Herbal Correspondences
Only the types of herbs we use in the shop are featured here. Please consult the sources at the end of our list for information on other herbs.
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Adam and Eve Root
Love/happiness
Often used in love spells meant to ensure lasting love
Agrimony
Protection/sleep
Banish negative energies/spirits
Protects against evil, goblins, and poison
Reverses spells sent at magician
Breaks hexes and sends them back to caster
Alfalfa
Prosperity, Anti-Hunger, Money
Protects from Poverty and Hunger - Place in small jar in cupboard/pantry or burn and scatter ashes around property
Allspice
Money, Luck, Healing
Attracts money/luck
Promotes healing
Aloe
Protection, Luck
Guards against evil influences and prevents household accidents
Brings good luck
Amaranth (Gomphrena)
Healing, Protection, Invisibility
Speeds healing
Flowers can be used to call the dead
Flowers can be used to mend a broken heart
Angelica Root
Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Visions
Often used in Exorcism and Protection Incenses
Root sometimes carried in pocket as gambling talisman
Sometimes used in Healing Incenses
Smoking the leaves said to cause visions
Magical name: Masterwort
Anise, Star
Protection, Purification, Youth
Fill small pillowcase with anise seeds and sleep on it to prevent nightmares
Often used in Meditation and Protection Incenses
Anise seed with bay leaves potent for purification baths
Arabic, Gum (Acacia)
Spirituality, Purification, Protection, Psychic Powers
Add to incenses to increase good vibrations
Purifies areas of negativity
Good for money and platonic love spells
Arnica
Strength, Vitality
Often used in strength and/or vitality spells and mixtures
Caution: Poisonous. Do not ingest. Skin irritation may occur.
Arrowroot
Protection
Often added to protection spells and mixtures
Must be imbued with specific purpose/intent to give direction in any work
Ash Tree Leaves
Protection, Prosperity, Sea Rituals, Health
When leaves are placed beneath the pillow, induces prophetic dreams
Leaves scattered to 4 directions protects house/area
Leaves often used in protective sachets and spells
Leaves often carried to gain the love of the opposite sex
Ashwagandha Root
Virility, Power
Often used to draw strength/virility
Augments effects of other herbs in spells/mixtures
Balm of Gilead
Love, Manifestations, Protection, Healing
Carried to mend broken heart and/or attract new love
Carried for protection and/or healing
Barberry Root
Purification, Protection, Exorcism, Psychic Vision
Often used in purification mixtures
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Often used in exorcisms
Often used in psychic enhancement spells and mixtures
Basil
Love, Exorcism, Wealth, Flying, Protection
Often added to love spells and mixtures
Carried, brings wealth and attracts customers
Strewn, protects against malignant spirits
Often used in exorcism incenses and purification baths
Often used to keep goats away from property and/or to attract scorpions
Bay Leaves
Protection, Psychic Powers, Healing, Purification, Strength
Often used in psychic enhancement mixtures
Often used in protective spells and mixtures
Often used to draw in good luck
Bearberry
Prophetic Dreams, Fertility
Brings dreams and visions of prophetic nature
Encourages fertility
Beet Root Powder
Love
Used as an ink in love magic
Betony, Wood
Protection, Purification, Love
Protects soul and body - good for trance-workers
Often added to purification and protection incenses and mixtures
Prevents intoxication if carried, strengthens body when worn
Cure for elf-shot, elf-sickness - aka chronic fatigue
Bindweed
Binding, Protection, Exorcism
Often used in binding spells and mixtures
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Often used in exorcisms
Blackberry Leaves
Healing, Money, Protection
Often used in wealth and prosperity spells
Blackthorn Leaves
Protection, Purification
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Often used in purification spells and mixtures
Bladderwrack
Protection, Sea Spells, Wind Spells, Money, Psychic Powers
Often used for protection at sea and/or to summon spirits of the sea
Often used in money spells and mixtures
