HERBS
Hyssop
Folk Names: Hyssop herb, Isopo, Ysopo, Yssop
Powers: Purification, Protection
Magical uses: Hyssop is the most widely used purification herb in magic. It is added to baths in sachets, infused and sprinkled on objects or persons to cleanse them, and hung up in the home to purge it of evil and negativity.
Eucalyptus leaf
Folk Names: Blue Gum tree, Stringy Bark Tree
Powers: Protection, Healing,
Magical Uses: The leaves are used to stuff healing poppets and are carried to maintain good health. To relieve colds, ring green candles with the leaves and burn them visualizing the person (or yourself) as being completely healthy. The leaves are also carried for protection.
Marjoram
Folk Names: Joy of the Mountain, Knotted Marjorane, Marjorlaine, Mountian Mint, Pot Marjoram, Sweet Marjoram, Wintersweet
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 aound the house, a bit in each room, and renewed each month. Grown in the garden it offers shielding powers against evil. Given to a depressed person, marjoram brings happiness. It is also used in money mixtures and sachets.
Spearmint leaf
Folk Names: Brown Mint, Garden Mint, Green mint, Green Spine, Lamb Mint, Mackerel Mint, Mismin, Our Lady’s Mint, Spire Mint, Yerba Buena
Powers: Healing, Love, Mental Powers
Magical Uses: Spearmint is used in all healing applications, especially in aiding lung diseases. Smelled, spearmint increases and sharpens mental powers. For protection while asleep, stuff a pillow or mattress with spearmint.
Rose Petals
Powers: Love, Psychic Powers, Healing, Love Divination, Luck, Protection
Damiana leaf
Folk Names: Mexican Damiana
Powers: Lust, Love, Visions
Magical Uses: Damiana is used in lust infusions as well as lust spells. It is also burned to produce visions.
Chamomile flowers
Folk Names: Camomyle, Chamaimelon, Ground Apple, Heermannchen, Manzanilla, Maythen, Roman Chamomile, Whig Plant
Powers: Money, Love, Sleep, Purification
Magical Uses: Chamomile is used to attract money, and a handwash of the infusion is sometimes used by gambler’s to ensure winnings. It is used in sleep and meditation incenses, and the infusion is also added to the bath to attract love. It is also a purificatory and protective herb. When sprinkled around the property, it removes curses and spells cast against you.
Horsetail
Folk Names: Bottle Brush, Dutch Rushes, Paddock Pipes, Pewterwort, Shavegrass
Powers: Snake Charming, Fertility
Magical Uses: Horsetail is used in fertility mixtures or placed in the bedroom for this purpose.
Agrimony
Folk Names: Church Steeples, Cocklebur, Garclive, Philanthropos, Sticklewort, Stickwort
Powers: Protection, Sleep
Magical Uses: Use in all protection sachets and spells, also to banish negative energies and spirits. It protects against goblins, evil and poison. Agrimony is also used to break hexes and it sends the hex back to the hexer.
Horehound
Folk Names: Bull’s Blood, Eye of the Star, Hoarhound, Huran, Llwyd y cwn, Marrubiam, Maruil, Seed of Horus, Soldier’s Tea, White Horehound
Powers: Protection, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Healing
Magical Uses: Horehound is used in protective sachets, and is carried to guard against sorcery, and is carried to guard against sorcery and fascination. Horehound is also scattered as an exorcism herb. Drink an infusion of the herb and it will clear your mind and promote quick thinking, as well as strengthen the mental powers. Horehound, when mixed with ash leaves and placed in a bowl of water, releases healing vibrations, and should be placed in a sickroom
Lemon grass
Powers: Repel Snakes, Lust, Psychic Powers
Magical Uses: Lemongrass planted around the home will repel snakes. It is also used in some lust potions, as well as in an infusion to aid in developing psychic powers.
