Herbs

Spring Equinox Foraging: Folklore of Early Plants

Across the world, the Spring Equinox marked the moment when the first wild plants could be taken—carefully, ritually, and with restraint.

Plants Used to Break Love or Sever Bonds in Folk Magic

Across cultures, certain plants were used not to attract love—but to end it. These herbs appear in rites of separation, forgetting, banishment, and severed t...

Love Magic Herbs to Attract the Right Partner

Across cultures, love magic relied on plants that aligned fate rather than forced desire. These global herbs were used to call in the right partner — not jus...

Old European Folklore: Garden Herbs

A folklore-rich guide to Old European garden herbs: protective household plants, dream herbs, threshold guardians, and ancestral green allies.

Balkan Witchy Herbs: Plants, Legends & Folk Rituals

A folklore-rich compendium of Balkan witchy herbs, drawn from documented village practices, ethnobotany, and traditional folk magic across Serbia, Romania, B...

Balkan Spring Herbs: Seasonal Power, Fertility & Protection

In Balkan folk tradition, spring herbs governed love, fertility, protection, and survival. This folklore-rich guide explores documented seasonal rites, plant...

Women’s Herbal Life Stages in Folk Medicine

Before hormones were isolated and cycles flattened into charts, women were treated according to life stages. Folk medicine understood female health as season...

Herbs Forbidden for Men in Traditional Medicine & Folklore

Across Europe, Asia, and Indigenous cultures, certain herbs were restricted or controlled for men due to fertility risk, ritual law, toxicity, or cosmologica...

Forbidden Herbs in Folklore: Plants Too Dangerous to Use Lightly

Across cultures, some herbs were never casual tools. Feared, restricted, or ritually guarded, these plants were believed to summon spirits, alter fate, or in...

Herbs for Women in Their 30s: Strength & Hormones

In traditional cultures, a woman’s thirties marked her strongest years. These herbs supported endurance, blood, cycles, and long-term vitality across global ...

Fertility Herbs for Women: Cross-Cultural Lore

Across continents, women have turned to plants to bless conception, prepare the womb, and restore balance. This guide explores fertility herbs for women thro...

Witchy Plants for Bedrooms: Dreamwork & Night Magic

From mugwort above the bed to juniper branches at the window, this is the oldest folklore of dream herbs used by witches, midwives, and night-watchers across...

Why Witches Plant Rosemary by the Door

Explore the Old European belief that rosemary planted by the front door protects the home, sharpens intuition, and guards against wandering spirits and ill i...

Herbs to Keep Out the Evil Eye Next Door

Rue tucked behind doorframes, basil pots on Greek thresholds, and juniper smoke after unwanted visits—these are real household protections against the evil e...

Herbs for a Shadow Work Garden

A deep, folklore-rooted exploration of Old European herbs for shadow work: introspection, dream rites, confronting fears, and walking the darker threshold pa...

Herbs to Avoid When Trying to Get Pregnant

A folklore-rich exploration of herbs to avoid when trying to conceive, drawing on European tradition, ritual history, and cautious herbal knowledge.

Fertility Herbs for Women: Womb Magic & Old European Folklore

Fertility magic has always lived in the oldest layers of European witchcraft. Long before midwives wrote recipes or monasteries collected herbals, women carr...

Fertility Herbs for Men: Virility, Vitality & Old World Folklore

Male fertility has its own lineage of old magic—a lineage rarely spoken of, but woven into European folklore through symbols of the stag, the plowman, the th...

Solstice Dreaming: Mugwort, Wormwood & Prophetic Nights

How Old European witches used mugwort and wormwood on the winter solstice to call prophetic dreams, travel the night-road, and read omens for the year ahead.

The Nine Herbs Charm: Anglo-Saxon Healing & Magic

Explore the Nine Herbs Charm, a 10th-century Anglo-Saxon spell using nine sacred herbs and divine invocation for protection, healing, and ritual magic.

Wormwood for Lucid Dreaming: Folklore, Rituals & Safety

Explore wormwood’s mystical role in lucid dreaming, its rich folklore, dangers, and two traditional dream tea rituals used by witches and wanderers of the un...

Serbian Vampire Herbs and the Vlach Connection

Explore Serbian vampire herbs and Vlach magical practices along the Timok and Danube, where garlic, hawthorn, and wild rose kept the dead at bay.