Often used in psychic and spiritual enhancement spells and mixtures
Carried, protects against mental derangement
Blood Root
Love, Protection, Purification
Carried, draws love
Carried, averts spells and protects against malignant spirits
Protects home when placed near windows/doors
Boneset
Protection, Exorcism, Cord-Cutting
Protects against malignant spirits
Often used in exorcisms
Often used in cord-cutting spells and mixtures
More effective in teas for colds/coughs than lemon
Borage
Courage, Psychic Powers, Happiness
Teas often used in induce psychic powers
Carried, strengthens courage
Often used to lessen depression and increase joy
Attracts bees
Magical name: Starflower
Buckthorn
Protection, Exorcism, Wishes, Legal Matters
Protects against all magic when placed near windows/doors
Often used in legal spells and mixtures
Often used to draw good luck
Buckwheat
Money, Protection
Often added to protective spells and mixtures
Often added to money incenses and mixtures
Burdock Root
Protection, Healing
Strewn around home to protect against malignant spirits
Often added to protection incenses and mixtures
Butcher's Broom
Purification, Boundaries
Often used in purification spells and mixtures
Often used in boundary-setting spells and mixtures
Calamus Root (Sweet Flag)
Luck, Healing, Money, Protection
Powdered root often used in healing incenses and mixtures
Root kept in kitchen wards off hunger and poverty
Calendula
Success, Protection
Attracts success in all areas, including legal affairs
Protects by cleansing negativity and drawing in positive energy simultaneously
Cascara Sagrada
Legal Matters, Money, Protection
Infusions often used to ensure success in court cases
Often used in money spells and mixtures
Worn, serves as amulet against malignant magic and spirits
Catnip
Cat Magic, Love, Beauty, Happiness
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Often used in spells to increase beauty and happiness
Sacred to Bastet
Celandine
Protection, Escape, Happiness, Legal Matters
Often used to escape unwarranted imprisonment and/or entrapment
Worn, helps lessen depression
Worn to court, helps win favor of the judge/jury
Celery Seed
Mental Powers, Lust, Psychic Powers
Often used in spell pillows to induce sleep
Burned with orris root, increases psychic powers
Centaury
Snake-Removing, Protection
Smoke from burning drives off snakes
Often used in protection spells/mixtures
Chamomile
Money, Sleep, Love, Purification
Often used in money spells and mixtures
Often used in sleep and meditation incenses
Infusion often added to bath to attract love
Often used in purification spells and mixtures
Chaparral
Purification, Positive Change
Often used in purification incenses
Often used in opportunity-drawing spells and mixtures
Often used to alter bad luck by drawing in good luck
Chaste Tree Berries
Fertility, Chastity
Fertility in Women - helps with hormonal imbalance
Chastity in Men - reduces libido
Often used in fertility spells and mixtures (for women)
Chickweed
Fidelity, Love
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Often used to ensure fidelity
Magical name: Starweed
Chicory
Removing Obstacles, Invisibility, Favors, Frugality
Often used to remove obstacles
Carried to promote frugality
Oil often used to obtain favors from powerful people
Chrysanthemum
Protection
Worn, flowers protect against Divine wrath
Cinnamon
Spirituality, Success, Healing, Power, Psychic Powers, Lust, Protection, Love
Often used in psychic empowerment and spiritual growth incenses
Often used in money spells and mixtures
Cinquefoil
Money, Protection, Prophetic Dreams, Sleep
Five points of the leaves represent love, money, health, power, and wisdom
Offers protection when hung on door or over bed
Carried, grants eloquence and success in obtaining favors from powerful people
Often used in legal spells and mixtures
Magical name: Five Finger Grass
Cleavers
Relationships, Commitment, Protection, Tenacity
Often used in commitment spells and mixtures
Often used in binding spells and mixtures
Clove
Protection, Exorcism, Love, Money
Burned, drives away malignant spirits and purifies an area
Burned, prevents gossiping
Worn, attracts the opposite sex
Worn, brings comfort to the bereaved
Clover Blossoms, Red
