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Snapdragon

Antirrhinum Maj-us (an-ti-RYE-num MAY-jus)

Symbolic Meaning: Creativity, Deception, Force of Will, Gracious Lady, Indiscretion, Never, Presumption.

Possible Powers: Break a Hex, Clair-audience, Fire Element, Mars, Masculine energy, Protection, Protection Against Curses, Deceit, or Negativity, Strength.

Folklore and Facts

If you sense evil near me, step on or hold a snapdragon flower in your hand until you feel the evil pass by.

If someone has sent their negative energy to you or cursed you, place a vase of Snapdragon flowers in front of a mirror and the negativity and the curses will be sent back to the sender.

Wear Snapdragon seed around your neck to protect yourself from being bewitched.

It was thought that if you hid a Snapdragon on your person, you would appear to be gracious and quite fascinating.

Wear or carry any part of a Snapdragon to protect yourself against deception.

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Chervil

Anthriscus Cerefolium (an-THRIS-kus ser-eh-FOL-ee-um)

Symbolic Meaning: Serenity and Sincerity.

Possible Powers: Sense of the higher, divine, and immortal spirits.

Folklore and Facts:

It was Roman Soldiers who spread Chervil by planting it close to al their camps across the entire Roman Empire because they hated being without it.

Make and carry or wear a white sachet of Chervil that can be used when attempting to make contact with a loved one on "the other side" via any method.

Chervil is in the Nine Sacred Herbs healing charm that was originally written in the dialect used in Wessex, England around the time of the tenth century.

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Soursop

Annona Muricata (A-no-nah Mit-yer-ih-cat-ah)

Symbollic Meaning: Sour Custard.

Possible Powers:Release from Oppression, and Unblocking desperate emotions.

Folklore and Facts

The Soursop flower is especially fragrant in the morning.

Claims that it is a cure or valid treatment for cancer continue to be proven completely without merit.

Make, then carry or wear a sachet that holds a Soursop flower and a leaf to help push off and send away that heavy overwhelming sensation of oppression.

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Dong Quai

Angelica Sinensis (An-gel-i-ca sinen-sis)

Its only symbolization is Defender of Women.

Possible Powers: Allviating Fatigue, Aphrodisiac, Attracting Love, Breaking A Hex, General Blessing, Lifting Low Vitality, and Protection against an Evil Spirit.

Folklore and Facts

Traditional Chinese Medicine has used Dong Quai for millennia.

Dong Quai has anticoagulant and anti-platelet properties that can affect the uterus as well as cause photo-sensitivity.

Although the complications of the herb are well documented, Dong Quai has been an herb used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years.

Make then carry or wear a sachet of it as a general blessing when meditating about any issue concerning women.

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Angelica

Angelica Archangelica (an-JEL-ih-kah ark-an-JEL-ih-kah)

Symbolic Meanings: Gentle Melancholy, Inspiration, Inspire Me, Symbol of good magic, and Symbol of Poetic Inspiration.

Possible Powers: Courage, Eliminate the effects of intoxication, Exorcism, the Fire Element, Healing, Magic, Masculine Energy, Protection, (Removing Curses, Enchantments, Hexes, or Lust), Rendering witchcraft and the evil eye harmless, Strength, the Sun, Venus, Visions, and (Warding off Disasters, Evil spirits, or lighting strikes).

Folklore and Facts

Exercise serious caution before touching it. The plant closely resembles Poison Hemlock and Poison Parsnip, both being among the deadliest of poisonous plants. If you planted Angelica in your garden and you're quite certain of what it is, it's logical to consider it to be safe. Otherwise, Beware!

During the first year of growth, Angelica produces only leaves. In the second year, the stalks can reach more than eight feet tall.

Angelica is a blessing to the garden because, when it flowers, it attracts bees.

Legend holds that, in the 1300s, Angelica protected entire villages from the bubonic plague, which has since been called the Black Death.

