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*) Herbs and Spices (*
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The magical properties of herbs and spices can be accessed in several ways; in the bath, drunk as an infusion, hung outside the home or sealed in a sachet. Flowers, berries or leaves can be made into an infusion; use the bark or roots as a decoction. You need only drink or add to your bath a very small quantity of infusion or decoction to absorb a magical effect.

~ HERB SAFETY ~
Please check with a herbalist or pharmacist if you have any chronic medical conditions, pregnant or breastfeeding or before giving to children or the elderly. Do not take any herb in large quantities or for prolonged periods.

Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)
Good for psychic protection, it will return negative energies to the sender. Use it in a herbal protection purse or sachet and as an ingredient in a sleep sachet underneath your pillow for pleasant dreams. Can be used as an infussion.

Allspice (Pimenta dioica)
A herb for healing all aspects of life, can be burned as incense or sprinkled in a candle flame to attract good luck. Use in cooking or fill tiny love purses or sachets to attract passion; they can be carried or placed under a pillow. Can also be taken as an infusion.

Aloe vera (Aloe vera)
Protective; keep as a house plant to bring luck, success and prosperity and to guard the home and tools used for work against malvolence of all kinds.

Angelica (Angelica archangelica)
Angelica is so-named since it is said to have been revealed by an archangel to releave the plaque during the Middle Ages. Bringing energy and health, angelica offers protection when worn or carried as an amulet. It can also be eaten in the form of cake decoration, use the leaves in salad or in infusion.

Anise/Aniseed (Pimpinellla anisum)
Offers protection against all negative influences. Keep pots of the plant or dried anise in the kitchen to deter intruders. Potpourri of anise in the bedroom prevents bad dreams. Can be taken as an infusion.

Basil (Ocimum basilicum)
The herb of love and fidelity. It can be scattered around a lover's possessions, or a few grains can be hidden in their case if they are going away. It can be used as an ifusion as well as in cooking. Hung or grown in the home or outside it protects against intruders and winged-insects.

Bistort (Polygonum bistorta)
As a herb of ferility, the empowered root of bistort can be made into a talisman for anyone who is seeking to bring an idea or project to fruition. An unfusion of bistort sprinkled near the doorway of a house will deter those who come with malice in their hearts. Bistort increases psychic awareness and divinatory powers. Use as a decoction.

Borage (Borago officinalis)
The herb burdock repels negativity and heals the wounds of betrayal or loss if gathered or empowered during waning Moon. Use as an infusion.

Caraway (Carum cavi)
The seeds of the caraway can be used as an aphrodisiac and so can kindle or rekindle passion. Can be used in cooking and as infusions.

Catnip (Nepeta cataria)
Combined with rose petals, catnip makes a potent love sachet or potpourri. Grow around or near a home, catnip attracts good fortune and joy to the home and all within. It will also repel negativity. Use as an infusion.

Chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile)
The most gentle and soothing of herbs, chamomile added to a bath will enduce a meditative state, and will enhance self love after betrayal and attract gentle love. It is good added to potpourri, and used in pots or dried around the home. Its protective and deters those who would do harm. Use as infusions, makes a delicious tea, drink before bedtime for pleasant dreams.

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
From Roman times fennel has been the herb of courage and stamina. Eat the seeds for enhancing courage n mental clarity. Fennel hung in the home or grown outside in a protective border also brings protection from unwanted visitors of all kinds and from malevolence.

Garlic (Allium sativum)
Hung in the kitchen on strings or ropes, garlic bulbs keep away hostile influences, natural and supernatural. A clove of garlic placed on the sill of Hallowe'en ensures only family ghosts will return to the home on this day of the ancestors. Use in food for protection against gossip and spite. Wild garlic makes a good protective boundary.

Lavender (Lavandula)
Sweet-smelling lavender can be added to any sachet or potpourri, it has calming and restorative properties and promises a gradual and gentle improvement in health and happiness. Lavendar in sachets or in the bath attracts gentle lovers. Burn a lavendar-fragranced candle and make a wish, dropping a single flower-head in the flame for each wish.

Parsley (Petrosilinum)
A divinatory herb, parsley is said to encourage love and passion. In traditional magic, dolls were filled with parsley and kept in the home or workplace to deter or return malice and spite. Use as an infusion.

Pepermint (Mentha-piperata)
Burned as incense, used as an infusion on floors or sprinkled around the home, it will clean away negativity

Rose (Rosa)
Like lavendar, rose is an essential ingredient in healing and stress-reducing sachets or purses or in potpourri, relieving exhaustion and calming. Roses are used in love rituals. Use rose petals as an infusion.

Rosemary (Rosmarinus)
Sprigs of rosemary, a small handfull chopped in a bag are traditionaly added to a bath to increase clarity of thought and improve memory. Add to cooking for increased passion.

Sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata)
As the mother goddess herb, this is usualy burned as a braid or as strands in a ceramic bowl, bringing healing, gentle empowerment, beauty, harmony and abundance in all its forms. The braids are also hung unburned over doorways for protection.

Yarrow (Achillea)
The herb of marriage and fidelity, yarrow is traditionaly kept in a sachet or purse on the wedding day for seven years and replaced just before the sevent year is over. Thereafter every seventh year. Use as an infusion, sprinkled around the home to deter all forms of negativity.