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How to Use Triple Action Candles for Hoodoo, Witchcraft and Magic

triple action candle in hoodoo success spells
Triple Action candles are those candle which are made with three colors -- typically you find them striped in either red, white and green or red, white and blue.

  • The red-white-green candles are used for success, prosperity and luck.
  • The red-white-blue candles are used for returning lovers, and for protection and legal work.

Some people like to burn these candles in sections, burning through one color on the candle with each day of spellwork. Personally, I feel this defeats the point of using a triple action candle (if you will only burn through one color each day, I figure you might as well just burn 3 small single-color candles) and so I like to burn these three-color candles all in one go. 

To use a triple-action candle, you can burn them plain or choose an appropriate dressing oil (or a mixture of several oils) for your magical purpose. Since these are candles used to attract positive influences, they should be dressed upward, or else in the half-up half-down style as instructed in Gamache's Candle Burning Book. Candles are typically inscribed (using a small, sharp object like a pin) with your intention or else set over a piece of paper on which you've written your desire. If your goal is to compel love from a certain person, it's typical to write just the names of the couple-to-be. 

Triple Action Candles for Love


They can be used for love spells to return your lost lover. Here's an old method:

Write the petitioner's name "straight" three times and the target's name three times under it, on a plate. Set the triple action candle on the plate and sprinkle around it sugar, raisins and steel dust. Do this repeatedly at 9 o'clock, 3 o'clock and 6 o'clock.

Blue used to be a favorite color for love spells, and red we all recognize as another hue for love. White is a neutral color but usually used to represent blessings and purity. 

In addition to triple-action candles, there can be other conjure items crafted to be triple-action. Some suppliers sell triple-action incense, which consists of their usual incense formula made into an appropriate tri-color mixture. This can also be done with powders and mojo/gris-gris bags.

This is not necessarily deceptive, even if some might think it sounds too simple. The addition of colored items into hoodoo spells, purely for the addition of color, is very old practice. Some of the oldest hoodoo spells contain items like red rags or blue beads that existed for their color signification alone. Below is a photograph of a triple-action love incense which I prepared at home.

triple action hoodoo love spell incense blend


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