Another Legend from the Middle Ages tells of a Monk who dreamt of an angel who gave him a recipe for a tonic to cure any sickness. Angelica was one of the ingredients.

Some believe that angels smell exactly like Angelica.

Plant Angelica at the four corners of a house to protect against wickedness and pestilence.

Make an infusion of Angelica and rainwater, natural spring water, or distilled water and sprinkle that around the home as protection against evil.

Gamblers carry Angelica in their pockets for protection against losing their money and increasing their luck,

In a bath, Angelica will remove any kind of curse, hex, or Negativity cast against the bather.

Aromatherapists call Angelica the oil of angels because of its peacefully calming influence.

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Dill

Anethum Graveolens (ah-NEE-thum grav-ee-OH-lens)

Symbolic Meanings: Good Cheer, Luck.

Possible Powers: Aphrodisiac, Fire Element, Love, Lust, Masculine Energy, Mercury, Money, Protection, Soothing, Survival, and Warding off Evil.

Folklore and Facts

In the Middle Ages, Dill was frequently used in magic spells and witchcraft.

Hanging Dill at a door offers protection against harm and will keep out anyone who is envious of you or pleasant in nature.

A sprig of Dill attached to a cradle is supposedly able to protect the child in it.

Dill is said to stimulate the libido if it is eaten or even smelled.

Dill is an entirely beneficial herb that is always a good omen.

The ancient Norse people gave Dill seeds to their babies to help them sleep.

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Anemone

Anemone Coronaria (ah-NEM-oh-nee kor-oh-NAR-ee-ah)

Anemone symbolizes Abandonment, Forsaken, Immortal Love, Sickness, And Withered Hopes.

Possible Powers: Adonis, Aphrodasiac, Attracting Love, the Fire Element, Healing, Health, Mars, Masculine Energy, Protection, and Venus.

Folklore and Facts

The Anemone has a long history of Superstition around it. In ancient times, people thought it caused all forms of pestilence, bringing diseases so deadly that people ran through blooming fields of it, holding their breath, because they believed that even the air around it would bring death.

The Scots believed that picking the Anemone flower triggered a thunderstorm.

The English believed that you should pick the first Anemone you saw, then wrap it ina piece of clean white silk to carry as an amulet against pestilence.

In old Russian folk magic, placing an Anemone blossom under the pillow in April induces dreams as premonitions.

Some legends claim that the same wind that passes over the Anemone flowers to open closed petals will blow the dead petals off of others.

Some believe that, at night, fairies sleep inside the closed Anemone flowers.

In spring, wrapping the first Anemone you see ina red cloth, then wearing or carrying it supposedly will prevent disease.

The first warm wind of spring is associated with Anemones.

Use the Anemone blossoms in healing rituals.

There is a legend that Aphrodite had followed Adonis when he went into a forest to hunt. Ares disguised himself as a wild boar and followed them both. In a crime of passionate jealousy, Ares viciously attacked Adonis with the intent to kill him. Aphrodite tried to save Adonis by first covering his open wounds with nectar before running him out of the forest, but Adonis' should has already left his body to go into The Underworld. In the forest, where every drop of Adonis' blood or some of the nectar had fallen, the red Anemone grew.

Growing red Anemone flowers in your home garden offers protection to the garden and the home.

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Pineapple

Ananas Comosus (ah-NAH-nas koh-MOH-sus)

Symbolic Meanings: Chastity, Hospitality, Joy, Perfection, and You are Perfection.

Possible Powers: Chastity, Fire Element, Luck, Masculine Energy, Money, and the Sun.

Folklore and Facts

The Pineapple is not related to the Pine or Banana, but people used to call the fruit of all three "Apples".

It takes two years for the pineapple plant to produce one fruit, which resembles a pine cone with a bromeliad on it.

Each section of the whole Pineapple fruit has a tip containing what remains that developed in that section of the fruit, Botanically each section is a fruit unto itself, making it a multiple fruit, or a joined collection of them, like Jack-fruit.

