Herbs for Witchcraft

Properties: Good luck, personal power, protection and wisdom. Dried acorns are a natural amulet for youthfulness. Associated with Litha.

Properties: Purification, protection, growth, banishing, warding off negativity, healing, community work.

Properties: Business, luck, success, kindness, money. Aids compassion, luck and healing. Provides added determination and energy to any spells and charms. Burn crushed allspice to attract luck and money. Use in herbal baths for healing.

Properties: Wisdom, money, fruitfulness, and prosperity. Invokes the healing energy of the deities. Provides magickal help for overcoming dependencies & addiction. Associated with candlemas and beltane. Carry, wear, or use as incense to attract abundance.

Properties: "The shield", protection

Properties: Protection and luck. Place on the grave of a loved one to promote peaceful energy. Thought to relieve loneliness and assist with success.

Properties: Amber is a gemstone of cleansing and renewal, embodying ancient energy and natural warmth. Shields negative energies and promotes a sense of safety and empowerment.

Properties: Balance, energy, harmony, purification, well-being. Used to help ward off the evil eye, find happiness, and stimulate psychic ability. Fill a sleep pillow with anise seed to prevent disturbing dreams. Use to invoke mercury and apollo. Great for aromatherapy. Use in purification baths with bay leaves. A sprig of anise hung on the bedpost will restore lost youth. Use in protection and meditation incenses.

Properties: Abundance, dream work, enchantment, fertility, love, luck, harmony. Garden magic, love, healing and wisdom, also vanity, marriage and beauty. Associated Mabon & Samhain. Place seven apple seeds in a bag with orris root to attract sexual love. Use in rituals to give honor to gods and goddesses of fertility. Considered the food of the dead, which is why samhain is called the 'feast of apples'. Symbolizes the soul and is burned at samhain in honor of those who will be reborn in the spring. When doing a house blessing, cut an apple in half, eat half and put the other half outside of the home as an offering.

Properties: Love. Add leaves and flowers to love sachets or carry apricot pits to attract love.

Properties: Courage, strength, and success. Five points of a pentacle (fire, water, earth, air, spirit).

Properties: Protection and banishing negativity. Be forewarned that this herb is powerful, but has an awful smell when burned.

Properties: Love, lust and beauty. Also used for sex magic.

Properties: Happiness, gaiety and light spirits, first love.

Properties: Strength and breaking up negativity; insight, progress against goals, and bringing about change. Balsam fir needles can be burned on charcoal as an incense and also make a great ingredient in sachet bags, dream pillows, and potpourri mixes.

Properties: Hex breaking, wishes, luck and protection. Carve a wish into bamboo and bury it in a secluded area to make your wish come true. Carry a piece of bamboo for good luck.

Properties: Fertility, potency, and prosperity

Properties: Love, psychic ability, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, and protection. Dispels confusion, fears & weakness. Drives off hostile spirits. Associated with candlemas & Imbolc. Carry to move forward in a positive manner despite perilous danger.

Properties: Purification, protection, success, manifestation, strength, wisdom, healing, psychic abilities, house and business blessing, and clearing confusion. Attracts romance. Keep potted plant to protect home from lightning. Place in a dream pillow for sound sleep and to induce prophetic dreams.

Properties: Friendship, attraction, love, strength, happiness, and overcoming depression.

Properties: Traditionally used for making candles, decorative seals, natural polish, protective finish, and use as a base for herbal salves.

Properties: Balance, hope of life, renewal, heightened awareness, psychic abilities, protection from gossip, emotional inner strength, caution, communication, new beginnings.

Properties: Imagination, night magick, visions, astral realm. Provides protection when placed in a secret place in the home. Use for forgetting past loves. Protection, beauty and original flying ointments. Adds energy to rituals.

Properties: Money, prosperity, improving memory, stopping interference, and sleep. Protects from both evil and illness. Good for luck and wealth. Increases magical power.

Properties: Reduces anxiety, defensive magick, increases concentration, creativity. Dispels lightning, infertility, and the evil eye. Associated with Yule.

Properties: Banishing negativity, exorcism, and offers protection and help with inner strength.

Properties: Healing, protection and money. Sacred to brighid. Leaves and berries said to attract wealth and healing.