Mustard seed (yellow)
Powers: Fertility, Protection, Mental Powers
Magical Uses: Mustard seed carried in a red cloth sachet will guard against colds and increase mental powers. Buried under your doorstep, it will keep all manners of supernatural beings from your home. When eaten mustard seed increases fertility in women
Bark of White Willow
Folk Names: Osier, Pussy Willow, Saille, Salicyn Willow, Saugh Tree, Tree of Enchantment, White Willow, Witchses’ Aspirin, With, Withy
Powers: Love, Love Divination, Protection, Healing
Magical Uses: Willow wood is used to fashion magical wands dedicated to Moon Magic. All parts of the willow guard against evil and can be carried or placed in the home for this purpose. It is also utilized in healing spells. If you wish to conjure spirits, Mix crushed willow bark with Sandalwood and burn at the waning moon outdoors.
Allspice, ground
Powers: Money, Luck Healing
Magical Uses: Allspice is burned as an incense to attract money or luck, and is also added to such mixtures. Allspice is also used to promote healing.
Licorice root
Folk Names: Lacris, Licourice, Lycorys, Reglisse, Sweet Root
Powers: Lust, Love, Fidelity
Magical Uses: Chewing on a licorice stick ( the root not the candy) will make you passionate. It is also a good practice to use while quitting smoking. Licorice is added to love and lust sachets, carried to attract love, and used in spells to ensure fidelity.
Ginger, ground
Folk Names: African Ginger
Powers: Love, Money, Success, Power
Magical Uses: Eating ginger before performing spells will lend them power, since you have been ‘heated up’ by the ginger. This is especially true of love spells, in which ginger is much used. Whole ginger roots are planted and grown to attract money, or the powdered root is sprinkled into pockets or onto money for this purpose. Ginger is also used in success spells, or to ensure the success of a magical operation.
Blessed thistle powder
Folk Names: Thistle, Holy
Powers: Purification, Hex-Breaking
Magical Uses: Where the holy thistle to protect yourself from evil, and add to purificatory baths, holy thistle is also used inhex breaking spells
High john the conqueror root
Folk Names: Jalap root
Powers: Money, love, success, happiness
Magical Uses: Anoint the root with mint oil and tie up in a green sachet. Carry to attract money. John the conqueror root is also carried to stop depression, bring love, and success, protect from all hexes and curses, and to break and destroy spells and hexes.
Coriander seeds
Folk Names: Chinese Parsley, Cilantro, Cilentro, Culantro
Powers: Love, Health, Healing
Magical Uses: Coriander has long been used in love sachets and spells. Add the powdered seeds to warm wine to make an effective lust potion. The seeds are used for healing, especially easing headaches, and are worn for this purpose. It is said that is a pregnant women eats the seeds, their future child will be ingenious
Organic Flax seed
Folk Names: Linseed
Powers: Money, Protection, Beauty, Psychic Powers, Healing
Magical Uses: Flax seeds are used in money spells. A few can be placed in the pocket, wallet or purse, or a jar should be placed on the altar and a few coins, plus some flax seed, added. This should be repeated each day to attract money. A bit of flax in the shoe wards off poverty.
Rosemary
Folk Names: Compass Weed, Dew of the Sea, Elf Leaf, Guardrobe, Incensier, Libanotis, Polar Plant, Sea Dew
Powers: Protection, Love, Lust, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Purification, Healing, Sleep, Youth
Magical Uses: Rosemary, when burned, emits powerful cleansing and purifying vibrations, and so is smouldered to rid a place of negativity, especially prior to performing magic. It is one of the oldest incenses. When placed beneath the pillow rosemary ensures a good sleep and drives away nightmares. Laid under the bed it protects the sleeper from all harm. Rosemary is also hung on the porch and doorposts to keep thieves from the house and is carried to remain healthy. Placed in the bath it purifies. Rosemary infusion is used to wash the hands before healing work, and the leaved mixed with juniper berries are burned in sick rooms to promote healing.
Juniper berry
Powers: Protection, Anti-theft, Love, Exorcism, Health
Magical Uses: Juniper berries are carried to increase male potency. When carried or burned, juniper helps the psychic powers and breaks hexes and curses, and drives off snakes.
Orange peel
Powers: Love, Divination, Luck, Money
Magical Uses: The dried peel and seeds are added to love sachets, and the flowers to those sachets designed to lead to wedded bliss. The fresh or dried blossoms added to the bath make the bather more attractive.
