In another topic, we were talking about the Blue Flame on the Strega's altar......

Here's some other colors in flames from:
magickwyrd.com/weblog/

How To Make Colored Flames & Candle Flame In Color For A Magick Effect.

Colored flames are quite beautiful, and fairly simple to create. Most of the metal minerals and chemical ingredients can be obtained locally at a garden center, hardware center, or a pharmacy. Some can be ordered online. You will need a safe area outdoors, like a safety pit for burning and some kind of heavy stainless pot/container to burn flames in. You need to purchase a can of fuel- methyl alcohol, and a wick- I use rolled steel wool pads (fine to medium is good). Methyl Alcohol is highly flammable, so read the container warnings and handle this fuel with care. It is safe as long as you pay attention to proper use.

STEPS: Set aside about 1/3 of a steel wool pad. In the metal container, mix 1-2 cups methyl alcohol with One of the metal/chemicals (do not mix metal chemicals together). I try to add as much chemical as will disolve, start by adding a tablespoon and mix into alcohol with a wooden spoon.

When the chemical is disolved, drop the steel wool piece in the methyl alcohol colored flame formula, and place the metal container in the safety pit. Carefully use a long match stick to ignite the steel wool wick that burns the colored flames. Enjoy the colorful fire, it is fun to share and looks quite magical~

Note: Restricted to users over 18 years of age. Take care to avoid getting the materials on you, read the ATSDR safety data if you are not familiar with chemical handling. Never leave any flame untended, and remember that alcohol is highly flammable. Alcohol flames are invisible when ignited in daylight.

What makes the various “Flame Colors”:

Bold Blue - Copper chloride (spectacular)

Crimson to Fushia - Lithium chloride (spectacular)

Green - Copper sulfate (very nice)

Pale Green - Boric acid (subtle)

Orange - Calcium chloride (nice)

Purple - Potassium chloride (nice)

Red -Strontium chloride (spectacular)

Bright Yellow -Sodium chloride (salt) (bright flame)


You can incorporate small amounts of any listed earth powders (chemicals) by mixing with paraffin in a coffee can set into a double boiler. Do this with extreme care as paraffin is HIGHLY flammable. I recommend safety measures: appropriate extinguisher, oven mitts, and specifically, when you melt wax, NEVER leave it untended for any reason.

Try one or two candles to determine what you want.

Mold your candles, or use muffin tins, small paper cups, even a box of damp sand with scooped shapes will work. Use good cotton candle wick, with or without wire is fine.

As candles burn and the wax melts, the chemicals burn colored flames. A nice effect.

Finally, you can sprinkle or soak wood, wood chips, pine cones, or other materials to burn with colored flames when dried. You can use a glue water mixture with metal chemicals, soak overnight and dry on a bed of newsprint for a couple weeks. I’ve heard of using paraffin wax on pine cones, then dunking them in the chemical water, but wax is a resist so I can’t see that would work well, unless you use very, very hot water.

It’s all fun, just be careful with the chemicals, and when burning anything- outdoors only!

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BTW, I have used salt as a magic dust to throw on a fire....when you do this, the fire gets bigger and brighter for a moment!
It is good magic to think of 2 people who are quarreling and the salt is a prayer for peace between the people
to dissolve the quarrel.

Of course, for the good of all, according to free will!