Witchcraft Medicine

Bringing pharmakeia (the practice of plant spirit witchcraft) into contemporary times, Entering Hekate's Garden merges historical knowledge with modern techniques. In it, author Cyndi Brannen offers her extensive insight into Hekatean ritual and witchcraft and especially its application to the Green World.

Infusing your craft with plants and herbs is a powerful way to connect to Mother Earth. This green witchcraft encyclopedia explores the most essential magical plants, offering you a complete resource for safely growing, foraging, harvesting, and using everything from aloe to valerian. Discover greater harmony with nature as you harness the natural energy of plants to create healing and balance in your life.

Self-care is a necessity for any modern woman, and this book helps you prioritize number one with a little help from the magic of witchcraft. The Witch’s Book of Self-Care has advice for pampering your body, mind, and spirit with spells, meditations, mantras, and powerful activities to help you to keep healthy, soothe stress, relinquish sadness, channel joy, and embrace your strength. Learn how easy it is to connect to the earth, harness your personal power, and add a little magic to your everyday life for a better you.

“The best life starts within, looking outward,” writes Amy Blackthorn in this simultaneously practical and personal guide to wellness and healing. Blackthorn, a master herbalist, aromatherapist, and prolific author, explores methods of wellness management using both mystical and mundane tools and techniques. This book features essential oils, plants, meditation, tarot, astrology, and personal sigils tailored to your own specific needs and circumstances. Blackthorn also describes her own journey to well-being and shares the lessons she’s learned.

Examining trial records and the pharmacopoeia of witches, alchemists, folk healers, and heretics of the 15th century, Thomas Hatsis details how a range of ideas from folk drugs to ecclesiastical fears over medicine women merged to form the classical “witch” stereotype and what history has called the “witches’ ointment”. He shares dozens of psychoactive formulas and recipes gleaned from rare manuscripts from university collections from all over the world as well as the practices and magical incantations necessary for their preparation.

Harold Roth is a leading authority on plant/herbal magic. His new book, The Witching Herbs, is an in-depth exploration of thirteen essential plants and herbs most closely associated with witchcraft-thirteen because it's the witching number and reflects the thirteen months of the lunar calendar. The plants are poppy, clary sage, yarrow, rue, hyssop, vervain, mugwort, wormwood, datura, wild tobacco, henbane, belladonna, and mandrake.

Baba Yaga’s Bag is an evening of stories about herbal medicines, in which we will accompany Vasa Lisa as she seeks fire from a witch, listen in as Old Woman knits cozy mittens and gloves for Old Man, cheer as the plants fight back when insects threaten to end the “problem of man”, and journey to China for a bittersweet tale of lovers and herb gathering on a wild mountain.

Hoodoo Herbal contains detailed information on dozens of roots and herbs. This book will be of interest to lovers of herbals and students of Southern folkways, as well as the many who seek to put the information into use. In addition to detailed information about a wide variety of plants, there is also practical information about planting seeds and cutting and transplanting plants. In this book of practical plant magic, Starr advises that as the plants thrive and grow, the works for which they are used will grow stronger too.

Constantly listening to these affirmations that speak directly to your inner witch will reprogram your thought process to become more positive and empowered, giving place to an ideal environment for your manifestations and magic to grow. In this book, the author crafted each affirmation to reveal a trace of its inner workings. By putting words to the energetic subtleties that witches naturally perceive, it will allow you to receive the intention of each phrase in a more direct and rooted way so that you can release old patterns of thinking that no longer serve you.

Plant magic is a perennially popular subject, but in most books on the topic, listeners must wade through eye remedies and cold cures to get to the actual magical powers attributed to the plants. In Treadwell’s Book of Plant Magic, author Christina Oakley Harrington—founder of the renowned occult Treadwell’s Books in London—focuses on the lore and learning of plant magic.

Given that the plant kingdom developed on Earth many millions of years before the evolution of human beings, it’s fair to say that herbs are the oldest magical tools in existence. Known for millennia to have beneficial properties for both physical and spiritual well-being, many different species of plants were incorporated into the practices of healers, shamans, and other medicine men and women of the “old days” — this was the origin of herbal magic.

Moon Spells Magic contains an abundance of folk wisdom as well as many modern pagan practices that will help you learn the necessary lore and background information for creating the life of your dreams. This audiobook can be an important tool for gaining a deep grounding in magical correspondences, astrological associations, and the myths behind the magic.

Organized by season, Rituals for Magic and Meaning offers a suggested ceremony for each day of the year and includes hundreds of simple rites, suggestions, meditations, and holiday celebrations that can make the ordinary extraordinary. Author Cerridwen Greenleaf has poured her years of study into this guide to creating meaning in daily life. Rituals for Magic and Meaning fully explores the hows and whys behind ritual - allowing listeners to truly master the art of creating personalized rituals.

This book covers a wide range of herbs and their uses in both medicinal and magical practices, including sections detailing extraction and application. It also provides comprehensive step-by-step instructions on making a wide range of items like creams, herbal bags, incense, salves, tinctures, and poultices. Presented in an easy-to-understand format, with an added definition of terms, Herbal Lore is an asset to anyone wishing to utilize the beneficial properties of herbs.

In this book, we will travel through folklore, myths, and the history of herbs over time. We will begin to explore the ways in which herbal magic can heal the body, heart, and mind through simple but complex techniques. If you want to lead a magical life with deep connections to nature, this book is for you!

Herbs have been used for thousands of years, and not just medicinally, but ritually, too. Every herb carries its particular attributes, and these traits are what make the plant unique. In this book, you will learn ways to use herbs in magic, basics ways to prepare your herbs, several herbal spells you can try, a listing of herbs to start, and more.