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« Last post by Sarga on March 31, 2015, 10:29:53 pm »
TAMARIND: Love
TANGERINE: Promotes energy, strength, and vitality. Awakens joy and dissolves negativity.
TANSY: Health, invisibility, immortality, longevity; keeps evil out of the home. Place a small amount in the shoe or add an infusion of tansy to the bath to keep the law away.
TARRAGON: Healing in abuse situations, compassion magick for others. Use for consecrating chalices.
TEA LEAVES: Use in talismans for courage or strength. Use as a base for lust drinks. Burn leaves to ensure future riches.
TEA TREE: Eliminating confusion and increasing harmony.
THISTLE: Healing, protection. Use in sachet or amulet to aid in speedy recovery from surgery or illness. Hang in the home to ward off thieves and unwanted visitors.
THYME: Attracts loyalty, affection, and the good opinion of others. Wear a sprig to ward off unbearable grief or provide strength and courage when needed. Burn or hang in the home for banishing, purification, and to attract good health for all occupants. Use in cleansing baths prior to working candle magick. Use in dream pillows to ward off nightmares and ensure restful sleep. Add a thyme infusion to the bath regularly to ensure a constant flow of money. Place in a jar and keep in the home or at work for good luck.
Also Called: Garden Thyme
TOADFLAX: Protection and hex breaking.
TOADSTOOLS: Rain magick.
TOBACCO: Promotes peace, confidence, and personal strength. Also used for banishing. Mix with salt and burn with a black candle to win a court case.
TOMATO: Love spells.
TONKA BEANS: Magickal uses include rituals and spells for love, wishes and courage. Worn to gain prosperity & courage. Carried to grant luck & protect from disease and/or to attract love. Promotes the accomplishment of goals. Keep on the altar when performing love magick to enhance intent. Carry in a red flannel bag to attract good fortune and financial success, especially when attending business negotiations or job interviews. A favorite hoodoo good luck charm to make wishes come true.
Also Called: Tonqua, Tonqua Bean, Tonquin Bean, Wish Beans, Coumaria Nut.
TRUE UNICORN ROOT: Hex-breaking, uncrossing, and protection against evil & malevolent magick.
TUBEROSE: Sensuality, serenity, and calming nerves. Brings peace to the mind and heart, enhances the capacity for emotional depth. Add to sachets designed to increase psychic ability. Use in love magick to awaken erotic feelings and attract romance. Wear or carry to attract inspiration.
Also Called: Mistress of the Night.
TURNIPS: Ending relationships.
UVA URSI: Magickal uses include increasing intuitive and psychic powers. Great in sachets for this purpose. American Indians used Uva Ursi in religious ceremonies. Note: Can be poisonous, use with caution.
Also Called: Bearberry, Bear's Grape, Foxberry, Crowberry, Hog Cranberry, Kinnikinnick, Mealberry, Arberry, Mountain Box, Mountain Cranberry, Sandberry, Uva Ursa, Universe Vine.
VALERIAN ROOT: Dream magick, reconciliation, love, and harmony. Placed in sachets for love & protection and used in sleep pillows. It is said that having Valerian Root nearby will settle an argument between a couple. Used to purify sacred space. Used as a substitution for graveyard dirt/dust in spells. Use in protection baths. Burn for reconciliation in ailing relationships, but only with the permission of all parties involved in the relationship. Wear to calm the emotions.
Also Called: Valerian Root, All-Heal, Garden Heliotrope, Graveyard Dust, Phu, Setwell, Vandal Root.
VANILLA BEANS: Magickal uses include love, lust, passion, and restoring lost energy. Carried to increase energy & strengthen mental abilities.
VENUS FLYTRAP: Love and protection.
VERTIVERT: Draws money and prosperity, love, and attraction; Overcomes obstacles, breaks hexes, and repels negativity. Place a small amount in cash registers to increase business. Burn to overcome evil spirits.
Also Called: Khus-khus.
VERVAIN: Protection, purification, money, youth, peace, healing, and sleep. Bury in the yard or keep in the home to encourage wealth, protect from lightning & storms, and bring peace. Put under the pillow to prevent nightmares. Use as an incense to end unrequited love. Use in prosperity spells. Carry to prevent depression and/or bring creativity. Use in cleansing baths and rituals before working magick. Use in amulets, sachets, dream pillows, and baths for all-purpose protection of home sand people (especially children).
Also Called: Verveine, Verbena, Brittanica, Enchanter's Plant, Enchanter's Herb, Herba Sacra, Juno's Tears, Holy Wort, Lemon Verbena, Van-Van, Herb of Grace, Herb of the Cross, Pigeon's Grass, Pigeonwood, Simpler's Joy.
VETCH: Fidelity.
VINEGAR: Banishing, binding, averting evil.
VIOLETS: Calms the nerves, draws prophetic dreams and visions, stimulates creativity, and promotes peace & tranquility. Violet leaf provides protection from all evil. Violet crowns are said to cure headaches and bring sleep. Carry or give to newly married couples or new baby & mother to bring luck to the bearer. Keep a spray of violets on the altar to enhance night magick. Wear the leaves in a green sachet to help heal wounds and prevent evil spirits from making the wounds worse.
Also Called: Sweet Violet, Blue Violet, Wild Violet
WALNUT: Access to divine energy, bringing the blessing of the Gods, wishes.
WATERCRESS: For lunar magick and sex magick.
WHEAT: Inducing fertility and conception, attracting money.
WHITE SAGE: Use as an incense, for smudging or for purification.
WHITE WILLOW (BARK): Brings blessings of the moon into one?s life and guards against negativity & evil forces. Used in healing spells.
WILLOW: Used for lunar magick, drawing or strengthening love, healing, and overcoming sadness. Willow is considered a sacred wishing tree. Wear a sprig of willow when facing the death of a loved one. Place on the altar for lunar magick and divination work. Keep a piece of willow in home or business to protect against evil.
Also Called: Osier, **** Willow, White Willow, Witches' Aspirin, Withy, Tree of Enchantment, Saille, Salicyn Willow, Saugh Tree.
WINTERGREEN: Add an infusion to your children's bath to bring them good fortune and luck throughout their lives. Sprinkle an infusion of wintergreen around an area for purification.
WISTERIA: Raises vibrations, promotes psychic opening, overcomes obstacles, and draws prosperity.
WITCH HAZEL: Magickal uses include chastity and protection. Carry to ease grief over a lost love. Use in a sachet to reduce passions. Use in love spells and spells to ward off evil.
Also Called: Winter Bloom, Striped Alder, Spotted Alder, Hazelnut, Snapping Hazel and Tobacco Wood.
WITCHES BURR: Adds great power to spells & rituals. Presence of witches burr is said to defeat any kind of evil force.
