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Wormwood

CAD $7.50

Wormwood flowers and leaves can be added to magical charm bags for protection against accidents or hang outside on your front door to protect against plagues & sickness. It is also used in spells to send harmful magic back on its sender and for cursing and vengeance.

Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is one of the most popular protective herbs is Slavic Folklore. Youth carried wormwood or mugwort with them when going near water on Rusalii week so that Rusalki wouldn’t tickle them to death. It was used as a charm against epilepsy, evil magic, water spirits, and being struck by lightning. In Slavic tradition, wormwood is interchangeable with mugwort (they are both called by the same name Polyn – «полынь»). While powerful in an infusion, it is even more powerful as incense or an addition to candles. Collect it on Waning Moon, III Quarter, after sunset.

Combine with mugwort and burn to fumigate the area to call up spirits and connect with those that have passed on.

Make sure the area is well ventilated as the smoke can be very irritating to the eyes and throat and is toxic if inhaled. It is also said to be useful in banishing spirits.

It is said that wormwood first grew from the path of the serpent as it exited the Garden of Eden.

‘While Wormwood hath seed get a handful or twaine
To save against March, to make flea to refraine:
Where chamber is sweeped and Wormwood is strowne,
What saver is better (if physick be true)
For places infected than Wormwood and Rue?
It is a comfort for hart and the braine
And therefore to have it it is not in vaine.’
~ Tusser 1577

All herbs & Materia are sold only as curios and should not be consumed.

You will receive approx 2 tbs of herbs in a 2 inch by 3.5 in packet with a folklore label.

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Additional information

Weight 20 g
Dimensions 9 × 2 × 2 cm

Description

Wormwood flowers and leaves can be added to magical charm bags for protection against accidents or hang outside on your front door to protect against plagues & sickness. It is also used in spells to send harmful magic back on its sender and for cursing and vengeance.

Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is one of the most popular protective herbs is Slavic Folklore. Youth carried wormwood or mugwort with them when going near water on Rusalii week so that Rusalki wouldn’t tickle them to death. It was used as a charm against epilepsy, evil magic, water spirits, and being struck by lightning. In Slavic tradition, wormwood is interchangeable with mugwort (they are both called by the same name Polyn – «полынь»). While powerful in an infusion, it is even more powerful as incense or an addition to candles. Collect it on Waning Moon, III Quarter, after sunset.

Combine with mugwort and burn to fumigate the area to call up spirits and connect with those that have passed on.

Make sure the area is well ventilated as the smoke can be very irritating to the eyes and throat and is toxic if inhaled. It is also said to be useful in banishing spirits.

It is said that wormwood first grew from the path of the serpent as it exited the Garden of Eden.

‘While Wormwood hath seed get a handful or twaine
To save against March, to make flea to refraine:
Where chamber is sweeped and Wormwood is strowne,
What saver is better (if physick be true)
For places infected than Wormwood and Rue?
It is a comfort for hart and the braine
And therefore to have it it is not in vaine.’
~ Tusser 1577