Protection, Money, Love, Fidelity, Exorcism, Success
Often added to money spells and mixtures
Often used in lust/love mixtures
Infusion often used to banish malignant spirits
Coltsfoot
Love, Visions
Often added to love spells and mixtures
Often used in peace spells and mixtures
Smoked, the leaves can cause visions
Comfrey
Safety During Travel, Money
Protects and ensures safety during travel
Protects against loss/theft
Root often used in money spells and mixtures
Coriander
Love, Health, Healing
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Worn, seeds are especially useful for healing headaches
Cowslip
Healing, Youth, Treasure-Finding
Worn, preserves/restores youth
Flowers often used to find hidden treasure
Hidden under porch, discourages visitors
Cuckoopint
Love, Lust
Often used in love/lust spells and mixtures
Damiana
Lust, Love, Visions
Often used in lust spells and mixtures
Burned to produce visions
Deerstongue
Lust, Psychic Powers
Worn/carried, attracts men
Aids psychic powers when worn
Devil's Claw Root
Protection
Often used to confuse those who mean harm
Often used in protection incenses
Infusion relieves pain and promotes health
Dill
Protection, Money, Lust, Love
Hung over door to protect home
Often used in money spells and mixtures
Often used in love/lust spells and mixtures
Dittany of Crete
Manifestations, Astral Projection
Often added to astral projection incenses
Often added to summoning incenses
Dragon's Blood
Love, Protection, Exorcism, Potency
Often burned to encourage straying lovers to return
Dried resin powerful protector when carried, burned, or strewn
Often added to other incenses to increate their potency
A pinch of dragon’s blood added to other incenses increases their potency
Echinacea
Strengthening Spells
Often used for offerings or in petitions
Strengthens magical and divinatory focus
Elder Flowers
Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Prosperity, Sleep
Protects against attackers both physical and spiritual
Can be used to negate any enchantments cast on you
Protects home against magic and lightning
Elecampane
Love, Protection, Psychic Powers
Worn, attracts love
Carried for protection
Added to incense, enhances psychic powers - especially good for scrying
Magical name: Elfwort
Eyebright
Mental Powers, Psychic Powers
Carried to increase psychic powers
Often used to discern truth in situations
Fenugreek
Money, Prosperity, Protection
Often used in money/prosperity spells and mixtures
Infusion often used to dispel bad luck/provide protection
Feverfew
Protection
Protects against colds/fevers as well as accidents
Prevents accidents where strewn
Often added to amulets to ensure safe travel
Often added to incenses for help in court cases
Figwort
Health, Protection
Worn, promotes health and protects against evil eye
Caution: Ingest only under supervision of licensed medical practitioner, as the plant impacts the heart
Forget-Me-Not
Fidelity, Love, Memory
Often used in fidelity spells and mixtures
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Often used in memory/cognitive enhancement spells and mixtures
Frankincense
Protection, Exorcism, Spirituality
Often used in incenses of exorcism, protection, purification, consecration
Burned to induce visions and to add meditation
Often added to mixtures for luck, protection, and spiritual growth
Fumitory
Money, Exorcism
Infusion often used for drawing money
Burned for exorcisms
Magical names: Earth Smoke, Wax Dolls
Galangal Root
Protection, Lust, Health, Money, Psychic Powers, Hex-Breaking
Worn/carried, protects bearer and draws good luck
Worn, aids in psychic development
Gentian
Love, Power
Often added to love baths and sachets
When used in incense, adds a great deal of extra power
Often used to break hexes and curses
Ginger Root
Love, Money, Success, Power
Powdered root sprinkled onto pockets/money to attract money
Often used in success spells or to ensure success of magical operation
Ginkgo Biloba Leaves
Increases clear thought and intelligence
Attracts inspiration and eloquence
Ginseng Root
Provides strength, stamina, and vigor to men
Associated with enhanced sexuality
Caution: Do not use in mixtures containing iron or ingest if taking iron supplements. Large doses may cause insomnia.
