Herbs: O-S

## **OAK**:

The most sacred of all trees, its wood is often used in the making of magickal tools. Burn the leaves for purification. Use in fertility amulets. Hang a sprig in the home to ward of negativity and strengthen family unity. Carry for wisdom and strength, for luck, to preserve youthfulness, and/or to increase attractiveness.

## **OAK MOSS**:

Magickal uses include luck, money, protection and strength.

## **OAT STRAW**:

Keep a small amount in wallet or purse to draw in money and prosperity.

## **OLIVES**:

Fidelity, marriage, peace, money. Assures fidelity in love and is used to attract a marriage partner. Inspires fruitfulness and security in love, family, and business.

## **OLIVE LEAF**:

Magickal uses include peace, potency, fertility, healing, protection and lust.

## **ONION**:

Prosperity, stability, endurance, and protection. Burn onion flowers to banish bad habits and negative influences. Cut onions in half and place in the corners of a room to absorb illness, then bury or burn the onion halves in the morning. Sacred to the moon.

## **ORANGE**:

Attracts abundance and happiness through love and marriage. Concentrate on a yes/no question while eating an orange, then count the seeds. An even number of seeds means the answer is no, an odd number of seeds means yes. Use the leaves and flowers in love rituals to bring on a marriage proposal. Add an infusion of orange to the bath to increase attractiveness and beauty.

## **ORANGE BERGAMOT:**

Money drawing. Put leaves in wallet or purse to attract money. Rub fresh leaves on money before it is spent to ensure its return.

## **ORANGE BLOSSOMS**:

Attracts prosperity and stability; brings harmony, peace, emotional openness, and love. Use in herbal baths for attractiveness.

## **ORANGE PEELS**:

Magickal uses include love, divination, luck, money and house & business blessing. Add to love sachets to help someone make up their mind. Use in sachets & amulets to bring luck to business negotiations.

## **ORCHIDS**:

Concentration, strengthening memory, focus, and will power.

## **OREGANO**:

Joy, strength, vitality, and added energy.

## **ORRIS ROOT**(CUT):

Promotes popularity, persuasiveness, and personal success. Aids communication and helps to open dialogs. Used to draw (or hold) love and romance. Add to the bath for personal protection.

## **ORRIS ROOT** (POWDER):

Used to bring love, romance, companionship and a loving mate. Called 'Love Drawing Powder' in voodoo/hoodoo. Add to sachets and sprinkle on sheets and around the house to draw or hold love. Place a pinch in the corners of the room to open a new love. Use in bath magick to attract the opposite sex.

## **PALN**:

Fertility, focus, potency, and divination.

## **PALO SANTO**:

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

## **PAPAYA**:

Hang twigs of papaya wood over a door to keep out evil. Eat papaya with a loved one to intensify your love. Mix papaya leaves with mandrake and burn or use in the bath to reverse hexes and jinxes.

## **PAPRIKA**:

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

## **PARSLEY**:

Calms and protects the home; Draws prosperity, financial increase, and luck. Restores a sense of well-being. Use in spells to increase strength & vitality after surgery or illness. Use in amulets or other magickal workings to help yourself out of a rut. Eat to provoke lust and promote fertility. Place on plates of food to guard against contamination. Useful for bath magick to purify and end misfortune. Mix with jasmine and carry in your shoe to make you more attractive to the opposite sex.

## **PASSION FLOWERS**:

Magickal uses include attracting friendship and prosperity and heightening libido. Carried to bring great popularity & attract new friends. Placed in house to calm trouble & arguments and bring peace. Used as a wash to diminish disagreements & stress. Placed beneath pillow to promote sleep. Bathe in an infusion of passion flower for 5 days to attract the opposite sex.

## **PATCHOULI**:

Used in spells, sachets, baths and mixtures for money & love. Put in the wallet or purse to draw money. Place in a charm or use in incense for fertility. Helps to ground you and bring your consciousness back to the physical level. Burn to bring business growth.