Orange peel is added to prosperity powders, incenses and mixtures, and the Chinese have long considered oranges symbols of luck and good fortune
Devil's Claw Root Slices
A Powerful Exorcism and Purification Herb, it is burned on charcoal to cleanse your house of negativity, or when casting a Magick Circle to clear any residual negative energy and create pure space for your magickal work. This is a great herb to burn when moving into a new home to remove the residual energies of previous tenants
Bark of White Oak
Powers: Protection, Health, Money, Healing, Potency, Fertility, Luck
Hawthorn Berries
Folk Names: Bread and Cheese tree, Gaxels, Hagthorn, Halves, Haw, Hazels, Huath, Ladies Meat, May, Mayblossom, May Bush, Mayflower, Quick, Thorn, Tree of chastity
Powers: Fertility, Chastity, Fishing Magic, Happiness
Magical Uses: The hawthorn is sacred to the fairies, and is part of the tree fairy triad of Britain: ‘Oak, Ash and Thorn,’ and where all three trees grow together it is said that one may see fairies.
Bay laurel, ground
Folk Names: Baie, Bay laurel, Bay tree, Daphne, Greecian Laurel, Laurel, Laurier d’ Apollon, Laurier Sauce, Lorbeer, Noble Laurel, Roman Laurel, Sweet Bay
Powers: Protection, Psychic powers, healing, purification, strength
Magical Uses: Bay is used in clairvoyance and wisdom brews, although it’s taste is strong. It is a protection and purification herb and is worn as an amulet to ward off evil, burned or scattered during exorcism rituals, placed in windows to protect against lightning and hung up to prevent poltergeists from working any mischief in the house. Bay leaves mixed with sandalwood can be burned to remove curses and evil spells.
Sage, ground
Folk Names: Garden sage, Red sage, Sawge
Powers: Immortality, Longevity, Wisdom, Protection, wishes
Magical Uses: Sage has been utilized to ensure a long life- sometimes even immortality. Sage is carried to promote wisdom, and the leaves are used in countless healing and money spells.
Allspice, whole
Powers: Money, Luck Healing
Magical Uses: Allspice is burned as an incense to attract money or luck, and is also added to such mixtures. Allspice is also used to promote healing.
Myrrh Resin
Folk Names: Gum Myrrh tree, Karan, Mirra Balsom Odendron
Powers: Protection, Exorcism, Healing, Spirituality
Magical Uses: Burned as an incense myrrh purifies the area, lifts vibrations and creates peace. However, it is rarely burned alone; usually in conjunction with frankincense or other resins. Myrrh increases the power of any incense to which it is added. Myrrh is also included in healing incenses and sachets, and its smoke is used to consecrate, purify and bless objects such as amulets, talismans, charms and magical tools. Myrrh also aids meditation and contemplation. It is often added to sachets, usually with frankincense.
Low John
Folk Names: Chewing john, China root, Colic root, East India Catarrh root, Galingal Galangal, Galingale, Gargaut, India Root, Kaempferia Galanga, Low john the conqueror, Rhizoma Galangae
Powers: Protection, Lust, Health, Money, Psychic Powers, Hex-Breaking
Magical Uses: Worn or carried it protects its bearer and draws good luck. Placed in a sachet of leather with silver it brings money. Powdered galangal is burned to break spells and curses. It is also carried or sprinkled around the home to promote lust. Worn, Galangal aids in psychic development and guards the bearer’s health.
Burdock root
Folk Names: Bardana, Beggar's Buttons, Burrseed, Clotbur, Cockleburr, Great Burdock, Happy Major, Hardock, Hurrburr, Personata
Powers: Protection, Healing
Magical Uses: Cast around the home to ward off negativity. Add to protection incenses and use in such spells. String small pieces on red thread like beads and wear for protetion against evil and negatvity.
Copal resin
Powers: Love, Purification
Magical Uses: Copal is added to love and purification incenses. A piece of copal can represent the heart in poppets.
Elder berries
Folk Names: Alhuren, Battree, Boure Tree, Eldrum, Ellhorn, Frau Holle, Hildemoer, Hollunder, Hylder, Lady Ellhorn, Old Gal, Old Lady, Pipe tree, Rob Elder, Sureau, Sweet Elder, Tree of doom, Yakori bengeskro (meaning devil’s eye)
Powers: Exorcism, protection, healing, prosperity, sleep
Fennel seed
Powers: Protection, Healing, Purification
Magical Uses: Wearing a piece of fennel in the left shoe will prevent wood ticks from biting your legs. Fennel is used in purification sachets, as well as healing mixtures.