Goldenseal
Healing, Money, Stops Gossip
Often used in communication spells and mixtures
Provides healing from disagreements
Often used in spells/mixtures to stop gossip
Because this is an endangered herb, we use it very sparingly and buy what we do use from wild-crafters when possible
Grains of Paradise
Lust, Love, Luck, Money, Wishes
Often used in lust, love, luck and money spells and mixtures
Often used for wishing
Hawthorn
Fertility, Chastity, Fishing Magic, Happiness
Often incorporated into wedding rituals to increase fertility
Protects against lightning and malignant spirits
Protects house against storm damage
The “thorn” of the “oak, ash, and thorn” triad
Hazel, Witch
Protection, Chastity
Carried, helps mend a broken heart and/or cools passions
Bark/twigs used for protection
Heather
Protection, Rain-Making, Luck
Carried to protect against rape and violent crimes
Carried to bring good luck (white heather)
Burned with fern outdoors, attracts rain
Often used to invoke ancestral spirits
High John the Conqueror Root
Money, Love, Success, Happiness
Carried to attract money and prosperity
Carried to bring love and success
Carried to protect from and/or break spells and hexes
Carried to lessen depression
Horehound
Protection, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Healing
Often used in protective spells and mixtures
Carried to guard against sorcery
Scattered for exorcism
Sacred to Egyptian God Heru (known in Greek as Horus)
Magical name: Eye of the Star
Hyssop
Purification, Protection
Often added to purification baths or sprinkled on people/objects to cleanse them
Hung in home for protection
Jasmine
Love, Money, Prophetic Dreams
Dried flowers often added to love spells and mixtures
Draws wealth and money
Burned in bedroom, causes prophetic dreams
Jewelweed
Protection, Healing
Often used in protective spells and mixtures
Often used in healing spells and mixtures
Sap applied beforehand serves as preventive of poison ivy rash
Job's Tears
Healing, Wishes, Luck
Seeds carried for good luck and prosperity
Knotweed
Binding, Health
Binds woes and miseries
When carried, strengthens and protects the eyes
Lady's Mantle
Love
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Adds potency and power to any formula
Infusion imparts emotional focus
Lavender
Love, Protection, Sleep, Chastity, Longevity, Purification, Happiness, Peace
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Worn, protects against domestic abuse
Burned to induce sleep and rest
Scattered about home to promote peaceful environment
Lemon Balm
Love, Success, Healing
Often used in healing incenses and mixtures
Often used in spells to ensure success
Lemon Peel
Longevity, Purification, Love, Friendship
Mix lemon juice with water to cleanse magical objects obtained secondhand
Often added to love spells and mixtures
Lemon Verbena
Purification, Love
Worn, prevents dreaming
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Often added to other mixtures to increase their strength
Used to purify an area or added to purification baths
Lettuce, Wild
Chastity, Protection, Love, Divination, Sleep
Magical name: Sleepwort
Licorice Root
Lust, Love, Fidelity
Often added to love and lust mixtures
Often carried to attract love
Often used in spells to ensure fidelity
Lends eloquence and humor in speech
Lily
Protection, Breaking Love Spells
Protects against evil eye
Keeps unwanted visitors from home
Serves as antidote to love spells cast on specific people
Lotus
Protection, Lock-Opening
Provides protection
Often used to open locks
Seeds/pods used as antidotes to love spells
Carried/worn, ensures blessings by the Gods
Lungwort
Reputation, Protection, Creativity, Illusion
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Often used to enhance reputation, as its own reputation is greater than its effects
Often used in illusion spells and mixtures, as it is medicinally better for gastrointestinal issues than respiratory issues
Madder Root
Protection, Exorcism, Love
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Often used in exorcisms
Often used in love spells/mixtures, especially the powdered root as ink
Mandrake Root
Protection, Fertility, Money, Love, Health
Protects the home when a whole root is placed on mantle
Hung on headboard for protection during sleep
Worn to prevent contraction of illness
