WORMWOOD:
Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. When mixed with sandalwood
and burned at night in a cemetery, wormwood is said to be able to conjure
spirits from their graves.