Real Bayberry Candle and Bayberry Legend
Legend of the Bayberry Candle Poem
This bayberry candle comes
from a friend
for on Christmas eve I do send.
For a bayberry candle burned to the socket,
will bring joy to the heart and gold to the pocket.
Where did the bayberry candle legend originate?
When the first settlers arrived on our shores, every moment was one of survival. Everything was in short supply including candles. Generally candles were made of tallow (animal fat) which tend to smoke and give off an odor. They can turn rancid as well. It didn't take long for the early colonists to discover that the abundant bayberry bush had berries that would give off a waxy residue when boiled. They learned to collect and save the bayberry wax that would rise to the surface of the water and make them into taper candles. The bayberry tapers burned longer and cleaner than the tallow version. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of bayberries to make enough wax to make a single taper. These bayberry tapers were a real treasure to the colonists who saved them for special occasions. To have a bayberry candle was a luxury to be saved and relished. It became the tradition to burn your bayberry candle on Christmas or New Years eve to bring blessings of abundance in the coming year. It is not known who actually came up with the traditional bayberry candle poem. But the tradition continues to this day.
It is believed that you should burn your bayberry candle on the eve of your holiday of choice (or all of them as I do). I include the bayberry poem, history and legend with every authentic bayberry taper. Do not leave a burning candle unsupervised.
Keep this wonderful magical holiday tradition alive! Share the bayberry candle tradition with others.
Key features of traditional bayberry candles:
- Burning a bayberry taper candle on Christmas eve or New Year's eve is said to bring good fortune.
- I include the traditional Bayberry candle poem and the bayberry history and lore.
- I also offer both traditional real bayberry wax candles and bayberry scented candles that are less expensive but smell amazing.
- authentic bayberry wax prosperity spell candle / bayberry wax money spell candle
- you can use a bayberry candle any day of the year to celebrate a new endeavor such as: birthday, wedding, start of a new business or job, retirement, graduation, anniversary, divorce (yes... worthy of celebration), full moon, solstice, any milestone that you want to bring blessings into the time that follows
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