Herbal Amulets
To See Ghosts: Carry lavender and inhale its scent.
To Allay Fears: Carry a mixture of nettle and yarrow.
To Detect Witches: Carry a sachet of Rue, maidenhair,
agrimony, broom-
straw, and ground ivy.
To Be Courageous: Wear a fresh borage flower, or carry mullien.
To Avoid Military Service: Wear the 4-leaved clover
if you wish to
avoid duty.
To Ensure Safety And Protection On A Journey: Comfrey
worn or carried
will safeguard you.
To Prevent Storms and Wreckage While At Sea: Put
a clove of garlic in
your purse or in yourpocket. In the South Pacific or in Hawaii wear a
garland of the leaves.
To Guard Against Rape: Wear the heather to avoid all acts of passion.
To Keep One From Dreaming: Hang a sprig of lemon
verbena around the
neck.
To Conceive:Wear the mistletoe, the cyclamen, or the bistort.
To Prevent Weariness While Walking: Put mugwort in the shoe.
To Keep Venemous Beasts and Wild Animals Afar: Wear avens or mullien.
To Keep Others From Deceiving You: Wear the pimpernel or snapdragon.
To Keep Disease Afar: Wear a sprig of rue around the neck.
To Enable A Soldier To Escape His Enemies: Wear
the vervain and you
shall accomplish this.
To Avoid Being Sent To The Gallows: Wear or carry a carnation.
To Ensure Victory: Wear woodruff to win.
To Ensure That Friendly Words Are Spoken To You: Wear the heliotrope.
To Enter The Underworld: Carry an apple, or the
branch of an apple
tree that bears buds, flowers, and fully ripened fruit.
To Regain Lost Manhood: Carry an acorn or mandrake root.
To Remain Youthful: Carry an acorn.
To Prevent Drunkeness: Wear a chaplet of saffron,
crocus, parsley, or
rue to prolong your enjoyment.
To See Fairies: Gather wild thyme and carry it with
you, or put it on
the eyelids (with your eyesclosed) and sleep on a fairy hill.
To Be A Successful Fisherman: Carry a bit of the hawthorn.
To See A Unicorn: As this beast usually lives among
the ash trees,
carry a bit of the wood orleaves and you may see one. Or lie down
among ashes and place one of its leaves on your chest and wait for
one to make itself known.
from Magical Herbalism by Scott Cunningham
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