Fenugreek seed powder
Folk Names: Bird’s Foot, Greek Hayseed
Powers: Money
Coltsfoot leaf
Folk Names: Ass’s foot, British tobacco, Bull’s foot, Butterbur, Coughwort, Pas d’ane, Sponnc
Powers: Love, Visions
Magical Uses: Add to love sachets and use in spells of peace and tranquility. The leaves, when smoked can cause visions
Fenugreek seed
Folk Names: Bird’s Foot, Greek Hayseed
Powers: Money
Magical Uses: To bring money into the household, a few fenugreek seeds can be added to the mop water ( or a small amount of a fenugreek infusion). Also, half fill a small jar with fenugreek and leave open in the house to attract money. Add a few seeds every couple of days until the jar is full; then empty the fenugreek out and begin again. Return the spent herb to the ground.
Witch grass
Folk Names: Couch grass, Dog grass, Quick grass, Witches grass
Powers: Happiness, Lust, Love, Exorcism
Magical Uses: Witch grass carried or sprinkled under the bed attracts new loves. Witch grass is also used in all manner of unhexing and uncrossing rituals, the infusion is sprinkled around the premises to disperse entities, and when worn it dispels depression.
Butcher's broom root
Yellow dock root
Folk Names: Dock
Powers: Fertility, Money, Healing
Catnip leaf
Folk Names: Cat, Catmint, Catnep, Catrup, Cat’s wort, Field balm, Nepeta, Nip
Powers: Cat Magic, Love, Beauty, Happiness
Magical Uses: Given to your cat, catnip creates a psychic bond between the two of you. It is also intoxicating to your cat. Catnip is used in love sachets, usually in conjunction with rose petals. If you hold catnip in your hand until it is warm, then hold anyone else’s hand, they will forever be your friend, as long as you keep the catnip you used for the spell in some safe place. Catnip is also used in spells designed to enhance beauty and happiness.
Raspberry leaf
Folk names: European raspberry, red raspberry
Powers: Protection, Love
Sea Salt
Lavender flowers
Folk Names: Elf leaf, Nard, Nardus, Spike
Powers: Love, Protection, Sleep, Chastity, Longevity, Purification, Happiness, Peace
Magical Uses: Lavender has long been used in love spells and sachets. Clothing rubbed in the fragrant flowers 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 about 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. Lavender is also used in healing mixtures, carried to see ghosts, and won to protect against the evil eye. It is added to purification baths.
Elder flowers
Folk Names: Alhuren, Battree, Boure Tree, Eldrum, Ellhorn, Frau Holle, Hildemoer, Hollunder, Hylder, Lady Ellhorn, Old Gal, Old Lady, Pipe tree, Rob Elder, Sureau, Sweet Elder, Tree of doom, Yakori bengeskro (meaning devil’s eye)
Powers: Exorcism, protection, healing, prosperity, sleep
Rose hips
Powers: Healing, Love, Psychic powers
Frankincense Tears
Folk Names: Incense, Olibans, Olibanum, Olibanus
Powers: Protection, Exorcism, Spirituality
Magical Uses: When burned, frankincense releases powerful vibrations which not only uplift those of the area, but also drive out all evil and negativity. Frankincense is therefore used in incenses of exorcism, protection, purification and consecration. It is also burned to induce visions and to aid meditation, and is added to sachets for luck, protection, and spiritual growth.
Cinnamon powder
Powers: Spirituality, Success, Healing, Power, Psychic powers, Lust, Protection, Love
Rital Uses: Cinnamon oil was used as part of a holy anointing oil by the ancient Hebrews. The leaves of the cinnamon tree were woven into wreaths which were used to decorate ancient Roman temples. The egyotians used cinnamon oil during the mumification process.
Magical Uses: Cinnamon, when burned as an incense, raises high spiritual vibrations, aids in healing, draws money, stimulates psychic powers and produces protective vibrations. Cinnamon is also used in making sachets and infusions for these purposes.