Properties: Love, protection, and purification. Steep in red wine for a full cycle of the moon to use as a "blood offering" for spells that call for this. Do not drink the wine. Place in windows and doorways to keep curses and evil spirits out.

Properties: Psychic abilities. Burning can encourage lucid dreaming & muscle relaxation. "Flower of intuitive ascension"

Properties: Wisdom, a long life and good health, positive change, connecting with the divine, spiritual energy, and higher self.

Properties: Protection of children, keeps evil out, and strengthens the aura. Associated with the Great Spirit.

Properties: Protection, exorcism and warding off evil spirits. Sprinkle an infusion of boneset around the home to rid it of evil and negativity. Can be used in spells that mark an ending, letting go, parting of ways, or the dissolution of a partnership.

Properties: Divination, good luck, and attracting money & wealth. Carried whole anointed with money oil and/or wrapped in a dollar bill for constant increase in money flow.

Properties: Strong blue color. Rich with antioxidants. Common for making "blue tea" - turns red when mixed with hibiscus, purple with lemon juice (pH change).

Properties: Chastity, banishing and protection. Bury with other banishing symbols for protection. Grow in the home or garden to prevent unwanted intrusions. Place in all directions of the home (north, south, east, and west) for full protection.

Properties: unconditional love, beauty, kindness, spiritual evolution & growth

Properties: May help dreams follow a more coherant narrative structure; more vivid, easier to remember.

Properties: Attracts success and justice in legal matters. Increases psychic/spiritual powers and aid prophetic dreams. Dispels negativity. Pick at noon for comfort and strength. Place garlands at doors to prevent evil from entering. Scatter under the bed for protection and to make dreams come true.

Properties: Love & devotion, money, wealth, riches, abundance, luxury. Smells great crushed with blue salvia.

Properties: Eggshell powder. Protection, purification, energy cleansing.

Properties: Love, luck, psychic ability, spirits, beauty, fertility, prevents nightmares. Provides protection while sleeping. Mix with dragon's blood to rid oneself of a behavioral problem or bad habit. Burn dried leaves for love magick.

Properties: Dealing with separations or divorce; cleansing & purification; repels negativity; speeds up the effect of any mixture to which it is added.

Properties: Afterlife, clairvoyance, breaks hexes, psychic ability, confidence, strength, power, money, protection, healing and purification. Used in the consecration of magick wands.

Properties: Mental and psychic powers, concentration. Burn with orris root to increase psychic powers. Use in sleep pillow to induce sleep. Chew celery seed to aid in concentration.

Properties: Packed with antioxidants which help to fight free radicals and inflammation. Produces a sweet smelling incense.

Properties: Blessings, calming, reduces anger & anxiety, money, luck. Use for meditation work and to attract money. Solar Magic.

Properties: Luck, money, abundance

Properties: Protection of gardeners; brings peace to the home and helps to attune one with their soul.

Properties: Spirituality, success, healing, protection, power, love, passion, wealth, luck, strength, and prosperity. Burn as an incense or use in a sachet to raise spiritual and protective vibrations, draw money, and stimulate psychic powers. A popular herb for use in charms to draw money & prosperity.

Properties: Divination, prosperity, psychic ability, success, truth, visions, protection, banishing. Aids money and draws love.

Properties: Grounding, luck, marriage, prosperity, success, spiritual balance. Strong association with the earth, useful in consecrating both pentacles and ritual tools made of copper.

Properties: One of the oldest beings on the planet. Protection and power. Use in bath magick for purification. Burn as incense as an offering to the deities and to open channels of communication with them. Use in amulets and charms for power and protection.

Properties: Helps to dispel nightmares and negative thoughts and to overcome internal blockages. Provides peace of mind and grounding.

Properties: Clear negative energy, purify, protect.

Properties: Traditional healers in Sikkim recommend the fungus/mushroom Cordyceps sinensis for “all illnesses” as a tonic, because they claim that it improves energy, appetite, stamina, libido, endurance, and sleeping patterns.

Properties: Love, lust and health. Used as an aphrodisiac and to heal migraines. Brings peace & protection to the home.

Properties: Used primarily as an Ink for your Book of Shadows. It is the patron herb of herbalists. Use in rituals to give honor to the Mother of all nature, also connected to Rainbow and Crystal children.

