Witch’s Guide to Plants
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Secrets of Mages, Druids, and Healers
Mages, druids, healers, sorcerers and witches have accompanied mankind on every continent for thousands of years. Respected and feared for their mysterious and unexplained knowledge, sometimes evil, sometimes beneficial, witches were nonetheless hunted down at certain times, condemned and burnt. To prepare their potions, amulets and philtres, witches had at their disposal what nature had to offer, first and foremost plants. These “magic plants” were supposed to help them cure or poison, influence the order of things, tell the future or make contact with the invisible world. Where do the magical properties of witches’ plants come from?
Between myths and legends, extrapolations, symbols, empirical knowledge and traditional medicine, witches’ plants were most often endowed with real medicinal, toxic or hallucinatory properties, or were the subject of superstitions very often rooted in a certain rationality or at least popular common sense, or an analogy between the appearance of the plant and its supposed power. From wolfsbane to black elder, cypress, hellebore and many others, discover 45 plants, their magical properties and their possible uses.
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