Wormwood
Folk Names: Absinthe, Old Woman, Crown for a king
Powers: Psychic Powers, Protection, Love, Calling Spirits
Magical Uses: Wormwood is burned in incenses designed to aid in developing psychic powers, and is also worn for this purpose. Carried, wormwood protects not only bewitchment, but also from the bite of sea serpents. Also, according to ancient traditions, it counteracts the effects of poisoning by hemlock and toadstools, but please bet your life on it. Hung from the rear view mirror wormwood protects the vehicle from accidents on treacherous roads. Wormwood is also somwimes used in love infusions, probably because it was once made into an alcoholic beverage called absinthe. This highly addictive and dangerous liqueur is now outlawed or banned in many countries, but the reputation lingers and wormwood is still used in love mixtures.
Alfalfa leaf
Folk Names: Buffalo herb, Lucerne, Purple medic
Powers: Prosperity, Anti-Hunger, Money
Magical Uses: Keep in the home to protect from poverty and hunger. It is best placed in a small jar in the cupboard or pantry. Also, burn alfalfa and scatter ashes around the property for this purpose.
Alfalfa is also used in money spells.
Marshmallow root
Folk Names: Althea root, Marshmallow, Mortification root, Sweet weed, Wymote
Powers: Protection, Psychic powers
Magical Uses: Althea has long been used in protection rites, and it also is a good psychic power stimulator. Burn as incense for this purpose, or carry in a sachet. Althea is also known to be a good ‘spirit puller’, i.e. it brings good spirits in during rituals when placed on the altar.
Red Sandalwood chips
Folk Names: Sandal, Santal, White Sandalwood, White Saunders, Yellow Sandalwood
Powers: Protection, Wishes, Healing, Exorcism, Spirituality
Magical Uses: Sandalwood powder is burned during protection, healing and exorcism spells. When mixed with lavender it makes an incense designed to conjure spirits. This fragrant wood possesses very high spiritual vibrations and is burned at séances and Full moon rituals when mixed with frankincense.
Oatstraw
Thyme leaf
Folk Names: Common Thyme, Garden Thyme
Powers: Health, Healing, Sleep, Psychic Powers, Love, Purification, Courage
Magical Uses: Thyme is burned to attract good health and is also worn for this purpose. It is also used in healing spells. Placed beneath the pillow, it ensures restful sleep and a pleasant lack of nightmares. Worn, thyme aids in developing psychic powers.
Caraway seeds
Powers: Protection, lust, health, antitheft, mental powers
Magical Uses: The caraway serves as protection against Lilith, as well as all manner of evil spirits, entities and plain old negativity. It is often carried for this purpose. Any object which holds some caraway seeds is theft-proof. The seeds are also used to encourage fidelity, and placed in sachets and talismans to attract a mate. When baked in cookies, bread, or cakes they are lust inducing. Chewing the seeds is helpful to gain love of the one you desire. They also strengthen the memory and a small bag of the seeds placed in a child’s bed protects it from illness.
Basil leaf
Folk Names: Albahaca, American Dittany, ‘Our Herb’ St. Joseph’s Wort, Sweet Basil, Witches herb
Powers: Love, Exorcism, Wealth, Flying, Protection
Magical Uses: The scent of fresh basil causes sympathy between two people, that is why it is used to sooth tempers between lovers. It is added to love incenses and sachets, and the fresh leaves are rubbed against the skin as a kind of love perfume. Basil brings wealth to those who carry it in there pockets, and is used to attract customers to a place of business by placing some in the cash register of on the doorsill. The basil is also used to insure one’s mate remains true. Sprinkle basil powder over your body thoroughly while he is asleep, especially over the heart and fidelity will bless your relationship. Basil is strewn over floors, because where it is, no evil can live.
Dandelion root powder
Folk Names: Blowball, Cankerwort, Lion’s Tooth, Piss-a-bed, Priest’s Crown, Puffball, Swine snout, White Endive, Wild Endive
Powers: Divination, Wishes, Calling Spirits
Magical Uses: The root, when dried, roasted and ground like coffee, is used to make a tea. The infusion will promote psychic powers. This same tea, steaming and placed beside the bed will call spirits. Dandelion, buried in the northwest corner of the house, brings favorable winds.