Prevents access by malignant spirits
Marjoram
Protection, Love, Happiness, Health, Money
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Protective when carried or strewn around home
Often used in money spells and mixtures
Magical name: Joy of the Mountain
Marshmallow Root
Protection, Psychic Powers
Often part of incense mixtures
Pulls spirits - when placed on an altar, draws in good spirits
Meadowsweet
Love, Divination, Peace, Happiness
Often used in various love mixtures
Strewn about house to keep peace
Magical name: Queen of the Meadow
Mistletoe
Protection, Love, Hunting, Fertility, Health, Exorcism
Protects against lightning, disease, misfortune of all kinds)
Carried/worn for good luck in hunting
Often used to open locks
Grants restful sleep and good dreams
Burned to banish negativity
Motherwort
Protective of the home
Lends extra power and strength to women
Brings motivation and energy to complete tasks
Moss, Irish
Luck, Money
Powdered and added to any mixture to attract prosperity
Helps release energy causing poverty in home
Mountain Mint, Hoary
Money, Lust, Healing, Travel, Exorcism, Protection
Often used in travel spells and to provoke lust
Often used in money/prosperity spells
Mugwort
Strength, Psychic Powers, Protection, Prophetic Dreams, Healing, Astral Projection
Burned with sandalwood or with wormwood during scrying rituals
Aids psychic workings
Carried to protect against poison
Placed in building, prevents entrance by elves and malignant spirits
Magical name: Witch herb
Mullein
Courage, Protection, Health, Love, Divination, Exorcism
Carried to obtain love from opposite sex
Guards against nightmares
Potent safeguard against malignant spirits and magic
Mustard Seeds
Fertility, Protection, Mental Powers
Carried to guard against colds and to increase mental powers
Sprinkled on doorstep for protection
Buried under doorstep to keep spirits out of home
Nettle
Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Lust
Sprinkled around house for protection
Carried with yarrow to allay fear
Worn as amulet for protection
Nettle, Stinging
Courage, Virility
Often used to amplify courage
Nutmeg
Luck, Money, Health, Fertility
Included in many money/prosperity mixtures
Attracts positive change and promotes health
Attracts unexpected opportunities
Orange Peel
Love, Divination, Luck, Money
Dried peel/seeds often added to love mixtures
Often added to prosperity powders, incenses, and mixtures
Oregano (Wild Marjoram)
Protection, Healing
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Often used in healing spells and mixtures
Orris Root
Love, Protection, Divination
Powder often added to sachets, sprinkled on sheets, etc.
Sometimes referred to as the “love-drawing powder”
Protects against evil spirits
Magical name: Loveroot
Osha Root
Protection, Healing, Strength
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Often used in healing spells and mixtures
Alleviates altitude sickness and increases lung/heart functions
Palo Santo
Purification, Protection
Often used in smoke-cleansing
This is a threatened-endangered species, so what we use in the shop we get from wildcrafters and use sparingly.
Parsley
Lust, Protection, Purification
Used in purification baths and those to stop all misfortune
Passion Flower
Peace, Sleep, Friendships
Used in house to calm problems/bring peace
Carried, attracts friends and great popularity
Placed under pillow, aids in sleep
Patchouli
Money, Fertility, Lust
Often used in money and prosperity mixtures and spells
Often added to love mixtures and baths
Often used to attract people/promote lust
Pea, Butterfly
Money, Love
Peach Blossom
Love, Exorcism, Longevity, Fertility, Wishes
Fruit eaten to gain wisdom
Branches used to drive off evil spirits (China)
Carrying a bit of wood increases one’s life span
Used to increase fertility and branches for divining/magical wands (Japan)
Pennyroyal
Strength, Protection, Peace
Prevents weariness during travel and strengthens body
Worn, acts against evil eye and aids in making business deals
Kept in home for protection (keep away from pets/children)
Carried on ships to prevent seasickness
Peony
Protection, Exorcism
Worn, guards body, spirit, and soul
Placed in home, protects against malignant spirits
Used in exorcisms
Peppermint
Purification, Sleep, Love, Healing, Psychic Powers
