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Herbal Grimoire
Understand the magickal properties of herbs
and some ways that you can use them for your own rituals and purposes.
| Herb Name |
Magickal Uses |
| Acacia |
Protection, psychic and spiritual enhancement, money, platonic love,
and friendship. Use to anoint candles & censers and to consecrate
chests or boxes that hold ritual tools. Use in incense to promote a
meditative state.
Also Called: Gum Arabic, Arabic Gum
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| Aconite |
Use as a magickal wash for ritual tools & space. Wear as an amulet
for protection from vampires and werewolves. Note: Poisonous, do not
consume.
Also Called: Wolfsbane, Monkshood
|
| Acorn |
Good luck, protection, wisdom, and personal power. A dried acorn is an
excellent natural amulet for keeping a youthful appearance.
|
| Adam & Eve Root |
Principally used by lovers; one lover carries the Eve Root & the
other lover carries the Adam Root. This keeps your lover true to you &
discourages rivals. Carry both roots in a small bag at all times for
attraction, to bring a love to you, or for a marriage proposal.
|
| Adder's Tongue |
Stops gossip and slander, promotes healing. Sacred to serpent
goddesses. Used in divination, healing magick, lunar magick, and dream
magick.
Also Called: Dogtooth Violet
|
| African Violet |
Spirituality, protection, and healing. Wear in an amulet for
protection. Keep in the home to increase spirituality. Frequently burned
as incense during the spring Equinox sabbat.
|
| Agar Agar |
Promote joy and success, attract opportunities and blessings to the
household. Mix with Fast Luck powder and rub on hands before playing bingo
or other games of chance.
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| Agrimony |
Overcoming fear & inner blockages; dispelling negative emotions.
Also used for reversing spells. Sew into a dream pillow with Mugwort for
best results. Use as a wash or oil to increase the effectiveness of all
forms of healing rituals. Wards off evil entities and poison.
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| Ague |
Protection, hex breaking. Used in amulets to protect against evil. Mix
with incense and burn to break a hex that has been placed on you.
Also Called: Ague Root, Ague Weed
|
| Alder |
Associated with divination, music, poetry, wind magick, weather
magick, teaching, and decision making. Also used in rituals of death &
dying to provide protection for the deceased.
|
| Alfalfa |
Money, prosperity, anti-hunger. Put a small jar in the cupboard or
pantry to ward off poverty and hunger. Burn in a cauldron and use the
ashes in amulets for protection from hunger and poverty.
Also Called: Lucerne, Buffalo Herb, Purple Medic
|
| Alkanet |
Purification, prosperity. Protects from snakebites and helps ease fear
of snakes. Burned as an incense to replace negativity with positive
influence.
Also Called: Anchusa, Dyer's Bugloss, Orchanet, Spanish
Bugloss
|
| Allspice |
Money, luck, healing, obtaining treasure. Provides added determination
and energy to any spells and charms. Burn crushed allspice to attract luck
and money. Use in herbal baths for healing.
Also Called: Jamaica Pepper
|
| Almond |
Wisdom, money, fruitfulness, and prosperity. Invokes the healing
energy of the deities. Provides magickal help for overcoming dependencies
& addiction. Associated with Candlemas and Beltane. Carry, wear, or
use as incense to attract abundance.
Also Called: Greek Nuts, Shakad
|
| Aloe |
Protection and luck. Place on the grave of a loved one to promote
peaceful energy. Thought to relieve loneliness and assist with success.
Hang in the home to attract luck and protection for those who live there.
Grow in the home to provide protection from household accidents. Burn on
the night of a full moon to bring a new lover by the new moon.
Also Called: Burn Plant, Medicine Plant
|
| Althea Root |
Burn or place in a sachet to bring protection, calm an angry person,
and aid psychic powers. Keep on the altar or burn on candles to attract
good spirits.
|
| Alyssum |
Protection and moderating anger, protection
|
| Amaranth |
Healing, Summoning Spirits, Healing Broken Hearts, Protection from
Bullets, Invisibility
|
| Amber |
Protection from harm, outside influences, and psychic attacks. Mental
clarity & focus. Transforming negative energy to positive
energy.
|
| Ambergris |
Enhance dreams and psychic ventures, attract men
|
| Anemone |
Healing and Protection
|
| Angelica |
Very powerful protection herb - protects against negative energy and
attracts positive energy; creates a barrier against negative energy. Use
in healing & exorcism incenses; scatter for purification, protection,
and uncrossing. Add to incense to promote healing or to the bath to remove
curses, hexes, or spells. Also thought to promote temperance. Sprinkle
ground herb in the shoes to prevent tiredness and weakness. Sprinkle
around the outside perimeter of the home for protection and exorcism. Burn
to bring a lost love back to you.
Also Called: Masterwort, Archangel, Garden Angel, Angelica
Root
|
| Anise |
Used to help ward off the evil eye, find happiness, and stimulate
psychic ability. Fill a sleep pillow with anise seed to prevent disturbing
dreams. Use to invoke Mercury and Apollo. Great for aromatherapy. Use in
purification baths with bay leaves. A sprig of Anise hung on the bedpost
will restore lost youth. Use in protection and meditation incenses.
Also Called: Aniseed, Anneys, Anise Seed
|
| Apple |
Love, Garden Magick, Immortality, Friendship, Healing. Place seven
apple seeds in a bag with Orris Root to attract sexual love. Use in
rituals to give honor to gods and goddesses of fertility. Considered the
food of the dead, which is why Samhain is called the 'Feast of Apples'.
Symbolizes the soul and is burned at Samhain in honor of those who will be
reborn in the spring. When doing a house blessing, cut an apple in half --
eat half and put the other half outside of the home as an offering.
Also Called: Fruit of the Underworld, Fruit of the Gods, Silver Brough,
Silver Branch, Tree of Love
|
| Apricot |
Love. Add leaves and flowers to love sachets or carry apricot pits to
attract love.
|
| Arabic Gum |
Protection, psychic and spiritual enhancement, money, platonic love,
and friendship. Use to anoint candles & censers and to consecrate
chests or boxes that hold ritual tools. Use in incense to promote a
meditative state.
Also Called: Acacia, Gum Arabic
|
| Arnica Flowers |
Increases psychic powers
|
| Arrow Root |
Purification and healing; can be used as a substitute for graveyard
dust.
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| Ash |
Sea spells/magick/rituals, image magick, invincibility, protection
from drowning, general protection, and luck. Burning an ash log at Yule
brings prosperity. The leaf of this plant is used for travel safety. Place
one tablespoon of ash leaves in a bowl of water in the bedroom overnight,
then toss out in the morning -- doing this daily is said to prevent
illness.
|
| Asofoetida |
Protection and banishing negativity. Be forewarned that this herb is
powerful, but has an awful smell when burned.
Also Called: Devil's Dung, Food of the Gods
|
| Asparagus |
Male Sex Magick
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| Aspen |
Eloquence, clairvoyance, healing, and anti-theft. Plant in your garden
for protection against thieves.
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| Aster |
Love
Also Called: China Aster, Michaelmas Daisy, Starwort
|
| Astragalus Root |
Protection and energy
|
| Avocado |
Love, lust and beauty. Also used for sex magick.
Also Called: Ahuacotl, Alligator Pear, Persea
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| Azalea |
Happiness, gaiety and light spirits, first love. Note: Poisonous, do
not consume.
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| Bachelor Buttons |
Love
Also Called: Devil's Flower, Red Campion
|
| Bakuli Pods |
Difficult to find magic item also used in sachets and
potpourri.
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| Balm of Gilead Tears |
Love, manifestations, protection, healing, de-stressing, and assisting
in healing from the loss of a loved one. Use in love sachets; carry for
healing, protection, and mending a broken heart. Use to dress candles for
any form of magickal healing. Burn to attract spirits.
Also Called: Poplar Buds, Balsam Poplar, Balm of Gilead, Mecca, Mecca
Balsam, Balessan, Bechan
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| Balmony |
Steadfastness, patience, and perseverance. Associated with the
tortoise or turtle.
Also Called: Hummingbird Tree, Bitter Herb, Snake Head, Turtle Head,
Turtle Bloom
|
| Balsam |
Strength and breaking up negativity
|
| Bamboo |
Hex breaking, wishes, luck and protection. Carve a wish into bamboo
and bury it in a secluded area to make your wish come true. Carry a piece
of bamboo for good luck.
|
| Banana |
Fertility, potency, and prosperity
|
| Banyan |
Happiness, Luck
|
| Barberry |
Cleansing, sorcery, atonement, freeing oneself from the power or
control of another.
Also Called: Witches Sweets
|
| Barley |
Love, healing, and protection. Harvests. Scatter on the ground to keep
evil at bay. Tie barley straw around a rock and throw into a river or lake
while visualizing any pain you have to make the pain go away.
|
| Basil |
Love, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, and protection. Dispels confusion,
fears & weakness. Drives off hostile spirits. Associated with
Candlemas. Carry to move forward in a positive manner despite perilous
danger. Strewn on floors to provide protection from evil. Sprinkle an
infusion of basil outside of the building where you hope to be employed
for luck in a job interview (be careful not to be seen!) or in your
business to attract money and success. Wear or carry to aid in attracting
money and prosperity.
Also Called: Common Basil, Sweet Basil, St. Josephwort, St. Joseph's
Wort, Tulsi, Tulasi, Krishnamul, Kala Tulasi, Witches' Herb, Alabahaca,
American Dittany
|
| Bats Head Root |
Use to obtain wishes.
|
| Bay Laurel |
Purification, house and business blessing, and clearing confusion.
Attracts romance. Keep potted plant to protect home from lightning. Place
in a dream pillow for sound sleep and to induce prophetic dreams.
Also Called: Bay, Sweet Laurel, Sweet Bay, True Laurel, Lorbeer, Noble
Laurel, Baie, Daphne
|
| Bay Leaf |
Protection, good fortune, success, purification, strength, healing and
psychic powers. Write wishes on the leaves and then burn the leaves to
make the wishes come true. Place under the pillow (or use in dream pillow)
to induce prophetic dreams. Place in the corner of each room in the house
to protect all that dwell there. Carry bay leaf to protect yourself
against black magick.
|
| Bayberry |
Good fortune, luck, healing, and stress relief. Burn a white candle
sprinkled with bayberry bark for good fortune and money.
