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Herbs. L
By: Sarga Date: March 30, 2015, 8:14 pm
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Lady's Mantle :
Folk names: Bear's foot, Leontopodium, Lion's foot, Nine Hooks,
Stellaria
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Love
Magical Uses: Use the herb in love spells and satchets
Lady's Slipper:
Folk names: Yellow Moccasin Flower, Neveroot, American Valerian
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Saturn
Element: Water
Powers: Protection
Magical Uses: Lady's slipper is used in protective satchets as
it guards against all manner of hexes,curses, spells and the
evil eye.
Larch:
Gender: Masculine
Powers: Protection, Anti-fire
Magical Uses: Since larch wood cannot be penetrated by fire
according to long magical tradition, it is used in satchets
designed to prevent conflagrations. Larch is also carried or
worn to prevent enchantment and protects against the evil eye.
Larkspur:
Folk names: Delphinium, Knight's spur, Lark's Heal, Staggerweed
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Health, protection
Magical uses: The larkspur keeps away ghosts. If you look
through a bunch of larkspur at a Midsummer fire, your eyes will
be preserved for the next year,until another Midsummer. The
flowers frighten off scorpions and other venomous creatures.
Lavender:
Folk names: Elf leaf, Nard, Nardus, Spike
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Powers: Love, protection, sleep, chastity, longevity,
purification,happiness, peace
Magical Uses: Lavender has long been used in love spells and
satchets. Clothing nabbed with the fragrant flowers (or lavender
placed in drawers with clothes) 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 around 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. Indeed, the odor of lavender is
conducive to long life, and so should be smelled as often as
possible if this is a concern. Lavender is also used in healing
mixtures, carried to see ghosts, and worn to protect against the
evil eye. It is added to purification baths.
Leek:
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Powers: Love, Protection, Exorcism
Magical Uses: When two people eat leeks they will fall in love
with each other. Leeks are also carried as protective amulets,
and are bitten to break hexes and will drive away evil.
Lemon:
Folk names: Ulamula
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Powers: Longevity, Purification, Love, Friendship
Magical Uses: Lemon juice is mixed with water and the resultant
mixture is used to wash amulets, jewelry and other magical
objects which have been obtained second hand. This wash ensures
that all negative vibrations are cleansed from the object in
question. The juice is also added to water at the time of the
full moon for its purificatory powers. The dried flowers and
peel are added to love satchets and mixtures, and the leaves are
used in lust teas. A lemon tree grows from a seed which was
taken from a lemon that you have consumed is a highly
appropriate gift for a loved one, although admittedly this is a
long process. Lemon pie, served to a spouse, will help
strengthen fidelity, and a slice of fresh lemon placed beneath a
visitors chair ensures that your friendship will last.
Lemongrass:
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Powers: Repel snakes, lust, psychic powers
Magical Uses: Lemongrass planted around the home and in the
garden will repel snakes. It is also used in some lust potions,
as well as in an infusion to aid in developing psychic powers.
Lemon Verbena:
Folk names: Cedron, Yerba Louisa
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Powers: Purification, Love
Magical Uses: If this plant is hung around the neck, or if a bit
of the juice is drunk, it will preserve you from dreaming. Lemon
verbena is also worn to make oneself attractive to the opposite
sex, and is used in love spells and mixtures. The herb is added
to other mixtures to increase their strength, and is sometimes
utilized to purify an area, or is added to bath water for
purificatory purposes.
Lettuce:
Folk names: Garden Lettuce, Lattouce, Sleep Wort
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Powers: Chastity, Protection,Love, Divination,Sleep
Magickal Uses: Rub lettuce juice onto the forehead or eat the
leaves to have no trouble falling asleep. Lettuce, when grown in
the garden is protective, but some say that if too great an
amount is raised, sterility will result in the household. If you
wish to preserve yourself against temptations of the flesh, eat
lettuce. When eaten, lettuce also prevents seasickness. Plant
lettuce or cress seeds in the form of the name of someone you
love. If the seeds sprout well, so too will love between you.
Licorice:
Folk names: Lacris, Licourice, Lycorys, Reglisse, Sweet root
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Lust, love, fidelity
Magical Uses: Chewing on a licorice stick (the root, not a piece
of candy) will make you passionate. It is also a good practice
to use while quitting smoking. Licorice is added to love and
lust satchets, carried to attract love, and used in spells to
ensure fidelity. Licorice sticks make useful wands.
Life-Everlasting:
Folk names: Chafe weed, Everlasting, Field Balsam, Indian Posy,
Old Field Balsam, Sweet Scented life Everlasting, White Balsam
Powers: Longevity, Health, Healing
Magical Uses: Use in spells of longevity, as well as for
restoring youth. It is also kept in the home or carried to
prevent sickness and ill-health. Drink an infusion of
life-everlasting every morning, before eating or drinking
anything else, while saying "Chills and ills, pains and banes,
do your fasting with life-everlasting." This will ensure a long
life comparatively free of illness.