Placed beneath pillow, offers glimpses of future in dreams
Rubbed against furniture, walls, and floorboards to cleanse them
Often used in travel, money, and love spells
Periwinkle
Love, Lust, Mental Powers, Money, Protection
Placed over door to protect home
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Restores memories
Magical name: Sorcerer's Violet
Pine Bark, White
Healing, Fertility, Protection, Exorcism, Money, Love
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Plantain
Healing, Strength, Protection, Snake-Repelling
Hung in car to guard against intrusion of evil spirits
Piece of root in pocket protects bearers from snakebit
Plum, Red
Love, Protection
Pomegranate
Divination, Luck, Wishes, Wealth, Fertility
Sacred to Persephone
Purslane
Sleep, Love, Luck, Protection, Happiness
Laid on bed, prevents nightmares
Carried, draws luck and keeps evil away
Sprinkled around home, spreads happiness throughout
Antidote to Henbane
Ramps (Wild Leek)
Protection, Exorcism
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Often used in exorcisms
Similar in action but less potent than garlic
Raspberry Leaf
Protection, Love, Fertility
Often used in fertility spells and mixtures
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Rhubarb Root
Protection, Fidelity
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Often used to promote fidelity
Rose Bud
Love, Psychic Powers, Healing, Love, Divination, Luck, Protection (Rose in general)
Tea drunk before bed induces prophetic dreams
Often added to fast-luck mixtures
When carried, acts as personal protectant
Rose Hips
Strung and worn as love-attracting beads
Often used in healing spells and mixtures
Rose Petals
Often used in healing spells and mixtures
Rosemary
Protection, Love, Lust, Mental Powers, Exorcism, Purification, Healing, Sleep, Youth
Smoldered to rid a place of negativity
Placed beneath pillow to drive away nightmares
Hung on porch and doorposts to keep thieves from the house
Often carried/used for healing work
Often used in purification baths and lust/love incenses
Magical name: Dew of the sea
Rowan Bark
Psychic Powers, Healing, Power, Success, Protection
Carried, increases psychic powers and speeds recovery
Branches often used in fashioning dowsing rods and magical wands
Often added to healing, success, and/or luck baths
Prevents storms from impacting ships and homes against lightning
Prevents the dead from haunting places when placed on their graves
Magical name: Witchwood
Safflower Flower
Often Used in incenses and talismans for prosperity
Often Used in protection formulas
Often Used as carrier oil base for Solar / Mars oils to strengthen those energies
Sage, Clary
Immortality, Longevity, Wisdom, Protection, Wishes
Carried to promote wisdom
Leaves used in healing and money spells
This is the only type of sage we use in the shop. We do not use nor support the use of ceremonial sages by non-Indigenous persons.
Sarsaparilla Root
Love, Money, Purification
Often mixed with cinnamon and sandalwood and scattered in an area to draw money
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Often used in purification spells and mixtures
Self-Heal
Protection, Healing, Communication
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Often used in healing spells and mixtures
Often used to augment communication skills
Senna
Love, Purification, Exorcism
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Often used in purification spells and mixtures
Often used in exorcisms
Sesame Seeds
Money, Lust
Jar of sesame seeds left open in house draws cash to it
Legendary for ability to discover hidden treasure, find secret passages, and open locked doors
Shavegrass (Horsetail)
Snake Charming, Fertility
Often used in fertility mixtures or placed in bedroom for this purpose
Attracts snakes (another name for it is snake grass)
Shepherd's Purse
Money, Prosperity
Often used in money/prosperity spells and mixtures
Skullcap
Love, Fidelity, Peace
Often used in spells of relaxation and peace
Helps bring opposites into balance
Slippery Elm Bark
Halts Gossip, Protection, Exorcism
Often used in exorcisms
Most often used to stop gossip
Often used in protective spells and mixtures
Caution: Pregnant women should avoid this herb, as it is an abortifacient (induces miscarriage)
Soapwort
Purification, Protection
Often used in purification spells and mixtures