Also Called: American Vegetable Tallow Tree, Myrtle, Wax Myrtle,
Candleberry, Candleberry Myrtle, Tallow Shrub, American Vegetable Wax,
Vegetable Tallow, Waxberry, Pepperidge Bush, Berbery
|
| Bedstraw (Fragrant) |
Love and lust
|
| Beech |
Wishes, happiness and divination. Improves literary skills. Place a
leaf of beech between covers of Book of Shadows to increase
inspiration.
|
| Beet |
Love. Beet juice can be used as ink for love magick or as a substitute
for blood in spells and rituals.
|
| Belladonna |
Healing & forgetting past loves. Provides protection when placed
in a secret place in the home. Place on a ritual altar to honor the
deities and add energy to rituals. Note: Deadly poison, do not ingest.
Also Called: Banewort, Deadly Nightshade, Sorcerer's Berry, Witch's
Berry, Death's Herb, Devil's Cherries, Divale, Dwale, Dwaleberry,
Dwayberry, Fair Lady, Great Morel, Naughty Man's Cherries
|
| Benzoin |
Purification, prosperity, soothing tension, dispelling anger,
diminishing irritability, relieving stress & anxiety, and overcoming
depression. Promotes generosity and concentration. Good to burn while
using the Tarot or for success in intellectual matters. Smoulder for
purification. An incense of benzoin, cinnamon and basil is said to attract
customers to your place of business.
Also Called: Snowbells, Storax, Gum Benzoin, Siam Benzoin, Siamese
Benzoin, Benzoin Gum, Ben, Benjamen
|
| Bergamot |
Money, prosperity, protection from evil and illness, improving memory,
stopping interference, and promoting restful sleep. Carry in a sachet
while gambling to draw luck and money. Very powerful for attracting
success. Burn at any ritual to increase its power.
Also Called: Orange Mint
|
| Betel Nut |
Protection and banishing
|
| Bilberry Bark |
Used for protection.
Also Called: Whortleberry, Black Whortles, Whinberry, Huckleberry,
Bleaberry, Blueberry, Airelle
|
| Birch |
Protection, exorcism and purification. A birch planted close to the
home is said to protect against lightning, infertility, and the evil eye.
Also Called: White Birch, Canoe Birch, Paper Birch, Tree of Life, Lady
of the Woods
|
| Bistort |
Fertility, divination, clairvoyance, psychic powers. Carry in a sachet
for fertility and conception. Add to any herbal mixture to boost
divination. Burn with frankincense during divination or to enhance psychic
powers. Carry in a yellow flannel bag to attract wealth & good
fortune. Sprinkle an infusion of bistort around the home to drive out
poltergeists.
Also Called: Bistort Root, Dragonwort
|
| Black Cohosh |
Love, courage, protection and potency. Use in love sachets or in the
bath to prevent impotence. Carry in pocket or amulet for courage and/or
strength. Sprinkle around a room to drive away evil. Add an infusion of
the herb to bath water to ensure a long and happy life. Burn as a love
incense. Put in purple flannel bag for protection for accidents and sudden
death and to keep others from doing you wrong.
Also Called: Black Snake Root, Bugbane, Squawroot, Bugwort, Rattleroot,
Rattleweed, Rattlesnake Root, Richweed
|
| Black Haw |
Protection, gambling, luck, power and employment. Carry in the pocket
while seeking employment, if you are having problems at work, or if you
are asking for a raise.
Also Called: Devil's Shoestring, Stagbush, American Sloe
|
| Black Pepper |
Banishing negativity, exorcism, and protection from evil.
|
| Blackberry |
Healing, protection and money. Sacred to Brighid. Leaves and berries
said to attract wealth and healing.
|
| Bladderwrack |
Protection, sea spells, wind spells, money, psychic powers, and
attracting customers. Wear in a charm for protection during travel,
especially when traveling by water.
Also Called: Kelp, Seawrack, Kelpware, Black-tang, Cutweed, Sea Oak,
Sea Spirit
|
| Blessed Thistle |
Purification, protection against negativity and evil, hex breaking.
Carry for strength and protection. Place a bowl of blessed thistle in a
room to renew the vitality and strengthen the spirit of its occupants. Men
who carry thistle become better lovers.
Also Called: Holy Thistle, Saint Benedict Thistle, Spotted Thistle,
Cardin
|
| Bloodroot |
Love, protection, and purification. Steep in red wine for a full cycle
of the moon to use as a "blood offering" for spells that call for this --
DO NOT DRINK THE WINE. Place in windows and doorways to keep curses and
evil spirits out. A favorite root for use in voodoo to defeat hexes and
spells aimed against you.
Also Called: Red Root, Red Indian Paint, Tetterwort, Blood Root, Indian
Paint, Pauson, Red Paint Root, Red Puccoon, Sanguinariat
|
| Blowball |
Love and wishes. Carry in a red bag to grant wishes. Blow to the four
directions when searching for love.
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| Blue Cohosh |
Empowerment, purification, money drawing, love breaking, and driving
away evil.
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| Blue Violet |
Love, inspiration, good fortune, and protection from all evil. Carried
for protection and to encourage fortune and changed luck. Mixed with
lavender to attract lust and love. Worn to calm tempers and bring sleep.
Also Called: Sweet Scented Violet
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| Bluebell |
Luck, truth and friendship. Incorporate into rituals of death &
dying to comfort those left behind and ease their sorrow.
Also Called: Jacinth, Culverkeys, Auld Man's Bell, Ring o' Bells, Wood
Bells
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| Blueberry |
Protection. Though not recommended, blueberry is said to cause
confusion & strife when tossed in the doorway or path of an
enemy.
|
| Boneset |
Protection, exorcism and warding off evil spirits. Sprinkle an
infusion of boneset around the home to rid it of evil and negativity. To
curse an enemy, burn as an incense with a black candle inscribed with the
name of the enemy (not recommended -- remember the law of threes!).
Also Called: Feverwort, Agueweed, Crosswort, Eupatorium, Indian Sage,
Sweating Plant, Teasel, Thoroughwort, Vegetable Antimony
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| Borage |
Courage and psychic powers. Float the flowers in a ritual bath to
raise one's spirits. Carry or burn as an incense to increase courage and
strength of character. Sprinkle an infusion of Borage around the house to
ward off evil.
Also Called: Bee Bread, Starflower, Herb of Gladness, Bugloss, Burrage,
Cool Tankard
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| Brazil Nut |
Good luck in love affairs
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| Brewers Yeast |
Used in facial mask potions.
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| Brimstone |
Dispels or prevents a hex on you; destroys an enemy's power over you.
Burn at midnight near your back door to ward off evil.
Also Called: Sulfur Powder
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| Broom Tops |
Purification, wind spells, divination and protection. Sprinkle an
infusion of broom tops around the home to clear away all evil.
Also Called: Irish Broom, Scotch Broom, Besom, Broom
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| Buchu |
Divination, wind spells, psychic powers and prophetic dreams. Add
buchu leaves to the bath to enable yourself to foretell the future.
Also Called: Bucco, Agathosma Betulina, Bookoo, Bucku, Buku and
Bucco
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| Buckeye |
Divination, good luck, and attracting money & wealth. Carried
whole anointed with money oil and/or wrapped in a dollar bill for constant
increase in money flow. A popular Hoodoo charm for gamblers. Carry in
pocket for protection against arthritis.
Also Called: Horse Chestnut
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| Buckthorn |
Sorceries, elf magick, and driving away enchantments. Used as a luck
generator in legal matters and for winning in court. Place the branches of
a Buckthorn near doors or windows to drive away evil and bad vibrations.
To make a wish, stand in an open area facing east and concentrate on your
wish; turn to your left until you are facing east again, continually
sprinkling buckthorn bark powder (or an infusion made with buckthorn bark)
as you turn.
Also Called: Arrowwood, Black Dogwood, Black Alder Dogwood, Black Alder
Tree, Persian Berries
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| Buckwheat |
Money, protection, and fasting. Use in charms and spells to obtain
treasure, riches, and wealth.
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| Burdock |
Used for cleansing magick when feeling highly negative about oneself
or others. Use in protection incenses and spells. Rinse with a decoction
of burdock to remove negative feelings about yourself or others.
Also Called: Bardana, Burr Seed, Clotbur, Cocklebur, Hardock, Hareburr,
Hurrburr, Turkey Burrseed, Fox's Clote, Happy Major, Lappa, Love Leaves,
Personata, Beggar's Buttons
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| Burnet |
Used for protection, consecration of ritual tools, and counter magick;
also used to magickally treat depression and despondency.
Also Called: Italian Pimpernel, Salad Burnet, Greater
Burnet
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| Butchers Broom |
Wind spells, divination, protection, psychic powers.
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| Butterbur |
Used for love divination and to raise one's spirits by increasing
sense of hope and faith.
Also Called: Bog Rhubarb, Butterdock, Umbrella Plant, Lagwort, Sweet
Coltsfoot
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| Cabbage |
Fertility, profit, prosperity, good luck, lunar magick, money magick.
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| Cactus |
Chastity, banishing and protection. Bury with other banishing symbols
for protection. Grow in the home or garden to prevent unwanted intrusions.
Place in all directions of the home (north, south, east, and west) for
full protection.
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| Calamint |
Soothes sorrows and helps in recovery from emotional pain. Increase
joy and restore a bright outlook on life.
Also Called: Basil Thyme, Mountain Balm, Mountain Mint
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| Calamus |
Luck, money, healing, and protection. Place in corners of the kitchen
to prevent hunger & poverty. Use to strengthen and bind spells. Note:
Use with caution, can be poisonous.
Also Called: Calamus Root, Bach, Vacha
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| Calendula Flowers |
Protection, legal matters, and psychic/spiritual powers. Pick at noon
for comfort and strength. Place garlands of calendula at doors to prevent
evil from entering. Scatter under the bed for protection and to make
dreams come true. Carry to help justice favor you in court. Touch the
flowers with bare feet to better understand birds.
Also Called: Marigold, Summer's Bride, Bride of the Sun, Sun's Gold,
Ruddes, Ruddles
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| Camellia |
Riches
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| Camphor |
Dreams, psychic awareness, and divination; Adds strength to any
mixture; used for purification and to increase personal influence &
persuasiveness. Burn on incense or use camphor oil for ritual cleaning
when moving into a new home or setting up a new altar. Add to water when
scrying.
Also Called: Laurel Camphor, Gum Camphor
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| Caper |
Potency, lust, and love
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| Caraway |
Health, love, protection, mental powers, memory, passion, and
anti-theft. Prevents lover from straying when used in love spells &
potions. Ideal for consecrating ritual tools. Carry to improve memory or
use in dream pillows to help you to remember your dreams. Sew caraway seed
into a small white bag with white thread and hide it under the mattress of
a child's crib or bed to keep the child free of illness.
