Herbal Charms
-and incredibly long list....but always useful stuff!
ABSINTHE: Sprinkle this under the bed of
a lover to draw that one toward
you. Sprinkle under your own bed to draw a new love to you.
ACORN: An acorn anointed with musk oil
and carried in your purse,
pocket, or charm bag will help to attract the opposite sex to you. The
increase your income, anoint an acorn with 3 drops of pine oil when the
Moon is waxing, and then bury it in your yard as close as possible to
the front door of your house. For Witches and Pagans who follow a Druid
or Celtic tradition, 3 acorns placed on a Yule Sabbat altar will help
increase magickal or divinatory powers and also bring peace and
protection to a Druid circle.
ADAM AND EVE ROOT: To attract love to you,
place in a red conjure bag an
Adam and Eve root which has been sprinkled with Love Powder. Add a small
piece of bone, preferably a wish bone, and a few strands of hair from
your head. Then write on a piece of virgin parchment in Dove's Blood Ink
" This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, and they shall be
one flesh." Roll up the parchment and tie with a red cord before placing
it in the bag with the root, bone and hair. Keep the bag on your person
until you achieve the results you desire.
ADAM AND EVE ROOT: Carry one male and one
female root in a yellow
flannel bag, add attraction powder, a seal of love from the 6th &7th
books of Moses to attract and keep love. If you already have a lover;
put their picture in the bag to increase love.
ADAM AND EVE ROOT: To get a lover to propose
to you, wear a St. Joseph
medallion as a necklace, and carry an Adam and Eve root in your purse,
wrapped in a Seal of Attraction from the 6th & 7th book of Moses.
ADAM AND EVE ROOT: Used to hold the love
of husband, wife or sweetheart.
Adam is for men and Eve is for women. If a man wishes to attract or hold
the love of a woman, it is said he must give her the eve root to carry
and vice versa.
ADAM AND EVE ROOT:- Carry a musk or rose
oil-anointed Adam and Eve root
in your pocket, purse, or charm bag to make any form of love magick
more potent.
ALOES: To arouse the pursuit of sexual
indulgence in the one who is
though dead in these matters, anoint the great toe of the right foot of
the man with Love Oil in which you have mixed some powdered aloes.
ALOES: To attract a new lover, on the first
night of a full moon take a
handful of crushed aloes in the left palm. Stand outside under the full
moonlight and pick up a bit with the right hand. Toss it toward the
north as you say: "Come love, come from the north." Making quarter
turns
to the east, then south repeating the ritual with the names of the
directions. Lastly turn to the west, scattering the last of aloes and
chanting "come love, come from the west." A new love will enter your
life before the next new moon dawns.
ALOES: mix with copal and burn to bring
love, or if your husband is away
burn everyday to bring him back safely.
APPLES: A simple apple love spell consists
of cutting an apple in half
and sharing it with you loved one. This insures you will be happy
together.
Another magickal practice used by a young girl to determine which of
several suitors loved her the most was to take an apple seed for each
suitor and toss them one at a time into a fire. The seed that popped --
or popped the loudest -- indicated the young man whose heart was
bursting with love for her.
APPLES: Apple blossoms are added to love
sachets, brews and incenses.
They are infused in melted pink wax to make love drawing candles.
APPLES: This apple spell is simple. All
it requires is an apple. After
every new moon, hold an apple in both hands, and sit or stand where it
can absorb the sunlight, or at least pick up the light of the day. Cast
this spell before you take the first bite.
"O lovely lady, Goddess of Might,
I honor your beauty and love.
Bring to me a love that is right
Sent by the stars above."
As you take the first bite, think about
the Goddess and the stars above
(as
well as the five-pointed "seed star" in your hand). Imagine the sweet,
moist love-fruit turning into a wild, juicy romance!
APRICOT: Use the juice in love spells and
potions. The leaves and
flowers can be added to love sachets and the pits carried to attract
love.
ASTER: Use in love sachets or carry the
bloom to win love. Also grow in
the garden with a wish for love.
AVOCADO: Eat the fruit of the Avocado to
become infused with lust. Grow
a plant from the pit to bring love into your home. Carry the pit to
promote beauty.
BACHELOR'S BUTTONS: Women wear this flower
on their breast to attract
the love of a man.
