The First Oil You Need Papa Zeke- Dark Honey Oil
That quality has a name in the Southern Hoodoo tradition. It’s called drawing energy — and it has been cultivated, tended, and passed down through generations of root workers, conjure men, and the grandmothers who worked roots in their kitchens long before the word “manifestation” ever existed.
Dark Honey Oil is that tradition in a bottle. And it was made specifically for him.
What is Hoodoo attraction work and why does it belong to men too?
Hoodoo is a Southern African American folk magic tradition that grew from the roots of enslaved people, blending West African spiritual practices with Native American plant knowledge and European folk magic. It is deeply practical. It was never meant to be decorative. It was survival. It was power held in plain sight.
Attraction work — the use of specific herbs, roots, oils, and intention to draw love, desire, favor, and opportunity — is one of the oldest branches of Hoodoo practice. And historically, it was not a feminine art. Conjure men were real. Root doctors were men. The men who carried mojos in their boots, who anointed their hands before a negotiation, who wore certain roots against their skin on the nights that mattered — they understood something that somewhere along the way got lost.
Your presence is something you can cultivate.
Dark Honey Oil is rooted in that understanding. This is not a love spell. It is not desperation in a bottle. It is an invitation to the world, to the right people, to the energy that is already yours , to come closer.
Why dark honey? What does the name mean?
Honey has been used in Hoodoo sweetening and attraction work since the tradition began. You sweeten someone toward you. You build a honey jar to draw the right energy close and keep it there. Honey is patient, slow, and permanent. Once it sticks, it holds.
But not all honey is the same — and in conjure work, what you use matters as much as how you use it.
Dark Honey Oil is named for buckwheat honey specifically. If you have only ever known the golden, translucent honey in the grocery store bear, buckwheat honey will stop you. It is almost black. Dense, earthy, and complex — more molasses than sweetness, more depth than brightness. It does not pour the way light honey pours. It moves on its own terms.
Buckwheat itself has deep roots in this tradition. In the Hoodoo practice, buckwheat is a money-drawing grain — associated with steady, grounded, building prosperity. Not fast luck. Not a windfall. The kind of abundance that accumulates quietly and holds. It was also a food of the ancestors — eaten by the grandmothers and grandfathers whose hands built things from nothing, whose tables were never extravagant but were never empty either. When you feed buckwheat to an ancestor altar, you are speaking a language the old ones recognize.
So when you combine buckwheat honey with the drawing tradition of Hoodoo sweetening work, something particular happens. You are not just calling attention toward you. You are calling the right attention — the kind that recognizes your value, stays, and builds with you. The kind that is drawn to substance, not performance. Buckwheat honey does not attract everything. It attracts what can handle depth.
That is the energy this oil is named for. Not a man who performs to be noticed. A man whose presence is the performance — quiet, magnetic, and impossible to look away from once you have locked eyes with it. A man whose abundance, his relationships, his reputation, his power — all of it built slowly, intentionally, and permanently.
Dark honey does not sparkle. It glows from the inside.
And what it draws, it keeps.
How to use Dark Honey Oil — the daily ritual
Conjure work is not complicated. The tradition was built by working people with five minutes before they walked out the door. Here is how you bring Dark Honey Oil into your daily life.
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Apply to your pulse points — wrists, neck, behind the ears, and the inside of your elbows. These are the places where your heartbeat meets the outside world. Warm the oil between your palms first and breathe in the scent with intention before you apply it.
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Set your intention before you leave the house. This does not need to be an elaborate prayer. It can be one sentence, spoken quietly or in your head: What is meant for me is drawn to me today. Intention is the engine. The oil is the vehicle.
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For deeper working, burn a pink or red candle on a Friday (Friday is Venus’s day — the day of love, desire, and attraction in the conjure calendar). Dress the candle with a drop of Dark Honey Oil and light it while holding your intention. Let it burn completely if possible.
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Feed your working weekly. Re-apply the oil on Fridays. Return to your intention. The tradition teaches that consistent attention is what makes a working take root and grow. You tend it the way you tend anything worth keeping.
For the woman reading this
You already know who you bought this for. Or you’re thinking of someone right now.
The Dark Honey Kit was built with you in mind too — because the women in this tradition have always been the ones who knew what the men in their lives needed before the men could name it. The grandmothers who packed roots in their husbands’ pockets. The mothers who put certain things in their sons’ shoes before they left for something hard. The partners who understood that love is also a practice, not just a feeling.
The Dark Honey Ritual Kit comes with everything needed for a complete working — the oil, the honey jar, the dressed candle, the herbs, the ritual guide. You don’t have to explain conjure to give someone this gift. The kit explains itself.
What you’re really giving him is permission to be magnetic again.
A word from the founder
Why I built this for our men
I am a woman. And I built Papa Zeke anyway.
Not because I wanted to speak for Black men — but because I have watched what happens when no one speaks to them. When the world reduces them to a threat, a statistic, a disappointment, or a punchline. When social media turns our people against each other for clicks and outrage. When the very men who carry the blood of root workers, conjure men, providers, and protectors walk around disconnected from every single one of those identities.
I made Papa Zeke because I believe healing our men heals our community.
Not one without the other. Not women healing while men struggle. Not children growing up watching their fathers disappear — physically, emotionally, spiritually. When a man is grounded in who he is, when he knows his lineage, when he walks with the authority his ancestors built for him — everything around him changes. His household changes. His children change. His partner changes. The block changes.
I want our men to feel seen. Heard. Understood. Supported — not only by the women who love them, but by each other. Brotherhood is not weakness. A man who can sit with another man’s pain and not flinch is the strongest thing in any room.
Papa Zeke is named for an ancestor. He represents every man who built something with broken tools. Every father who stayed when it was hard. Every grandfather whose name we carry but whose story we never got to hear. This line is an act of remembrance — and an act of faith that the men who are here now are capable of everything those men were.
Dark Honey Oil is not just about attraction. It is about a man remembering that he is worth being drawn to. That his presence matters. That the work of becoming his fullest self is sacred work — the same sacred work his grandfathers did in their own ways, with their own tools.
Papa Zeke is the space where that work lives. And every man who finds his way here is welcome in it.
— Sharla Spain
Founder, Emma & Rachel Conjure