Black Hawk candles are used for obtaining the assistance of the spirit of Black Hawk in spiritualist spells and rituals.
Black Hawk was a famous leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian Nation. Although he had inherited an important historic medicine bundle, he was not a hereditary civil chief of the Sauk; rather, he was an appointed war chief. During the War of 1812, Black Hawk fought on the side of the British. Later he led a band of Sauk and Fox warriors against settlers in Illinois and present-day Wisconsin in the 1832 Black Hawk War. After the war he was captured and taken to the eastern U.S. where he and other British Band leaders toured several cities. Black Hawk died in 1838 in what is now southeastern Iowa.