BACHELOR'S BUTTONS:
In medieval Europe, where maidens often wore small bouquets of
bachelor's buttons under their aprons for forty weeks to ensure luck in
love, young men were encouraged to place the blue flowers in their
pockets. According to the custom, the flower must be kept in the pocket
for twenty-four hours. If it was dead after all that time in the dark,
that was a sign that love die, too, and the young man was probably
doomed to an unhappy marriage. Obviously, it would have been impossible
for the fragile flower to survive, and many a young man took the dead
posy as a signal to stay single. And that that may well be why they are
called bachelor's buttons.
BALM OF GILEAD: Carry the buds to mend a broken heart, or to attract a
new love. Steep them in red wine for a simple love potion.
BANANA: The banana is used to increase fertility,
and also to cure impotency. Perhaps, because of these
magical powers, if a bride is married under a banana tree she
cannot help being lucky.
BARLEY: Grain or barley water can be used in love spells and potions.
BASIL: The scent of fresh basil causes
sympathy between two people, this
is why it is used to sooth tempers betwixt lovers. It is added to love
incenses and sachets, and the fresh leaves are rubbed against the skin
as a natural love perfume. In eastern Europe it was once thought that a
young man would love any woman from whose hand he accepted a sprig of
basil.
BAY: To ensure that a love will stay, a
couple should break off a twig
from the tree, then break this in two, each keeping a half.
BEAN: A bean love spell: A woman should
place seven beans in a circle on
the ground. Next, she must have the man of her choice step into the
circle or walk over it. If this can be done, he will be attracted to
her.
BEDSTRAW, FRAGRANT: Fragrant bedstraw is
worn or carried to attract
love.
BEET: If a man and a woman eat of the same beet, they will fall in love.
BETONY, WOOD: Betony is a good plant to
carry when making love advances,
and is said to reunite quarreling couples if the plant is added to their
food.
BITTERSWEET: Some bittersweet placed beneath
the
pillow will help you in forgetting a past love.
BLEEDING HEART: Crush the flower. If the
juice is red, your love has a
heart full of love for you. But if it is white, he or she doesn't love
you. When grown (with a coin in the pot), the plant brings love.
BOG ASPHODEL: In magic the flower is placed in the altar during love
drawing spells, or is carried or worn in a woman's hair for this same
purpose (common as hair decorations at the Wiccan Beltane).
BRAZIL NUT: Bring good luck in love affairs if carried as a talisman.
CAPER: Capers are used in love and lust formulae.
CARAWAY: Protection, Passion. Add to love
sachets and charms to attract
a lover (physical sense) Carry the seeds to strengthen memory.
Especially powerful to "Gemini's" The seeds can be used to ensure
fidelity or can be used in sachets and spells to attract a lover. Bake
into cookies, bread etc. to induce lust in the eater.
CARDAMOM: The ground seeds are added to
warmed wine for a quick lust
potion. They are also baked into apple pies for an amatory pastry. The
seeds are also added to love incenses and sachets.
CARROT: Carrots are eaten to promote lust and to cure impotency.
CATNIP: Use catnip in love sachets in conjunction with rose petals.
CAYENNE: Cayenne pepper scattered around
your house will break bad
spells. Adding it to love powders will ensure that your love will be
spicy, and can inflame the loved one with passion
CHERRY: The cherry has long been used to
stimulate and attract love. A
Japanese spell to attract love is simple; tie a single strand of your
hair to a blossoming cherry tree.
CHICKWEED: Chickweed is carried and/or
used in spells to attract love
and to maintain a relationship
CHILLI PEPPERS: If you feel your mate is
looking for greener pastures,
buy two large peppers, cross them and tie together with a red or pink
ribbon. Place this beneath your pillow and this should keep fidelity in
your marriage.
CLOVES: can be added to attraction sachets.
Clove oil is also worn as
an aphrodisiac, and the buds when eaten are said to stir up bodily
lusts.
COLTSFOOT: Coltsfoot is added to love sachets
and is used in spells of
peace and tranquility.
CORIANDER: Use in love sachets and spells.
The powdered seeds can be
used in lust or love philters. The seeds can also be worn for healing
and health.
Coriander Seed Love Spell
Preferably on a Friday during a waxing
moon. Crush coriander seed in a
pestle and mortar while chanting "warm seed, warm heart, never let them
(or "us") be apart" and thinking of the person.
For best results, get tiny bit of the powder into whatever the object of
your affection is eating or drinking, but it will work without doing
that.
