Faery Plants and Flowers

These are some plants and flowers that faeries are especially partial to and/or may help to see and/or get rid of them. I hope that these may help in your keeping/searching for the fay.

ALDER Charm against eveil faeries. ASH Placing ash berries in a cradle prevents the child from being traded for a changeling. BLACKBERRY It was taboo to eat blackberries in Celtic countries because of the faeries. BLACKTHORN Held scared by faeries. The Luantishees are blackhorn faeries. BLUEBELL Fields of bluebells are dangerously enchated by faeries, who are called to thier midnight dances and revealed by the sounds of bluebells ringing. CLOVER A four leaf clover can break faery spells. Wearing a four-leaf clover in your hat gives you the power to see invisible faeries. COWSLIP DOGWOOD Pixy Pears is one name for the tree's fruit. ELDER It was a British belief that placing a child in an elder-wood cradle could cause it to be pinched black and blue by faeries. FERN Ferns are favored by pixies, who can sometimes be found near them. FLAX Purging flax is also called Faery Flax. FOXGLOVE Small faeries ride bundles of grass as horses. MUSHROOMS and TOADSTOOLS Are used by faeries in literature and faeries can be seen sitting around/under these. OAK In British folklore, ancient hollow trees (called bull oaks in England, bell oaks in Scotland and Ireland) are trees that stood in old scared groves. They were often believed to be the home of spirits, elves, faeries, or demons.  You were supposed to turn your coat or cloak inside-out to neutralize thier magic. "Turn your cloaks For Fairy folks Are in old oakes. PEAR Japanese pears are called Faeries Fire in the language of Flowers. PRIMROSE RAGWORT Ragwort stems are used as horses by tiny faeries. ST. JOHN'S WORT THISTLES Pixie's Gloves is another name for thistles. WILLOW The wind in the willows is the whisperings of a faery in the ear of a poet.