[Help] Recipe for black art oil

[that]

Hello fellow travelers of the occult corridors.Does anyone has a recipe for black art oil ,hex oil or any oil for mallefica workings.Asking for a friend

 

[DanieleWraith]

Hello fellow travelers of the occult corridors.Does anyone has a recipe for black art oil ,hex oil or any oil for mallefica workings.Asking for a friend

First, I have never heard the names of those oils, but from what I understood, you are looking for something to amplify harmful magical practices. Even so, isn’t it important to use an oil that belongs to the tradition you are working within?

 

[MorganBlack]

Check the Witchcraft, Folk Magic and Herbalism section.
There was a post with a really great cursing recipe there. You will need to do some digging.

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The recipes found around the web for Black Arts Oil usually include ingredients like Valerian Root (Vandal Root), Mullein, Spanish Moss, and other underworld ingredients like black dog's hair.

These oils are not all the same oil. Black Art Oil is not only for cursing / baneful works like Destruction, DUME, or Goofer Dust recipes are. It is a New World sorcery recipe found in Hoodoo and Brueria traditions (where it's called Aceite de Artes Negras), and can be used to also break hexes, empower spellwork, and assert control in spiritual matters.

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Just to add a quick note about cultural sensitivity.

You are totally free use these recipes, even if you are not Latino or African American. (For the record I'm Latino. If anyone gives you a hard time tell them Mr. Black said it was okay).

Just don't go on the web and call it DUME oil or whatever. That would be the appropriation of a culture you are not part of, not the use of the recipe in and of itself.

A decade or so back was an issue of Wiccans / modern pagans appropriating the recipes AND the names of Hoodoo / Conjure oils recipe they were using. They were even claiming Van Van oil is really a "pagan oil, "which is ridiculous. But you are totally free to learn from them and make your own similar condition oil that is like Van Van.

The root called 'High John the Conqueror Root' is Jalap root (botanical name, Ipomoea jalapa ). It's a member of the morning glory family, and a anative to Mexico (specifically the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental, near the city of Xalapa/Jalapa) and points south to central America, before it was called High John the Conqueror Root. You can do the same with other ingredients. Just don't call it High John, which come from a specific culture(well a blend of cultures, African and Indigenous / AmerIndian). Another huge topic.

 

[that]

Check the Witchcraft, Folk Magic and Herbalism section.
There was a post with a really great cursing recipe there. You will need to do some digging.

Witchcraft, Folk Magic and Herbalism

Discussions regarding Witchcraft and Folk Magic. Feel free to talk about Shamanism, Elemental Magic and Herbalism here too.

wizardforums.com

The recipes found around the web for Black Arts Oil usually include ingredients like Valerian Root (Vandal Root), Mullein, Spanish Moss, and other underworld ingredients like black dog's hair.

These oils are not all the same oil. Black Art Oil is not only for cursing / baneful works like Destruction, DUME, or Goofer Dust recipes are. It is a New World sorcery recipe found in Hoodoo and Brueria traditions (where it's called Aceite de Artes Negras), and can be used to also break hexes, empower spellwork, and assert control in spiritual matters.

Post automatically merged: Feb 26, 2026

Just to add a quick note about cultural sensitivity.

You are totally free use these recipes, even if you are not Latino or African American. (For the record I'm Latino. If anyone gives you a hard time tell them Mr. Black said it was okay).

Just don't go on the web and call it DUME oil or whatever. That would be the appropriation of a culture you are not part of, not the use of the recipe in and of itself.

A decade or so back was an issue of Wiccans / modern pagans appropriating the recipes AND the names of Hoodoo / Conjure oils recipe they were using. They were even claiming Van Van oil is really a "pagan oil, "which is ridiculous. But you are totally free to learn from them and make your own similar condition oil that is like Van Van.

The root called 'High John the Conqueror Root' is Jalap root (botanical name, Ipomoea jalapa ). It's a member of the morning glory family, and a anative to Mexico (specifically the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental, near the city of Xalapa/Jalapa) and points south to central America, before it was called High John the Conqueror Root. You can do the same with other ingredients. Just don't call it High John, which come from a specific culture(well a blend of cultures, African and Indigenous / AmerIndian). Another huge topic.