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| Cardamom |
Lust, love, and fidelity
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| Carnation |
Protection, strength, healing, enhancing magickal powers, and
achieving balance. Burn to enhance creativity. Use in bath spells.
Also Called: Gilliflower, Jove's Flower, Nelka, Scaffold Flower,
Sops-in-Wine, Gillies
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| Carob |
Health and protection
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| Carrot |
Lust, fertility
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| Cascara Sagrada |
Legal matters, money spells and protection against hexes. Sprinkle an
infusion of the herb around the home the night before court proceedings to
help in winning a court case. Wear as an amulet for protection against
evil and hexes. Wear or keep in a bowl on your altar or reading table to
help you concentrate.
Also Called: Cascara Sagada, Sacred Bark, Purshiana Bark, Persian Bark,
Chittem Bark, Bearberry
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| Cashew |
Money
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| Catnip |
Sacred to Bast; should be used in any ritual involving cats or cat
deities. Use with rose petals in love sachets. Use in sachets and spells
designed to enhance beauty or happiness. Provides protection while
sleeping. Mix with Dragon's Blood to rid oneself of a behavioral problem
or bad habit. Burn dried leaves for love magick. Grow near the home or
hang over the door to attract good spirits and luck.
Also Called: Cat's Play, Catmint, Nip, Nepeta, Field Balm, Catswort,
Catnep
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| Cats Claw |
Vision quests, shamanic journeys, and money drawing.
Also Called: Una de Gato
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| Cat-tail |
Lust
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| Cayenne |
Dealing with separations or divorce; Cleansing & purification;
Repels negativity; Speeds up the effect of any mixture to which it is
added.
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| Cedar |
Confidence, strength, power, money, protection, healing and
purification. Used in the consecration of magick wands. Carry a small
piece of cedar in wallet or near money to attract wealth. Hang in the home
to protect against lightning. Use in sachets to promote
calmness.
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| Cedar Berries |
Uses include anti-theft and repelling snakes.
Also Called: Juniper Berries
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| Celandine |
Cures depression, brings victory and joy, assists in legal matters.
Serves as a protective ward when worn. Carry to increase self-confidence
when facing adversaries. Use in ritual work when you feel trapped in undue
negativity. Note: Deadly poison, use with caution.
Also Called: Devil's Milk
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| Celery |
Mental powers, psychic powers, and lust
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| Celery |
Psychic powers, fertility, and male potency.
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| Celery Seed |
Mental and psychic powers, concentration. Burn with orris root to
increase psychic powers. Use in sleep pillow to induce sleep. Chew celery
seed to aid in concentration.
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| Centaury |
Counter magick herb; snake removing. Adds power to any magickal
workings. Used to repel anger and hurtful energy.
Also Called: Bitter Herb, Lesser Centaury, Feverwort
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| Chamomile |
Love, healing, and reducing stress. Add to a sachet or spell to
increase the chances of its success. Sprinkle an infusion of chamomile
around the house to remove hexes, curses and spells. Burn or add to
prosperity bags to increase money. Burn as incense for de-stressing,
meditation, and restful sleep. Wash hands in an infusion of chamomile for
luck before gambling or playing cards. Use in bath magick to attract love.
Keep a packet of the herb with lottery tickets for luck.
Also Called: Whig Plant, Scented Mayweed, Camomyle, Ground Apple,
Manzanilla (Spanish), Maythen, Earth Apple, Camomile
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| Cherry |
Love, divination, gaiety and happiness
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| Cherry Bark |
Lust, direction, frugality, favors, invisibility, and magickal
potency. Burn as an incense while performing divination to enhance the
results, or while performing love spells to find a partner. Use to
revitalize the Magickal energy needed to finish an old project.
Also Called: Virginia Prune Bark
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| Chervil |
Brings a sense of the higher self, placing you in touch with your
divine, immortal spirit. Helps in making contact with a deceased loved
one.
Also Called: French Parsley, Anise Chervil, British Myrrh, Sweet
Cicely, Sweet Fern
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| Chestnut |
Love
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| Chia |
Protection and health
|
| Chickweed |
Fertility and love. Carry or use to attract a lover or maintain your
current relationship. Useful for lunar and animal magick, especially the
healing of birds.
Also Called: Starweed, Satin Flower, Starwort, Winterweed, Stitchwort,
Tongue Grass, Adder's Mouth, Indian Chickweed, Passerina
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| Chicory |
Frigidity, favors, removing obstacles, and invisibility. Promotes a
positive outlook and improves sense of humor. Place fresh flowers on the
altar or burn as an incense. Anoint your body with chicory juice or an
infusion of chicory to obtain favors from others. Burn as incense with a
black skull candle to place a hex on an enemy (not recommended).
Also Called: Blue-Sailors, Coffeeweed, Succory
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| Chili Pepper |
Fidelity, love, and hex breaking. Scatter powder around the house to
break hexes and spells against you. Use in love charms & spells.
Also Called: Bird Pepper, Pod Pepper, Cayenne
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| China Berry |
Luck
|
| Chives |
Protection and weight loss
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| Chrysanthemum |
Protection. Grow in the garden to ward off evil spirits.
Also Called: Mum
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| Cilantro |
Protection of gardeners; brings peace to the home and helps to attune
one with their soul.
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| Cinnamon |
Spirituality, success, healing, protection, power, love, luck,
strength, and prosperity. Burn as an incense or use in a sachet to raise
spiritual and protective vibrations, draw money, and stimulate psychic
powers. A popular herb for use in charms to draw money & prosperity.
Wear in an amulet to bring passion.
Also Called: Sweet Wood
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| Cinquefoil |
An all-purpose magickal herb. The five points of the leaf represent
love, money, health, power, and wisdom. Stimulates memory, eloquence, and
self confidence. Carry, burn, or wear to possess these traits. Used for
business & house blessing. Use in spells to bring protection to a
friend or loved one taking a journey. Burn as an incense during divination
to bring dreams of one's intended mate. Frequently associated with ritual
work involving romance. Wash hands and forehead with an infusion of this
herb nine times to wash away hexes and evil spells against you. Fill an
empty egg shell and keep it in the home for powerful protection from evil
forces. Wrap in red flannel and hang over the bed to ward off dark spirits
of the night.
Also Called: Five Finger Grass, Synkefoyle, Witches Weed, Five Leaf,
Tormentilla, Sunkfield, Bloodroot, Moor Grass, Goosegrass, Goose Tansy,
Crampweed, Silverweed, Silver Weed, Sunkfield
|
| Citronella |
Draws friends to the home, customers to the business. Promotes
eloquence, persuasiveness, and prosperity. Protects and cleanses the aura.
Encourages self-expression and creativity (great for writers &
actors!) and brings clarity to the mind. Repels insects and
deodorizes.
|
| Clove |
Exorcism, love, money, and protection
|
| Clover |
Fidelity, protection, money, love, and success. Strong association
with the Earth, useful in consecrating both pentacles and ritual tools
made of copper. Carry as an amulet or use in sachets for luck, attracting
money, fidelity, maintaining mental acuity, and/or protection. When grown
outside, is thought to keep snakes away from property. Sprinkle around the
home to remove negative spirits.
Also Called: Trefoil, Cleaver Grass, Marl Grass, Cowgrass, Three Leaved
Grass, Honeystalks, Shamrock, Trifoil
|
| Clover, Red |
Put in baths to aid in financial arrangements. Also used in potions
for lust. Used in sachets or incense for money, love, fidelity, success
and luck. Protects and blesses domestic animals. Used in consecration of
ritual tools made of copper.
Also Called: Trefoil, Cleaver Grass, Marl Grass, Cowgrass, Three Leaved
Grass, Honeystalks, Shamrock, Trifoil
|
| Cloves |
Magickal uses include protection, banishing hostile/negative forces,
and gaining what is sought. Cloves are burned to stop gossip as well as to
purify & raise the spiritual vibrations of an area. Use to bring a
sense of kinship to a social gathering. Wear for protection and mental
clarity. Said to protect babies in their cribs if strung together and hung
over the crib (being sure that the strand can't fall into the crib, of
course!). Burn to attract riches, drive away hostile forces, and stop any
gossip about you. Carry to attract the opposite sex or bring comfort
during bereavement. Cleanses the aura.
Also Called: Ding Xiang
|
| Club Moss |
Protection and power. Use in bath magick for purification. Burn as
incense as an offering to the deities and to open channels of
communication with them. Use in amulets and charms for power and
protection.
Also Called: Wolf's Claw
|
| Coconut |
Chastity, protection, and purification
|
| Coffee |
Helps to dispel nightmares and negative thoughts and to overcome
internal blockages. Provides peace of mind and grounding.
|
| Coltsfoot |
Wealth, prosperity, and love. Use in love sachets. Sacred to Brighid.
Use in spells for peace and tranquility.
Also Called: Coughwort, Hallfoot, Horsehoof, Foalswort, Fieldhove,
Donnhove
|
| Columbine |
Love and courage. Grow in the garden to attract fairies. Use in spells
and charms to increase courage in stressful situations.
Also Called: Granny's Bonnet, Culverwort
|
| Comfrey |
Magickal uses include money, safety during travel, and any Saturnian
purpose. Use for workings involving stability, endurance, and matters
relating to real estate or property. Put some in your luggage to help
prevent loss or theft. Wear for travel safety and protection. Use the root
in money spells and incenses.
Also Called: Knitbone, Knit Bone, Ass Ear, Blackwort, Bruisewort,
Knitback, Miracle Herb, Boneset, Gum Plant, Slippery Root,
Wallwort
|
| Copal Resin |
Love, purification. Add to love and purification incenses. Use a piece
of copal to represent the heart in poppets.
|
| Coriander |
Love, health, immortality, and protection. Tie fresh coriander with a
ribbon and hang in the home to bring peace & protection. Add to love
charms and spells to bring romance or use in ritual work to ease the pain
of a broken love affair. Promotes peace among those who are unable to get
along. Throw the seeds in lieu of rice during Handfastings and other
rituals of union. Use the seeds in love sachets and spells. Add powdered
seeds to wine for an effective lust potion. Wear or carry the seeds to
ward off disease and migraines.