WITCHES GRASS: Happiness, lust, love, and exorcism. Sprinkle around the home for seven consecutive days to overcome depression and dispense of petty spirits. Reverses hexes.
Also Called: Couch Grass, Rhizomes, Twitch Grass, Scotch Quelch, Quick Grass, Dog Grass.
WOOD ALOE: Protection, consecration, success, and prosperity.
Also Called: Lignaloes, Lignam Aloes.
WOOD BETONY: Magickal uses include purification, protection, and the expulsion of evil spirits, nightmares, and despair. Excellent for magickal healing and protecting against dark fears of the emotions & imagination. A good addition to dream pillows. Carry in an amulet to draw love and strengthen the body. Burn to banish disharmony in a relationship. Pass through the smoke of burning wood betony at Midsummer to purify the body of ills and evils. Burn with any uncrossing incense to defeat witchcraft.
Also Called: Betony, Bishopswort, Stachys Betonica, Lousewort.
WOODRUFF: Victory, protection, and money. Place a pinch in your left shoe before a game and your team will be victorious.
WORMWOOD: Used to remove anger, stop war, inhibit violent acts, and for protection from the evil eye. Carry in vehicle to protect from accidents on dangerous roads. Use as incense for clairvoyance, to summon spirits, or to enhance divinatory abilities. Can be sprinkled in the path of an enemy to bring them strife and misfortune (not recommended, remember the law of threes). Note: Can be poisonous, use with caution.
Also Called: Absinthium, Green Ginger, Absinthe, Old Woman, Crown for a King.
XANTHAN GUM: Incense bonding agent.
YARROW (FLOWERS): Uses include healing, handfasting & weddings, and divination. Draws love. Carry as a sachet or amulet to banish negativity, ward off fear, and promote courage, confidence, and psychic opening. Frequently used in marriage charms and love sachets. Said to keep a newly married couple happy for seven years by keeping their love alive and preventing upsetting influences from entering the relationship. Place in a yellow flannel bag with a piece of parchment on which you have written your fears, carry with you to overcome them.
Also Called: Bloodwort, Death Flower, Devil's Nettle, Lady's Mantle, Soldier's Woundwort, Thousandleaf, Millefoil, Carpenter's Weed, Knight's Milfoil, Sanguinary, Arrow Root, Thousand Seal.
YELLOW DOCK: Fertility, healing and money. Sprinkle an infusion of yellow dock around a place of business to attract customers.
Also Called: Curled Dock, Curly Dock, Sour Dock, Narrow Dock, Garden Patience, Rumex.
YERBA MATE: Fidelity, love and lust. Worn to attract the opposite sex. Spill an infusion of yerba mate on the ground to break off a relationship.
Also Called: Mate, Mate Leaf, Green Mate.
YERBA SANTA: Beauty, healing, psychic powers and protection. Carry or use in bath magick to obtain beauty from within and make your body more desirable. Wear around the neck to ward off illness and prevent wounds. Use the leaves in healing or protection incenses. Use in bath water if you feel your sickness has been caused by a hex.
Also Called: Consumptive's Weed, Gum Plant, Gum Bush, Bear's Weed, Bear Weed, Mountain Balm, Tar Weed, Tarweed, Holy Herb, Sacred Herb.
YEW: Raising the dead, protection against evil, immortality, and breaking hexes.
YLANG YLANG: Increases sexual attraction and persuasiveness. Also used for peace, love, and faery magick. Promotes calm, peaceful relaxation and relieves anxiety and depression.
YOHIMBE (Bark): Love, lust, virility and fertility. Curing impotency. Cursing. Used in Pagan rituals of union.
YUCCA: Transmutation, protection and purification. A cross of yucca fiber placed on the hearth protects the home from evil. Use an infusion of yucca to cleanse and purify the body before magick. Repeat this cleansing afterwards if performing spells to remove curses, hexes, or illness. Rub a slice of yucca root all over your body once a day for seven days to remove jinxes and hexes.
Also Called: Yucca Stalk, Yucca Root.
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RADISH: Protection and lust
RAGWORT: For Courage. Also 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 BLOSSOMS: 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.
RED WILLOW BARK:Magickal uses include meditation and clearing. A fabulous incense wood with a sweet and dry aroma.
RHUBARB: Fidelity and protection.
RICE: Rain, fertility, money, and protection. Use in money spells and fertility charms.
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.
ROSE GERANIUM: Averts negativity, especially in the form of gossip or false accusations.
ROSE HIPS: Used in healing spells and mixtures, brings good luck, calls in good spirits.
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.
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.
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.
RYE: Love, fidelity, and self-control.
SAFFLOWER: Mix with jinx incense to cause destruction to an enemy (not recommended!). Rub on the inside of the knees to attract exciting sexual encounters.
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, Dyer's Saffron, Thistle Saffron, Bastard Saffron, American Saffron, Parrot's Corn.
SAGE: Used for self purification and dealing with grief and loss. Carried to improve mental ability and bring wisdom. Used in healing sachets & incense. Promotes spiritual, mental, emotional & physical health and longevity. Removes negative energy. Place near a personal object of a person who is ailing when performing healing spells or rituals. Write a wish on a sage leaf and place it under your pillow for 3 nights -- if you dream of your wish, it will come true; if not, bury the leaf in the ground so that no bad will come to you.
Also Called: Garden Sage, White Sage, Red Sage, Sawge.
SALT PETRE: For women who do not want their partners to have outside relationships. Stops sexual tension.
Also Called: Salt Peter, Petre Salt, Saltpetre, Saltpeter.
SANDALWOOD: Scatter sandalwood powder around the home to clear it of negativity. Burn during protection, healing, and exorcism spells. Use the wood for healing wands. Write your wish on a chip of sandalwood and burn it in the censer or cauldron while visualizing your wish to make it come true. Helps in healing by aligning the chakras for better energy flow. Good for meditation, healing, and manifestation. Facilitates concentration.
Also Called: Sandal, Santal, White Saunders, White Sandalwood, Red Sandalwood, Yellow Sandalwood.
SANICLE: Used for safety in travel.
Also Called: Sancile, American Sanicle, Black Snakeroot, Wood Sanicle, Pool Root, Butterwort, Alum Root.
SARSAPARILLA: Sexual vitality, health, love and money. Mix with sandalwood and cinnamon and sprinkle around home or business to draw money. Alleged to prolong life, hinder premature aging, excite passions, and improve virility when worn or carried.
Also Called: Black Creeper, Sariva, Kalisar, Dudhilata, Sugandhi, Red Sarsaparilla, Tu Fu Ling, Dwipautra.
SASSAFRAS: Magickal uses include health, money and overcoming addictions. Placed in wallet or purse to attract money and make the money you have go farther. Used as a prosperity incense. Added to sachets for healing.
