Law Stay Away 7 Day Glass Candle
Keep the Law Off Your Door. Keep Your People Safe.
The hoodoo tradition was born in communities that could not always rely on the law for protection and who needed, urgently and practically, to keep the law from becoming a threat. The rootworkers who developed this tradition understood something that has never stopped being true: for many people, particularly Black and brown people in America, a knock on the door from law enforcement is not a moment of safety. It is a moment of danger. And the tradition responded, as it always has, with a working.
Law Stay Away.
This is not a candle for those who have done wrong and want to escape consequences. It is a candle for those who need protection from a system that has not always been just, from enforcement that has not always been fair, and from the very real fear that the law will come for someone they love for reasons that have nothing to do with justice. It is burned with urgency, with love, and with the deep human need to keep your household safe.
Traditional Uses
- Keeping police away from your home, property, and household
- Protection from arrest, detention, and unwanted law enforcement attention
- Protection from immigration authorities — burned by undocumented individuals and their families for safety from enforcement
- Protection during traffic stops, street encounters, and situations involving police contact
- Keeping probation and parole officers satisfied, unintrusive, and uninterested in finding violations
- Protecting household members and loved ones from legal entanglement and enforcement attention
- Keeping child protective services and government agencies away from the family
- General protection from any arm of legal authority, enforcement, or government intervention
How to Work This Candle
Write the names of everyone in your household you are protecting on a piece of paper. Beneath the names, write your command clearly: The law has no business here. Stay away. Pass us by. Leave us in peace. Turn the petition face down; you are sending the law away, not drawing it in. Place it beneath the candle. Dress the top of the glass with Law Stay Away oil or Protection oil. Some workers add a pinch of sulfur or black pepper to strengthen the repelling power. Place the candle near the front door of your home if possible at the threshold, facing outward, standing between your household and whatever might come. Light it with the full force of your love for the people you are protecting. Return each day and renew the command. Keep the threshold clear.
Each candle is approximately 8 inches tall and burns for up to 7 days.