If you haven't got a pestle and mortar, put the seeds in a bag and crush
them using a rolling pin. This isn't half as suggestive though.
CORN FLOWERS: Sprinkle in the area where
you and your mate
argue the most. It is purported that it will help to alleviate discord
and strife.
COUCH GRASS: Sprinkle some under your bed or mattress to attract a new
lover in seven days or less.
COWSLIP: Cowslip flowers, when carried, bring luck in love.
CUMIN: Use in love spells. Make a philter
of cumin seed
and wine to induce lust in the drinker.
DAFFODIL:
Used for love, fertility, & luck. The flower is place on the altar for
love
spells, or carried for love. Placed in the bedroom, it aids in
fertility. If
plucked and worn next to the heart, good luck will come your way.
DAISY: Used for lust & love. Sleep
with a daisy root under your pillow
to bring a lost lover home. When worn, the daisy brings love
DAMIANA: Let some soak in a glass of wine
for three hours.
Thereafter sprinkle a small bit outside your front and back
doors. Do this faithfully each day for 21 days, and it is said
that before long your wandering lover will return to you.
DEERSTOUNGE: (aka: Vanilla Leaf & Wild
Vanilla)
Used for lust & psychic powers. Worn or carried, it attracts men & can
be
sprinkled on the bed for that purpose.
DEVIL'S SHOESTRING: To bring back a lover
who has left home, get some
dirt from the path his or her left foot has trod upon. Wrap this and a
few pieces of the root in one of your lover's socks or stockings and
plant the token near your home. The loved one will surely come back to
you within a short while.
DILL SEED: Add a few grains to bath water
before going out to
meet a person of the opposite sex. Said to make one irresistible
DRAGON'S BLOOD REED: To encourage a lover
to propose, crush a reed into
a powder and mix with lover's incense. Burn this when the man visits.
An Egyptian charm to bring back a lover suggests wrapping a piece of the
reed in parchment on which you have written:
"May he no pleasure or profit see,
till he comes back again to me."
Sign your name and toss it into a fire. As the token is destroyed, so
will the philanderer's lust for all other women.
DULCE: Add to beverages to induce lust.
Sprinkle around home to
encourage harmony.
ELCAMPANE: Worn, elecampane attracts love
Sew up some of the leaves or
flowers in pink cloth, or make a sachet and carry. Used with mistletoe
and vervain, it is especially powerful.
GARDENIA: Used for love, peace, healing
& spirituality. Dried petals are
mixed into healing incenses & mixtures. Dried Gardenia is also scattered
around a room to induce peaceful vibrations. Gardenia is used in love
spells and they are possessed of very high spiritual vibrations .
GINGER: Ginger is used in passion spells, to "heat up" the relationship.
GINSENG: Ginseng is carried to guard your
health and to attract love. It
will also ensure sexual potency
GUINEA PEPPER: To draw a loved one, get
a swallow heart and bathe it in
four thieves vinegar to which you have added some pepper. Take the heart
out of the bath and anoint it with compelling oil as you say:
"You are the heart of_______(say the name of desired one). Turn today
and turn my way." Return the heart to the vinegar bath and leave it
there. Soon the person you have named should feel a smarting and
prickling in the chest which will not let them rest except when entering
your presence.
HAWTHORN: Hawthorn has long been used to
increase fertility. Because of
this power it is incorporated into weddings, especially those performed
in the spring. The leaves, curiously enough, are also used to enforce or
maintain chastity or celibacy. The leaves are placed beneath the
mattress or around the bedroom for this purpose.
HEARTSEASE: This pretty flower with its
painted maiden face is for
broken hearts and for all those disappointed in love. Numerous ailments
can arise to afflict some poor soul where previously he or she strode
through life bonny and healthy, and the secret behind their malaise is a
broken heart. Fable has it that Cupid brought color to heartsease with
one of his arrows, and indeed it is a flower for the heart. The soul of
the plant is concerned with love and the healing of the heart. Country
people sometimes call it love in idleness or the pansy.
HENBANE: To bring love a man should gather henbane naked, early in the
morning, while standing on one foot. Worn it will bring love.
HIBISCUS: Gender-feminine; Planet-Venus;
Element-Water; Deity-Isis:
Used for lust, love, & divination. Flowers of the red Hibiscus are
brewed
into a strong tea; which is drunk for it's lust-inducing powers. This
drink
is forbidden to women in Egypt for this reason.