Also Called: Ague Tree, Cinnamon Wood, Saxifrax, Saloip.
SAVOURY: Sensuality, sexuality, and passion; great for sex magick!
SAW PALMETTO (BERRIES): Magickal uses include healing protection, exorcism, passion and spiritual openings.
Also Called: Dwarf Palm Tree, Cabbage Palm, Sabal, Sabal Serrulata.
SCULLCAP: Worn by women to keep their husbands faithful. Used in sleep pillows for relaxation & peace. Used to bind oaths and consecrate vows & commitments (handfasting, initiations, etc.). Used in bath magick to clam the aura of tensions and stress. Use in spells for relief from disharmony and disruptive situations. Place a pinch in a lover's shoes to keep then from being affected by charms of others.
Also Called: Skullcap, Scullcap, Hoodwort, Quaker Bonnet, Helmet Flower, European Skullcap, Greater Skullcap, American Skullcap, Blue Skullcap, Blue Pimpernel, Hoodwart, Hooded Willow Herb, Side-Flowering Skullcap, Mad Dogweed, Mad Weed, Madweed, Helmet Flower, Hoodwort.
SEA SALT: Uses include cleansing crystals, purification, grounding, protection magick and ritual. Used on the altar to represent the Earth. Used with water for asperging, sea spells, consecration and casting circles. Used with garlic and rosemary to banish evil.
SENNA: Magickal uses include all matters of lust and love. Enhances tact & diplomacy. Bathe with your mate in an infusion of senna to ensure faithfulness.
Also Called: Senna Pod, Rajavriksha, Fan Xia Ye, American Senna, Locust Plant, Wild Senna, Fan Xie Ye.
SESAME: Money, lust, and passion.
SHALLOTS: Add an infusion of shallots to the bath for luck.
SHAVE GRASS: Magickal uses include snake charming & fertility. Place in the bedroom to increase fertility.
Also Called: Scouring Rush, Equisetum, Pewterwort, Corncob Plant, Bottle Brush, Horsetail, Dutch Raisins, Paddock Pipe.
SHEEP SORREL: Carry to protect against heart disease. Place in sickrooms to aid in recuperation from illnesses and wounds.
SHEPHERD'S PURSE: Healing
Also Called: Mother's Heart, Shepard's Purse/Heart, Cocowort, Pickpocket, Toywort, Pick Purse, St. James' Weed, St. James' Wort, St. Anthony's Fire, Pepper Grass, Case Wort, Permacety.
SKUNK CABBAGE: Legal matters.
SLIPPERY ELM: Magickal uses include protection and halting gossip. Tie a knotted yellow thread around slippery elm and throw it into a fire to cease all gossip about you.
Also Called: Red Elm, Moose Elm, Sweet Elm, Indian Elm.
SNAPDRAGONS: Protection, exorcism, and purification.
SNOWDROP: Passing of sorrow.
SOLOMON'S SEAL (ROOT): Magickally used for protection and cleansing. Used in offertory incense. Used to bind magickal workings and keep sacred oaths & promises forever binding. Carry in an amulet or sachet for all-purpose protection. Use in protection magick to exorcise spirits and ward off negative influences and demons. Keep on altar to promote success in all rituals. Sprinkle an infusion of the root to drive away evil.
Also Called: Lady's Seals, St. Mary's Seal, Sigillum Sanctae Mariae, Scean de Solomon.
SOW THISTLE: Increases strength & stamina, repels witches, and provides invisibility from enemies.
SPANISH MOSS: Protection, opening blockages, and dispelling negativity.
SPEARMINT: Healing, love and protection while sleeping. Burn for healing magick, especially of respiratory conditions. Carry for healing. Use in ritual baths for strength and vitality. Write a wish on paper and wrap it in spearmint leaves; place in a red cloth and sew with red thread, then keep in a safe and secret place. By the time the scent is gone, your wish should have come true.
Also Called: Garden Mint, Mackerel Mint, Our Lady's Mint, Green Mint, Spire Mint, Lamb Mint, Yerba Buena, Sage of Bethlehem, Fish Mint.
SPIDERWORT: Love.
SPIKENARD ROOT: Wear in a sachet around the neck to bring luck & ward off illness. It is said that wetting a picture of a loved one in an infusion of spikenard will keep them close to you.
Also Called: Spignet, Life of Man, Pettymorell, Old Man's Root, Indian Root, Bitter Root, Nard, Nardo.
SQUAW VINE: Magickal uses include all matters of fertility & childbirth. Pregnant women can add an infusion of squaw vine to bath water once a week to protect the unborn child from jealousy.
Also Called: Squawvine.
SQUILL ROOT: To draw money, place in a container with a dime, a quarter and a dollar and say a prayer for prosperity.
ST. JOHN'S WORT: Worn to prevent colds & fevers. Placed under pillow to induce prophetic, romantic dreams. Protects against all forms of black witchcraft. Place in a jar in a window or burn in a fireplace to protect from lightning, fire and evil spirits. Used for banishing, protection & blessing. Carry to strengthen courage and convictions or when confronting nasty situations. Burn to banish spirits and demons. Used in divination for the care of crystals. Note: Can be poisonous, use with caution.
Also Called: Goat Weed, Herba John, Kalimath Weed, Tipton Weed.
STAR ANISE: Burned as incense to increase psychic awareness & abilities. Placed on the altar to increase the power generated. Carried to bring luck.
Also Called: Chinese Anise.
STRAW: Image magick and luck.
STRAW FLOWER: Luck, longevity, and protection. Use in magick to get the effects to last. The flower of Samhain, signifying the transition from one type of life to another. Note: Poisonous, use with caution.
STRAWBERRY: Attracts success, good fortune, and favorable circumstances. Served as a love food. Leaves are carried for luck. Pregnant women carry a packet of the leaves to ease the pain of pregnancy and childbirth.
SUGAR: Love spells, sex magick.
SUGAR CANE: Love, lust, and sympathy.
SULFUR POWDER: Dispels or prevents a hex on you; destroys an enemy's power over you.
Also Called: Brimstone.
SUNFLOWERS: Energy, protection, power, wisdom, and wishes.
SWEET BUGLE: Crush and place under the mattress to attract love and marriage prospects.
SWEET PEA: Attracts friends and allies; Draws the loyalty and affection of others.
SWEET POTATO: Image magick.
SWEET GRASS: Peace, unity, and calling spirits.
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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.
OAT STRAW: Keep a small amount in wallet or purse to draw in money and prosperity.
OLIVES: 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 PEELS: 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.
ORCHIDS: 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.
PALN: 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.
PARSNIPS: Male sex magick.
