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Hand-Dipped Bayberry Tapers - 6''
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Every year, one of our managers gives her friends bayberry candles. Traditionally, bayberry candles given as a gift and burned to the nub on Solstice, Christmas, or New Year's will bring health, wealth, friends, and good luck in the coming year. She includes an old poem of Germanic origin with each gift: ''A bayberry candle burned to the socket brings food to the larder and gold to the pocket.'' Bayberry wax comes from boiling the berries and skimming off the precious wax coating, and it's nearly impossible to find these days. (Bayberry scented candles are another story.)
We had pretty much given up hope of finding bayberry candles that didn't contain paraffin or synthetic fragrance when these came our way. Beeswax (from the candle maker's own bees!) has been added to the bayberry wax to give them a pleasing, natural fragrance. These two 6-inch tapers are boxed and include a reference to bayberry's good luck legend.
Brian Howell, the maker of these candles, just received some much-deserved good luck himself. He was recently honored by Martha Stewart as an ''American Made Award'' winner! Congratulations, Brian!
[Video Below]
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#12599 - 2 tapers, 6'' each
Our price $14.95
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