Mistletoe
Folk Names: All Heal, Birdlime, Devil's Fuge, Donnerbesen, European Mistletoe, Golden Bough, Holy Wood, Lignam sanctae crucis, Misseltoe, Thunderbesem, Witches Broom, Wood of the Cross
Powers: Protection, Love, Hunting, Fertility, Health, Exorcism
Star Anise
Folk Names: Chinese Anise
Powers: Psychic powers, Luck
Magical Uses: The seeds are burned as incense to increase psychic powers, and are also worn as beads for the same purpose. Sometimes star anise is placed on the altar to give it power; one is placed to each of the four directions. It is also carried as a general luck bringer, and the seeds make excellent pendulums.
Cinnamon sticks
Powers: Spirituality, Success, Healing, Power, Psychic powers, Lust, Protection, Love
Rital Uses: Cinnamon oil was used as part of a holy anointing oil by the ancient Hebrews. The leaves of the cinnamon tree were woven into wreaths which were used to decorate ancient Roman temples. The egyotians used cinnamon oil during the mumification process.
Magical Uses: Cinnamon, when burned as an incense, raises high spiritual vibrations, aids in healing, draws money, stimulates psychic powers and produces protective vibrations. Cinnamon is also used in making sachets and infusions for these purposes.
Hibiscus flowers
Folk Names: Kharkady
Powers: Lust, Love, Divination
Magical Uses: The flowers of the red hibiscus are brewed into a strong red tea which is drunk for its lust-inducing powers. This drink is forbidden to women in Egypt for this very reason. The blossoms have also been used in lover incenses and sachets. They are placed in wreaths in marriage and ceremonies in the tropics.
Green Tea
Bee Pollen
Anise seed
Folk Names: Anneys, Aniseed
Powers: Protection, Purification, Youth
Magical Uses: Fill a small pillowcase with anise seeds and sleep on it. This will ensure that you have no nightmares. Use in protection and meditation incenses. Anise seed is also used in purification baths, especially with bay leaves. It is used to call forth spirits to aid is magical operations, and a sprig hung on the bedpost will restore lost youth.
Avens root
Folk Names: Assaranaccara, Bennet, Blessed Berb, Clove root, Colwort, Golden star, Goldy star, Harefoot, Herb bennet, Minarta, Pesleporis, Star of the Earth, Way Bennet, Yellow Avens
Powers: Exorcism, Purification, Love
Magical Uses: Add to exorcism incenses and mixtures, or sprinkle around the area to be exorcised. Also used in purification rites. When worn as an amulet, it protects against attacks of all venomous beasts. Emlpoyed by male American Indians to gain the love of the opposite sex.
Boneset
Folk Names: Aqueweed, Crosswort, Feverwort, Indian sage, Sweating plant, Teasel, Thoroughwort, Wood Boneset
Powers: Protection, Exorcism
Magical Uses: The plant wards off evil spirits. Make an infusion and sprinkle about the house to drive away evil.
Angelica root
Folk Names: Archangel, Masterwort
Powers: Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Visions
Magical Uses: Sprinkle the four corners of the house with angelica to ward off evil, or do this around the perimeter of the house. Added to the bath angelica removes curses, hexes and any spells that may have been cast against you. The root was carried in the pocket as a gambling talisman among some American Indian tribes. Angelica is also used in healing incenses and mixtures.
Yerba mate leaf
Folk Names: Mate, Paraguay Tea, Yerba
Powers: Fidelity, Love, Lust
Magical Uses: Wear to attract the opposite sex. The infusion is a fine ‘lust’ potion and if drunk with a loved one will ensure that you stay together. To break off the relationship spill some onto the ground.
Cedar chips
Powers: Healing, Purification, Money, Protection
Magical Uses: The smoke of cedar is purifying, and also cures the predeliction to having bad dreams. A piece of cedar kept in the wallet or purse draws money, and cedar is used in money incenses. Cedar is added to love sachets and is burned to induce psychic powers.
