Witchcraft Plants Can Be Witches Too

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"Memento Mori" by Sarah Lawless

For those who aren't animists, this might be a hard thing to wrap your head around, but some plants are witches too. Not all plants, but a select number around the world are. Some plants are just natural sorcerers and magicians just like people with the powers to curse or heal, enchant or uncross. They each have their specialties. It's not always the traditional poisonous plants associated with witchcraft either like the usual suspects of Aconite, Belladonna, Datura, Henbane, Mandrake, or Nightshades, no, sometimes it's a completely harmless plant most people wouldn't even notice like Blackberry, Coltsfoot, Enchanter's Nightshade, ferns, Mugwort, and Mullein. Trees can be witches too, the most well known witch-trees being Blackthorn, Hawthorn, Elder, and Rowan.

I have always been very drawn to these sorcerous plants. They whisper spells, recipes for potions, and how to make them into talismans. Working with many of these plants is like being in a coven where each individual witch brings their own talents and knowledge to the table. Eventually you learn which pairings can be "covens" that work best together and which don't get along at all and shouldn't be put in a herb coven. To keep it simple like seems to like their like. Herbs that "belong" to certain deities are usually well-paired as they serve the same master or mistress. For the most part the Solanaceae get along together and that is why most of them are often found together in old flying ointment recipes. Conjure roots that both like moist wet soil pair well together like Sweetflag and False Solomon's Seal. Large woody roots with medicinal barks like Oregon Grape and Devil's Club also pair well together - especially when it comes to protection, healing, and banishing evil spirits.

Alrauns, herbal root fetishes, are little witches and should be treated like a teacher or helper in the craft. They need to be fed, cared for, and talked to like a good friend or they will either curse the owner of the root or rescind all the help they've given and abandon the root they housed.

If we sorcerers start treating plants and trees like fellow magicians we'd sure get a lot more from our work with them. Our spells and rites would work so much better with the aid of willing plant spirit allies rather than "herb correspondences". Let's make plants willing participants in our magic instead of dried inanimate objects we "hope" will do something to enhance our magic and rites. Let's start telling the plants what we're doing with them and why we need their help. Let's start thanking them in return for that help. Let's stop taking power from nature and start asking for it. We might just find that the dynamics and efficacy of our magic changes completely for the better.

Give a shit and get involved in the magical lives of plants! Research them, grow them, harvest them, talk to them, and work with them as partners in magic and ritual.

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Ideas From Merlin The Enchanter

1.Be Yourself... if you worry about what others think, then you won't think for yourself... and if you don't think for yourself, you may as well be dead!
2. Allow all others to be themselves... just because Joe Blow from kokomo has blue candles on his altar and you use only white ones, that doesn't mean he is the son of Satan. We must each one be allowed our own Pagan path in freedom, for if we cannot do that, then we have no freedom!
3. Let's stop all the silliness of who is and is not a Witch, and what one must do to be a witch.
4.Don't ask for someone's opinions unless you really want it! More Witch wars are started because someone asked for another's views and didn't like the answer they got!
5. Add a dose of good humor (the worst Witches are the ones that take everything so S-E-R-I-O-U-S-L-Y!)

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Signs Of Speedy Marriage

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Signs of Speedy Marriage and Good Success Attending it by Sundry Signs:

For a woman to have the first and last letters of her christian name the same with the man's surname, that makes love to her, denotes a great union and a generous love.

For a man to have the first and last letters of his christian name the same with the woman's surname, denotes the same.

To think of a party on a sudden waking, without any meditation, on a Friday morning, that before had a place in the affection of the man or woman, is a demonstration of love or extraordinary friendship.

If a ring accidentally falls off a man's finger, that is under no obligation of marriage, and runs directly to the feet of a maid or widow, it denotes not only that he is in love with the party, but that a sudden marriage will ensue.

The singing of a robin-red-breast at your window, in the time of courtship, on a Wednesday, is a sign of marriage and happiness to ensue, with much content.

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Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World

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Nornir

Nornic Law is essentially the same as Natural Law: Things will continue. Growth and change are necessary to life.

The goal of the Nornir is to maintain a dynamic balance. This is a range, not an absolute. Things in Midgard have been moving towards a negative side for, oh, say, the last 400-500 years, and faster in the last 100. It is the supposition of the Nornir that if active participation in remedying the situation Jordh is in is not begun on a widespread basis soon, this downswing will continue, without being able to be stopped. This means tons of bad juju, eh?

The term, "Patrons" refers to a deity or set of deities who has chosen a person to (essentially) become an avatar of that entity. Quite often, there are people who choose their patrons, and that's okay if it works for them. I never got a chance to do that, since the Nornir said, "YOU!" before I had a chance to choose....

So what I'm doing, when I say, "Working with the Nornir" is exactly that: they require someone(s) here in Midgard to do some work from the other end, in order to maintain ANY sense of dynamic balance.

Now, I cannot say that the Nornir are (pardon the phrase, if it offends) "Party-Gods", like, say, Thor. In fact, they are, by their own design, uninvolved. Yes, a lot of folks say they control the fates of men. I think this is more a leftover from the split in the Indo-European Migration. It would be more accurate to say, "They are aware of everything which has passed and which could have passed, which is passing or might have been passing, and everything which will pass, or might come to pass." They do not, however, tend to get INVOLVED in these things.

The Norns which we read about in many books, the PERSONAL NORNS, are referred to in Nornagard as "Naenen". They are MUCH more numerous, and are, in essence, identical to ljosalfar. They DO tend to get involved in the affairs of people. The landvaettir also congregate in Nornagard, to list grievances and problems with their areas. Our job (there are 5 people that I know of doing Norn- things) is to fix these problems. Fun, huh?

The Nornir wrote the rules which protect the realms, but they are also, therefor, the most bound by them. Odhinn bends these rules at will (don't we know it!) and others, as well. The Nornir, however, do not, for if the people who write the rules break them, there's no good example, is there?

So what I do to honor the Nornir is, upon finding a trouble-spot, such as a Gate left open, or the like, is to close it, repair the area, and heal the land and creatures about. It's hard work, and I'm happy to do it. There are also certain rituals which are important to me, and certain other things I can do for them and the human community. For instance, it was traditional to call a Norn-Erilaz to be present at births, deaths, and rites of passage. I do midwifery, and thus am present at certain births in the pagan community. Finding a Doctor who will carve a Nadhiz on his thumbnails, says Jane Sibley, is rather difficult. However, as often as possible, I'm present. I've also been told I'm an excellent birth partner for single or surrogate parents.

These are a few things, and if you want more, it would be a help if you could ask specific questions...I find that usually is the clearest way for me to explain these things.

Hope it helps answer the question.

Nornir gyf auja!

(by Gaffer Maccluiunn)

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