Christopher Columbus brought Pineapple from the New World to Spain.

The Pineapple fruit juice contains broleian, an enzyme that can tenderize meat.

Eating the fresh ripe Pineapple fruit reportedly relieves laryngitis.

Make an infusion with the core of the Pineapple fruit and add it to bathwater to encourage chastity or luck before gambling. Spray this same infusion at the front door of your home to encourage luck and a spirit of chaste respectfulness to its inhabitants.

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Ragweed

Ambrosia Artemisiifolia

(am-BRO-zhuh ar-te-miz-ee-eye-FOH-lee-uh)

Symbolic Meaning:Courage, Immortal, Love is Reciprocated, Love Returned, Mutual Love, Love is Given Back, and Love is Returned To You.

Possible Powers: Banishing a Negative Spirit and Courage.

Folklore and Facts

Ragweed is a damaging, invasive weed. If cows eat it they will produce bitter tasting milk.

Healers among the Lakota people of North America brewed Ragweed as a tea to reduce swelling.

Ragweed pollen causes misery for many who suffer from hay fever. Before people scientifically understand allergies, they considered the physical reactions it can induce as proof that it possessed magical powers.

Make and carry or wear a sachet of Ragweed to break a hex.

As it turns out, science has discovered that Ragweed can remove heavy metals from soils.

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Love Lies Bleeding

Amaranthus Hypochondriacus

(am-uh-RANTH-us hy-po-kon-dree-AH-kus)

Symbolic Meanings: Desertion, Hopeless, Hopelessness, In Waiting, and Love.

Possible Powers: Healing, Invisibility, Magical Attack, Magical Protection, and Protection.

Folklore and Facts

Love Lies Bleeding was once outlawed in Mexico by the colonial Spanish because it was frequently used in Aztec rituals.

A circlet of Love Lies Bleeding flowers worn on tope of the head is believed to accelerate healing.

Love Lies Bleeding is believed to be able to cure a broken heart.

Wearing a wreath of these flowers is said to give the wearer the power of invisibility.

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Amaranth

Amaranthis Cruentus (Am-ah-ran-thus Crew-en-tuss)

Symbolic Meaning: Desertion, Endless Love, Fidelity, Hopeless, Hopelessnes, Immortality, In Waiting, Love, Never Fading.

Possible Powers: Artemis, Feminine Energyy, Fire Element, Guarding Against Evil, Healing, Healing Broken Hearts Immortality, Invisibility, Magical Attacks, Magical Protection, Protection, (Protection Against Bullets, cooking burns, or household accidents), Saturn, and Summoning Spirits.

Folklore and Facts

Wearing an Amaranth wreath will supposedly give the wearer the power of invisibility.

Ancient Greeks believed so intensely in Amaranth being a symbol of immortality that they would commonly spread Amaranth over graves.

Make then carry or wear a sachet of dried Amaranth Flowers to heal a broken heart.

Zuni people use the plume of Amaranth to color ceremonial bread.

Most often planted in garden borders, Amaranth Flowers resemble curved chenille pipe-cleaners.

Amaranth was once outlawed in Mexico by the colonial Spanish authorities because it was used in Aztec rituals.

A circlet of Amaranth Flowers worn on top of the head was believed to accelerate healing.

Uprooting an Amaranth plant of a full moon Friday, making an offering, then wrapping the plant into a white cloth before binding it to one's chest will supposedly make one magically bullet-proof. Don't Try It!

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Alyssum

Lobularia Maritima (lob-yoo-LAR-ee-ah may-rih-TEE-mah)

Symbolic meanings: Worth Beyond Beauty

Possible Powers: Calming Anger, Moderate Anger, and Protection.

Folklore and Facts

Alyssum will expel negative charms if worn as an amulet.

Alyssum can calm an angry person if it placed in their hand or on their body.

When it is hung in the house it supposedly can protect those in it against magically imposed illusion and psychic fascinations of any kind, whether they be fancifully amusing or intensely disturbing.