Herbs
Bachelor's Buttons (Centaurea cyanus)
Folk Names: Devil's Flower, Red Campion
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Deities: Robin Goodfellow
Powers: Love
Magickal Uses: Women wear this flower on their breast to attract the love of a man, Or, take a flower and put it in your pocket. It will lose or retain its freshness in accordance with bad or good success in amatory pursuits.
Balm, Lemon (Melissa officinalis)
Folk Names: Bee Balm, Lemon Balsam, Melissa, Sweet Balm, Sweet Melissa
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Powers: Love, Success, Healing
Magickal Uses: From Arabian herb magick comes the information that lemon balm can be used to influence love. Soak the herb in wine for several hours, strain and share with a friend. Or, carry the herb with you to find love.
It is also used in magickal healing, and Pliny said that its powers were so great that if it was attached to a sword that had made a wound the blood would be immediately staunched. Though sword wounds are rare today, the lemon balm is still used in healing incenses and sachets.
It can also be used in spells to ensure success, and if you keep bees, rub this herb on the hives. It will attract new bees and keep the older ones there.
Balm of Gilead (Commiphora opobalsamum)
Folk Names: Balessan, Balsam Tree, Balsumodendron Gileadensis, Bechan, Mecca Balsam
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Love, Manifestations, Protection, Healing
Magickal Uses: Carry the buds of the balm of Gilead to mend a broken heart, or to attract a new love. Also steep them in red wine for a simple love drink.
Burn as a material basis for spirits and also carry for protective and healing purposes.
Bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris)
Folk Names: Common Bamboo, Ohe (Hawaiian)
Gender: Masculine
Deities: Hina
Powers: Protection, Luck, He-Breaking, Wishes
Ritual Uses: Bamboo is used in divination in Chinese temples. Bits of the wood are thrown to the worshipper by the priest. According to the way they fall, the omen is interpreted as good or bad.
Magickal Uses: Carve your wish on a piece of bamboo and bury in the ground in a secluded place. Or carve a symbol of protection, like a five-pointed star (pentagram), on a length of bamboo and plant it in the ground to protect your home.
Grown near the house, bamboo gives it and its residents good fortune. Also bamboo is placed over the door because, since its wood never changes color, it is lucky.
Bamboo is used to break hexes, either by carrying it in a sachet, growing a plant near the house, or crushing the wood to a powder (called bamba wood) and burning.
The Chinese use the bamboo as a charm against evil spirits. To call up good spirits, make a flute out of bamboo. Carve the name of the spirit (if any) and play an improvised melody.
Banana (Musa sapientum)
Folk Names: Maia (Hawaiian)
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Deities: Kanaloa
Powers: Fertility, Potency, Prosperity
Ritual Uses: In sacrifices to the Gods, a banana stalk was sometimes used as a substitute for a human, both in Hawaii and Tahiti. Until the kapu (code of taboos) in Hawaii was broken in 1819, certain kinds if bananas were among foods forbidden to women on pain of death. The banana plant is also used in contemporary voodoo rites, in which it represents the Gods, since both they and the banana's flowers are hermaphroditic.
Magickal Uses: The banana is used to increase fertility, and also used to cure impotency. Perhaps because of these magickal powers, if a bride is married under a banana tree she can not help being lucky
The leaves, flowers and fruits of the banana are used in money and prosperity spells, due to the tree's fruitfulness.
Curiously enough, an old belief tells us that a banana should never be cut, only broken.
Banyan (Ficus benghalensis)
Folk Names: Arched Fig, Indian Fig Tree, Indian God Tree, Vada Tree
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Jupiter
Element: Air
Deities: Maui
Powers: Luck
Ritual Uses: The banyan is reverenced by the Hindus, and the tree is planted outside around their temples. It is also connected with the worship of Maui in Hawaiian and Polynesian religions.
Magickal Uses: To simply sit beneath or look at a banyan tree brings good luck, and to be married under one ensures the couple's happiness.
Barley (Hordeum spp.)
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Earth
Powers: Love, Healing Protection
Magickal Uses: Use the grain or barley water in love spells.
If you have a toothache, it can be cured with barley. Wind a barley straw around a stone, visualizing your pain into the stone. Now throw it into a river or any running water, and see your pain being washed away.
Barley may be scattered on the ground to keep evil and negativity away.
Basil (Ocimum Basilicum)
Folk Names: Albahaca, American Dittany, 'Our Herb', St. Joseph's Wort, Sweet Basil, Witches Herb
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Deities: Vishnu, Erzulie
Powers: Love, Exorcism, Wealth, Flying, Protection
Magickal Uses: The scent of fresh basil causes sympathy between two people, and this it 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 kind of 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.
Basil is also used in love divinations. Place two fresh basil leaves upon a live coal. If they lie where you put them and burn quickly to ashes, the marriage (or relationship) will be harmonious. If there is a certain amount of crackling, the life of the pair will be disturbed by quarrels. And, if the leaves fly apart with fierce crackling, the projected relationship is undesirable.
