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Magickal Properties of Herbs, Flowers, Plants, Trees, Oils and Incense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Growing your own herbs is cool. You can honor them for their life force and envision your magickal purposes in them from seed until harvest. If you buy your herbs you should say a blessing over them before using them for spellwork. When you are ready to begin using your herbs it is important to enchant or send your own energy and purpose into them. Hold the herbs, inhale their scent. Feel yourself melding with the herbs. Herbs can be used in any and/or all magickal workings to aid and enhance the needed outcome. They can be used in incenses, oils, recipes, teas, to smoke or alone. Some popular ways of using herbs are: Poppets: A poppet is a cloth figure shaped to human form and stuffed with the appropriate herb for the purpose of gaining a desired effect.(ie:healing, love). and: Sachet: A small square of cloth filled with the appropriate herb for your spellwork and sewed or tied shut. The sachet is then carried with you. This is convenient in work that needs color correspondences because you can use colored cloth and colored thread or yarn to enhance the spellwork. There are also four basic elemental methods for using herbs. Earth Method - Make a sachet of the appropriate herb Take it to an outdoor spot that you feel is empowered. Bury the sachet while performing a ritual of your choice keeping the intent clear. Leave and don't return. Air Method - Stand in an open place on a hill. Place a portion of your herb in the palm of your hand and starting with North, blow a little of the herb into the wind. Next East, then South. At West blow all of the remainding herb into the wind. Visualize your intent. It is done. Fire Method - Take a piece of parchment paper and write your intent on it. Place a portion of the herb of choice in it and wrap it into a small packet. Toss the packet into a fire. Have your intent in mind. Water Method - Take the appropriate herb to a lake, stream, river, etc. Hold the herb in you hand as you envision your intent. With a sweeping motion scatter the herb into the water. I have been told that there are over 10,000 different herbs. The following pages will contain the most used and popular. I will continue to add to the pages as I hear of other herbs and their magickal properties. If you know of any that I am missing please send me the info to include on these pages. |
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If a recipe calls for OIL DRY HERB 1 part herbs= 1 drop= 1/2 teaspoon 2 part herbs= 2 drops= 1 teaspoon 3 part herbs= 3 drops= 1 1/2 teaspoon |
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Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth |
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Witches of old called plants by secret names probably due to a few reasons. One being to protect themselves from being found out to be witches. Another reason was due to not knowing the true name of an herb so they named it for the properties it carried. For instance Tongue of the Dog(houndstongue) was said to be an herb that could quiet a dog's barking. Another reason was due to the fact that many witches were women and women hate to share their recipes. ;-) Here are some old time names for herbs: A Bone of an Ibis: Buckthorn Adders Tongue: Dogstooth Violet A Titan's Blood: Wild Lettuce A Lion's Hairs: Tongue of a Turnip [i.e., the leaves of the taproot] A Man's Bile: Turnip Sap A Pig's Tail: Leopard's Bane A Hawk's Heart: Heart of Wormwood An Eagle: Wild Garlic Ass's Foot or Bull's Foot: Coltsfoot Blood: Elder sap or another tree sap Blood of Hephaistos: Wormwood Burning Bush: White Dittany Bread and Cheese Tree: Hawthorne Blood from a Head: Lupine Bird's Eye: Germander Speedwell Blood of Ares: Purslane Blood of a Goose: A Mulberry Tree's Milk Bloodwort: Yarrow Blood of Hestia: Camomile Blood of an Eye: Tamarisk Gall Blood from a Shoulder: Bear's Breach Bat's Wings: Holly Black Sampson: Echinacea Bull's Blood or Seed of Horus: Horehound Bear's Foot: Lady's Mantle Calf's Snout: Snapdragon Cat's Foot: Canada Snake Root and/or Ground Ivy Candelmas Maiden: Snowdrop. Capon's Tail: Valerian. Christ's Ladder: Centaury Cheeses: Marsh Mallow Chocolate Flower: Wild