The Legend
of Bayberry...
"A Bayberry
candle burnt to
the socket
puts luck
in the home,
food in
the larder,
and gold
in the pocket."
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True (Real) Bayberry Candles
6" Boxed
Pair - $9.50
8" Boxed Pair - $11.50
Why not give a loved one or
friend the gift of a bayberry candle and
share a centuries old tradition of that wonderful holiday scent
and the wish of Good Fortune, Health and Prosperity.
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We carry genuine bayberry candles made from
the wax of the berries of the Bayberry shrub.
Bayberry candles and the traditions we
associate with them began during colonial times. When colonists and
early settlers boiled the fruit from the waxy grey "berry" of the
hearty native "Bay" Berry shrubs along the Eastern Coast, they found it
left a fragrant wax on top of the water. Better still, the bayberry wax
was harder and more brittle than the beeswax they were using.
Although making bayberry candles was
considerably more effort, the colonists discovered that they burned
longer and cleaner, with a brighter light than other candles. Because
they took so much effort to make, many families saved them for special
occasions, such as Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Eventually, burning bayberry candles on
Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve became tradition, and even inspired
the saying, “Bayberry candles burned to the socket, puts luck in the
home, food in the larder, and gold in the pocket."
Another tradition was for sweethearts who
were separated on Christmas to burn bayberry candles; legend said that
the couple would be united by the candles' lovely scent.
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