PASSION FLOWERS: 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.
PAUL 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
PECANS: 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.
PERIWINKLW: 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.
PERSIMMONS: 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 ROSES (Buds): Divine, emotional, and thinking love; start with these to build a long lasting relationship.
PISTACHIOS: 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.
PLUMS: 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.
POMEGRANITES: 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 SEEDS: Health.
QUASSIS 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.
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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.
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Mace: Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Powers: Psychic powers, Mental Powers Magical Uses: Mace, the outer covering of nutmeg, is burned to increase psychic powers and is carried to improve intellect. Maguey: Folk Name: Agave Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Lust Magical Uses: The juice of the maguey has long been used in lust potions. Magnolia: Folk Names: Blue Magnolia, Cucumber Tree, Swamp Sassafras Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Earth Powers: Fidelity Magical Uses: Place some magnolia near or beneath the bed to maintain a faithful relationship. Mahogany: Seed and Leaves: Poison Gender: Masculine Element: Fire Powers: Anti-lightning Magical Uses: Long used to protect against lightning, especially by mountain climbers. Mountain Mahogany lives at high elevations where lightning and thunder live too, according to ancient American Indian tradition. Thus the tree gives protection from lightning strikes. Wear a piece of the bark in your hat or somewhere on your person when mountain climbing. Maidenhair: Folk Names: Venus hair, Rock fern Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Deity: Venus Powers: Beauty, Love Magical Uses: Immerse some maidenhair in water, then remove. If worn on the person or kept in the bedroom after this process it will grant you grace, beauty and love. Male Fern : poison Folk Names: Paproc, Basket fern, Aspidium, Marginal Shield fern Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Powers: Luck, Love Magical Uses: Male fern is carried as a potent luck attractant, and it also draws women. Mallow : Folk Names: High Mallow, Mauls, Cheese Flowers, Blue Mallow, Common Mallow Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Powers: Love, Protection, Exorcism Magical Uses: If your love has left you, gather a bouquet of mallow and place in a vase outside your door or window. This will cause him or her to think of you, and after that they may return. Mallow is also carried to attract love. To make an effective protective magical ointment, steep mallow leaves and stems in vegetable shortening, then strain. This ointment rubbed onto the skinn casts out devils as well as protects against the harmful effects of black magic. Mandrake : Poison Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Fire Deities: Hecate, Hathor Powers: Protection, Fertility, Money, Love, Health Magical Uses: A whole mandrake root, placed on the mantel in the home, will give the house protection, fertility, and prosperity. Mandrake is also hung on the headboard for protection during sleep, carried to attract love, carried to attract love, and worn to prevent contraction of illnesses. Where there is mandrake, demons cannot reside, and so the root is used in exorcism. To "activate" a dried mandrake root, place it in some prominent location in the house and leave it there undisturbed for three days. Then place it in warm water and leave overnight. Afterwards, the root is activated and can be used in any magical practice. The water in which the root has bathed can be sprinkled at the windows and doors of the house to protect it, or onto people to purify them. The mandrake has also long served as a poppet in image magic, but its extreme scarcity and high cost usually forces the practitioner to look for substitutes; ash roots, apples, the root of the briony, the AMerican may apple and many others have been used. Money placed beside a mandrake root is said to double, and the scent of the mandrake causes sleep. Maple: Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Air Powers: love, Longevity, Money Magical Uses: Maple leaves are used in love spells and money rituals, and branches of the maple have long served as magical wands. A child passed through the branches will have a long life. Marigold: Folk Names: Calendula, Goldes, Marybud, Ruddles, Summer's Bride Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Powers: Protection, Prophetic dreams, Legal Matters, Psychic powers Magical Powers: Marigolds picked at noon when the sun is at its hottest and brightest, will strengthen and comfort the heart. Garlands of marigolds strung on the doorposts stop evil from entering the house, and scattered under the bed they protect you while asleep and give you prophetic dreams. Especially effective in discovering a thief who has robbed you. Marigolds added to the bath water help win the respect and admiration of everyone you meet. Looking at the bright flowers strengthens the sight, and carried in the pocket, marigold helps justice to smile favorably upon you while in court. If a girl touches the petals of the marigold with her bare feet, she will understand the languages of the birds. Reply to this post
Re: Herbs And Their Uses A-Z By: Arienna_07 / Novice Oct 11, 2013 Post # 14 Marjoram: Folk names: Joy of the mountain, Knotted Marjoram, Marjorlaine, Mountain Mint, Pot Marjoram, Sweet Marjoram, Wintersweet Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Deities: Venus,Aphrodite Powers: Protection, Love, Happiness, Health, Money Magical Uses: Marjoram is used in love spells, and is also added to food to strengthen love. Carried it is protective, as it is when placed around the house, a bit in each room, and renewed each month. Grown in the garden it offers shielding powers against evil. Violets and marjoram, mixed together, are worn during the winter months as an amulet against colds. Given to a depressed person marjoram brings happiness. It is also used in money mixtures and satchets. Masterwort: Folk names: Hog Fennel, Imperatoria Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Strength, Courage, Protection Magical Uses: Masterwort grants physical strength if worn, and so may be used by laborers and athletes to reinforce the body. It is also carried to aid the will and calm emotions, and as an amulet against evils. Sprinkle it about to make spirits appear. Mastic: Folk names: Gum Mastic, Masticke, Pistachia Galls Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Air Powers: Psychic powers, Manifestations, Lust Magical Uses: Mastic is burned in magical operations wherein a manifestation of a spirit is desired.It is also used as an incense to aid the psychic powers and has long been dissolved and used in lust potions by magicians and witches in the middle east.Added to any incense, mastic lends potency and power. May Apple: Folk names: American Mandrake, Duck's foot, Hog Apple, Mandrake, Raccoon Berry, Wild Lemon Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Fire Powers: Money Magical Uses: American mandrake, or may apple, is generally used as a substitute for the European or true mandrake. Its uses are practically identical. The may apple is not related to the true mandrake Meadow Rue : Folk name: Flute Plant Powers: Love, Divination Magical Uses: Worn around the neck by American Indians as an all-around protective amulet, and also carried to attract love. Meadowsweet: Folk Names: Bride of the Meadow, Bridewort, Dollor, Lady of the Meadow, Steeplebush, Trumpet Weed Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Air Powers: Love, Divination, Peace, Happiness Magical Uses: Fresh