Ultimate Grimoire and Spellbook

CHAPTER V. PLANTS IN WITCHCRAFT. The vast proportions which the great witchcraft movement assumed in bygone years explains the m ...

period in this country a superstitious reverence, for, as Mr. Conway says,[3] "We find the missionaries sprinkling holy water fr ...

render it suitable for any design that the witches might have in view. Considering, too, how multitudinous and varied were their ...

Sweden, hazel-nuts were supposed to have the power of making invisible, and it may be remembered how in one of Andersen's storie ...

safeguard, persons are recommended to make a magic circle, in the centre of which they should stand with elder-berries gathered ...

some, or, as I rather suppose, the roots of briony, which simple folk take for the true mandrake, and make thereof an ugly image ...

But its fame has not been confined to any one locality, and as far south as Cornwall the peasant, when he suspects that his cow ...

this very time in the town, but so long as I have my rowan-tree safe in my pocket they cannot hurt me.'" Occasionally when the d ...

ringwort was recommended by Apuleius, and later on the fern was regarded as a preservative against this baneful influence. The C ...

CHAPTER VI. PLANTS IN DEMONOLOGY. The association of certain plants with the devil forms an extensive and important division in ...

may be drawn from it on Walpurgis Night by letting loose a black hen, after which he will run. Then there is the sow-thistle, wh ...

the offer, and stipulated that the trees should be blighted on the 17th, 18th, and 19th May. Should the apple-blossom be nipped ...

when both are placed in water the black one will sink, this is called 'Satan's hand;' but the white one, called 'Mary's hand,' w ...

"Beyond the farthest tents rich fires they build, That healthy medicinal odours yield, There foreign galbanum dissolving fries, ...

CHAPTER VII. PLANTS IN FAIRY-LORE. Many plants have gained a notoriety from their connection with fairyland, and although the be ...

with its fragile blossoms, was supposed to afford them shelter in wet weather. Shakespeare has represented Ariel reclining in "a ...

We may mention here that the beautiful white or yellow flowers that grow on the banks of lakes and rivers in Sweden are called " ...

An immense deal of legendary lore has clustered round the so-called fairy-rings--little circles of a brighter green in old pastu ...

Each fog, each blight, and dedicate to peace Thy classic shade." In Sweden the miliary fever is said by the peasantry to be caus ...

may be good-humoured and bless his cows with abundance of milk, he is careful to tie a basket of this fruit between the cow's ho ...