Properties: Fishing magick, rain, protection, luck, and healing. Burn to attract rain. Cloth made of cotton is the best for magickal use. Place cotton in a sugar bowl to draw luck.

Properties: abundance, energy, healing, love, protection, emotions, communication, courage, action, rejuvenation

Properties: These plants are ground covering. They find their way to the sun through a variety of obstacles.

Properties: Fidelity, harmony, the home, longevity, love, repels negativity. The seed is said to prevent the theft of any object which contains it. Burn with frankincense for protection. Scatter on the floor alone or with salt to drive out evil. Use in love spells to promote fidelity. Steep in wine to make love potions.

Properties: Clairvoyance, clarity, divination, communication, spirits. It also enhances dreams and works well in astral projection. Dandelion root helps ease frustrations and stay focused on our path ahead while staying connected with our bodies.

Properties: Defensive magick, breaking hexes, love, lust, sex magic, money, balance. Used in love & protection charms. Effective at keeping away dark forces, useful for house blessing. Keeps the mind cognizant of the line between superstition and the realities of magick.

Properties: Wishes, protection, and good health. Used in meetings in which attendees must maintain confidence on the topics of discussion. Used to guard diaries, journals, and books of shadows. Seal letters with dogwood oil to keep the contents for intended eyes only.

Properties: Positivity, good luck

Properties: Protection, energy, and purification. Burn as an incense to increase the potency of a spell. Has strong banishing powers against negative influences and bad habits. Can be used as a form of magickal ink.

Properties: Strengthens spells, boosts inner-strength.

Properties: Peace, protection, and healing, plus aids in exorcisms. Warding off evil. Romani people believe burning elder wood brings bad luck. Folklore that witches could turn into elder trees.

Properties: Common ingredient in ritual baths and bath salt recipes.

Properties: Attracts healing vibrations, great for protection and healing sachets. Use to purify any space. Use dried leaves to stuff healing poppets, pillows, or sachets. Arrange a ring of dried leaves around a blue candle and burn the candle for healing vibrations. Carry in a sachet or amulet to help reconcile difficulties in a relationship, for protection, and/or to maintain health.

Properties: Something pretty that isn't what it seems. Oxalis is bound to Venus and Earth. Togetherness, comfort, restful sleep.

Properties: Blessings, repels evil & negative energy. Helps with meditation. Healing, purifying and protection. Also linked with new motherhood and offers inner strength. Imparts strength, vitality, sexual virility; prevents curses, possession and negative problems.

Properties: Mental clarity, cleansing, purification, and dispelling negativity. Keep in room where studying is done to help concentration. Burn a sprig of fern before an exam. Use in sachets and amulets for powerful auric protection.

Properties: Calms and soothes the nervous system. Helps with migraines and arthritis.

Properties: Successful ventures, cleansing, purification. Burn for protective work, consecration, and meditation. Used as an offering at beltane, lammas, and yule. Enhances the power of topaz. Use in rituals and magick associated with self-will.

Properties: Banishing, justice, protection, breaking hexes, release, security. Love & lust.

Properties: Money, fertility, love, power, moon magick, unity, success. Increases magic power. Draws adventure and new experiences. Promotes sensuality, sexuality, personal confidence, prosperity, and success. Adds to the strength and speed of any mixture of which it is a part.

Properties: Aphrodisiac, associated with fertility. Carry or use in amulets and charms as a healing herb. Useful in ritual healing. The dried nuts represent male fertility. Useful in all creative work. Immerse in water, then remove and keep in the bedroom to gain grace, love, and beauty.

Properties: Promotes love, beauty, healing and lust. Carry to draw love, health, money, and sexual potency. Carve a wish into a whole root and throw it into water to make the wish come true.

Properties: Money, divination

Properties: Seeds from a sugar maple. Maples represent love, money, wealth, luck, balance, offering, practical magic, promise, longevity, generosity, and intelligence.

Properties: Attracting love and lust. Use in divination. Associated with lunar magic. Carry in a sachet or burn as incense to attract love.

Properties: Marriage, dream magick, luck, and love. Planted around the outside of the home for protection. Used as a decoration at yule. When carried by men, is thought to heighten masculinity.