meadowsweet is placed on the altar for love spells, or dried is used in various love mixtures. Also strewn about the house to keep peace. The scent of meadowsweet cheers the heart. If gathered on Midsummer, meadowsweet will give you information regarding thieves; if you have been robbed, place meadowsweet on water. If it sinks, the thief is a man. If it floats, a woman. Mesquite: Folk Name: Mizquitl Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Powers: Healing Magical Uses: Add to healing incenses and mixtures. Mesquite is also used to fuel magical fires. Mimosa: Folk Names: Mimosa Pudica, Albizzialebbeck Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Powers: Protection, Love, Prophetic Dreams, Purification Magical Uses: Mimosa is used in spells involving purification, love, healing, and prophetic dreaming.The latter use, of course, entailing its placement benneath the pillow and subsequently sleeping on it.A bath of mimosa destroys hexes and curses, and guards against future problems. Mint: Folk Name: Garden Mint Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Deities: Pluto, Hecate Powers: Money, Lust, Healing, Travel, Exorcism, Protection Magical Uses: Mint has long been used in healing potions and mixtures, and the fresh leaves rubbed against the head are said to relieve headaches. Mint worn at the wrist assures that you will not be ill. Stomach problems can be alleviated by stuffing a green poppet with mint and annointing it with healing oils. Mint is also used in travel spells and to provoke lust. Its bright green leaves and crisp scent led to its use in money and prosperity spells; the easiest of which is to place a few leaves in the wallet or purse, or rub where your money is kept. To rid a place of evil, sprinkle salt water with a sprinkler made of fresh sprigs of mint, marjoram and rosemary. Fresh mint laid on the altar will call good spirits to be present and aid you in magick. Mint is also kept in the home for protection. Mistletoe: Folk Names: All heal, Birdlime, Devil's Fuge, Thunderbesem, Witches Broom, Wood of the Cross Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Air Deities: Apollo, Freya, Frigga, Venus, Odin Powers: Protection, Love, Hunting, Fertility, Health, Exorcism Ritual Uses: As is well known, the Druids revered the mistletoe, especially when found growing on on oak. It was cut on Midsummer's Day, or else when the Moon is six days old. One stroke of a gold sickle was used to cut the herb, and it wasnt allowed to touch the ground. Magical Uses: Long used for protection against lightning, disease, misfortune of every kind,fires, and so on, it is carried or placed in an appropriate spot for these uses. The leaves and berries are used. Mistletoe is placed in cradles to protect children from being stolen by fairies and replaced by changelings. A ring of carved mistletoe wood will ward off sicknesses when worn, and the plant will cure fresh wounds quickly when carried (do not apply to the wound). Mistletoe is also carried or worn for good luck in hunting, annd women carry the herb to aid in conception. It has also been utilized in spells designed to capture that elusive state of immortality, and to open locks. Laid near the bedroom door, mistletoe gives restful sleep and beautiful dreams, as it does when places beneath the pillow or hung at the headboard. Kiss your love beneath mistletoe and you'll stay in love. Burned, mistletoe banishes evil. Mistletoe is an all-purpose herb.
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Lady's Mantle :
Folk names: Bear's foot, Leontopodium, Lion's foot, Nine Hooks, Stellaria
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Love
Magical Uses: Use the herb in love spells and satchets
Lady's Slipper:
Folk names: Yellow Moccasin Flower, Neveroot, American Valerian
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Saturn
Element: Water
Powers: Protection
Magical Uses: Lady's slipper is used in protective satchets as it guards against all manner of hexes,curses, spells and the evil eye.
Larch:
Gender: Masculine
Powers: Protection, Anti-fire
Magical Uses: Since larch wood cannot be penetrated by fire according to long magical tradition, it is used in satchets designed to prevent conflagrations. Larch is also carried or worn to prevent enchantment and protects against the evil eye.
Larkspur:
Folk names: Delphinium, Knight's spur, Lark's Heal, Staggerweed
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Health, protection
Magical uses: The larkspur keeps away ghosts. If you look through a bunch of larkspur at a Midsummer fire, your eyes will be preserved for the next year,until another Midsummer. The flowers frighten off scorpions and other venomous creatures.
Lavender:
Folk names: Elf leaf, Nard, Nardus, Spike
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Powers: Love, protection, sleep, chastity, longevity, purification,happiness, peace
Magical Uses: Lavender has long been used in love spells and satchets. Clothing nabbed with the fragrant flowers (or lavender placed in drawers with clothes) attracts love. A piece of paper on which you've rubbed lavender is excellent for writing love notes. The scent of lavender particularly attracts men, and lavender water or the essential oil was worn by prostitutes several centuries ago to both advertise their profession as well as to attract (through magic) customers. Lavender also protects against cruel treatment at the hands of a spouse if worn. These flowers are also burned or smouldered to induce sleep and rest, and are scattered around the home to maintain its peacefulness. The plant is so powerful that, if when depressed one gazes upon the plant, all sorrow will depart and a joyous feeling will settle upon the observer. Indeed, the odor of lavender is conducive to long life, and so should be smelled as often as possible if this is a concern. Lavender is also used in healing mixtures, carried to see ghosts, and worn to protect against the evil eye. It is added to purification baths.
Leek:
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Powers: Love, Protection, Exorcism
Magical Uses: When two people eat leeks they will fall in love with each other. Leeks are also carried as protective amulets, and are bitten to break hexes and will drive away evil.
Lemon:
Folk names: Ulamula
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Powers: Longevity, Purification, Love, Friendship
Magical Uses: Lemon juice is mixed with water and the resultant mixture is used to wash amulets, jewelry and other magical objects which have been obtained second hand. This wash ensures that all negative vibrations are cleansed from the object in question. The juice is also added to water at the time of the full moon for its purificatory powers. The dried flowers and peel are added to love satchets and mixtures, and the leaves are used in lust teas. A lemon tree grows from a seed which was taken from a lemon that you have consumed is a highly appropriate gift for a loved one, although admittedly this is a long process. Lemon pie, served to a spouse, will help strengthen fidelity, and a slice of fresh lemon placed beneath a visitors chair ensures that your friendship will last.
Lemongrass:
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Powers: Repel snakes, lust, psychic powers
Magical Uses: Lemongrass planted around the home and in the garden will repel snakes. It is also used in some lust potions, as well as in an infusion to aid in developing psychic powers.
Lemon Verbena:
Folk names: Cedron, Yerba Louisa
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Powers: Purification, Love
Magical Uses: If this plant is hung around the neck, or if a bit of the juice is drunk, it will preserve you from dreaming. Lemon verbena is also worn to make oneself attractive to the opposite sex, and is used in love spells and mixtures. The herb is added to other mixtures to increase their strength, and is sometimes utilized to purify an area, or is added to bath water for purificatory purposes.
