Bayberry Scented Taper Candles - 7/8" x 10"

Bayberry Scented Taper Candles
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Bayberry Scented Taper Candles are richly fragranced and, according to tradition, to bring good luck, you must burn Bayberry candles on Christmas eve. If the flame burns bright and the light shines clear, then heaven will bless you throughout the year.   We include a copy of the following with our Bayberry Candles.


Bayberry Candle Poem
 
This bayberry candle comes from a friend
so on Christmas eve burn it down to the end.
For a bayberry candle burned to the socket,
will bring joy to the heart and gold to the pocket.

Where did the bayberry candle tradition 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.

We suggest you add plenty of these fragrant candles to your order now and burn them throughout the holiday season.

Made in the USA.

Burn time for these 10" taper candles is approximately 7 hours.

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