Also Called: Cilantro, Chinese Parsley, Yee Sai
|
| Corn |
Protection, luck, and divination
|
| Corn |
Protection, divination, good luck
|
| Corn Flower |
Sprinkle over the area where you and your mate argue the most to
alleviate discord and strife.
|
| Cornflower |
A patron herb of herbalists. Use the blue petals to make homemade ink
for a Book of Shadows. Use in rituals to give honor to the Mother of all
nature.
Also Called: Bachelor Button, Hurtsickle, Bluet, Blue Cap,
Bluebottle
|
| Cotton |
Fishing magick, rain, protection, luck, and healing. Burn to attract
rain. Cloth made of cotton is the best for magickal use. Place cotton in a
sugar bowl to draw luck.
|
| Cowslip |
Treasure finding, youth, concentration, focus, and house &
business blessing. Use in ritual work involving Goddesses associated with
love. Carry to increase attractiveness and increase romantic appeal,
providing the energy to attract a partner.
Also Called: False Primrose, Keyflower, Fairy Cup, Paigle, Key of
Heaven
|
| Coxcomb |
Protection
|
| Cramp Bark |
Used for protection and female energy.
Also Called: Guelder Rose Parts
|
| Crowfoot |
Love. Use in rituals & ceremonies associated with marriage and
Handfasting, engagements, and rituals involving commitments and sacred
binding vows.
Also Called: Buttercup, Gold Cup, Grenouillette, Meadow
Buttercup
|
| Cubeb Berries |
Love, lust and adding fire to spells. Use in sachets for love &
sex.
Also Called: Tailed Pepper
|
| Cucumber |
Chastity, fertility, and healing
|
| Culvers Root |
Purification
Also Called: Black Root, Bowman's Root, Brinton Root, Culver's Physic,
Physic Root
|
| Cumin |
Fidelity, protection, and exorcism. The seed is said to prevent the
theft of any object which contains it. Burn with frankincense for
protection. Scatter on the floor alone or with salt to drive out evil. Use
in love spells to promote fidelity. Steep in wine to make love
potions.
|
| Curry |
Protection. Burn curry powder to keep evil forces away.
|
| Cyclamen |
Fertility, happiness, lust, and protection. Reinforces romance between
consensual partners and increases potential of a relationship carrying
into the next incarnation.
Also Called: Groundbread, Sowbread, Ivy-Leafed, Swine
Bread
|
| Cypress |
Associated with death and mourning; stimulates healing and helps
overcome the pain of loss. Calmness and tranquility. Hang in the home for
protection. Burn crushed cypress wood for aid in understanding grief and
death or to aid in divination. Wear or carry at funerals to ease the mind
and minimize grief. Useful at any time of crisis.
Also Called: Tree of Death
|
| Daffodil |
Love, luck, and fertility. Used to keep negative energy away from the
home or altar. Place fresh daffodils in the home to increase fertility.
Wear near the heart to bring good luck.
Also Called: Nacissus, Lent Lily, Jonquil, Goose Leek,
Lentlilly
|
| Daisy |
Love, luck, and innocence. Associated with babies and newborn infants.
Incorporate into baby blessings & Wiccanings or to bring protective
Magick into a baby's sleeping area. Wear or carry to draw love.
Also Called: Bairnwort, Bruisewort, Eyes, Field Daisy, Maudlinwort,
Moon Daisy
|
| Damiana |
Lust, sex magick and attracting love. Useful for any love or sex
spells. Used by solitary practitioners to open the chakras and increase
psychic abilities. It is said that this herb should be stored in a
container with a quartz crystal. Highly useful in tantra magick, astral
travel, deep meditation, and spirit quests. Note: Internal use of this
herb can be toxic to the liver.
Also Called: Love Leaf, Mexican Damiana
|
| Dandelion Leaf |
Summoning spirits, healing, purification and defeating negativity.
Bury in northwest corner of yard to bring favorable winds. Use in sachets
and charms to make wishes come true.
Also Called: Blowball, Cankerwort, Lion's Tooth, Priest's Crown,
Puffball, Swine Snout, White Endive, Wild Endive, Piss-a-Bed
|
| Dandelion Root |
Magickal uses include divination, wishes and calling spirits. Use in
dream pillows & sachets for sleep protection. Bury on northwest side
of house to draw good luck.
Also Called: Blowball, Cankerwort, Lion's Tooth, Priest's Crown,
Puffball, Swine Snout, White Endive, Wild Endive, Piss-a-Bed
|
| Deer's Tongue |
Wear, carry, or sprinkle on your bed to attract men and aid in
increasing psychic powers.
|
| Devil Bone Root |
Cut into small pieces and carry in a red flannel bag to ward off
arthritis.
|
| Devil's Bit |
Exorcism, love, protection, and lust
|
| Devil's Bone Root |
Sexual attractiveness, warding off negative energies
|
| Devil's Claw |
Protection and dispelling unwanted company.
|
| Devil's Shoestring |
Protection, luck, attracting a new raise or job, giving control over
opposite sex, and invisibility. Carry in the pocket while seeking
employment, if you are having problems at work, or if you are asking for a
raise.
Also Called: Black Haw, Stagbush, American Sloe
|
| Dill |
Money, protection, luck and lust. Used in love & protection
charms. Effective at keeping away dark forces, useful for house blessing.
Keeps the mind cognizant of the line between superstition and the
realities of magick. Place seeds in muslin and hang in the shower to
attract women. Use dill seeds in money spells. The scent of dill is said
to stimulate lust. Add grains of dill seed to a bath before going on a
date to make yourself irresistible.
Also Called: Aneto, Aneton, Dill Weed, Dill Seed, Dilly, Garden
Dill
|
| Dogwood |
Wishes, protection, and good health. Used in meetings in which
attendees must maintain confidence on the topics of discussion. Used to
guard diaries, journals, and Books of Shadows. Seal letters with dogwood
oil to keep the contents for intended eyes only. Use powdered bark or
flowers as an incense.
Also Called: Boxwood, Squawbush, Budwood, Flowering Cornel, Green
Osier
|
| Dragon's Blood |
Protection, energy, and purification. Burn as an incense to increase
the potency of a spell. Has strong banishing powers against negative
influences and bad habits. A pinch under the mattress is believed to
prevent impotency. Used as a form of magickal ink. Carry or sprinkle
around the home or place of business to drive away negativity. Carry or
wear for good luck.
Also Called: Blood, Blume, Calamus Draco, Dragon's Blood
Palm
|
| Dulse |
Lust, harmony in the home, sea rituals and pacifying sea winds. Throw
into ocean or lake to have the sea spirits send peace your way. Likewise,
throw from a high place to have the wind spirits send peace. Leave in the
home to induce harmony.
|
| Earth Smoke |
Make an infusion, then sprinkle the infusion around the house and rub
on the bottom of shoes to bring quick financial gain.
|
| Ebony |
Protection, power. Use in protection amulets.
Also Called: Obeah Wood
|
| Echinacea |
Adds powerful strength to charms, sachets, and herb mixes. Useful for
money drawing magick. Dried flowers can be burned as incense. Use on the
altar as a offering to the spirits.
Also Called: Purple Coneflower, Coneflower, Black Sampson,
Rudbeckia
|
| Elder |
Sleep, releasing enchantments, protection against negativity, wisdom,
house blessing and business blessing. Elder flowers are useful in dream
pillows. Wear to provide protection against evil, negativity, attackers,
and the temptation to commit adultery. Used in rites of death & dying
to protect the loved one during transport to the Otherworld. Note: Elder
leaves, bark, roots, and raw berries are poisonous. Use with caution.
Also Called: Sweet Elder, Tree of Doom, Pipe Tree, Witch's Tree, Old
Lady, Devil's Eye
|
| Elecampane |
Magickally used for banishing and to dispel angry or violent
vibrations. Associated with elves. Use in a sachet to attract love or in
incense to purify initiates. Strong association with the Elven world and
Tarot. Useful for baby blessings. Hide a sachet of elecampane or sprinkle
it around doorways to keep out bad vibrations. Ground together with
vervain and mistletoe for a powerful love powder.
Also Called: Yellow Starwort, Elfdock, Elfwort, Horse-elder, Horseheal,
Scabwort, Elecampagne, Velvet Dock
|
| Elm |
Love, protection from lightning. Strong correspondence with the Elven
world. To stop slander, bury elm bark in a box with a piece of paper
containing the name of the person who is speaking adversely about you.
Also Called: Elven, European Elm, English Elm
|
| Endive |
Love spells, sex magick
|
| Epsom Salt |
Common ingredient in ritual baths and bath salt recipes.
|
| Eucalyptus |
Attracts healing vibrations, great for protection and healing sachets.
Use to purify any space. Use dried leaves to stuff healing poppets,
pillows, or sachets. Arrange a ring of dried leaves around a blue candle
and burn the candle for healing vibrations. Carry in a sachet or amulet to
help reconcile difficulties in a relationship, for protection, and/or to
maintain health.
Also Called: Blue Gum, Curly Mallee, River Red Gum, Mottlecah, Maiden's
Gum, Fever Tree, Stringy Bark Tree
|
| Evening Primrose |
Magickal uses include love and attracting faeries. Use in ritual baths
to increase inner beauty & desirability.
Also Called: Fever Plant, Field Primrose, King's Cureall, Night
Willow-herb, Scabish, Scurvish, Tree Primrose, Primrose
|
| Eyebright |
Carry this herb to increase psychic ability, improve memory, encourage
rationality and increase positive outlook. Carry to bring a humorous and
bright outlook when life seems dark and negative.
Also Called: Eye Bright, Euphrasia, Casse-lunette
|
| False Unicorn Root |
Magickal uses include lusty spells and protection for mother and baby.
Also Called: False Unicorn, Starwort, Helonias Root
|
| Fennel Seed |
Imparts strength, vitality, sexual virility; prevents curses,
possession and negative problems. Use in spells for protection, healing,
and purification. Provides help and strength when facing danger or dire
times. Fennel is thought to increase the length of one's incarnation. Hang
in windows and doors to ward off evil.
Also Called: Large Fennel, Sweet Fennel, Wild Fennel, Finocchio,
Carosella, Florence Fennel, Fennel Seed
|
| Fenugreek |
Used for money drawing and fertility magick. Use in floor washes to
bring money to the home. Place in a jar and add a few seeds every day to
increase money flow to the household.
Also Called: Greek Hay, Foenugreek, Fenigreek, Fenugreek
Seed
|
| Fern |
Mental clarity, cleansing, purification, and dispelling negativity.