Lettuce: Folk names: Garden Lettuce, Lattouce, Sleep Wort Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Powers: Chastity, Protection,Love, Divination,Sleep Magickal Uses: Rub lettuce juice onto the forehead or eat the leaves to have no trouble falling asleep. Lettuce, when grown in the garden is protective, but some say that if too great an amount is raised, sterility will result in the household. If you wish to preserve yourself against temptations of the flesh, eat lettuce. When eaten, lettuce also prevents seasickness. Plant lettuce or cress seeds in the form of the name of someone you love. If the seeds sprout well, so too will love between you. Licorice: Folk names: Lacris, Licourice, Lycorys, Reglisse, Sweet root Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Lust, love, fidelity Magical Uses: Chewing on a licorice stick (the root, not a piece of candy) will make you passionate. It is also a good practice to use while quitting smoking. Licorice is added to love and lust satchets, carried to attract love, and used in spells to ensure fidelity. Licorice sticks make useful wands. Life-Everlasting: Folk names: Chafe weed, Everlasting, Field Balsam, Indian Posy, Old Field Balsam, Sweet Scented life Everlasting, White Balsam Powers: Longevity, Health, Healing Magical Uses: Use in spells of longevity, as well as for restoring youth. It is also kept in the home or carried to prevent sickness and ill-health. Drink an infusion of life-everlasting every morning, before eating or drinking anything else, while saying "Chills and ills, pains and banes, do your fasting with life-everlasting." This will ensure a long life comparatively free of illness. Lilac: Folk name: Common Lilac Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Exorcism, Protection Magical Uses: Lilac drives away evil where it is planted or strewn, and indeed in New England lilacs were originally planted to keep evil from the property. The flowers,fresh, can be placed in a haunted house to help clear it. Lily: Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Deities: Venus, Juno, Nepthys, Kwan Yin Powers: Protection, Breaking love spells Magical Uses: Plant lilies in the garden to keep away ghosts and evil,protect against the evil eye, and to keep unwanted visitors from your home. Lilies are also good antidotes to love spells,for this purpose a fresh lily should be worn or carried. This breaks love spells which have been cast involving a specific person. To bring clues in solving a crime committed in the past year,bury an old piece of leather in a bed of lilies. The first white lily of the season will bring strength to him or her who finds it. Lily of the Valley: Folk Names: Convallaria, Jacob's Ladder, Ladder to heaven, Lily constancy, Male Lily, May lily, Our Lady's tears Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Deities: Apollo, Aesculapis Powers: Mental Powers, Happiness Magical Uses: Use to improve the memory and mind. When placed in a room, these flowers cheer the heart and lift the spirits of those present. Lime: Folk names: Loomi, Dayap,Calmouc Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Powers: Healing, love, protection Magical Uses: Take a fresh lime, pierce it with old iron nails, spikes, pins, and needles, and throw it in a deep hole in the ground. This will rid you of all ills,hexes and so on. Wear a necklace of limes to cure a sore throat. Lime peel is used in love mixtures and incenses. Twigs of the lime tree protect against the evil eye when carried. Linden: Folk names: Lime, Lime tree, Linnflowers Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Air Deities: Venus, Lada Powers: Protection, Immortality, Luck, Love, Sleep Ritual Uses: Lithuanian women once made sacrifices to linden trees as part of religious rites. Magical Uses: Linden is extensively used in Europe as a protective tree. The branches are hung over the door for this purpose, or the tree itself is grown in the garden. The bark of the linden when carried prevents intoxication, while the leaves and flowers are used in love spells. Since it is a tree of immortality its leaves are used in spells of this nature. Linden and lavender equally mixed make excellent pillows which hasten sleep in the insomniac, and good luck charms are carved from the wood and carried. LiquidAmber: Folk Names: Styrax, Sweet gum, voodoo witch burr, witch burr Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Powers: Protection Magical Uses: The seed pods are placed on the altar or held during magickal rites for protection against evil forces. Liquidamber bark is substituted for storax bark. Liverwort: Folk Names: Edellebere, Heart Leaf, Herb Trinity, Liverleaf, Liverweed, Trefoil Gender: masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Powers: Love Magical Uses: A woman may secure the love of a man by carrying liverwort in a satchet at all times. Lobelia: Folk names: Asthma weed, bladderpod, Gagroot, Indian Tobacco, Pukeweed Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Powers: Halting storms, love Magical Uses: Throw some powdered lobelia at an oncoming storm to stop its approach. Lobelia is also used to attract love. Loosestrife: Folk names: Blooming sally, Lythrum, Partyke, Purple Willow herb, rainbow weed, sage willow, salicaire Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: earth Powers: Peace, protection Magical uses: To settle an argument you've had with a friend, give some of this herb to him or her. Strewn about the home, loosestrife disperses peaceful vibrations and keeps evil forces at bay. Lotus: Folk Names: Baino, Egyptian Lotus Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Powers: Protection, Lock-opening Ritual Uses: The lotus has long been revered in the east as a mystical symbol of life, spirituality, and the center of the universe. The Ancient Egyptians considered the plant to be sacred and the lotus was used as an offering to the gods. Magical uses: Anyone who breathes the scent of the lotus will recieve its protection. Lotus seeds and pods are used as antidotes to love spells, and any part of the lotus carried or worn ensures blessings by the gods and good luck. Lovage: Folk names: Chinese Lovage, Italian Parsley, Love rod, love root, lubestico, sea parsley Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Powers: Love Magical Uses: Place lovage in the bath water in a satchet. This will make you more attractive and love-inspiring. Such baths are best taken directly before going out to meet new people. Love Seed: Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Love, friendship Magical Uses: Pawnee Indians used this herb in magick. The seeds are carried to attract love and new friendship. Lucky Hand: Folk names: Hand of power, hand root, helping hand, salap Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Employment, Luck, protection, money, travel Magical uses: This root of an orchid plant is one of the most famous New Orleans magical botanicals. It has long been placed in satchets and conjure bags for luck and general success, carried to obtain and maintain employment, and to secure protection from all ills. Fill a jar with rose oil, place several lucky hands into the oil and let them soak there. When you need something, take out one of the roots and wear it. If you need love, wear it near your heart. If you wish to travel, place it in your shoe. If you need money, carry one in your wallet or purse, and so on.