## **PAUL D'ARCO**:

Magickal use is for the ritual healing of severe diseases.

## **PEACH**:

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.

## **PEAR**:

Lust and love Eating pears induces love. Use dried fruit in amulets and sachets for love and lust.

## **PEARL MOSS**:

Sprinkle across the doorway of a home to allow only good spirits to enter.

## **PECANS**:

Associated with employment, success, job security, and career matters. To ensure 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.

## **PENNYROYAL**:

Magickal uses include peace and tranquility. Carried to avoid seasickness or for physical strength & endurance. Worn to bring success to business. Use to rid the home of negative thoughts against you. Carry when dealing with negative vibrations of any kind. Place on a candle before or during uncomfortable meetings.

## **PEONY**:

Protection from hexes and jinxes. Good luck, good fortune, prosperity, and business success. Hang in the home or car for protection. Used to attract faeries. Use in rituals to cure or reduce lunacy. Warning: While the flowers & petals have the positive qualities listed, the seed is called 'Jumby Bean' and is known for promoting dissension and strife.

## **PEPPER**(BLACK):

Courage, banishing negative vibrations. Burn to rid home or office of bad vibrations. Carry to ward off petty jealousy against you or aid in providing courage to face difficult situations.

## **PEPPERMINT**:

Use to increase the vibrations of a space or in spells and incense for healing & purification. Place in sleep pillow to ensure peaceful sleep and bring about prophetic dreams. Use to anoint furnishings and household objects. Burn in a new home to clear out sickness and negative energy. Use in magickal workings to provide the push needed to bring change to one's life. Carry with other herbs to boost love & abundance wishes.

## **PERIWINKLE**:

Love within marriage, mental powers, and money. Carry to obtain grace, attract money, and protect against snakes and poison. Use in magickal workings to restore lost memory. Burn with love incense before having sex with your husband or wife. Note: Can be poisonous, use with caution.

## **PIKAKI**:

Draws comfort, prosperity success, and well-being.

## **PINE**:

Promotes clean breaks, new beginnings, prosperity, success, strength, grounding, and growth; Also used for cleansing, purification, and repelling negativity. Great for house and business blessing.

## **PINEAPPLE**:

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

## **PINK ROSES** (Buds):

Divine, emotional, and thinking love; start with these to build a long lasting relationship.

## **PLANTAIN**:

Protection from evil spirits and snake bites, removing weariness, healing headaches; house & business blessing. Place a pinch of dried leaves in the flame of a candle or throw into an East wind for healing. Hang plantain leaves in the car for protection from evil and jealousy.

## **PLUMERIA**:

Promotes persuasiveness, eloquence, and success in dealing with people; Attracts the notice of others.

## **POKE ROOT**:

Magickal uses include finding lost objects and breaking hexes and curses. Carry to increase courage. Add an infusion of poke root to bath water to break hexes.

## **POMEGRANITES**:

Divination, wishes, wealth and fertility.

## **POPPY**:

Fertility, prosperity, love and abundance.

## **POPPY SEEDS**:

Pleasure, heightened awareness, love, luck, invisibility. A popular ingredient in food magick. Sleep on a pillow stuffed with poppy seeds to bring relief from insomnia.

## **PRICKLY ASH BARK**:

Magickal uses include safe travel, fertility, removing spells and breaking hexes.

## **PRIMROSE**:

Promotes the disclosure of secrets, resolution of mysteries, and revelation of truth; Breaks down dishonesty and secrecy. Put an infusion in a child's bath water or the dried herb in their pillows to get them to behave.

## **QUASSIS LOVE**:

Mix with a snippet of hair from yourself and your lover (with his/her permission, of course!) with quassia chips, burn, and keep the ashes in a small bottle to preserve the love.

## **QUINCE**:

Love, happiness, luck, and protection from evil. Carry quince seeds in a red flannel bag to protect against physical attacks and harm. Use quince seeds in charms and spells pertaining to love, protection, and happiness.

## **RAGWORT**:

For Courage. Also used in charms to ward off evil spirits. Associated with faeries.