HIGH JOHN THE CONQUEROR: For a man to win
the love of a woman, he should
get a lock of hair from the head of the one he desires, place it in a
red bag with a small High John root, and then sleep with it under the
pillow, each morning anoint the bag with attraction oil.
HONEYSUCKLE: A posy of honeysuckle will
bring a maid tender dreams of
love and passion. If you bring honeysuckle into your home it is said
that a wedding will follow on its heels.
HORSE CHESTNUT: A Celtic spell for men
to acquire the love of their
choice is done with six horse chestnuts. Get a long piece of red twine,
yarn, or ribbion to represent the lifeline of your love objective. Knot
all the Chestnuts together on the cord, making three more knots between
each one. Burn a red candle on an evening when the moon is full,
repeating the following prayer to the Goddess Diana three times:
"Oh Diana, Goddess of love and the hunt, I pray to thee. I pray these
knots snare the heart of (name). Let her neither rest nor sleep, till
she submits to my will and love. Oh Diana, let our love be blessed."
Burn the charm on an open fire, and your love will come to you before
the embers grow cold.
HOUSELEEK: Used as a love inducing herb,
worn fresh and replaced every
few days.
HYACINTH: Use the flowers in love spells.
INDIAN PAINT BRUSH: Flowers from this plant contain a strong love
attracting power. They should be carried in a conjure bag to attract
love.
IVY: An old love spell runs thus; Pluck
an ivy leaf and hold it against
your heart, chanting three times as you walk;
" Ivy, ivy, I love you,
in my bosom I put you.
the first young man who speaks to me
my future husband he shall be."
JASMINE : This night blooming plant has an understandable association
with love, for its scent is hauntingly lovely befitting that tender
emotion. Jupiter rules jasmine bestowing good fortune. Scores of love
charms employ the dried blossoms of jasmine, which look like tiny white
trumpets forming stars.
Collect jasmine flowers on their third evening of bloom. Place them
upon a thick layer of salt in a container with a tight fitting lid. Add
more salt until the flowers are completely hidden and cover quickly to
let on air enter. Allow three days to pass while the container rest in
a warm, dry, and dark atmosphere. Now gently remove nine blossoms and
position them in the center of a small white handkerchief of fine
linen. Take up the four corners to form a pouch and secure it with a
strand of bright red yarn. Carry the charm with you on loves adventure.
Jasmine is used in love sachets and incenses.
It is used to attract
spiritual love. A drop of the essential oil in almond oil, massaged
into the skin, is said to overcome frigidity.
JOE-PYE WEED: Place a few leaves in the
mouth when making love advances
and you shall not fail.
KHUS KHUS: To make your own love bath,
add a quart of water to a
spoonful each of Khus Khus, Lavender, and Passion flowers. Let this
stand in a dark place for seven days, shaking the bottle once a day. On
the eighth day, strain the water and use a cupful in each bath. This
should make you appealing to all you encounter.
LADIES THUMB: To win the love of another,
get a small mirror and capture
in it's reflection the face of the one you desire, but you must do so
without their knowledge. Immediately after catching the image, place the
mirror in a small box or chest and scatter the herb over it. Close the
box and hide it in the of the person you wish to entice, so that he, or
she, will pass it whenever they enter or leave your home. Before that
person has visited you seven times after the box is made, they will be
unable to leave without offering you the love you wish.
LAUREL: Worn by brides to guarantee a long
and happy union. To make
yourself irresistible to women, get three laurel leaves and attach them
to the foot of the bed of your lady love, or secret them in some part of
her clothing. She will be rendered senseless of everyone but you and
will do as you command.
LAVENDER FLOWERS: Wonderful for use in
love spells. Lavender has
long been known to be a particularly attractive scent to men...Lavender
Flowers can be sprinkled around the house to bring peacefulness, and can
also be burned as an incense to help you sleep. Lavender has also been
used for protection, chastity, longevity, purification, and happiness.
Lavender has long been used in love spells and sachets. Clothing rubbed
with the fragrant flowers (or placed in drawers with clothing) attracts
love. Paper scented with the flower is used to write love letters. The
scent particularly attracts men, and Lavender water, or oils were worn
by prostitutes several centuries ago to attract customers.