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Indian Paint Brush Other Names: Snake's Friend, Snake's Matches Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Power: Love
Iris Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Deities: Iris, Juno Powers: Purification, Wisdom
Irish Moss Other Names: Carrageen, Pearl Moss Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Powers: Money, Luck, Protection
Ivy Other Name: Gort Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Deities: Bacchus, Dionysus, Osiris Powers: Protection, Healing
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Jasmine Other Names: Jessamin, Moonlight on the Grove, Peot's Jessamine, Anbar, Yasmin Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Deity: Vishnu Powers: Love, Money, Prophetic Dreams
Job's Tears Other Name: Tear Grass Powers: Healing, Wishes, Luck
Joe-Pye Weed Other Names: Gravelroot, Hempweed, Joe-Pie, Jopi Weed, Trumpet Weed Powers: Love, Respect
Juniper Other Names: Enebro, Gemeiner Wachholder, Geneva, Gin Berry, Ginepro, Gin Plant Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Powers: Protection, Anti-Theft, Love, Exorcism, Health
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Kava-Kava Other Names: Ava, Ava Pepper, Ava Root, Awa Root, Intoxicating Pepper Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Deities: Lono, Kane, Kanaloa Powers: Visions, Protection, Luck
Kelp Planet: Jupiter Element: Water Powers: Travel, Protection
Knotweed Other Names: Armstrong, Centinode, Cowgrass, Hogweed, Knotgrass, Nine Joints, Ninety Knot, Pigrush, Pigweed, Red Robin, Sparrow's Tongue, Swynel Grass Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Earth Powers: Binding, Health
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Hawthorn Other Names: Bread and Cheese Tree, Gaxels, Hagthorn, Halves, Haw, Hazels, Huath, Ladies' Meat, May, Mayblossom, May Bush, Mayflower, Quick, Thorn, Tree of Chastity Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Deities: Cardea, Flora, Hymen Powers: Fertility, Chastity, Fishing Magick, Happiness
Hazel Other Name: Coll Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Air Deities: Mercury, Thor, Artemis, Diana Powers: Luck, Fertility, Anti-Lightning, Protection, Wishes
Heather Other Names: Common Heather, Heath, Ling, Scottish Heather Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Deity: Isis Powers: Protection, Rain-Making, Luck
Heliotrope(Poison) Other Names: Cherry Pie, Tumsole, Hindicum Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Deity: Apollo Powers: Exorcism, Prophetic Dreams, Healing, Wealth
Hellebore(Black) (Poison) Other Names: Melampode, Christmas Rose, Winter Rose Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water
Hemlock(Poison) Other Names: Beaver Poison, Herb Bennet, Keckies, Kex, Musquash Root, Poison Hemlock, Poison Parsley, Spotted Corobane, Spotted Hemlock, Water Parsley Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Deity: Hecate
Hemp(Illegal in Many Places) Other Names: Chanvre, Gallowgrass, Ganeb, Ganja, Grass, Hanf, kif, Marijuana, Neckweede, Tekrouri, Weed Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Powers: Healing, Love, Visions, Meditation
Henbane(Poison) Other Names: Black Nightshade, Cassilago, Cassilata, Deus Caballinus, Devil's Eye, Hebenon, Henbells, Hogsbean, Isana, Jupiter's Bean, Jusquiame, Poison Tobacco, Symphonica Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water
Henna Power: Healing
Hibiscus Other Names: Kharkady, Graxa, Gumamela, Shoeflower, Tulipan Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Lust, Love, Divination
Hickory Power: Legal Matters
High John the Conqueror(Poison) Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Money, Love, Success, Happiness
Holly Other Names: Aquifolius, Bat's Wings, Christ's Thorn, Holy Tree, Holm Chaste, Hulm, Hulver Bush, Tinne Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Protection, Anti-Lightning, Luck, Dream Magick
Honesty Other Names: Lunary, Money Plant, Silver Dollar Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Earth Powers: Money, Repelling Monsters
Honeysuckle Other Names: Dutch Honeysuckle, Goat's Leaf, Woodbine Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Earth Powers: Money, Psychic Powers, Protection
Hops Other Names: Beer Flower, Flores de Cerveza Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Air Powers: Healing, Sleep
Horehound Other Names: Bull's Blood, Even of the Star, Haran, Hoarhound, Huran, Llwed y cwn, Marrubium, Mruil, Seed of Horns, Soldier's Tea, White Horehound Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Deity: Horus Powers: Protection, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Healing
Horse Chestnut Other Name: Buckeye Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Powers: Money, Healing
Horseradish Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Purification, Exorcism
Horsetail Other Names: Bottle Brush, Dutch Rushes, Paddock Pipes, Pewterwort, Shavegrass Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Earth Powers: Snake Charming, Fertility
Houndstongue Other Names: Dog-Bur, Dog's Tongue, Gypsy Flower, Sheep Lice, Tongue of Dog, Woolmat Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire
Houseleek Other Names: Hen and Chickens, Sengren, Welcome-Home-Husband-Though-Never-So-Drunk, Welcome-Home-Husband-Though-Never-So-Late Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Air Powers: Luck, Protection, Love
Huckleberry Other Names: Whortleberry, Bilberry, Hurtleberry Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Luck, Protection, Dream Magick, Hex-Breaking
Hyacinth Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Love, Protection, Happiness
Hydrangea Other Name: Seven Barks Power: Hex-Breaking
Hyssop Other Names: Hyssop Herb, Isopo, Ysopo, Yssop Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Powers: Purification, Protection
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Fennel Other Names: Samar, Sweet Fennel, Sheeh Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Fire Deities: Prometheus, Dionysus Powers: Protection, Healing, Purification
Fenugreek Other Names: Bird's Foot, Greek Hayseed, Watu, Hilba Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Deity: Apollo Power: Money
Fern(Some are Poison) Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Deities: Laka, Puck Powers: Rain-making, Protection, Luck, Riches, Health, Exorcism
Feverfew Other Names: Featherfew, Febrifuge Plant Gender: Masculine Planet: Venus Element: Water Power: Protection
Fig Other Names: Common Fig, Fico, Mhawa, Chagareltin Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Deities: Dionysus, Juno, Isis Powers: Divination, Fertility, Love
Figwort Other Names: Carpenter's Square, Rosenoble, Throatwort Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Eleement: Water Powers: Health, Protection
Flax Other Names: Linseed, Linaza, Sib Muma Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Fire Deity: Hulda Powers: Money, Protection, Beauty, Psychic Powers, Healing
Fleabane Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Exorcism, Protection, Chastity
Foxglove(Poison) Other Names: Cow-Flop, Deadmen's Bells, Digitalis, Dog's Finger, Fairy Fingers, Fairy Petticoats, Fairy Thimbles, Fairy Weed, Floppy-Dock, Floptop, Folk's Gloves, Fox Bells, Foxes Glofa, The Great Herb, Lion's Mouth, Lusmore, Lus Na Mbau Side, Our Lady's Glove, Witches' Bells, Witches' Thimbles Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Power: Protection