Traditionally used as soap
Caution: Ingest only under the supervision of licensed medical practitioner, as the plant must undergo a special preparatory process to make it safe for ingestion
Solomon's Seal Root
Protection, Exorcism
Placed in four quarters of house to guard it
Often used in exorcism and protection spells of all kinds
Infusion sprinkled in area clears it of evil
Spearmint
Healing, Love, Mental Powers
Often used in healing work
Often Used to provoke lust
Increases and sharpens mental powers
Speedwell
Protection, Exorcism
Known as the herb of St. Llywelyn
Must be used in conjunction with other herbs and given direction, as it is not powerful enough alone
St. John's Wort
Health, Protection, Strength, Love, Divination, Happiness
Worn, protects against illness, strengthens courage, attracts love
Protects against thunderbolts, fire, and evil spirits
Often used in rituals or carried to detect other magicians
Strawberry Leaf
Love, Luck
Often used in love spells and mixtures
Often used in luck spells and mixtures
Sunflower Seeds
Fertility, Wishes, Health, Wisdom, Protection
Sleeping with sunflower under bed allows you to know the truth in any matter
Often used in protection spells and mixtures
Tansy
Health, Longevity
Bit of tansy placed in shoes helps cure persistent fevers
Carried to lengthen life span
Disliked by ants
Infusion NOT recommended as leaves can be toxic (do NOT ingest!)
Tea, Green
Riches, Courage, Strength
Leaves burned to ensure future riches
Often added to money mixtures
Included in talismans designed to grant courage
Thistle, Blessed
Purification, Hex-Breaking
Worn to protect self from evil
Often added to purification baths
Often used in hex-breaking spells
Thyme
Health, Healing, Sleep, Psychic Powers, Love, Purification, Courage
Burned to attract good health and worn for this purpose
Placed beneath pillow, ensures restful sleep and pleasant lack of nightmares
Burned prior to magical rituals for purification purposes (Greek origin)
Worn to grant fairy-sight (ability to see fairies)
Tormentil
Protection, Love
Guards mediums against permanent possession by spirits
Hung in home to drive away evil
Carried to attract love
Caution: Internal use should be minimal and exposed skin contact avoided (it can cause scarring).
Turmeric Powder
Purification
Scattered on floor/area for protection
Valerian Root
Love, Sleep, Purification, Protection
Powdered root used in protective spells and mixtures
Often added to love mixtures
Magical name for American Valerian: Ram's head
Vervain, Blue
Love, Protection, Purification, Peace, Money, Youth, Chastity, Sleep, Healing
Often used in love mixtures and protective spells
Placed in home, protects it from lightning and storms
Common ingredient in purification baths and protection incenses
Often used in money and prosperity spells
Magical name: Enchanter's Plant
Vetch, Milk
Fidelity, Resilience
This herb is a threatened-endangered species. What we use in the shop we get from wildcrafters and use sparingly.
Violet
Protection, Luck, Love, Lust, Wishes, Peace, Healing
Carried, protects against evil spirits and brings changes in luck and fortune
Mixed with lavender, powerful love stimulant that arouses lust
Walnut Leaves, Black
Health, Mental Powers, Infertility, Wishes
Carried, strengthen heart and ward off rheumatism
Attracts lightning! Don’t carry an electrical storm!
Wintergreen
Protection, Healing, Hex-Breaking
Sprinkled in home, removes hexes and curses, especially when mixed with mint
When strewn in home or business, attracts luck and protects
Associated with renewal and endurance
Wormwood
Psychic Powers, Protection, Love, Calling Spirits
Burned in incenses designed to aid in developing psychic powers and worn for this purpose
Hung from rearview mirror, protects vehicle from accidents on treacherous roads
Burned to summon spirits - usually alongside sandalwood
Magical name: Crown for a King
Yarrow
Courage, Love, Psychic Powers, Exorcism
Worn or carried, protects and/or attracts love/friends
Held in hand, stops all fear and grants courage
Often used to exorcise evil/negativity from a person, place, or object
Magical names: Seven Years' Love, Thousand Seal
Yucca Root
Transmutation, Protection, Purification
Often used in purification spells and mixtures (also as soap)
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