</MYMAILSTATIONERY> WITCHES AND HERBS
The use of herbs was a great incentive for most church witch burnings so today several herbalists are painstakingly re-discovering these lost herbs and their uses in spells, health, and love. And the male dominated medical profession would feel undermined if the orfinary person knew how to cure ailments. So they passed laws that when someone tells others about an herbal cure will be, or have a chance of being changed for practicing medicine without a liscense and so they place more and more restrictions on herbs.
The green Element craft is basically an herbal one and herbs are used for both medical and magickal practices and purposes.
-Educate yourself about herbs, their uses and ways plus a good identification book (with photos) is very useful. - If there is any question of wheather it' the right one don't use it! always be sure...-
The very contact with Mother Earth and green growing things is a source of renewal of energy and power for wny Green Wiccan.
A witches garden should contain crertain basic herbs, wheather in a garden space or in a container. Here's a list of all-around herbs for medicine and culinary uses as well as magickal.
AGRIMONY ANGELICA AVENS
BASIL BURDOCK COLTSFOOT
BAY BETONY BIRCH
CATNIP CHAMOMILE CHIVES
CLINIQUEFOIL COMFREY CORIANDER
DANDELION DIANTHUS DILL
ELECAMPANE FENNEL FEVERFEW
GARLIC GENTIAN HEATHER
HOPS HYSSOP LAVENDER
LEMON BALM LEMON VERBENA LOVAGE
MARIGOLD MARJORAM MINT
MUGWORT MULLEIN NASTURTIUM
OREGANO PARSLEY ROSE
ROSEMARY RUE SAGE
ST.JOHNS WORT SAVORY TANSY
TARRAGON THYME TREFOIL
VERVAIN VALERIAN WOODFUFF
WORMWOOD YARROW SANTOLINA
LADY'S MANTLE SHEPHERDS PURSE - IRISH MOSS
CRANES BILL LAWN VIOLETS - GOOD KING HENRY
AND THE LIST CONTINUES...
Plus trees, shrubs, and flowers for their unusual proplerties:
ALDER ELDER FOXGLOVE
HAWTHORN WILLOW HAZEL
HEATHER OAK ROWAN
HERBS AND THEIR QUALITIES
Common cooking spices do double duty as herbs that can be utilized in the craft. using these herbs in food preperations add magick to a meal, and can be made a sort of ritual. By learning what uses you can make of herbs in magickal practice, the creating of spells begins to follow a pattern that works for each person, based upon accepted attributes. (Scott Cunninghams encyclopedia of magickal herbs is a must have,) you can match the spell you want to create with an herb by it's characteristics, planetary and elemental associations, ect.:
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