Acacia flowers
Goldenrod herb
Folk Names: Aaron’s Rod, Blue Mountain Tea, Goldruthe, Gonea Tea, Sweet Scented Goldenrod, Solidago, Verg d’ Or, Wound Weed, Woundwort
Powers: Money, Divination
Mugwort
Folk Names: Artemis herb, Artemisia, Felon Herb, Muggons, Naughty man, Old Man, Old uncle henry, Sailor’s Tobacco, St. John’s Plant
Powers: Strength, Psychic Powers, protection, prophetic dreams, healing, astral projection
Magical Uses: A pillow stuffed with mugwort and slept upon will produce prophetic dreams. Mugwort is also burned with sandalwood or wormwood during scrying rituals, and mugwort infusion is drunk (sweetened with honey) before divination. The infusion is also used to wash crystal balls and magic mirrors, and mugwort leaves are placed around the base of the ball (or beneath it) to aid in psychic workings.
Licorice herb powder
Folk Names: Lacris, Licourice, Lycorys, Reglisse, Sweet Root
Powers: Lust, Love, Fidelity
Magical Uses: Licorice is added to love and lust sachets, carried to attract love, and used in spells to ensure fidelity.
Mace blades
Powers: Psychic Powers, Mental Powers
Magical Uses: Mace, the outer covering of the nutmeg, is burned to increase psychic powers and is carried to improve the intellect.
Calendula flowers
Folk Names: Bride of the Sun, Marigold, Drunkard, Goldes, Holigolde, Husbandman’s Dial, Marybud, Marygold, Mary Gowles, Ruddes, Ruddles, Spousa Solis, Summer’s bride
Powers: Protection, Prophetic dreams, Legal matters, Psychic powers
Magical Uses: Marigolds added to the bath water help win the respect and admiration of everyone you meet. Carried in the pocket, marigold helps justice to smile favorably upon you while in court.
Strawberry leaf
Powers: Love, Luck
Magical Uses: Pregnant women may wish to carry a small packet of strawberry leaved to ease their pregnancy pains.
Cloves powder
Powers: Protection, Exorcism, Love, Money
Magical Uses: Burned as an incense, cloves attract riches, drive away hostile and negative forces, produce spiritual vibrations, and purify the area. Cloves are burned as an incense to stop others from gossiping about you. Worn or carried, cloves attract the opposite sex and bring comfort to the bereaved.
Cloves, whole
Powers: Protection, Exorcism, Love, Money
Magical Uses: Burned as an incense, cloves attract riches, drive away hostile and negative forces, produce spiritual vibrations, and purify the area. Cloves are burned as an incense to stop others from gossiping about you. Worn or carried, cloves attract the opposite sex and bring comfort to the bereaved.
Mullein leaf
Folk Names: Aaron’s Rod, Blanket leaf, Candlewick Plant, Clot, Doffle, Feltwort, Flannel plant, Graveyard Dust, Hag’s Tapers, Hedge Taper, Jupiter’s Staff, Lady’s Foxglove, Old Man’s Fennel, Peter’s Staff, Shepard’s Club, Sheperd’s Herb, Torches, Velvetback, Velvet Plant
Powers: Courage, Protection, Health, Love divination, Exorcism
Hops flowers
Folk Names: Beer Flower, Flores de Cerveza
Powers: Healing, Sleep
Magical Uses: A pillow stuffed with dried hops brings on sleep and rest. Hops are also used in healing sachets and incenses.
Peppermint leaf
Folk Names: Brandy Mint, Lammint
Powers: Love, Sleep, Purification, Healing, Psychic Powers
Magical Uses: Peppermint has long been used in healing and purification spells. Its presence raises the vibrations of an area. Smelled, it compels one toward sleep, and placed beneath the pillow it sometimes offers one glimpses of the future in dreams. It is rubbed against furniture, walls and floorboards to cleanse them of evil and negativity.
Nettle leaf
Folk Names: Ortiga ancha, Stinging Nettle
Powers: Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Lust
Magical Uses: The protective powers of the nettle have long been used in magic. To remove a curse an send it back, stuff a poppet with nettle, or carry some in a sachet. Also, sprinkle nettle around the house to keep evil out and to send it back. Nettle is also thrown onto a fire to avert danger, held in the hand to ward off ghosts, carried with yarrow to allay fear, and worn as an amulet to keep negativity far away.
Dandelion leaf
Folk Names: Blowball, Cankerwort, Lion’s Tooth, Piss-a-bed, Priest’s Crown, Puffball, Swine snout, White Endive, Wild Endive
Powers: Divination, Wishes, Calling Spirits
Magical Uses: Dandelion, buried in the northwest corner of the house, brings favorable winds.