Keep in room where studying is done to help concentration. Burn a sprig of
fern before an exam. Use in sachets and amulets for powerful auric
protection.
|
| Feverfew |
Protection against accidents and cold/flu. Use in charms or sachets
for love magick or spiritual healing. Keep flowers in suitcase or car when
traveling.
Also Called: Featherfew, Rainfarn, Wild Quinine, Featherfoil, Prairie
Dock, Missouri Snakeroot, Flirtwort, Parthenium, Febrifuge
|
| Fig |
Divination, fertility, and love. Place a branch in front of the door
before traveling to ensure a safe return. Write a question on a fig leaf
-- if the leaf dries slowly, the answer is yes, otherwise the answer is
no.
Also Called: Common Fig
|
| Figwort |
Magickal balms, house & business blessing, protection for the
home. Wear around the neck for health and protection against the evil
eye.
|
| Flax Seed |
Used for money spells and healing rituals. Mix seeds with red pepper
and keep in a box in the home to protect it. Put in a sachet to protect
against hostile magick. Place some in shoe or in pocket, wallet, purse, or
altar jar with a few coins to ward off poverty. Sprinkle an infusion made
with flax seed around the area before divination to get a more accurate
reading of someone's future. Burn for divinatory powers.
Also Called: Linseed
|
| Fleabane |
Exorcism, protection, chastity.
|
| Foxglove |
Protection of home & garden, vision, and immortality. Used to
commune with those of the Underworld.
Also Called: Fairy Caps, Deadman's Bells, Fairy's Glove, Fox Claws,
Fairy Thimbles, Witch's Bells, Folk's Glove, Witches Glove
|
| Frangipani |
Promoting openness in those around you; attracting love, trust, and
admiration.
|
| Frankincense Resin |
Successful ventures, cleansing, purification. Burn for protective
work, consecration, and meditation. Used as an offering at Beltane,
Lammas, and Yule. Enhances the power of topaz. Use in rituals and magick
associated with self-will, self-control, or the ego. Represents the
ability of the divine to move into manifestation. Add to charm bags and
sachets to bring success. Mix with Cumin and burn as incense for powerful
protection.
Also Called: Frankincense Tears, Olibanum
|
| Fumitory |
Associated with the underworld. Excellent for use at Samhain. Infusion
is useful as a wash for consecrating ritual tools or sprinkling around the
house to attract money. Use in purification ritual when moving into a new
residence.
|
| Galangal Root |
Magickal uses include winning in court, doubling money, hex breaking
and sex magick. Burn as incense to remove evil spells and break curses.
Carry for protection, to improve psychic abilities and to bring good
health. Carry to court to make the judge or jury feel favorably inclined
toward you. Wrap money around the root and it will multiply threefold.
Burn vigilantly for 14 days before a court case, saving the ashes and
bringing them to court in a green flannel bag for luck.
Also Called: Lo John, Low John, Lo John the Conqueror, Lesser Galangal,
Galanga, Colic Root, Gargaut, Catarrh Root, India Root, China
Root
|
| Gardenia |
Promoting peace/repelling strife, protection from outside influences.
Carry or wear to attract love or friendship. Burn with other healing herbs
to bring peace and comfort to one who is ailing. Use dried flowers in
healing incenses and mixtures. Scatter around a room to bring peaceful
vibrations.
|
| Garlic |
Magickal uses include healing, protection, exorcism, repulsion of
vampires, and purification of spaces and objects. Used to invoke Hecate.
Guards against negative magic, spirits, and the envy of others. Hang in
the home to bring togetherness to the family or keep your willpower
strong. Said to ward off bad weather when worn or carried during outside
activities. Believed to absorb diseases -- rub fresh, peeled garlic
against ailing body parts then throw the garlic into running water.
Also Called: Stinkweed
|
| Gentian |
Add an infusion to the bath for power and strength.
|
| Geranium |
Overcoming negative thoughts & attitudes, lifting spirits,
promoting protection & happiness. Repels insects. Balances mind and
body.
|
| Ginger |
Draws adventure and new experiences. Promotes sensuality, sexuality,
personal confidence, prosperity, and success. Adds to the strength and
speed of any mixture of which it is a part. Place in amulet, mojo, or
medicine bag to promote good health & protection. Use in herbal
mixtures for the consecration of athames to strengthen and energize the
ritual blade. A ginger root in the form of a human is a very powerful
magickal token.
Also Called: African Ginger
|
| Ginkgo Biloba |
Aphrodisiac, associated with fertility. Carry or use in amulets and
charms as a healing herb. Useful in ritual healing. The dried nuts
represent male fertility. Useful in all creative work. Immerse in water,
then remove and keep in the bedroom to gain grace, love, and beauty.
Also Called: Maidenhair Tree, Living Fossil, Gingko
|
| Ginseng |
Magickal uses include love, beauty, protection, healing and lust.
Carry to draw love, health, money, and sexual potency. Carve a wish into a
whole root and throw it into water to make the wish come true.
Also Called: Sang, Wonder of the World Root
|
| Goldenrod |
Money, divination
Also Called: Aaron's Rod, Woundwort, Sweet Goldenrod, Solidago, Ver
d'or
|
| Goldenseal |
Healing rituals, money spells, success. Beneficial in business
dealings and matters of finance. Work into any charm or spell to increase
its power.
Also Called: Yellow Root, Orange Root, Yellow Puccoon, Ground
Raspberry, Eye Balm, Eye Root, Indian Paint, Yellow Paint, Golden Root,
Wild Turmeric, Indian Turmeric, Jaundice Root, Yellow Eye,
Wamera
|
| Goosegrass |
Wisdom, tenacity, luck in love, and pleasant dreams.
|
| Gorse |
Associated with love, protection, romance, and weddings. Used to
further the romance of a consensual relationship. Protects against
negativity and dark magick.
Also Called: Whin, Prickly Broom, Furze
|
| Gotu Kola |
Burn prior to (but not during) meditation.
|
| Grape |
Fertility, money, mental powers, and garden magick
|
| Grape Seed |
Used for garden magick and fertility.
|
| Grapefruit |
Cleansing and purification
|
| Gravel Root |
Used to increase the chances of getting a job. Aids one during times
of distress. Useful as an altar offering, especially during love magick.
Burn or strew about the house to relieve disharmony in the home or remove
tensions. An infusion of the herb rubbed on an erect member is said to
improve male potency.
Also Called: Meadow Sweet, Bride of the Meadow, Bridewort, Little
Queen, Gravelweed, Joe-Pye Weed, Purple Boneset, Kidney Root, Trumpet
Weed, Trumpet Vine, Meadowsweet
|
| Guinea Peppers |
Hexing and cursing
|
| Gum Arabic |
Protection, psychic and spiritual enhancement, money, platonic love,
and friendship. Use to anoint candles & censers and to consecrate
chests or boxes that hold ritual tools. Use in incense to promote a
meditative state.
Also Called: Acacia
|
| Hawthorn |
Magickal uses include chastity, fertility, fairy magick, fishing
magick, and rebirth. Also used for success in matters related to career,
work, and employment. Place around the bedroom or carry to enforce or
maintain chastity or celibacy. Sacred to the fairy. Used to decorate
maypoles. Used in weddings and handfastings to increase fertility. Wear
while fishing to ensure a good catch. Wear or carry to promote happiness
and protect against lightning. Keep in a house to repel ghosts and evil
spirits. An infusion of the herb used to wash floors will remove negative
vibrations.
Also Called: Hawthorne, Haw, May Bush, May Tree, Mayblossom, Mayflower,
Quickset, Thorn-apple Tree, Whitethorn, Bread and Cheese Tree, Quick,
Gazels, Ladies' Meat
|
| Hay |
Pregnancy and fertility
|
| Heal All |
Uses includes all purpose healing and successful gambling.
|
| Heather |
Protection, luck, and immortality. Dip in water and sprinkle it around
in a circle to bring rain. Carry in sachets or charms to protect against
rape and other violent crimes. Hang or use in home decorations to promote
peace. Burn with fern to bring rain.
Also Called: Ling, Scotch Heather
|
| Heliotrope |
Cheerfulness, gaiety, prosperity, and protection. Use in rituals of
Drawing Down the Sun or in magickal workings requiring strengthening of
the solar aspects of the self. Place under the pillow to induce prophetic
dreams. It is said that if you sleep with fresh heliotrope under your
pillow, you will dream of the person that has stolen from your home.
Also Called: Turnsole, Cherry Pie
|
| Hemlock |
Use to paralyze a situation. Note: Highly poisonous, do not
consume.
|
| Henbane |
Dried leaves are used in the consecration of ceremonial vessels. Used
in love sachets and charms to gain the love of the person desired. Thrown
into water to bring rain.
Also Called: Hogs Bean, Devil's Eye, Henbells, Sukran
|
| Henna |
Attracts love if worn close to the heart. Wear to ward off the evil
eye and provide protection from illnesses. Also a great hair coloring
agent.
|
| Hibiscus |
Attracting love and lust, divination, and dreams. Carry in a sachet or
burn as incense to attract love.
Also Called: Kharkady
|
| Hickory |
Legal matters, love, lust, and protection
|
| High John |
An "all purpose" herb, the uses of High John include strength,
confidence, conquering any situation, obtaining success, winning at
gambling, luck, money, love, health, and protection. Useful in all ritual
work pertaining to prosperity. Wash hands in an infusion of the herb
before playing games of chance.
Also Called: High John the Conqueror, John the Conqueror, Jalap
Root
|
| Holly |
Marriage, dream magick, luck, and love. Planted around the outside of
the home for protection. Used as a decoration at Yule. When carried by
men, is thought to heighten masculinity.
Also Called: Tinne, Bat's Wings, Hulm, Hulver Bush, Holm
Chaste
|
| Hollyhock |
Increase success in the material world, increase flow of money, or
acquire new possessions. Grown near the home to help the success of the
family flourish.
|
| Honey |
For attraction and solar magick.
|
| Honeysuckle |
Draws money, success, and quick abundance; Aids persuasiveness and
confidence, sharpens intuition. Ring green candles with honeysuckle
flowers or use honeysuckle in charms & sachets to attract money. Crush
the flowers and rub into the forehead to enhance psychic powers.
Also Called: Woodbine, Jin Yin Hua, Dutch Honeysuckle, Goat's
Leaf
|
| Hops |
Relaxing and sleep producing; a fantastic herb for dream pillows.
Believed to increase the restfulness & serenity of sleep. Also used
for healing rituals, sachets, and incense.
