juglans
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FOLK NAMES
Carya
Caucasian Walnut
English Walnut
Persian Walnut
Tree of Evil
Walnoot
GENDER: Hot and Masculine
PLANET: Sun
ELEMENT: Fire
PART USED
Leaves and Nut
BASIC POWERS
Fertility
Healing
POWERS
Health
Infertility Wishes
Mental Powers
MAGICAL USES
If anyone gives you a bag of walnuts,
You will see your wishes fulfilled.
When placed within a hat or around the head,
walnut leaves prevent headaches and sunstroke.
If a woman wishes to delay any "blessed events"
should she place in her bodice as many roasted walnuts
as correspond to the number of years
she wishes to remain childless.
She must do this on her Wedding Day.
RITUAL USES
Witches were suppose to dance beneath
the walnut tree in Italy duting their secret rites.
SPECIFIC USES
Carry the nut in its shell
to promote fertility, to strengthen the heart,
or to ward off rheumatism.
They also attract lightening,
don't carry one in an electrical storm.
Witches use to dance beneath walnut trees
in their rites, although this has fallen into disuse.
Eat walnuts to cure maddness.
Source(s)
Magical Herbalism and
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
by Scott Cunningham
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