Do you want to know if someone is chaste or promiscuous? Simply lay a sprig of fresh basil on their hand. It will immediately wither is that person is "Light of Love".
Basil brings wealth to those who carry it in their pockets, and is used to attract customers to a place of business by placing some in the cash register or on the doorsill.
The basil is also used to ensure that one's mate remains true. Sprinkle basil powder over your body thoroughly while he or she is asleep, especially over the heart, and fidelity will bless your relationship.
Basil is strewn onto floors, because where it is, no evil can live. It is also used in exorcism incenses and in purification baths. Small amounts are sometimes placed in each room of the house to bring protection.
Basil is also used to keep goats away from your property, to attract scorpions, and to prevent inebriation.
Witches were said to drink about 1/2 cup of basil juice just before flying off into the air.
Basil can also be used to diet, but only by a second party's help, and without the dieter's knowledge. According to an ancient spell, a woman (or a man, presumably) will not be able to eat a bite from any dish if, secretly, basil has been placed beneath it.
Basil given as a gift brings good luck to a new home.
Bay (Laurus nobilis)
Folk Names: Baie, Bay Laurel, Bay Tree, Daphne, Grecian Laurel, Laurel, Laurier d'Apollon, Laurier Sauce, Lorbeer, Noble Laurel, Roman Laurel, Sweet Bay
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Deities: Aesculapius, Apollo, Ceres, Faunus, Eros
Powers: Protection, Psychic Powers, Healing, Purification, Strength
Ritual Uses: The ancient priestesses of Apollo chewed bay leaves to induce a prophetic state, and also inhaled their fumes. Bay leaves are used as decorations at Yule.
Magickal Uses: Bay is used in clairvoyance and wisdom brews, although its taste is strong. Bay leaves are placed beneath the pillow to induce prophetic dreams, and are also burned to cause visions.
It is a protection and purification herb par excellence and s worn as an amulet to ward off negativity and evil, burned or scattered during exorcism rituals, placed in windows to protect against lightning, and hung up to prevent poltergeists from working any mischief in the house. A sprig of bay is used to sprinkle water during purification ceremonies, and the tree planted near the home protects its inhabitants against sickness. Bay leaves mixed with sandalwood can be burned to remove curses and evil spells.
To ensure that a love will stay, the couple should break off a twig from the tree, then break this in two, each keeping a half.
Bay leaves give strength to those engaged in wrestling and athletic sports if worn at the time of competition.
Wishes are written on bay leaves which are then burned to make them come true, and a bay leaf held in the mouth wards off bad luck.
Bean (Phasolus spp.)
Folk Names: Poor Man's Meat
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Deities: Demeter, Cardea
Powers: Protection, Exorcism, Wart Charming, Reconciliation, Potency, Love
Ritual Uses: The bean's flower is white, and hence sacred to the Goddesses of old Europe. According to tradition only the highest ranking priestess in Scotland could either plant or cook the bean. Beans along with pork, were offered to Cardea in Rome on June 1st. They are also associated with the Underworld and the dead; and in ancient Rome they were distributed and eaten during funerals.
Magickal Uses: In General, beans were used in classical times (and still are) as a charm against evil sorcerers. Put a bean in your mouth and spit it out at the person. Dried beans are carried as an amulet against negativity and evil magick. They are also used in rattles to scare away spirits, especially those who have entered into bodies and made those people sick. To avert evil spirits, say very quickly three times in one breath, "Three blue beans in a blue bladder. Rattle, Bladder, Rattle".
If a couple is quarreling, the woman should carry three lima beans strung on a silk thread for two days. The couple will quickly smooth over their difficulties.
Beans help cure impotency if they are carried or eaten. This is due to the fact that they resemble testicles.
A bean love spell: a woman should place seven bean of any kind 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. (But this might also be manipulatory.)
To cure warts, rub a dried bean on each wart during the waning Moon. As you do this say: "As this bean decays, so wart Fall away!".
Bedstraw, Fragrant (Galium triflorum)
Folk Names: Cleavers, Madder's Cousin
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Powers: Love
Magickal Uses: Fragrant bedstraw is worn or carried to attract love.
Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
Folk Names: Bok, Boke, Buche, Buk, Buke, Faggio, Fagos, Faya, Haya, Hetre
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Saturn
Powers: Wishes
Magickal Uses: Take a stick of beech, scratch or carve your wishes onto it, bury it in the ground and leave it there. Your wish will come true if it is to be.
Carry the wood or leaves to increase creative powers.
Beet (Beta Vulgaris)
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Saturn
Element: Earth
Powers: Love
Magickal Uses: If a man and woman eat of the same beet, they will fall in love.
Beet juice is used as an ink in love magick, and is also a blood substitute.
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