Also Called: Beer Flower, Hop Flower
|
| Horehound |
Sacred to Horus. Protective; helps with mental clarity during ritual;
stimulates creativity/inspiration; balances personal energies. Excellent
for use in home blessings. Place near doorways to keep trouble away.
Also Called: White Horehound, Hoarhound, Marrubium,
Bugleweed
|
| Horseshoe Chestnut |
Magickal uses include money and healing.
Also Called: Buckeye
|
| Hyacinth |
Promotes peace of mind and peaceful sleep. Attracts love, luck, and
good fortune. Named for Hiakinthos, Greek God of homosexual love, this is
the patron herb for gay men. Guards against nightmares when used as an
oil, burned as incense, or included in dream pillows. Carry in amulet or
sachet to ease grief or the pain of childbirth.
|
| Hydrangea |
Hex-breaking, love drawing, bringing back a lover, fidelity, and
binding.
|
| Hyssop |
The most widely used purification herb in magick. Lightens vibrations
and promotes spiritual opening; used for cleansing and purification. Said
to protect property against burglars and trespassers. Used to consecrate
magickal tools or items made of tin. The best herb for physical cleansing
and washing of temple, ritual tools, or oneself (bath magick). Add to
baths & sachets, infuse and sprinkle on objects/people for cleansing
or hang in the home to purge it of evil & negativity.
Also Called: Yssop, Ysopo
|
| Indigo Weed |
Protection
Also Called: Baptisia
|
| Iris |
Attracts wisdom, courage, and faith. Use fresh iris flower to purify
an area. Represents a belief in happy reincarnation. Symbolizes faith,
wisdom, and valor. Useful for consecrating ritual wands. Used in rituals
designed for baby blessings.
|
| Irish Moss |
An excellent luck herb. Carry or place under rugs to increase luck and
ensure steady flow of money; carry on trips for protection & safety;
use to stuff luck or money poppets. Add to luck oil to increase its
strength. An excellent gambler's herb. Sprinkle an infusion of the herb
around a business to bring in customers.
|
| Iron Weed |
Carry in a purple flannel bag for control over others, including boss
and co-workers (not recommended - remember the law of threes).
|
| Ivy |
Protection, healing, fertility, and love. Hang an ivy plant in front
of the home to repel negative influence and discourage unwanted guests.
Mix in a sachet with Holly as a wedding gift to provide protection to the
newly married couple. Place ground ivy around the base of a yellow candle
on a Tuesday, then burn the candle to discover who (if anyone) is working
negative magick against you.
|
| Jamaican Ginger |
Gambling luck
|
| Jasmine |
Uses include snakebite and divination; good for charging quartz
crystals. Use in sachets and spells to draw spiritual love and attract a
soul mate. Carry or burn the flowers to draw wealth and money. Use in
dream pillows to induce sleep or burn in the bedroom to bring prophetic
dreams. Helps to promote new, innovative ideas.
Also Called: Pikake, Ysmyn, Jessamin, Moonlight on the
Grove
|
| Jezebel Root |
Used for spells and castings for money and achievement. Also used to
place curses and hexes.
|
| Job's Tears |
Luck in finding employment, wishes, and blessing. Used in counts of 3
or 7 in charm and mojo bags to attract luck, wishes and money. Carrying
three will assist in finding a good job. Count out seven seeds while
concentrating on a wish, then carry the seeds with you at all times for
seven days -- the wish should come true by the end of the week.
|
| Juniper |
Banishes all things injurious to good health; attracts good, healthy
energies and love. Juniper berries can be carried by males to increase
potency. Use a string of juniper berries to attract love. Burn for
magickal protection. Place a sprig of juniper near the door to a home or
with valuables to help safeguard against theft (but keeping locking the
doors, too!). Use juniper oil in magickal workings to increase money and
prosperity.
Also Called: Juniper Berries, Ginepro, Enebro, Wachholder
|
| Kava Kava |
Uses include aphrodisiac; potent sacramental drink; potions; induces
visions; astral work; travel protection. Carry for success and job
promotion.
Also Called: Ava, Ava Pepper, Intoxicating Pepper
|
| Knotweed |
Binding spells, health, and cursing
|
| Kola Nut |
Peace, removing depression, and calming
|
| Lady Slipper |
Used for protection against hexes, curses and the evil eye.
|
| Lady's Mantle |
Aphrodisiac, transmutation. Use in love potions or to increase the
power of any magickal workings.
Also Called: Nine Hooks, Dewcup, Lion's Foot, Bear's Foot,
Stellaria
|
| Larch |
Protection and anti-theft
|
| Larkspur |
Health and protection
|
| Laurel |
Love and protection. Worn by brides to guarantee a long and happy
marriage.
|
| Lavender |
Magickal uses include love, protection, healing, sleep, purification,
and peace. Promotes healing from depression. Great in sleep pillows and
bath spells. Believed to preserve chastity when mixed with rosemary. Burn
the flowers to induce sleep and rest, then scatter the ashes around the
home to bring peace and harmony. Use in love spells and sachets,
especially those to attract men.
Also Called: Spike, Nardus, Elf Leaf, Nard
|
| Leek |
Love, protection, and exorcism
|
| Leek |
Protection and strengthening existing love
|
| Lemon |
Cleansing, spiritual opening, purification, and removal of blockages.
Add lemon peel to love sachets and mixtures. Soak peel in water and use
the mixture as a wash for magickal objects to remove unwanted negativity,
especially for objects received second-hand. Use an infusion of lemon to
induce lust.
Also Called: Citronnier, Neemoo, Leemoo, Limone, Limoun
|
| Lemon Balm |
Love, success, healing, and psychic/spiritual development. Use in love
charms & spells to attract a partner. Use in healing spells &
rituals for those suffering from mental or nervous disorders.
Also Called: Melissa, Sweet Balm, Balm Mint, Bee Balm, Blue Balm,
Cure-all, Dropsy Plant, Garden Balm, Sweet Balm
|
| Lemon Grass |
Psychic cleansing and opening, lust potions.
|
| Lemon Verbena |
Worn to increase attractiveness or to bed to prevent dreams. Added to
other herbal mixtures and charms to increase their effectiveness. Used in
purification baths. Carried in an amulet to attract the opposite
sex.
|
| Lettuce |
Divination, lunar magick, sleep, protection, love spells, and male sex
magick.
|
| Licorice |
Love, lust, and fidelity. Carry to attract a lover.
Also Called: Licorice Root, Yashtimadhu, Mithilakdi, Mulathi,
Liquorice, Sweet Root, Lacris, Lacrisse, Lycorys, Reglisse
|
| Lilac |
Wisdom, memory, good luck and spiritual aid.
Also Called: Common Lilac
|
| Lily |
Fertility, renewal, rebirth, marriage, happiness, and prosperity.
Also Called: Easter Lily, Tiger Lily
|
| Lily of the Valley |
Soothing, calming, draws peace and tranquility, and repels negativity.
Assists in empowering happiness and mental powers. Use in magickal
workings to stop harassment. Married couples should plant Lily of the
Valley in their first garden to promote longevity of the marriage. Note:
Poisonous, use with caution.
Also Called: Jacob's Ladder, Male Lily, Our Lady's Tears,
Ladder-to-Heaven, May Lily, Constancy
|
| Lime |
Purification and protection, promoting calmness and tranquility, and
strengthening love.
|
| Linden Flowers |
Used in love spells/mixtures and protection spells & incenses. Mix
equal parts Linden and Lavender flowers and place in a sachet under your
pillowcase to relieve insomnia. Keep Linden on a table to release the
energies needed to keep the spirit alive and healthy.
Also Called: Lime Blossoms, Linden Flowers, Tilia
|
| Little John |
Place in holy water to bring good luck in everything you
attempt.
|
| Lo John |
Money, success, and luck
|
| Lobelia |
Used for attracting love and preventing storms.
Also Called: Pukeweed, Indian Tobacco, Bladderpod, Wild Tobacco, Emetic
Herb, Emetic Weed, Asthma Weed, Rag Root, Vomit Wort
|
| Lotus |
Love, protection, psychic opening, and spiritual growth. Sacred to
Egyptian gods, Indian gods, Hermes, Oshun, and Osiris.
|
| Lotus Root |
Carry to keep thoughts pleasant and clear. Mark one side 'Yes' and the
other 'No', then toss the root into the air as you make a wish to find out
if the wish will come true.
|
| Lovage |
Prophetic dreams, energy, and purification. Use in bath spells for
psychic cleansing. Use in sachets, amulets, or bath magick to enhance
attractiveness and make yourself more love-inspiring. Add an infusion of
lovage to the bath immediately prior to attending court to bring
victory.
|
| Lucky Hand Root |
Magickal uses include bringing good luck, protecting owner from all
harm, travel safety, and gaining employment. Great for use in mojo &
charm bags. Carry for general success and to obtain & maintain
employment.
Also Called: Orchid Root
|
| Lungwort |
Air magick, offering to the Gods of air, blessing while traveling by
air
|
| Mace |
Promotes concentration, focus, and self discipline; great for study
and meditation. Used in reuniting rituals.
Also Called: Macis, Muscadier
|
| Magnolia Bark |
Magickal uses include fidelity, love and hair growth.
Also Called: Cucumber Tree, Blue Magnolia, Swamp Sassafras, Magnolia
Tripetata
|
| Maidenhair Fern |
Brings beauty and love into your life.
|
| Mandrake |
Magickal uses include protection, prosperity, fertility, and
exorcising evil. Carry to attract love. Wear to preserve health.
Also Called: Mandragora, Satan's Apple, Manroot, Circeium, Gallows,
Herb of Circe, Mandragor, Raccoon Berry, Ladykins, Womandrake, Sorceror's
Root, Wild Lemon
|
| Maple |
Love, money, wealth, longevity, and good luck
|
| Maple Syrup |
Longevity, money, and love
|
| Marigold |
Attracts respect and admiration, provides good luck in court and other
legal matters. Great for bath spells -- add an infusion of marigold to the
bath for 5 days to find "Mr. Right". Add to sachets, amulets, and incense
to attract new love or add life to your current relationship. Place above
the bed or in dream pillows for prophetic dreams. Scatter under the bed
for protection while sleeping.
Also Called: Bride of the Sun, Ruddes, Marygold
|
| Marjoram |
Cleansing, purification, and dispelling negativity. Place under pillow
to bring revealing dreams. Place in the corners of the home for
protection. Use in love spells or place in food to strengthen love. Carry
for protection or place in money mixtures and sachets to draw wealth. Put
a pinch in the corner of each room in the house each month to attract a
husband. Use an infusion in the bath for 7 days to aid in resolving
sadness or grief.