Properties: For attraction and solar magick.

Properties: Affection, destiny, happiness, love, peace, well-being. Draws money, success, and quick abundance; aids persuasiveness and confidence, sharpens intuition. Ring green candles with honeysuckle flowers or use honeysuckle in charms & sachets to attract money. Crush the flowers and rub into the forehead to enhance psychic powers.

Properties: Relaxing and sleep producing; a fantastic herb for dream pillows. Believed to increase the restfulness & serenity of sleep. Also used for healing rituals, sachets, and incense.

Properties: Hex-breaking, love drawing, bringing back a lover, fidelity, and binding.

Properties: Attracts wisdom, courage, and faith. Use fresh iris flower to purify an area. Represents a belief in happy reincarnation. Symbolizes faith, wisdom, and valor. Useful for consecrating ritual wands. Used in rituals designed for baby blessings.

Properties: Attraction, marriage, love, stability, transformation, fidelity, omens, protection, healing, fertility.

Properties: The herb of attraction. Helps prophetic dreaming, money and love. Good for charging quartz crystals. Use in dream pillows to induce sleep or burn in the bedroom to bring prophetic dreams. Helps to promote new, innovative ideas.

Properties: The female seed cone. Consumption is generally safe but may cause an increased risk of miscarriage. Sharp, clear flavor when added to meat dishes. Have been found in multiple ancient Egyptian tombs. Greeks believed the berries increased the stamina of athletes and used it in Olympic events.

Associations include fertility, happiness, protection, optimism, spirits, strength. Protective, cleansing and repels negativity very well. Used in healing rites.

Properties: Love and protection. Worn by brides to guarantee a long and happy marriage.

Properties: Reduces anger and anxiety, love, manifestation, luck, rebirth, tranquility, attraction, promotes healing from depression. Great in sleep pillows and bath spells. Believed to preserve chastity when mixed with rosemary. Burn the flowers to induce sleep and rest, then scatter the ashes around the home to bring peace and harmony.

Properties: Cleansing, spiritual opening, purification, and removal of blockages. Love & lust. Add lemon peel to love sachets and mixtures. Soak peel in water and use the mixture as a wash for magickal objects to remove unwanted negativity, especially for objects received second-hand.

Properties: Love, success and healing. Aids psychic/spiritual development. Supports mental health disorders and compassion. Business success, calming, clarity, fertility, relationships.

Properties: Psychic cleansing and opening. Use in lust potions and when using Dragon Magic.

Properties: Composite organisms made up of multiple creatures.

Properties: Love, lust, passion and fidelity. Carry to attract a lover.

Properties: Wisdom, memory, good luck and spiritual aid.

Properties: Purification and protection, promoting calmness and tranquility, and strengthening love.

Properties: Fidelity, love, hair growth, beauty, loyalty, peace, calming anxieties, marital harmony, and overcoming addictions & obsessive behavior.

Properties: Confection of root was original ingredient in marshmallows (Egypt) but no longer used today. Roots used for relief of irritated mucous membranes (gargle). Roots make a palatable dish when boiled first and fried with onions and butter. Used for protection, cleansing, and attraction spellwork.

Properties: Female power & domination. Used to increase the chances of getting a job & divination. Aids one during times of distress. Useful as an altar offering, especially during love magick. Burn or strew about the house to relieve disharmony in the home or remove tensions. Carry to gain popularity and friendship.

Properties: Promotes energy, communication and vitality, protection and draws custom.

Properties: Used for binding, banishing, and promoting attraction to someone or something. Wrap the vine around a poppet nine times to banish someone.

Properties: Spirits, psychic ability, astral realm, awareness, psychic energy. Use for strength, protection and healing. Good for nighttime tea.

Properties: In India, Mullein is regarded as the most potent safeguard against evil spirits and magic, banishing demons, and warding off negativity and is commonly hung over doors and in windows.

Properties: "the royal bean"

Properties: Courage, faith, and endurance. It is a good luck amulet. Aids mental power and offers protection. Good fortune. Amplifies courage and drive.

Properties: Roots can reach a depth of 10 feet or more. Deadly yellow berries; association with the underworld. Native to the southeast. Many uses to the Cherokee even though every part of the plant is poisonous. Cooked plant is safe to eat. Cherokee make the roots into beads. Can be used in place of nightshade for spellwork. Garland of nettle berries and poke berries can create a powerful barrier.