LEMON: Mix the juice with water to use
as a purification wash for ritual
objects, or add to purification baths. Use the flowers and peel in love
sachets and spells. Use the leaves for a lust-inducing tea.
LEMON BALM: Is often used in spells to find love and friendship
LEMON VERBENA: Worn to make oneself attractive
to the opposite sex, and
is used in love spells and mixtures.
LINDEN: To keep a lover true to you always,
grind fine some linden and
make into a paste by adding a few drops of Cleopatra oil (for use on a
man) or Has No Hanna (for use on a woman). Rub a bit on the head each
evening before going to sleep.
LOVAGE: Use in bath or carry to attract
love. Added to baths with
rose petals will make you attractive to the opposite sex.
MAGNOLIA: Spread magnolia leaves under
the mattress to keep peace
between husband and wife.
MAGUEY: Also known as Agave.
Use the juice for lust potions.
MAIDENHAIR: Also known as Maidenhair Fern.
Use in talismans to procure love and for general magick involving love
and beauty.
MALLOW: If your love has left you, gather
a bouquet of mallow and place
in a vase outside your door (or in a window). This will cause him or her
to think of you, and after that, they may return. Mallow is also carried
to attract love.
MARJORAM: To attract a husband, put a little
in the corners of
each room in your house. Remove and renew about once a month.
Use in love spells and add to food to strengthen love.
MASTIC: Also known as Gum Mastic.
Use in lust philters and potions.
MEADOWSWEET: Use in love spells and mixtures.
Fresh meadowsweet is
placed on the altar during love spells.
MISTLETOE: To make you irresistible to
the opposite sex, get some
mistletoe and burn it to make a fine ash. Then take a small piece of
virgin parchment on which you have written your name onto which you now
sprinkle the ashes. Fold each corner of the parchment in toward the
center, and then fold in half, so that the ash is imprisioned inside the
creases of the paper. Tie this securely with a cord and wear around the
neck for thirty days. At the end of that time you will not be able to
count the number of propositions you will have offered to you.
MYRTLE: Use in love spells of all kinds.
Wear to increase fertility.
Carry the wood to preserve youth or love. Myrtle is burned as an incense
to bring beauty, to honor Diana and to Venus, and is a symbol of glory
and happy love. Myrtle tea will make you look beautiful to your loved
one. A distillation of the leaves and flowers combined will make a
wonderful beauty wash for the face, and is known as "angel water".
It is
used in spells to keep love alive and exciting. Grow on each side of the
house to
preserve and protect the love within.
NEEM:
Neem leaves were traditionally strewn on the floor of temples at
weddings, to purify and bless the area and the couple, and the air was
fanned with neem branches during the ceremony.
ORANGE:
The dried peel is added to love charms. The fresh or dried orange
flowers added to the bath makes you attractive. The fruit itself hinders
or banishes lust. Keep some leaves or flowers under the pillow to insure
an early and happy marriage, or include them into a conjure bag to
attract love.
ORCHID: Use the root in love sachets.
OREGANO: Oregano is used to help forget
and let go of a former loved
one, such as a former spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc. Burn in
incenses or drink the infusion to aid in spells for letting go.
ORRIS: Use in love spells, baths and incenses.
Known as a love root, it
is believed to bring love between persons if powdered and sprinkled on
clothes by the one who wishes to attract the love of another. The powder
is put into food as a love potion. Add to conjure bag or carry in pocket
to attract love.
PATCHOULI: Use for fertility talismans.
Use in love sachets and baths.
Carry to attract lovers. Patchouli is a powerful oil worn to attract the
opposite sex. It is a sensual oil.
PARSLEY: When eaten, parsley provokes lust
and promotes fertility, but
if you are in love don't cut parsley you'll cut your love as well.
PASSIONFLOWER: Passionflower has uses in
protection and love magick.
When Passionflower is used, it calms and brings peace to the home. If
you carry some of the herb in an amulet bag, you will make friends
easier since it will work to increase your personal charisma making you
more attractive and more likable. Place Passionflower in a dream pillow
and it will help you get a good nights sleep. place it in power bundles
and use in love spells to attract love. You can also burn it as an
incense to promote understanding.
PEACH: The fruit, when eaten, induces love,
and so a peach or peach pie
served a desired one may help to win his or her heart.
PEAR: The fruit, when eaten, induces love,
and so a pear pie served a
desired one may help to win his or her heart.
PENNYROYAL: Brings peace between husband
and wife when kept in a small
bowl on a table or dresser in the home.