Also Called: Joy of the Mountain, Mountain Mint
|
| Marshmallow Root |
Protection and psychic powers. Burn as an incense for protection and
psychic stimulation. Place on the altar during ritual to draw in good
spirits.
Also Called: Althea, Sweet Weed, Mallards, Guimauve, Mortification
Plant, Schloss Tea, Wymote
|
| May Flowers |
Attract adventure and chaos to your life
|
| Meadowsweet |
Used to increase the chances of getting a job. Aids one during times
of distress. Useful as an altar offering, especially during love magick.
Burn or strew about the house to relieve disharmony in the home or remove
tensions. Carry to gain popularity and friendship.
Also Called: Gravel Root, Bride of the Meadow, Bridewort, Little Queen,
Gravelweed, Joe-Pye Weed, Purple Boneset, Kidney Root, Trumpet Weed,
Trumpet Vine, Meadowsweet
|
| Mesquite |
Healing. Use in healing incenses and mixtures. Use to fuel ritual
fires or burn as an incense for cleansing & purification. Use an
infusion of mesquite in the bath for purification.
|
| Milk Thistle |
Magickal uses include strength, perseverance, wisdom, aid in decision
making. It is also thought to enrage snakes, causing them to
fight against one another. |
| Mimosa |
Protection, purification, love, dream magick. Use in sleep pillows to
draw prophetic dreams. Use in bath magick to break hexes and prevent
future problems. Scatter around an area for purification.
|
| Mint |
Promotes energy, communication and vitality. Draws customers to a
business. Use dried leaves to stuff a green poppet for healing. Place in
wallet or purse or rub on money to bring wealth and prosperity. Use on the
altar to draw good spirits to assist in your magick. Place in the home for
protection.
Also Called: Garden Mint
|
| Mistletoe |
Used for fertility, creativity, prevention of illness/misfortune, and
protection from negative spells & magick. Hang in the home for
protection from lightning & fire. Wear in an amulet to repel
negativity & ill will and protect against unwanted advances. Carry for
luck in hunting. Use to draw in customers, money and business. Use in
ritual baths or prayer bowls for healing. Note: Poisonous, use with
caution.
Also Called: Birdlime, Devil's Fuge, Golden Bough, Holy Wood,
Misseltoe, Druid's Bough, Witch's Broom, Thunderbesom, Wood of the
Cross
|
| Monkshood |
Magickal uses include invisibility and protection from evil. Use only
the flowers in magick, as the roots give off fumes when drying. Excellent
for redirecting predators who come after you. Note: Poisonous, use with
caution and do not consume.
Also Called: Aconite, Garden Wolf's Bane, Helmet Flower, Friar's Cap,
Soldier's Cap, Wolfbane
|
| Morning Glory |
Used for binding, banishing, and promoting attraction to someone or
something. Wrap the vine around a poppet nine times to banish someone.
Remember the law of three -- use of negative magick is not recommended.
Note: Poisonous, use with caution.
Also Called: Devil's Guts
|
| Motherwort |
Magickal uses include bolstering ego, building confidence, success and
counter magick. Keep in a jar by family pictures to keep the family safe.
Also Called: Lion's Tail, Lion's Ear, Throwwort, Roman
Motherwort
|
| Mugwort |
Carried to increase lust & fertility, prevent backache and cure
disease & madness. Place around divination and scrying tools to
increase their power or near the bed to enable astral travel. Use in sleep
pillow or place in a sachet under your pillowcase to bring about prophetic
dreams. Use an infusion of mugwort to clean crystal balls and magick
mirrors.
Also Called: Artemisia, Felon Herb, St. John's Plant, Naughty Man, Oild
Man, Sailor's Tobacco
|
| Mullein |
Protection from nightmares & sorcery, courage, cursing, and
invoking spirits. Place beneath pillow or use in dream pillow to guard
against nightmares. Carry to instill courage and help attract love from
the opposite sex. Use in place of graveyard dust in spells. Wear to keep
wild animals at bay in unfamiliar areas. Burn to banish bad influences and
bring an immediate halt to bad habits.
Also Called: Flannel Flower, Shepherd's Club, Hare's Beard, Pig Taper,
Cow's Lungwort, Aarons Rod, Velvet Plant, Verbascum Flowers, Woolen
Blanket Herb, Bullock's Lungwort, Hag's Tapers
|
| Musk |
Encourages self-esteem and desirability. Can assist in transmuting
sexual love into spiritual connection. Stimulates the root
chakra.
|
| Mustard Seed |
Courage, faith, and endurance. Frequently used in voudoun charms.
Carry a few grains in a small bag to guard against injury. Sprinkle red
mustard seed around the house to ward off burglars. Use yellow mustard
seed in an amulet to bring faith followed by success -- this is one of the
oldest known good luck amulets.
Also Called: Yellow Mustard, White Mustard
|
| Myrrh |
Spiritual opening, meditation, and healing. This herb has high psychic
vibrations that will enhance any magickal working. Burn as a potent
incense to bring peace and for consecration, and blessing of talismans,
charms, and magickal tools. Increases the power of any incense of which it
is a part. Usually burned with Frankincense.
Also Called: Molmol, Mirra, Didthin, Bowl
|
| Myrtle |
Love, fertility, youth, peace, and money. Carry myrtle leaves to
attract love, burn as an incense to bring beauty. Wear myrtle while
preparing love spells/mixes to increase their intent. Wear or carry to
attract true friendship. Use in sachets to ensure a peaceful and loving
atmosphere.
Also Called: Bayberry Tree
|
| Narcissus |
Calms vibrations and promotes harmony, tranquility, and peace of mind.
Also Called: Asphodel, Daffy Down Lily, Fleur de Coucou, Goose Leek,
Lent Lily, Porillon
|
| Neroli |
Joy, happiness, confidence, and overcoming emotional blockages.
Soothes, relaxes, and uplifts the spirit. Instills confidence and courage
when carried or worn.
|
| Nettle |
Magickal uses include dispelling darkness & fear, strengthening
the will, and aiding in the ability to handle emergencies. Sprinkle in the
home to drive off evil & negativity. Carry in a sachet or use with a
poppet to turn back a spell on the one who cast it. Sprinkle on self to
remove petty jealousies, gossip, envy, and uncomfortable situations.
Also Called: Nettle Leaves, Common Nettle, Stinging Nettle, Beggar's
Lice
|
| Nutmeg |
Magickal uses include attracting money/prosperity, bringing luck,
protection, and breaking hexes. Include in money magick and sachets. Carry
as a good luck charm and/or to increase the intellect. Sprinkle nutmeg
powder on green candles for prosperity.
Also Called: Myristica
|
| Oak |
The most sacred of all trees, its wood is often used in the making of
magickal tools. Burn the leaves for purification. Use in fertility
amulets. Hang a sprig in the home to ward of negativity and strengthen
family unity. Carry for wisdom and strength, for luck, to preserve
youthfulness, and/or to increase attractiveness.
Also Called: Duir, Jove's Nuts
|
| Oak Moss |
Magickal uses include luck, money, protection and strength.
|
| Oatmeal |
To invoke or worship Brighid.
|
| Oatstraw |
Keep a small amount in wallet or purse to draw in money and
prosperity.
|
| Olive |
Fidelity, marriage, peace, money. Assures fidelity in love and is used
to attract a marriage partner. Inspires fruitfulness and security in love,
family, and business.
|
| Olive Leaf |
Magickal uses include peace, potency, fertility, healing, protection
and lust.
|
| Onion |
Prosperity, stability, endurance, and protection. Burn onion flowers
to banish bad habits and negative influences. Cut onions in half and place
in the corners of a room to absorb illness, then bury or burn the onion
halves in the morning. Sacred to the moon.
|
| Orange |
Attracts abundance and happiness through love and marriage.
Concentrate on a yes/no question while eating an orange, then count the
seeds -- an even number of seeds means the answer is no, an odd number of
seeds means yes. Use the leaves and flowers in love rituals to bring on a
marriage proposal. Add an infusion of orange to the bath to increase
attractiveness and beauty.
|
| Orange Bergamot |
Money drawing. Put leaves in wallet or purse to attract money. Rub
fresh leaves on money before it is spent to ensure its return.
Also Called: Bergamot, Orange Mint
|
| Orange Blossoms |
Attracts prosperity and stability; brings harmony, peace, emotional
openness, and love. Use in herbal baths for attractiveness.
|
| Orange Peel |
Magickal uses include love, divination, luck, money and house &
business blessing. Add to love sachets to help someone make up their mind.
Use in sachets & amulets to bring luck to business negotiations.
|
| Orchid |
Concentration, strengthening memory, focus, and will power.
|
| Oregano |
Joy, strength, vitality, and added energy
|
| Orris Root (Cut) |
Promotes popularity, persuasiveness, and personal success. Aids
communication and helps to open dialogs. Used to draw (or hold) love and
romance. Add to the bath for personal protection.
Also Called: Florentine Iris, Queen Elizabeth Root
|
| Orris Root Powder |
Used to bring love, romance, companionship and a loving mate. Called
'Love Drawing Powder' in voodoo/hoodoo. Add to sachets and sprinkle on
sheets and around the house to draw or hold love. Place a pinch in the
corners of the room to open a new love. Use in bath magick to attract the
opposite sex.
Also Called: Love Drawing Powder, Florentine Iris, Queen Elizabeth
Root
|
| Osha Root |
Protection against evil spirits
|
| Palm |
Fertility, focus, potency, and divination
|
| Palo Santo |
If you feel you have been cursed, rub this herb on your body and then
bathe.
|
| Pansy |
Rain magick
|
| Papaya |
Hang twigs of papaya wood over a door to keep out evil. Eat papaya
with a loved one to intensify your love. Mix papaya leaves with mandrake
and burn or use in the bath to reverse hexes and jinxes.
|
| Paprika |
Use to add energy to any spell or mixture. Throw in someone's
yard to cause them problems.
