Ultimate Grimoire and Spellbook

'As Christ healed the issue of blood, Do thou cut what thou cuttest for good.' At sundown, the operator, after carefully washing ...

"All hail, thou holy herb, vervin, Growing on the ground; On the Mount of Calvary There wast thou found; Thou helpest many a gri ...

So, too, certain plants of the saints acquired a notoriety for specific virtues; and hence St. John's wort, with its leaves mark ...

The oak, long famous for its supernatural strength and power, has been much employed in folk-medicine. A German cure for ague is ...

"Whose roots show half a man, whose juice With madness strikes." Shakespeare speaks of it as an opiate, and on the Continent it ...

the reputation of "making the complexion very fair." [14] Similarly, also, the great burnet saxifrage was said to remove freckle ...

growth, a property ascribed to the knot-grass, as in Beaumont and Fletcher's "Coxcomb" (Act ii. sc. 2):-- "We want a boy extreme ...

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." Of the thousand and one plants used in popular folk-medicine we can but give a ...

Bonaventura, of Cardinal Richelieu. Among other popular remedies were beetroot, box leaves, cabbage, cucumbers, black currants, ...

"Cou' it by the auld wa's, Cou' it where the sun ne'er fa' Stoo it when the day daws, Cou' the nettle early." The juice of fumit ...

CHAPTER XXII. PLANTS AND THEIR LEGENDARY HISTORY. Many of the legends of the plant-world have been incidentally alluded to in th ...

Springs a flower unknown among us, Springs the white man's foot in blossom." Between certain birds and plants there exists many ...

But the rose is not the only plant for which the nightingale is said to have a predilection, there being an old notion that its ...

be added, whereas some of the many plants named after well-known birds are noticed elsewhere. An old Alsatian belief tells us th ...

her garden to bathe in the silver waves of the sea. The transparent whiteness of her complexion is seen through the slight veil ...

pick some blossoms of the myosotis for his lady-love, was drowned, his last words as he threw the flowers on the bank being "For ...

And her loving luckless speed, Twined her to this plant we call Now the 'flower of the wall.'" The tea-tree in China, from its m ...

CHAPTER XXIII. MYSTIC PLANTS. The mystic character and history of certain plants meet us in every age and country. The gradual e ...

carry a bay leaf in his mouth from morning till night. One of the remarkable virtues of the fruit of the balm was its prolonging ...

"Pear tree, I complain to thee Three worms sting me." The henbane, too, according to a German belief, is said to attract rain, a ...