Also called Money Drawing, money oil, prosperity oil
Money Drawing is a Hoodoo condition oil, usually built on cinnamon and other warm herbs, used to dress green candles, wallets, cash registers and mojo bags to pull in income. This version keeps the traditional ingredients but uses safe skin dilution.
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Take care: Do not use cinnamon bark or clove essential oil on skin; they burn and sensitise. Keep total essential oil at about 1 percent (6 drops per 30 ml) and patch-test. Citrus oils such as cold-pressed lemon or bergamot can cause sunburn-like reactions on skin; sweet orange is mild, but keep it dilute.
Shopkeepers wash the floor, then dress the doorstep with Money Drawing oil, sugar and cinnamon, and put sachet powder under the entrance mat to draw customers in.
A kerosene lamp with pyrite or a lodestone and coins in the reservoir, scented with Money Drawing oil, is kept burning during business hours. It is an older alternative to candles.
Bills are marked with a sign, dressed with oil and powder, and spent with Psalm 23 so that they 'come back' with friends. Yronwode says she learned a version from an Oakland supply-store owner in the 1960s.
Money Drawing is one of the most popular names in the Hoodoo supply trade, sold as oil, powder, bath crystals, incense and candles. Hoodoo's money workings grew in the Black South and in northern cities after the Great Migration, where corner spiritual shops supplied workers and gamblers. Ingredients repeat across makers: cinnamon, bayberry, five-finger grass, pyrite and lodestone, all traditional symbols of drawing in and holding money.
Exact dates for the first bottled Money Drawing oil are not documented in the sources checked; supply catalogues from the mid-twentieth century already list it alongside other conditions like Fast Luck and Crown of Success. catherine yronwode's Lucky Mojo pages, written from the 1990s on, record how it is used in candles, mojo bags, floor washes and money lamps. Recipes differ from maker to maker, so treat any single formula as one family's version.
A shop or small business blessing drawn from hoodoo customer-drawing floor washes and from old first-sale customs: wash the entry, bless the first money of the day, and keep a beckoning charm near the door. It works best alongside good service and honest prices.
A green candle is dressed with oil and herbs, marked with what you need, and burned over coins to draw money. It is a 20th-century form that grew out of Hoodoo and mail-order candle magic, now common in modern witchcraft.
A small flannel bag holding a lodestone fed with magnetic sand and a John the Conqueror root, carried to draw money, work and luck. It is a classic charm of African American Hoodoo.
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