Healing, justice, luck, protection, courage, confidence. Uses include dispelling darkness & fear, and curse breaking. Healing and protection and increases lust in partners. Renewal.

The English figure of speech "grasp the nettle", meaning to nerve oneself to tackle a difficult task, stems from a belief that nettles actually sting less if gripped tightly.

Properties: Life, luck, love, money, power, attract, psychic ability, divination. Use for fortune telling and when you need favourable decisions to be made.

Properties: Stability, confidence, justice, luck, money, success, independance, wealth. Connected to Litha and the most sacred of all trees.

Properties: Prosperity, abundance.

Properties: Beauty & danger, allurement & caution, poison.

Properties: Prosperity, stability, endurance, and protection. Love & lust. Burn onion flowers to banish bad habits and negative influences. Sacred to the moon.

Properties: Luck, creativity, money, divination. Attracts abundance and happiness through love and marriage. Add an infusion of orange to the bath to increase attractiveness and beauty.

Properties: Sex, lust, beauty. Concentration, strengthening memory, focus, and will power. Lady slippers used for protection against hexes, curses and the evil eye.

Properties: Joy, strength, vitality, health, and added energy. Increase joy and justice and protects against evil.

Properties: Astral, protection, relationships, love, sexual attraction, femininity. Promotes popularity, persuasiveness, and personal success. Aids communication and helps to open dialogs.

Properties: Fertility, focus, potency, and divination

Properties: If you feel you have been cursed, rub this herb on your body and then bathe.

Properties: Use to add energy to any spell or mixture. Throw in someone's yard to cause them problems.

Properties: Calms and protects the home; draws prosperity, financial increase, and luck. Restores a sense of well-being. Contacting the dead. Increases strength, vitality and passion. It is uplifting and helps spiritual growth.

Properties: Sedative properties. Can incite love and passion and help you attract companionship, but it can also calm and soothe negative passion or angry energy in your home and self. The word passion comes from the Latin passio, meaning 'suffering'.

Properties: Extreme earthy, woody fragrance. All purpose insect repellent. Important ingredient in East Asian incense. Tea contains caffeine. Spiritual associations include astuteness, reasonableness and stimulation. Used for manifestation, peace, luck, love (attract), money, business. Used in spells for connecting with spirits. Increases fertility and lust. Calming and peaceful.

Properties: Fertility, love, and wisdom. Eating peaches induces love. Wear a peach pit to keep away evil. Carry peach wood for longevity. Use peach pits or dried fruit in amulets and sachets for fertility and love.

Properties: Lust and love eating pears induces love. Use dried fruit in amulets and sachets for love and lust.

Properties: Associated with employment, success, job security, and career matters. To insure that you do not lose your job, shell a small amount of pecans. While eating them, slowly visualize yourself working and enjoying your job. Take the shells to work and place them where they won't be found or removed.

Properties: Flowering plant in the mint family. Strong scent. Bisexual flowers. Chemicals in the pennyroyal plant cause the uterine lining to contract, causing a woman's uterine lining to shed. Ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptians would pair it with wine to cause miscarriages, abortions. Has pesticide properties; can keep away fleas. Used for peace, breaking curses, protection.

Properties: Dream work, psychic ability, divination, luck, money, visions, healing. Use for headaches and other forms of healing. Increases sleep and love.

Properties: Warm memories, fidelity in friendship, truth, purity, everlasting love.

Properties: Abundance, love, and good health, forgiveness, adaptation, wisdom, knowledge

Properties: Prosperity and success. Protection, purification and divination. Throw in the fire to dispel negativity. Use in house and business blessings. Beginnings, blessings, hope, prosperity, self-work, releasing, clean breaks.

Properties: Luck, money, and chastity. Add an infusion of pineapple to the bath to attract luck.

Properties: Aztec symbol for purity

Properties: Chaos, finding lost objects and breaking hexes and curses. Add an infusion of poke root to bath water to break hexes.

Properties: In the magnolia family. Extremely tall and straight. Fast grower, but stronger wood than other fast growing trees. Flexible branches. Inner bark is called cambium. Walt Whitman called it"the Apollo of the woods–tall and graceful."

