Making a weapon animated effect

I am trying to make it so a small set of sparkles or something move round a sword I am making, but do not know how.
I know how to get a flame to cover a sword, but not how to get a flame move around it, or how to make the sparkles in the first place.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

That shouldn't be too hard, since you already know how to create a flame. Just add an animation to it so it's moving around your sword. You can do that by simply moving the "flame-skeleton" node.
Here are some nice Blender Tutorials about animation, hope they help

Well not how to create a flame, steal a flame mesh and put it on top hehe
I am not good at making anything with Blender lol