Very helpful indeed Mr.Black! I do understand the sensitivity around such topics .It is strictly for personal experimentation and use.

 

[MorganBlack]

You're most welcome, That!

Mulling this over this morning over coffee.

To add another layer. Using the High John the Conqueror example here. I think that well-intentioned "no touching" rule marginalizes people more. I think to go one better...

Use High John the Conqueror root (or Black Arts, or Goofer Dust) - and then go and read about the man who is a central folk hero in African American culture. Track down Zora Neale Hurston's books and learn the stories of an African prince who was enslaved but whose spirit was never broken, a trickster who outsmarted the slave lords.

The story is one of the inner nobility and strength. By seeing it there you can see patterns of a stories in your own culture, which you are also a part of, and now includes a story of you being inspired by another culture's stories. That means something. From there it might help you track down local plants and root if you have a hard time getting a root from Mexico and the US.

I saw a person from China (if i recall) having a hard time getting Abre Camino for a Road Opening Spell. I was like, all good. People are welcome to piggyback on our shoulders until the get their own "traditions" ramped up - but surely there is something in Chinese traditional medicine that fulfills the same role? This is not a "how dare they?!" reponse but one of pure joy they come here to learn. We all learn from each other.

 

[that]

You're most welcome, That!

Mulling this over this morning over coffee.

To add another layer. Using the High John the Conqueror example here. I think that well-intentioned "no touching" rule marginalizes people more. I think to go one better...

Use High John the Conqueror root (or Black Arts, or Goofer Dust) - and then go and read about the man who is a central folk hero in African American culture. Track down Zora Neale Hurston's books and learn the stories of an African prince who was enslaved but whose spirit was never broken, a trickster who outsmarted the slave lords.

The story is one of the inner nobility and strength. By seeing it there you can see patterns of a stories in your own culture, which you are also a part of, and now includes a story of you being inspired by another culture's stories. That means something. From there it might help you track down local plants and root if you have a hard time getting a root from Mexico and the US.

I saw a person from China (if i recall) having a hard time getting Abre Camino for a Road Opening Spell. I was like, all good. People are welcome to piggyback on our shoulders until the get their own "traditions" ramped up - but surely there is something in Chinese traditional medicine that fulfills the same role? This is not a "how dare they?!" reponse but one of pure joy they come here to learn. We all learn from each

You're most welcome, That!

Mulling this over this morning over coffee.

To add another layer. Using the High John the Conqueror example here. I think that well-intentioned "no touching" rule marginalizes people more. I think to go one better...

Use High John the Conqueror root (or Black Arts, or Goofer Dust) - and then go and read about the man who is a central folk hero in African American culture. Track down Zora Neale Hurston's books and learn the stories of an African prince who was enslaved but whose spirit was never broken, a trickster who outsmarted the slave lords.

The story is one of the inner nobility and strength. By seeing it there you can see patterns of a stories in your own culture, which you are also a part of, and now includes a story of you being inspired by another culture's stories. That means something. From there it might help you track down local plants and root if you have a hard time getting a root from Mexico and the US.

I saw a person from China (if i recall) having a hard time getting Abre Camino for a Road Opening Spell. I was like, all good. People are welcome to piggyback on our shoulders until the get their own "traditions" ramped up - but surely there is something in Chinese traditional medicine that fulfills the same role? This is not a "how dare they?!" reponse but one of pure joy they come here to learn. We all learn from each other.

Exactly!We learn from each other and evolve ,hopefully in better version of our selves and collectively. The best example and a obvious one is food.Everyone enjoys a tomato salad or potatoes but it wasn't accessible to all part of the world .Spices too etc . Spirituality is also one of those things .it evolves and ussually is a collage of practices. See PGM or how Buddhism has absorbed the local practices and religions of the places that it spread.( Thailand, Nepal,Tibet, Japan etc) .It has evolved to something unique but with the same base. The key to all of this for me is respect. Respect other cultures, respect other practices ,respect other people * take no shit though*