Lilac:
Folk name: Common Lilac
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Exorcism, Protection
Magical Uses: Lilac drives away evil where it is planted or
strewn, and indeed in New England lilacs were originally planted
to keep evil from the property. The flowers,fresh, can be placed
in a haunted house to help clear it.
Lily:
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Deities: Venus, Juno, Nepthys, Kwan Yin
Powers: Protection, Breaking love spells
Magical Uses: Plant lilies in the garden to keep away ghosts and
evil,protect against the evil eye, and to keep unwanted visitors
from your home. Lilies are also good antidotes to love
spells,for this purpose a fresh lily should be worn or carried.
This breaks love spells which have been cast involving a
specific person. To bring clues in solving a crime committed in
the past year,bury an old piece of leather in a bed of lilies.
The first white lily of the season will bring strength to him or
her who finds it.
Lily of the Valley:
Folk Names: Convallaria, Jacob's Ladder, Ladder to heaven, Lily
constancy, Male Lily, May lily, Our Lady's tears
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Deities: Apollo, Aesculapis
Powers: Mental Powers, Happiness
Magical Uses: Use to improve the memory and mind. When placed in
a room, these flowers cheer the heart and lift the spirits of
those present.
Lime:
Folk names: Loomi, Dayap,Calmouc
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Powers: Healing, love, protection
Magical Uses: Take a fresh lime, pierce it with old iron nails,
spikes, pins, and needles, and throw it in a deep hole in the
ground. This will rid you of all ills,hexes and so on. Wear a
necklace of limes to cure a sore throat. Lime peel is used in
love mixtures and incenses. Twigs of the lime tree protect
against the evil eye when carried.
Linden:
Folk names: Lime, Lime tree, Linnflowers
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Jupiter
Element: Air
Deities: Venus, Lada
Powers: Protection, Immortality, Luck, Love, Sleep
Ritual Uses: Lithuanian women once made sacrifices to linden
trees as part of religious rites.
Magical Uses: Linden is extensively used in Europe as a
protective tree. The branches are hung over the door for this
purpose, or the tree itself is grown in the garden. The bark of
the linden when carried prevents intoxication, while the leaves
and flowers are used in love spells. Since it is a tree of
immortality its leaves are used in spells of this nature. Linden
and lavender equally mixed make excellent pillows which hasten
sleep in the insomniac, and good luck charms are carved from the
wood and carried.
LiquidAmber:
Folk Names: Styrax, Sweet gum, voodoo witch burr, witch burr
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Powers: Protection
Magical Uses: The seed pods are placed on the altar or held
during magickal rites for protection against evil forces.
Liquidamber bark is substituted for storax bark.
Liverwort:
Folk Names: Edellebere, Heart Leaf, Herb Trinity, Liverleaf,
Liverweed, Trefoil
Gender: masculine
Planet: Jupiter
Element: Fire
Powers: Love
Magical Uses: A woman may secure the love of a man by carrying
liverwort in a satchet at all times.
Lobelia:
Folk names: Asthma weed, bladderpod, Gagroot, Indian Tobacco,
Pukeweed
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Saturn
Element: Water
Powers: Halting storms, love
Magical Uses: Throw some powdered lobelia at an oncoming storm
to stop its approach. Lobelia is also used to attract love.
Loosestrife:
Folk names: Blooming sally, Lythrum, Partyke, Purple Willow
herb, rainbow weed, sage willow, salicaire
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Moon
Element: earth
Powers: Peace, protection
Magical uses: To settle an argument you've had with a friend,
give some of this herb to him or her. Strewn about the home,
loosestrife disperses peaceful vibrations and keeps evil forces
at bay.
Lotus:
Folk Names: Baino, Egyptian Lotus
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Powers: Protection, Lock-opening
Ritual Uses: The lotus has long been revered in the east as a
mystical symbol of life, spirituality, and the center of the
universe. The Ancient Egyptians considered the plant to be
sacred and the lotus was used as an offering to the gods.
Magical uses: Anyone who breathes the scent of the lotus will
recieve its protection. Lotus seeds and pods are used as
antidotes to love spells, and any part of the lotus carried or
worn ensures blessings by the gods and good luck.
Lovage:
Folk names: Chinese Lovage, Italian Parsley, Love rod, love
root, lubestico, sea parsley
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Powers: Love
Magical Uses: Place lovage in the bath water in a satchet. This
will make you more attractive and love-inspiring. Such baths are
best taken directly before going out to meet new people.
Love Seed:
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Love, friendship
Magical Uses: Pawnee Indians used this herb in magick. The seeds
are carried to attract love and new friendship.
Lucky Hand:
Folk names: Hand of power, hand root, helping hand, salap
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Employment, Luck, protection, money, travel
Magical uses: This root of an orchid plant is one of the most
famous New Orleans magical botanicals. It has long been placed
in satchets and conjure bags for luck and general success,
carried to obtain and maintain employment, and to secure
protection from all ills. Fill a jar with rose oil, place
several lucky hands into the oil and let them soak there. When
you need something, take out one of the roots and wear it. If
you need love, wear it near your heart. If you wish to travel,
place it in your shoe. If you need money, carry one in your
wallet or purse, and so on.
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