Also Called: African Pepper, Bird Pepper, Chili Pepper, Goat's Pod,
Grains of Paradise, Red Pepper, Sweet Pepper, Tabasco Pepper, Zanzibar
Pepper, Capsicum
|
| Papyrus |
Protection
|
| Parsley |
Calms and protects the home; Draws prosperity, financial increase, and
luck. Restores a sense of well-being. Use in spells to increase strength
& vitality after surgery or illness. Use in amulets or other magickal
workings to help yourself out of a rut. Eat to provoke lust and promote
fertility. Place on plates of food to guard against contamination. Useful
for bath magick to purify and end misfortune. Mix with jasmine and carry
in your shoe to make you more attractive to the opposite sex.
|
| Parsnip |
Male sex magick
|
| Passion Flower |
Magickal uses include attracting friendship and prosperity and
heightening libido. Carried to bring great popularity & attract new
friends. Placed in house to calm trouble & arguments and bring peace.
Used as a wash to diminish disagreements & stress. Placed beneath
pillow to promote sleep. Bathe in an infusion of passion flower for 5 days
to attract the opposite sex.
Also Called: Passion Vine, Granadilla, Maracoc, Maypops, Purple Passion
Flower, Grandilla
|
| Patchouli |
Used in spells, sachets, baths and mixtures for money & love. Put
in the wallet or purse to draw money. Place in a charm or use in incense
for fertility. Helps to ground you and bring your consciousness back to
the physical level. Burn to bring business growth.
Also Called: Patchouly, Pucha Pot
|
| Pau d'Arco |
Magickal use is for the ritual healing of severe diseases.
Also Called: Lapacho, Taheebo, Pau Darco
|
| Peach |
Fertility, love, and wisdom. Eating peaches induces love. Wear a peach
pit to keep away evil. Carry peach wood for longevity. Use peach pits or
dried fruit in amulets and sachets for fertility and love.
|
| Pear |
Lust and love Eating pears induces love. Use dried fruit in amulets
and sachets for love and lust.
|
| Pearl Moss |
Sprinkle across the doorway of a home to allow only good spirits to
enter.
|
| Peas |
Money and love
|
| Peat Moss |
Protection
|
| Pecan |
Associated with employment, success, job security, and career
matters. To insure that you do not lose your job, shell a small
amount of pecans. While eating them, slowly visualize yourself working and
enjoying your job. Take the shells to work and place them where they won't
be found or removed.
|
| Pennyroyal |
Magickal uses include peace and tranquility. Carried to avoid
seasickness or for physical strength & endurance. Worn to bring
success to business. Use to rid the home of negative thoughts against you.
Carry when dealing with negative vibrations of any kind. Place on a candle
before or during uncomfortable meetings.
Also Called: Tickweed, Squaw Mint, Stinking Balm, Thickweed, Mosquito
Plant, Squaw Balm, Lurk in the Ditch, Run by the Ground
|
| Peony |
Protection from hexes and jinxes. Good luck, good fortune, prosperity,
and business success. Hang in the home or car for protection. Used to
attract faeries. Use in rituals to cure or reduce lunacy. Warning: While
the flowers & petals have the positive qualities listed, the seed is
called 'Jumby Bean' and is known for promoting dissension and
strife.
|
| Pepper, Black |
Courage, banishing negative vibrations. Burn to rid home or office of
bad vibrations. Carry to ward off petty jealousy against you or aid in
providing courage to face difficult situations.
Also Called: Piper
|
| Peppermint |
Use to increase the vibrations of a space or in spells and incense for
healing & purification. Place in sleep pillow to ensure peaceful sleep
and bring about prophetic dreams. Use to anoint furnishings and household
objects. Burn in a new home to clear out sickness and negative energy. Use
in magickal workings to provide the push needed to bring change to one's
life. Carry with other herbs to boost love & abundance wishes.
Also Called: Brandy Mint, Lammint
|
| Periwinkle |
Love within marriage, mental powers, and money. Carry to obtain grace,
attract money, and protect against snakes and poison. Use in magickal
workings to restore lost memory. Burn with love incense before having sex
with your husband or wife. Note: Can be poisonous, use with caution.
Also Called: Sorceror's Violet
|
| Persimmon |
Changing sex, healing, and luck
|
| Pettitgrain |
Protection
|
| Pikaki |
Draws comfort, prosperity success, and well-being
|
| Pimento |
Love
|
| Pimpernel |
Protection and health
|
| Pine |
Promotes clean breaks, new beginnings, prosperity, success, strength,
grounding, and growth; Also used for cleansing, purification, and
repelling negativity. Great for house and business blessing.
|
| Pineapple |
Luck, money, and chastity. Add an infusion of pineapple to the bath to
attract luck.
|
| Pink Root |
Healing
Also Called: Indian Pink, Maryland Pink, Wormgrass, Wormroot,
Starbloom
|
| Pink Rose Buds |
Divine, emotional, and thinking love; start with these to build a long
lasting relationship.
|
| Pistachio |
Breaking love spells
|
| Plantain |
Protection from evil spirits and snake bites, removing weariness,
healing headaches; house & business blessing. Place a pinch of dried
leaves in the flame of a candle or throw into an East wind for healing.
Hang plantain leaves in the car for protection from evil and
jealousy.
|
| Pleurisy Root |
Healing
Also Called: Butterfly Weed, Wind Root, Canada Root, Silkweed, Orange
Swallow Wort, Tuber Root, White Root, Flux Root, Asclepias
|
| Plum |
Healing, peace, and love
|
| Plumeria |
Promotes persuasiveness, eloquence, and success in dealing with
people; Attracts the notice of others.
Also Called: Graveyard Flowers, Melta, Temple Tree
|
| Poke Root |
Magickal uses include finding lost objects and breaking hexes and
curses. Carry to increase courage. Add an infusion of poke root to bath
water to break hexes.
Also Called: Phytolacca, Shang Lu
|
| Pomegranate |
Divination, wishes, wealth and fertility
|
| Poppy |
Fertility, prosperity, love and abundance.
Also Called: Opium Poppy, Mawseed
|
| Poppy Seeds |
Pleasure, heightened awareness, love, luck, invisibility. A popular
ingredient in food magick. Sleep on a pillow stuffed with poppy seeds to
bring relief from insomnia.
Also Called: Opium Poppy, Mawseed
|
| Potato |
Image magick, money, luck, and healing
|
| Prickly Ash Bark |
Magickal uses include safe travel, fertility, removing spells and
breaking hexes.
Also Called: Toothache Tree, Yellow Wood, Suterberry
|
| Primrose |
Promotes the disclosure of secrets, resolution of mysteries, and
revelation of truth; Breaks down dishonesty and secrecy. Put an infusion
in a child's bath water or the dried herb in their pillows to get them to
behave.
Also Called: English Cowslip, Butter Rose, Password
|
| Pumpkin |
Lunar magick
|
| Pumpkin Seed |
Health
|
| Quassia |
Love. Mix with a snippet of hair from yourself and your lover (with
his/her permission, of course!) with quassia chips, burn, and keep the
ashes in a small bottle to preserve the love.
|
| Quince |
Love, happiness, luck, and protection from evil. Carry quince seeds in
a red flannel bag to protect against physical attacks and harm. Use quince
seeds in charms and spells pertaining to love, protection, and
happiness.
|
| Radish |
Protection and lust
|
| Ragwort |
Courage. Used in charms to ward off evil spirits. Associated with
faeries.
Also Called: Fairie's Horse, Faerie's Horse, Fairy Horse, Faery
Horse
|
| Raspberry Leaf |
Used for healing, protection, love. Raspberry leaves are carried (NOT
EATEN) by pregnant women to reduce the pain involved in pregnancy &
childbirth. Bathe in an infusion of raspberry to keep your current love
relationship alive.
|
| Red Clover Blossom |
Magickal uses include fidelity, love, money, protection, and the
blessing of domestic animals. Carry to aid in financial arrangements.
Sprinkle around the home to remove negative spirits.
Also Called: Cleaver Grass, Marl Grass, Cow Grass, Trefoil, Purple
Clover, Wild Clover
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| Red Willow Bark |
Magickal uses include meditation and clearing. A fabulous incense wood
with a sweet and dry aroma.
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| Rhubarb |
Fidelity and protection
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| Rice |
Rain, fertility, money, and protection. Use in money spells and
fertility charms.
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| Rose Buds |
Magickal uses include divine love, close friendships, domestic
peace/happiness, and lasting relationships. Great for use in incense,
potpourri or bath magick. Place around sprains and dark bruises to help
them heal faster.
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| Rose Geranium |
Averts negativity, especially in the form of gossip or false
accusations.
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| Rose Hips |
Used in healing spells and mixtures, brings good luck, calls in good
spirits.
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| Rosemary |
Carried and used in healing poppets for good health, used in love/lust
spells, worn to improve memory, used in dream pillows to prevent
nightmares, burned as incense for purification and removing negativity.
Wear or carry while reading or completing tasks to improve memory of the
material and aid clear thinking (great for students!). Use an infusion of
rosemary to wash hands before any healing magick. Use in bath magick for
purification. Associated with faeries.
Also Called: Elf Leaf, Sea Dew, Polar Plant, Guardrobe, Compass Weed,
Dew of the Sea, Mary's Cloak, Stella Maria, Star of the Sea,
Incensier
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| Rowan |
Protection, magickal power, success, anti-haunting. Use leaves and
berries in amulets for healing and promoting psychic powers. Also good for
use in luck spells and mixtures. Rowan wood is often used to make wands
and divining rods.
Also Called: Moutain Ash, Delight of the Eye, Quickbane, Ran Tree,
Rowanberry, Thor's Helper, Witch Bark, Wicken Tree, Wild Ash,
Witchwood
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| Rue |
Magickal uses include healing, health, mental powers, freedom and
protection against the evil eye. Use as an asperger to cast salt water for
purification of the circle or removing negativity from the home. Hang the
dried herb indoors to help yourself see and understand your mistakes. Burn
to banish negativity or bad habits. Add to incenses and poppets to prevent
illness or speed recovery. Add to baths to break hexes and curses that may
have been placed against you.
Also Called: Herb-of-Grace, Herb of Grace, Herbygrass, Garden Rue,
Mother of Herbs, Rewe, Goat's Rue
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| Rye |
Love, fidelity, and self-control
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| Safflower |
Mix with jinx incense to cause destruction to an enemy (not
recommended!). Gay men rub this on the inside of their knees to attract
exciting sexual encounters.
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| Saffron |
Aphrodisiac, love, healing, happiness, wind raising, lust and
strength. Burn, wear, or carry for healing and strengthening psychic
awareness. Commonly used in love magick, healing spells, and to control
the weather. Wash hands with water and saffron or keep saffron sachets in
your home to bring happiness.
Also Called: Kum Kuma, Zaffran, Kesar, Autumn Crocus, Spanish Saffron,
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