Frankincense Other Names: Incense, Olibans, Olibanum, Olibanus Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Deities: Ra, Baal Powers: Protection, Exorcism, Spirituality
Fumitory Other Names: Beggary, Earth Smoke, Fumiterry, Fumus, Fumus Terrae, Kaphnos, Nidor, Scheiteregi, Taubenkropp, Vapor, Wax Dolls Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Earth Powers: Money, Exorcism
Fuzzy Weed Other Name: French Tarragon Powers: Love, Hunting
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Galangal Other Names: Chewing John, China Root, Colic Root, East India Catarrh Root, Galingal, Galingale, Gargaut, India Root, Kaempferia Galanga, Low John the Conqueror, Rhizoma Galangae Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Protection, Lust, Health, Money, Psychic Powers, Hex-Breaking
Gardenia Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Powers: Love, Peace, Heating, Spirituality
Garlic Other Names: Ajo, Poor Man's Treacle, Stinkweed Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Deity: Hecate Powers: Protection, Healing, Exorcism, Lust, Anti-Theft
Gentian Other Names: Bitter Root, Yellow Gentian, Hochwurzel Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Love, Power
Geranium Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Fertility, Health, Love, Protection
Ginger Other Name: African Ginger Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Love, Money, Success, Power
Ginseng(American) Other Name: Wonder of the World Root Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Powers: Love, Wishes, Healing, Beauty, Protection, Lust
Goat's Rue Other Names: French Honeysuckle, Rutwica, Lavamani Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Powers: Healing, Health
Goldenrod Other Names: Aaron's Rod, Blue Mountain Tea, Goldruthe, Gonea Tea, Sweet Scented Goldenrod, Solidago, Verg d' Or, Wound Weed, Woundwort Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Air Powers: Money, Divination
Golden Seal Other Names: Eye Balm, Eye Root, Ground Raspberry, Indian Dye, Indian Paint, Jaundice Root, Orange Root, Tumeric Root, Warnera, Wild Curcurma, Yellow Puccoon, Yellow Root Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Powers: Healing, Money
Gorse Other Names: Broom, Frey, Furze, Fyrs, Gorst, Goss, Prickly Broom, Ruffet, Whin Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Deities: Jupiter, Thor Powers: Protection, Money
Gotu Kola Other Names: Indian Pennywort, Hydrocotyle Power: Meditation
Gourd(Some are Poisonous) Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Power: Protection
Grain Power: Protection
Grains of Paradise Other Names: African Pepper, Guinea Grains, Mallaquetta Pepper, Melequeta Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Lust, Luck, Love, Money, Wishes
Grape Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Deities: Dionysus, Bacchus, Hathor Powers: Fertility, Garden Magick, Mental Powers, Money
Grass Powers: Psychic Powers, Protection
Ground Ivy Other Names: Alehoof, Cat's Foot, Gill-Go-Over-The-Ground, Haymaids, Hedgemaids, Lizzy-Run-Up-The-Hedge, Robin-Run-In-The-Hedge, Tunhoof, Field Balm, Runnaway Robin Power: Divination
Groundsel Other Names: Groundeswelge, Ground Glutton, Grundy Swallow, Sention, Simson Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Health, Healing
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Daffodil Other Names: Asphodel, Daffy-Down-Dilly, Fleur de Coucou, Goose Leek, Lent Lily, Narcissus, Porillon Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Love, Fertility, Luck
Daisy Other Names: Bairnwort, Bruisewort, Eyes, Field Daisy, Llygady Dydd, Maudlinwort, Moon Daisy Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Deities: Freya, Artemis, Thor Powers: Lust, Love
Damiana Other Name: Mexican Damiana Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Lust, Love, Visions
Dandelion Other Names: Blowball, Cankerwort, Lion's Tooth, ****-a-Bed, Priest's Crown, Puffball, Swine Snout, White Endive, Wild Endive Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Air Deity: Hecate Powers: Divination, Wishes, Calling Spirits
Datura(Extremely Poisonous) Other Names: Devil's Apple, Ghost Flower, Jimsonweed, Love-Will, Mad Apple, Madherb, Manicon, Stinkweed, Sorcerer's Herb, Thornapple, Toloache, Witches' Thimble, Yerba del Diablo Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Powers: Hex-Breaking, Sleep, Protection
Deerstongue Other Names: Vanilla Leaf, Wild Vanilla, Hound's Tongue Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Lust, Psychic Powers
Devil's Bit Other Name: Ofbit Gender: Masculine Powers: Exorcism, Love, Protection, Luck
Devil's Shoestring Powers: Protection, Luck, Power, Employment
Dill Other Names: Aneton, Dill Weed, Dilly, Garden Dill, Chebbit, Sowa, Keper, Hulwa, Buzzalchippet Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Fire Powers: Protection, Money, Lust, Love
Dittany of Crete Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Manifestations, Astral Projection
Dock Other Name: Yellow Dock Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Air Powers: Healing, Fertility, Money
Dodder Other Names: Beggarweed, Devil's Guts, Fireweed, Hellweed, Lady's Laces, Love Vine, Scaldweed, Strangle Tare, Witches' Hair Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Powers: Love, Divination, Knot Magick
Dogbane Other Names: Rheumatism Weld, Wild Ipecac Power: Love
Dogwood Other Names: Boxwood, Budwood, Dogtree, Florida Dogwood, Flowering Cornel, Flowering Dogwood, Green Osier, Virginia Dogwood Powers: Wishes, Protection
Dragon's Blood Other Names: Blood, Blume, Calamus Draco, Draconis Resina, Sanguis Draconis, Dragon's Blood Palm Gender: Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Powers: Love, Protection, Exorcism, Potency
Dulse Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Powers: Lust, Harmony
Dutchman's Breeches Power: Love
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Ebony Other Names: Lama, Obeah Wood Powers: Protection, Power
Echinacea Other Names: Black Sampson, Coneflower, Rudbeckia Power: Strengthening Spells
Edelweiss Power: Bullet-Proofing
Elder(American) Other Names: Alhuren, Battree, Boure Tree, Bour Tree, Eldrum, Elhorn, Frau Holle, Hildemoer, Hollunder, Hylander, Lady Ellhorn, Old Gal, Old Lady, Pipe Tree, Rob Elder, Sureau, Sweet Elder, Tree of Doom, Yakori Bengeskro Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Deities: Holda, Venus Powers: Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Prosperity, Sleep
Elecampane Other Names: Alantwurzel, Alycompaine, Aunee, Elf Dock, Elfwort, Horseheal, Nurse Heal, Scabwort, Velvet Dock, Wild Sunflower Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Powers: Love, Protection, Psychic Powers
Elm Other Names: Elven, English Elm, European Elm Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Deities: Odin, Hoenin, Lodr Power: Love
Endive Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Air Powers: Lust, Love
Eryngo Other Names: Sea Holly, Yerba del Sapo Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Powers: Traveler's Luck, Peace, Lust, Love
Eucalyptus Other Names: Blue Gum Tree, Stringy Bark Tree Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Powers: Healing, Protection
Euphorbia Other Names: Crown of Thorns, Spurge, Wolf's Milk, Pill-Bearing Spurge, Catshair, Mziwaziwa Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Powers: Purification, Protection
Eyebright Other Names: Euphrosyne, Red Eyebright Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Air Powers: Mental Powers, Psychic Powers
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