This revised and updated 15th Anniversary Edition contains the folklore and magical properties of over 400 herbs. You'll also find lists of herbs based on their magical powers, their genders, their planetary rulers, and more. Perhaps the most important list is the folk name cross-reference. The main part of this book is the listings of the herbs. Each one includes names, associations, and magical attributions. Violets can be used for protection, luck, love, and more. Primrose is for protection and love. Garlic is for protection, healing, exorcism, lust, and prevention of theft. This book is considered a classic. It is probably consulted more than any other book on this subject. If you want to learn the secrets of magical herbs, this book is a must!

This illustrated guide explores the physical and symbolic properties of the best known and loved flowers of the Western hemisphere, including the bluebell, lily, anemone, poppy, daffodil, iris, rose, and many others. Each flower is described in terms of its botanical properties, its origins, the folklore and history that surrounds it, and how it is used for health and well-being. All plants are inextricably linked to the science, culture, religion and economics of the world. Packed with a wealth of information, this is a unique guide to the myth, magic and wisdom of flowers.

The folkloric, magical, healing and nutritional uses of native herbs in the British Pagan tradition.

Symbolic, folkloric, astrological significance and uses of native herbs and trees, in Paganism and the Old Religion.

Welcome to the quirky world of poisons in this seductive guide to the deviant side of nature. `What's Your Poison?' wryly invites the reader into a fact-finding combustion of curiosities introducing the plants possessing the ability to heal or cure and captivating interest from all walks of life. As Paracelsus stated "It depends only on the dose whether a poison is a poison or not". For gardeners, grannies, witches, warlocks, bokers (voudoun priests), shamans, witch doctors, medics, cooks, undertakers, history buffs, environmentalists, murder writers, art lovers, the arcane, manic depressives, lovers of the bizarre and avid browsers.