[Dipper nods when Oscar connects it to the requests they've made to Julia. That's honestly very apt and was an example he was planning to use if Oscar needed clarification.]

Right, exactly like that. Burning something in a ritual is also a way for you to like ...release the energy out of it, if that makes sense. You could easily set up a few candles around a small campfire set up.

[This is nerdy, but Dipper feels very strongly about this. Magic and its use back home is something that's very specifically different for their worlds. Back home it follows very specific rules and is something their family has gotten very familiar with. After a moment he falls quiet and then he continues to explain.]

This is...selfish of me, probably, but the idea of you taking something that's supposed to represent you and just smashing it like it's bad or unwanted doesn't ...sit well with me, I guess.

Sacrificing it in an actual ritual means you're giving it to it's next new purpose, which sounds more like what sacrificing should mean.