## **RASPBERRY LEAF**:

Used for healing, protection, love. Raspberry leaves are carried (NOT EATEN) by pregnant women to reduce the pain involved in pregnancy & childbirth. Bathe in an infusion of raspberry to keep your current love relationship alive.

## **RED CLOVER BLOSSOMS**:

Magickal uses include fidelity, love, money, protection, and the blessing of domestic animals. Carry to aid in financial arrangements. Sprinkle around the home to remove negative spirits.

## **RED WILLOW BARK**:

Magickal uses include meditation and clearing. A fabulous incense wood with a sweet and dry aroma.

## **RICE**:

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

## **ROSE BUDS**:

Magickal uses include divine love, close friendships, domestic peace/happiness, and lasting relationships. Great for use in incense, potpourri or bath magick. Place around sprains and dark bruises to help them heal faster.

## **ROSE GERANIUM**:

Averts negativity, especially in the form of gossip or false accusations.

## **ROSE HIPS**:

Used in healing spells and mixtures, brings good luck, calls in good spirits.

## **ROSEMARY**:

Carried and used in healing poppets for good health, used in love/lust spells, worn to improve memory, used in dream pillows to prevent nightmares, burned as incense for purification and removing negativity. Wear or carry while reading or completing tasks to improve memory of the material and aid clear thinking (great for students!). Use an infusion of rosemary to wash hands before any healing magick. Use in bath magick for purification. Associated with faeries.

## **ROWAN**:

Protection, magickal power, success, anti-haunting. Use leaves and berries in amulets for healing and promoting psychic powers. Also good for use in luck spells and mixtures. Rowan wood is often used to make wands and divining rods.

## **RUE**:

Magickal uses include healing, health, mental powers, freedom and protection against the evil eye. Use as an asperger to cast salt water for purification of the circle or removing negativity from the home. Hang the dried herb indoors to help yourself see and understand your mistakes. Burn to banish negativity or bad habits. Add to incenses and poppets to prevent illness or speed recovery. Add to baths to break hexes and curses that may have been placed against you.

## **SAFFLOWER**:

Mix with jinx incense to cause destruction to an enemy (not recommended!). Rub on the inside of the knees to attract exciting sexual encounters.

## **SAFFRON**:

Aphrodisiac, love, healing, happiness, wind raising, lust and strength. Burn, wear, or carry for healing and strengthening psychic awareness. Commonly used in love magick, healing spells, and to control the weather. Wash hands with water and saffron or keep saffron sachets in your home to bring happiness.

## **SAGE**:

Used for self purification and dealing with grief and loss. Carried to improve mental ability and bring wisdom. Used in healing sachets & incense. Promotes spiritual, mental, emotional & physical health and longevity. Removes negative energy. Place near a personal object of a person who is ailing when performing healing spells or rituals. Write a wish on a sage leaf and place it under your pillow for 3 nights -- if you dream of your wish, it will come true; if not, bury the leaf in the ground so that no bad will come to you.

## **SALTPETRE**:

For women who do not want their partners to have outside relationships. Stops sexual tension.

## **SANDALWOOD**:

Scatter sandalwood powder around the home to clear it of negativity. Burn during protection, healing, and exorcism spells. Use the wood for healing wands. Write your wish on a chip of sandalwood and burn it in the censer or cauldron while visualizing your wish to make it come true. Helps in healing by aligning the chakras for better energy flow. Good for meditation, healing, and manifestation. Facilitates concentration.

## **SARSAPARILLA**:

Sexual vitality, health, love and money. Mix with sandalwood and cinnamon and sprinkle around home or business to draw money. Alleged to prolong life, hinder premature aging, excite passions, and improve virility when worn or carried.

## **SASSAFRAS**:

Magickal uses include health, money and overcoming addictions. Placed in wallet or purse to attract money and make the money you have go farther. Used as a prosperity incense. Added to sachets for healing.

## **SAVOURY**:

Sensuality, sexuality, and passion; great for sex magick!