Lemon peel
Powers: Longevity, Purification, Love, Friendship
Blue vervain
Folk Names: Brittanica, Enchanter’s Plant, Herba Sacra, Herb of Enchantment, Herb of Grace, Herb of the Cross, Holy Herb, Juno’s Tears, Pigeon’s Grass, Pigeonwood, Simpler’s Joy, Van-Van, Verbena, Vervan
Powers: Love, Protection, Purification, Peace, Money, Youth, Chastity, Sleep, Healing
Magical Uses: Vervain is a common ingredient in love mixtures and protective spells. A crown of vervain on the head protects the magician while invoking spirits. Any part of the plant may be carried as a personal amulet. Vervain placed in the home protects it from lightning and storms. The infusion sprinkled around the premises chases off evil spirits and malignant forces. Vervain is also added to exorcism incenses and sprinkling mixtures. It is also a common ingredient in purification bath sachets. The dried herb is scattered around the home as a peace-bringer and is also worn to calm the emotions. Vervain is used in money and prosperity spells. If the herb is buried in the garden or placed in the house, wealth will flow and plants will thrive.
Dandelion root
Folk Names: Blowball, Cankerwort, Lion’s Tooth, Piss-a-bed, Priest’s Crown, Puffball, Swine snout, White Endive, Wild Endive
Powers: Divination, Wishes, Calling Spirits
Magical Uses: The root, when dried, roasted and ground like coffee, is used to make a tea. The infusion will promote psychic powers. This same tea, steaming and placed beside the bed will call spirits. Dandelion, buried in the northwest corner of the house, brings favorable winds.
Lemon Balm
Nutmeg, ground
Powers: Luck, Money, Health, Fidelity
Magical Uses: Sprinkle onto green candles for money or prosperity.
Nutmeg, whole
Powers: Luck, Money, Health, Fidelity
Magical Uses: Nutmegs have long been carried as good luck charms, and are strung with star anise and tonka beans for a potent herbal necklace. Nutmeg is included in many money and prosperity mixtures.
Oakmoss
Gum arabic powder
Folk Names: Arabic, Egyptian Gum, Indian Gum
Powers: Spirituality, Purification
Magical Uses: Add to incenses for good vibrations, or smoulder alone on charcoal. Purifies the area of negativity and evil
Jasmine
Folk Names: Jessamin, Moonlight on the Grove
Powers: Love, Money, Prophetic dreams
Magical Uses: Dried Jasmine flowers are added to sachets and other love mixtures. They will attract a spiritual (as opposed to physical) love. The flowers will also draw wealth and money if carried, burned or worn. Jasmine will also cause prophetic dreams if burned in the bedroom, and the flowers are smelled to induce sleep
Black Tea
Powers: Riches, Courage, Strength
Dragon's Blood Resin
Folk Names: Blood, Blume, Calamus Draco, Draconis Resina, Sanguis Draconis, Dragon’s Blood Palm
Powers: Love, Protection, Exorcism, Potency
Magical Uses: The resin from a palm tree is burned to entice errant lovers to return. This is usually done by women seated near an open window, looking outside, at night. The dried resin is a powerful protectant when carried, sprinkled around the house, or smouldered as incense. It will also drive evil and negativity away when burned. A pinch of dragon’d blood added to other incenses increases their potency and power.
Balm of Gilead
Folk Names: Balessan, Balsam Tree, Balsumodendron Gileadensis, Bechan, Mecca Balsum
Powers: Love, Manifestations, Protection, Healing
Magical Uses: Carry the buds of the Balm of gilead to mend a broken heart, or to attract a new love. Also steep them in red wine for a simple love drink. Burn as a material basis for spirits, and also carry for protective and healing purposes.
Mandrake Root
Folk Names: Alraun, Anthropomorphon, Baaras, Brain thief, Circeium, Circoea, Galgenmannchen, Gallows, Herb of Circe, Hexenmannchen, Ladykins, Mandragen, Madragor, Mannikin, Racoon Berry, Semihomo, Wild Lemon, Womandrake, Zauberwurzel (Sorcerer’s root)
Powers: Protection, Fertility, Money, Love, Health