sorbus acuparia
PARTS USED
bark, fruit, leaves and berries
Masculine
Fire /Sun
FOLK NAMES
Delight of the Eye
Mountain Ash
Quickbane
Ran Tree
Roden-Quicken
Roden-Quicken-Royan
Roynetree
Sorb Apple
Thor's Helper
Whitty
Wicken-Tree
Wiggen
Wiggy Wiky
Wild Ash
Witchbane
Witchen
Wutchwood
DEITY: Thor
POWERS
Psychic Powers
Healing
Power
Protection
Success
MAGICAL USES
Rowan wood, carried, increases
psychic powers, and the branches are often used
in fashioning dowsing rods and magical wands.
Add the leaves and berries to divination incenses
as well as those designed to increase psychic powers.
Carrying rowan berries (or the bark) aids
in recuperation, and they are added
to healing and health sachets and mixtures,
as well as for power, success and luck sachets.
For centuries rowan has been used
for protective purposes in
Europe.
Two twigs tied together with red thread
to make a crossis an age-old protective amulet.
Cornish peasants carried these in their pockets,
and,
Scottish Highlanders inserted them
into the lining of their clothing.
Walking sticks made of rowan wood
are excellent tools for the person who
roams woods and fields by night.
Rowan carried on board ship will
prevent its involvment in storms;
kept in the house it guards against lightening
strikes, and when planted on a grave, Rowan
keeps the deceased one from haunting the place.
The Rowan Tree planted near the house
protects it and its occupants, and those rowans
growing near stone circles are the most potent.
Source(s)
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
by Scott Cunningham
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