Properties: Pleasure, love and luck. Chaos and confusion. Aids sleep and insomnia. Use in astral projection and flying magic. Increases fertility and happiness.

Properties: Image magic, money, luck, and healing

Properties: Luck, abundance, resiliance, prosperity

Properties: Creativity, dreamwork, lucid dreaming, psychic abilities.

Properties: Healing & divination. Lunar magic. Seeds represent health.

Properties: Rain, fertility, money, and protection. Use in money spells and fertility charms.

Properties: Fertility, family, blessings, love, luck, happiness, beginnings, psychic power, friendship.

Properties: Psychic ability, psychic protection, inner power, luck, afterlife. Improves memory. Increases sleep, mental power and protection. Burn for cleansing. Promotes healing and often used in grief rituals.

Properties: Clairvoyance, cleansing, visions, clears negativity, business. Helps grief and loss. Healing and protection, also increases wisdom.

Properties: Focus, concentration, success, luck, moon magick, blessings, protection. Scatter sandalwood powder around the home to clear it of negativity

Properties: Use to cleanse crystals and tools. For purification, grounding and protection. Supports ritual work. Absorbs negativity and banishes evil.

Properties: Clairaudience, emotions, money, protection, assertiveness

Properties: Magically used for protection and cleansing. Used in offertory incense. Used to bind magickal workings and keep sacred oaths & promises forever binding. Carry in an amulet or sachet for all-purpose protection. Use in protection magick to exorcise spirits and ward off negative influences and demons. Keep on altar to promote success in all rituals. Sprinkle an infusion of the root to drive away evil.

Properties: Protection, patience, opening blockages, and dispelling negativity

Properties: Love, abundance, friendship

Properties: Divination, psychic ability, purification, consecrate/bless. Consecration, purification, and happiness. Use for curse breaking or increasing luck.

Properties: Beauty, desire, luck, love, relationships, divination. Attracts success, good fortune, and favorable circumstances.

Properties: Love spells, sex magic, friendship, sweetening.

Properties: Clarity, dream work, solar energy, light, peace, money, luck, energy, protection, and power. Used to bind the will in loyalty spells/hexes.

Properties: Intuition, royalty, influence, psychic abilities, authority, wisdom

Properties: Used as smudge, sweet grass is thought to purify thoughts and the environment and eliminate negativity. Cleanses objects, purifies auras.

Properties: Image magic, friendship, abundance

Properties: Adds great power to spells & rituals. Presence of witches burr is said to defeat any kind of evil force.

Properties: Purification, protection against negativity and evil, hex breaking and aids vitality. Carry on you for strength and protection.

Properties: Healing, psychic abilities, happiness, increasing, rebirth, protection, calming. Attracts loyalty, affection, and love. Increases good luck and psychic power. Drink in tea to aid sleep.

Properties: Love spells

Properties: Purification, protection, abundance.

Properties: Feminity, protection, sleep. Attracts cats similarly to catnip.

Properties: Banishing, binding, averting evil.

Properties: Five leafed vine. A single tendril can grow up to twenty to thirty feet during the summer. Turn orange and red in the fall. Part of the grape family; gravevines represent abundance, prosperity, bounty, gratitude, and fertility.

Properties: Access to divine energy, bringing the blessing of the gods, wishes

Properties: Healing, inspiriation, willpower, fidelity, wisdom. Carry to ease grief over a lost love. Use in a sachet to reduce passions. Use in love spells and spells to ward off evil.

Properties: Ancient healing properties based around stopping bleeding. Found in Neanderthal grave sites 60,000 years old. Bitter leaves and flowers; not advised to consume much. Flowers can be used to dye wool. Lots of folklore about using it to find "one's true sweetheart" - plucked with poem recited, then sewn into sachet and placed under pillow.

Properties: Contains the highest caffeine content of any plant in the world. Boosts dopamine. Native to South America; of the holly genus. First consumed by the indigenous Guaraní people (Paraguay). Potential health benefits of yerba mate include higher energy, reduced inflammation, lower blood sugar and cholesterol, improved exercise performance, and higher bone density. Consumption of hot tea can potentially cause cancer??