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Magical Properties of Herbs
 

Sage



salvia officinalis

PART USED: Leaves
ELEMENT: Air
GENDER: Masculine
PLANET: Earth /Jupiter

FOLK NAMES
Garden Sage
Red Sage
Sawge

POWERS
Healing
Immortality
Longevity
Protection
Purifying
Wisdom
Wishes

USES
Used in sachets and amulets for all healing wishes.

Burned or placed near a personal object
of the person for whom the healing wish is made.

Burned and the smoke is walked to the four
corners of the room to repel and rid negative
energies and influences.
Especially good when moving into a new home.

Can be drank as a tea to help
promote a hasty healing.

Use when meditating.

Sage has been utilized to ensure a long life
---sometimes even immortality.
This os done by eating part of the plant everyday,
or at least in May, for;
'He who would live for aye
Must eat sage in May.'


Sage is carried to promote wisdom.

Leaves are used in countless
healing and money spells.

To guard yourself against contracting the dreaded
'evil eye' wear a small horn filled with sage.

there are a few curious gardening tips
conserning sage;
first, it is bad luck to plant sage in your own garden.
A stranger should be found to do the work.
Second; a full bed of sage brings ill luck,
so ensure some other plants shares the lot.
Incidentaly, toads love sage.

If you desire to make a wish come true,
write it on a sage leaf and hide it beneath your pillow.
For three nights sleep upon it.
If once you dream of what you desire
your wish will be materialized;
If not, bury the sage in the ground
so that you do not come to harm.


MAGICAL PROPERTIES
SAMHAIN



Source(s)
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
by Scott Cunningham


Special Thanks
Witchcraft and Magic
t_town_ks


Cunningham''s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs

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