Geranium Christ's Eye: Vervain Sage Clear-eye: Clary Sage Click: Goosegrass Cucumber Tree: Magnolia Clot: Great Mullein Corpse Plant: Indian Pipe. Crowdy Kit: Figwort Cuddy's Lungs: Great Mullein Crow Foot: Cranesbill Cuckoo's Bread: Common Plantain Clear Eye: Clary Sage Crow's Foot: Wild Geranium Devils Dung: Asafoetida Dragon's Blood: Calamus Dog's Mouth: Snap Dragon Daphne: Laurel/Bay Devil's Plaything: Yarrow Dove's Foot: Wild Geranium Dew of the Sea: Rosemary Dragon Wort: Bistort Earth Smoke: Fumitory Eye of Christ: Germander Speedwell Elf's Wort: Elecampane Enchanter's Plant: Vervain Englishman's Foot: Common Plantain Erba Santa Maria: Spearmint Everlasting Friendship: Goosegrass Eye of the Day: Common Daisy Eye of the Star: Horehound Eye Root: Goldenseal Eyes: Aster, Daisy, Eyebright Frog's Foot: Bulbous Buttercup From the Loins: Camomile Fat from a Head: Spurge Fairy Smoke: Indian Pipe Felon Herb: Mugwort From the Belly: Earth-apple From the Foot: Houseleek Five Fingers: Cinquefoil Fox's Clote: Burdock Graveyard Dust: Mullein Goat's Foot: Ash Weed God's Hair: Hart's Tongue Fern Golden Star: Avens Gosling Wing: Goosegrass Graveyard Dust: Mullein Great Ox-eye: Ox-eye Daisy Hairs of a Hamadryas Baboon: Dill Seed Hair of Venus: Maidenhair Fern Hag's Taper: Great Mullein Hagthorn: Hawthorn Hare's Beard: Great Mullein Herb of Grace: Vervain Hind's Tongue: Hart's Tongue Fern Holy Herb: Yerba Santa Holy Rope: Hemp Agrimony Hook and Arn: Yerba Santa Horse Tongue: Hart's Tongue Fern Horse Hoof: Coltsfoot Hundred Eyes: Periwinkle Innocense: Bluets Jacob's Staff: Great Mullein Joy of the Mountain: Marjoram Jupiter's Staff: Great Mullein King's Crown: Black Haw Knight's Milfoil: Yarrow Kronos' Blood: of Cedar Lady's Glove: Foxglove aka Witches' Gloves Lion's Tooth: Dandelion aka Priest's Crown Lad's Love: Southernwood Lamb's Ears: Betony Little Dragon: Tarragon Love in Idleness: Pansy Love Leaves: Burdock Love Lies Bleeding: Amaranth or Anemone Love Man: Goosegrass Love Parsley: Lovage Love Root: Orris Root Man's Health: Ginseng Maiden's Ruin: Southernwood Master of the Woods: Woodruff May: Black Haw May Lily: Lily of the Valley May Rose: Black Haw Maypops: Passion Flower Mistress of the Night: Tuberose Mutton Chops: Goosegrass Nose Bleed: Yarrow Old-Maid's-Nightcap: Wild Geranium Old Man's Flannel: Great Mullein Old Man's Pepper: Yarrow Oliver: Olive Password: Primrose Pucha-pat: Patchouli Peter's Staff: Great Mullein Priest's Crown: Dandelion leaves Poor Man's Treacle: Garlic Queen of the Night: Vanilla Cactus Queen of the Meadow: Meadowsweet Queen of the Meadow Root: Gravelroot Ram's Head: American Valerian Red Cockscomb: Amaranth Ring-o-bells: Bluebells Robin-run-in-the-grass: Goosegrass Semen of Helios: White Hellebore Semen of Herakles: Mustard-rocket Semen of Hermes: Dill Semen of Hephaistos: This is Fleabane Semen of Ammon: Houseleek Semen of Ares: Clover Seed of Horus: Horehound Sparrow's Tongue: Knotweed Soapwort: Comfrey or Daisy Shepherd's Heart: Shepherd's Purse Swine's Snout: Dandelion leaves Shameface: Wild Geranium See Bright: Clary Sage Scaldhead: Blackberry Seven Year's Love: Yarrow Silver Bells: Black Haw Sorcerer's Violet: Periwinkle St. John's Herb: Hemp Agrimony.(this is not St. John's Wort) St. John's Plant: Mugwort Star Flower: Borage Star of the Earth: Avens Starweed: Chickweed Sweethearts: Goosegrass Tarragon: Mugwort Tartar Root: Ginseng Thousand Weed: Yarrow Thunder Plant: House Leek Tanner's Bark: Common Oak Toad: Toadflax Torches: Great Mullein Tongue of dog: houndstongue Tears of a Hamadryas Baboon: Dill Juice Unicorn Root: Ague Root Unicorn's Horn: False Unicorn:Helonias Dioica Unicorn Horn: True Unicorn Root Wax Dolls: Fumitory Weazel Snout: Yellow Dead Nettles/Yellow Archangel White: Ox-eye Daisy White Wood: White Cinnamon Witch's Asprin: White Willow/Willow Bark Witch's Brier: Brier Hips Weasel Snout: Yellow Archangel Wolf Foot: Bugle Weed Wolf Claw: Club Moss Wolf's Milk: Euphorbia Weed: Ox-Eye Daisy White Man's Foot: Common Plantain |
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Herbal Attribute Quick Reference List | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HERBAL CORRESPONDENCES HERBS for the SABBATS PLANETARY HERBS HERBAL GENDER HERBS FOR THE DAYS of the WEEK |
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