</MYMAILSTATIONERY> | A WITCH'S NAME FOR FLOWERS & HERBS | |  Witches of the past and still many of the present have names for herbs and flowers based on things and animals in nature and fantasy realms. Often the names were picked because that's what the herb resembled and was convenient for an old herbalist or teacher to teach and remember. Some sects and separate families, groups, covens or tribes had different names and variations of these names. It is not a specific or tight-lined rule... if you are working with a group or area of training, use the names that your coven or familiar witches use, but if you are a solitary witch, go ahead and name your herbs and ingredients whatever suits your impression of the plant, flower or herb... by appearance, scent, affect etc.
So now you know... one more thing that has been terribly misinterpreted about witches...
I am still searching for the herb, flower or weed called "Eye of Newt"... but you can be sure it will be something that most likely resembles the eye of a newt... like hawthorn berries or the likes.
Here is a small, and by no means the only, list of common names for some herbs, roots and flowers used in witchcraft. It sure is an eye opener to those who may think that to be a true witch one might have to boil up animal parts, blood and maybe even sacrifice human or animal to make potions! (ha ha ha)
EARS
Ass's Ear ~ Comfrey
Bear's Ear ~ Auricula
Jew's Ear ~ Fungus on Elder or Elm
Mouse Ear ~ Mouse Blood Wort (Hieracium pilosella)
Squirrel Ear ~ White Plantain
FEET
Bear's foot ~ Stinking Hellbore
Bull's foot or Foal's foot ~ Coltsfoot
Cat's foot ~ Canada Snake Root
Cat's Paw ~ Ground Ivy
Chicken Toe ~ Crawley Root
Crow foot or Dove's foot ~ Cranesbill
Dragon's Claw ~ Crawley Root
Duck's foot ~ American Mandrake
Frog's foot ~ Bulbous Buttercup
Goat's foot ~ Ash Weed
Hare's foot ~ Clover
Rabbit's foot ~ Field Clover
Wolf's Claw ~ Lycopodium
Wolf's foot ~ Bugle Weed
TONGUES, MOUTHS, EYES and NOSES
Bird's eye ~ False Hellebore
Bull's eyes ~ Marsh Marigold
Calf's Snout ~ Toadflax
Cat's eye ~ Star Scabious
Dog's tongue ~ Conoglossum officinale
Donkey's eyes ~ Cowage Plant
Dragon's eye ~ Nephalium loganum
Horse Tongue ~ Hart's tongue ( Scolopendrium vulgare )
Hound's Tongue ~ Vanilla Leaf
Lamb's Tongue ~ Ribwort Plantain
Lizard's Tongue ~ Sauroglossum
Ox Tongue ~ Bugloss
Snake's Tongue ~ Adder's Tongue Fern
Swine Snout ~ Dandelion
FINGERS, BEARDS, TAILS, HEADS and HORNS
Bloody Fingers, Fairy Fingers/ Gloves ~ Foxglove
Goat's Beard ~ Vegetable Oyster
Horse Tail ~ Scouring Rush
Lizard's Tail ~ Breast Weed
Old Man's Beard ~ Fringe Tree
Snake Head ~ Balmony
Stag Horn ~ Club Moss
Unicorn's Horn ~ False Unicorn ( Helgonias dioica)
OTHER
Beehive ~ Snail Plant
Beggar's Tick ~ Cockhold
Catgut ~ Hoary Pea
Cat's Milk or Devil's Milk ~ Wartwort
Cock's Comb ~ Yellow Rattle
Flesh and Blood ~ Tormentil
Hedghogs ~ Medicago intertexta
Mother's Heart or Shepherd's Heart ~ Shepherd's Purse
Snake Milk ~ Blooming Spurge
Toad ~ Toadflax
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