PERRIWINKLE: Known as sorcerer's violet,
it is almost impossible to deny
love or passion when this herb is used. To make a man or woman more
passionate, sprinkle periwinkle under the bed you share. It is said to
make one strong in character, and to give strength and virility. If your
purpose is to attract a woman, sprinkle any bouquet of flowers with
periwinkle and present them to her. You will stick in her mind as the
object of her love for the rest of her days.
POPPY:
Eat or carry to cause fertility and attract luck and money. Add the
seeds to food to induce love, or use in a spell against those
bewitched into love.
PRIMROSE: Carry to attract love. Grow to attract and see fairies.
QUASSIA CHIPS: To render you and your love
inseparable for the rest of
your lives, get three hairs from both your heads. Plait them all
together. Make a small fire of Quassia chips, into the fire cast your
braid of hairs while chanting: "Let this fire consume all bitterness
which may come between us." This spell should keep you together in
harmony and with love forever.
QUEEN ELIZABETH ROOT: To hold a lover,
pulverize the root. Write the
word "Sheba" on a square of parchment and put paper and root in a
red
bag. Sew the bag into the lining of a coat belonging to the person you
love. They will not be able to leave you even if they wished to.
QUINCE: In Roman times a quince was shared
by a bridal couple to ensure
their future happiness.
RASPBERRY: Eat to induce love.
ROSE: Attracts love, confidence and healing
to the heart. Activates yin
or feminine energies. Calms emotions and brings understanding. Awakens
sensuality. Rose is known as *THE* herb of love. Add Rose bud petals to
bath water to conjure up a lover. Put red Rose petals in a red velvet
bag and pin this underneath your clothes to attract love - or you can
wear Rosehips as beads to bring love to you. Rose oil and Rose incense
are both used in love spells. If you wash your hands with Rose water
before mixing love potions, the potions will be stronger.
ROSE BUDS / PETALS: These are wonderful
for use in spells to draw
love...use red for passionate love, pink or white for romantic, or
true love. You can also place a single rose in a vase on your altar as a
powerful love-drawing aid. To make a love candle melt several pink
household size (6") candles over low heat. When they are completely
melted, remove from heat, add several pink or red rose buds (ground) and
20 to 30 drops of Rose Oil. Pour into a prepared glass jar (with wick
and metal tab attached). Allow the candle to cool and harden, and burn
on the first Friday after the New Moon to draw love to you.
ROSEMARY: Give a special friend a sachet
filled with
Rosemary. This is supposed to induce warm feelings in
another. An old charm bids the bride and her groom to dip rosemary
sprigs into their wine before they take their first sip, for then love
will always flourish between them. To put a sprig of it and a silver
sixpence under your pillow on All Hallow's Eve will ensure that you
dream of your future spouse. If a maid sets a plate of flour under a
rosemary bush at sunset on Midsummer Eve and goes again to retrieve it
at first light upon Midsummer Morning, she will see her future husband's
initials appear mysteriously in the flour.
RUE: To hold a lover, take the right shoe
of your mistress and write
your name on it's sole. Then fill the toe with rue and hang the shoe
from a red cord over your bed. As long as the shoe remains there, your
lover will be powerless to leave you.
SAFFRON: Use in love and lust spells. Saffron is an aphrodisiac.
SATYRION ROOT: A potent love spell is prepared
with a satyrion root
ground into a powder. Mix the powder with nine drops of musk oil and
place it onto a small piece of virgin parchment. Add three hairs from
your head and three hairs from the head of the loved one. Fold the
parchment so it's contents are held inside and tie with a red string or
thread. Place the packet atop some burning love incense and as the
package burns, say:
"Love of my life, come to me, My heart burns for thee, Loce I await your
coming, Anticipating my succumbing."
The aroma of this root has an erotic scent and was a favorite used by
witches of old to excite the sensual passions.
SENNA: Senna is used in love sachets.
SKULLCAP: Supposedly if you place a wee
bit in your lover's
shoes it will make that person unaffected by the charms of
others.
SOUTHERNWOOD: Placed under a pillow or
mattress, it a love charm to make
a partner more passionate.
SPIKENARD: Brew into a tea and wet the
picture of a loved one
with the water so they will never leave you.
STRAWBERRY: Strawberries are served as
a love food, and the leaves are
carried for luck. Pregnant women may wish to carry a small packet of
strawberry leaves to ease their pregnancy pains.