Sacred Springs of Serbia: Holy Waters & Herbal Magic

Discover seven sacred springs of Eastern Serbia where folklore, herbal magic, and pilgrimage converge, from Devil’s Water to Timok’s Whispering Eye.

The Bitter Brew: Discovering Artemisia Annua Tea

Dive into the folklore, ritual uses, and traditional bitterness of Artemisia annua tea — a centuries-old brew used across Europe, Asia, and the Balkans for c...

Witchy Plants to Grow Indoors

Create an indoor witch’s garden with powerful plants like rosemary, mugwort, lavender, and rue. Learn which herbs and houseplants are both magical and practi...

Witchy Plants for the Front Door

Guard your threshold with sacred plants used by witches and folk healers through the ages. Discover the potent magic of protective herbs, shrubs, and charms ...

Witchy Herbs for Healing: Ancient Plant Magic for Body and Spirit

Step into the green world of healing witchcraft. Discover traditional herbs like yarrow, calendula, lemon balm, and fennel—used by cunning folk, wise women, ...

Top 9 Fertility Herbs in Witchcraft

A folklore-rich guide to the most powerful fertility herbs in witchcraft, folk medicine, and ancestral practice — plants used to prepare the womb, awaken blo...

St. John’s Wort Sun Water for Joy and Light

Learn how to make St. John’s Wort Sun Water to lift the spirits and invite joy. Rooted in midsummer folklore and healing traditions, this solar-infused potio...

St. John’s Wort Moon Water for Grief and Ancestral Magic

Harness the quiet power of St. John’s Wort under moonlight. This lunar-infused herbal water is for grief work, ancestral healing, and deep energetic protection.

Stinging Nettle Moon Water: Courage & Cutting Ties

Stinging nettle is rarely used in moon water, yet in European folk magic it was feared and respected for protection, banishing, and boundary-setting. This gu...

Ancient Shields: Witchy Protection Herbs

Across continents and centuries, witches have used protective herbs to ward off evil, shield the spirit, and guard the home. This in-depth post explores key ...

Top 11 Protective Herbs in Witchcraft

Explore the top 11 protective herbs in witchcraft—garlic, rue, mugwort, and more—through folklore, traditional uses, and ancestral protection practices acros...

Herbs Forbidden for Women: Folklore, Midwifery and Rituals

Across history, certain herbs were forbidden to women due to reproductive danger, ritual vulnerability, and spiritual boundary laws. These were not moral rul...

Smoke Cleansing vs. Smudging

A global guide to smoke cleansing traditions, how they differ from Indigenous smudging, and which herbs are safe to burn.

How to Use Smoke Cleansing in Folk Magic

Discover ancient, global smoke cleansing rituals beyond sage. Learn how witches, healers, and rootworkers worldwide used herbs to protect, banish, heal, and ...

Herbs You Should Never Burn in Ritual, What to Use Instead

A global guide to herbs you should never burn in ritual — whether toxic, sacred, or spiritually volatile — and powerful alternatives rooted in traditional wi...

Full Moon Rituals: Sacred Herbs & Moon Magic Worldwide

Step into the sacred light of the full moon with rituals, herbal magic, and folklore from around the world. Learn how to harness lunar energy with herbs like...

7 Witchy Herbs from Around the World

From Balkan graves to Amazonian rituals, these seven herbs are anything but ornamental. They’ve protected the dying, summoned ancestors, painted warriors, an...

How to Start a Real Witch’s Garden: Powerful Traditional Plants

A witch’s garden is not aesthetic — it is ancestral. From Balkan Artemisia to Caribbean lemongrass, this guide explores how traditional herbs were planted fo...

Lunar Gardening: How Real Witches Plant with the Moon

The moon’s rhythm isn’t just for spells and cycles. It governs roots, leaves, and everything in between. Learn how to plant herbs with purpose — guided by ph...

Wormwood in War & Witchcraft: Artemisia and Bitter Lore

Across Europe and beyond, Artemisia grew where armies marched, bodies fell, and land was broken. This is the folklore of wormwood, war, and the bitter plants...

Witchy Herbalism 101: Real Plants, Real Magic, No B.S.

Discover the core herbs every modern witch should know. From wormwood and mugwort to sage and calendula, learn real-world uses rooted in folklore, protection...

The Witch’s Herbal Starter Kit: 10 Powerful Plants

Discover 10 powerful herbs for the modern witch, from ancestral folklore to protective magic. Learn how Mugwort, Wormwood, Artemisia annua, and more have bee...