SUGAR: Love sugar:
By the light of a pink candle, fill a glass jar with fine white sugar
and add one vanilla bean and either a cinnamon stick or a bit of lemon
peel. As you fill the jar, gaze into it and empower it with feelings of
love, friendship and acceptance. Use the sugar while baking and
decorating cakes and cookies which you will share with friends and loved
ones; as you bake, fill the cakes with love and joy.
SUGAR CANE: Chew a piece of the cane while thinking of your loved one.
SUMBUL: To attract love, carry, burn as
incense, or add the infusion to
the bath. All three of the above procedures can be done to ensure
results.
SUNFLOWER: Eat the seeds for fertility.
SWEET BUGLE: Crush a handful and place
under your mattress
to attract new lovers and possibly marriage prospects.
SWEETPEA: Wearing fresh sweet pea flowers
attracts people and causes
friendships to develop.
TAMARIND: Carry to attract love.
TOMATO: Eat to induce love
TONKA BEANS: If tow lovers carry a pair
of tonka beans in their conjure
bag, and anoint the bag every seven days with drawing oil, their love
will endure and nothing can come between them.
TORMENTIL: Served to a loved one in their food, to keep their love.
TRILLIUM: The root of the trillium is rubbed
onto the body to attract
love.
TUMERIC: Rub body with tumeric paste to attract a rich husband.
TUBEROSE: "The Mistress of the Night",
awakens erotic feelings, and
attracts romance. Enhances the capacity for emotional depth.
VALERIAN: Love, Harmony, Use in love spells
and to keep fighting couples
together. Use in a bath sachet for a calming effect.
VANILLA: Use in love sachets. Wear the
oil as an aphrodisiac. The flavor
is lust-inducing
VERVAIN: Is used as a pledge of mutual
faith when given to a friend. It
is also used in love incense and powder mixtures.
VETIVERT: Added to love powders, incenses,
sachets. Make a sachet with
vetivert and place in bathtub to make yourself attractive to the
opposite sex.
VIOLET: Mixed with lavender, they are a
powerful Jove stimulant and also
arouse lust. Enchantment powder is made by crushed violet, lavender
buds, and pure talcum. Pulverize the herbs and mix with the talcum. This
is enchantment powder which you sprinkle and rub on the nude body of the
person you desire and wish to arouse.
WALNUT: The nut still in its shell is carried to promote fertility.
WILLOW: Willow leaves are carried or used
in mixtures to attract love,
and the wood is used to fashion magical wands dedicated to Moon Magic.
If you wish to know if you will be married in the new year, on New
Year's Eve throw your shoe or boot into a willow tree. If it doesn't
catch and stay in the branches the first time, you have eight more
tries. If you succeed in trapping your shoe in the tree you will be wed
within 12 months; but you'll also have to shake or climb the tree to
retrieve your shoe.
YARROW: Attracts love and calm, self-confidence.
Used in love sachets
and marriage charms, as it has the power to keep a couple together
happily for seven years. Yarrow should be offered in a little posy to a
newly married bride, for it brings the blessing of conjugal happiness.
THE YARROW LOVE SPELL
Take the leaves of the yarrow, which is the maiden's herb and a blessing
for mothers and all women, having qualities
that comfort, heal, and
protect; and tickle the inside of the nostrils, murmuring to yourself
this old country charm:
" Green yarrow, green yarrow, you
bear a white bow;
if you love me, love me, my nose will bleed now; If my love don't love
me; it won't bleed a drop, if my love do love me, 'twill bleed every
drop.
A maiden who places this under her pillow
and says quickly nine times
before sleeping, "Ere this night is done, I'll view my love, Fore morn's
begun, and the sun's above." Will see her true love in a dream.
YERBA MATE: Wear to attract the opposite
sex. The infusion is a fine
lust potion and if drunk with a loved one, will insure you stay
together. To break off a relationship, spill some on the ground.
YOHIMBE: The infusion is drunk as a lust
potion and the powdered herb is
added to love mixtures. Consume in small amounts only.
It is my wish that this article has inspired
you to try herbal magick in
your search for love, happiness and friendship. This list is by no means
complete, I urge you all to experiment with different combinations of
love drawing herbs in various ways. Remember to love yourself, and
others will see the light shining through and be drawn into your spell.