## **SAW PALMETTO** (BERRIES):

Magickal uses include healing protection, exorcism, passion and spiritual openings.

## **SCULLCAP**:

Worn by women to keep their husbands faithful. Used in sleep pillows for relaxation & peace. Used to bind oaths and consecrate vows & commitments (handfasting, initiations, etc.). Used in bath magick to clam the aura of tensions and stress. Use in spells for relief from disharmony and disruptive situations. Place a pinch in a lover's shoes to keep then from being affected by charms of others.

## **SEA SALT**:

Uses include cleansing crystals, purification, grounding, protection magick and ritual. Used on the altar to represent the Earth. Used with water for asperging, sea spells, consecration and casting circles. Used with garlic and rosemary to banish evil.

## **SENNA**:

Magickal uses include all matters of lust and love. Enhances tact & diplomacy. Bathe with your mate in an infusion of senna to ensure faithfulness.

## **SHALLOTS**:

Add an infusion of shallots to the bath for luck.

## **SHAVE GRASS**:

Magickal uses include snake charming & fertility. Place in the bedroom to increase fertility.

## **SHEEP SORREL**:

Carry to protect against heart disease. Place in sickrooms to aid in recuperation from illnesses and wounds.

## **SLIPPERY ELM**:

Magickal uses include protection and halting gossip. Tie a knotted yellow thread around slippery elm and throw it into a fire to cease all gossip about you.

## **SOLOMON'S SEAL** (ROOT):

Magickally 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.

## **SOW THISTLE**:

Increases strength & stamina, repels witches, and provides invisibility from enemies.

## **SPANISH MOSS**:

Protection, opening blockages, and dispelling negativity.

## **SPEARMINT**:

Healing, love and protection while sleeping. Burn for healing magick, especially of respiratory conditions. Carry for healing. Use in ritual baths for strength and vitality. Write a wish on paper and wrap it in spearmint leaves; place in a red cloth and sew with red thread, then keep in a safe and secret place. By the time the scent is gone, your wish should have come true.

## **SPIKENARD ROOT**:

Wear in a sachet around the neck to bring luck & ward off illness. It is said that wetting a picture of a loved one in an infusion of spikenard will keep them close to you.

## **SQUAW VINE**:

Magickal uses include all matters of fertility & childbirth. Pregnant women can add an infusion of squaw vine to bath water once a week to protect the unborn child from jealousy.

## **SQUILL ROOT:**

To draw money, place in a container with a dime, a quarter and a dollar and say a prayer for prosperity.

## **ST. JOHN'S WORT**:

Worn to prevent colds & fevers. Placed under pillow to induce prophetic, romantic dreams. Protects against all forms of black witchcraft. Place in a jar in a window or burn in a fireplace to protect from lightning, fire and evil spirits. Used for banishing, protection & blessing. Carry to strengthen courage and convictions or when confronting nasty situations. Burn to banish spirits and demons. Used in divination for the care of crystals. Note: Can be poisonous, use with caution.

## **STAR ANISE**:

Burned as incense to increase psychic awareness & abilities. Placed on the altar to increase the power generated. Carried to bring luck.

## **STRAW FLOWER**:

Luck, longevity, and protection. Use in magick to get the effects to last. The flower of Samhain, signifying the transition from one type of life to another. Note: Poisonous, use with caution.

## **STRAWBERRY**:

Attracts success, good fortune, and favorable circumstances. Served as a love food. Leaves are carried for luck. Pregnant women carry a packet of the leaves to ease the pain of pregnancy and childbirth.

## **SULFUR POWDER**:

Dispels or prevents a hex on you; destroys an enemy's power over you.

## **SUNFLOWERS**:

Energy, protection, power, wisdom, and wishes.

## **SWEET BUGLE**:

Crush and place under the mattress to attract love and marriage prospects.

## **SWEET PEA**:

Attracts friends and allies; Draws the loyalty and affection of others.

## Afterword

~All of these this page is from the website spellsofmagic.com

~DO NOT use these herbs in place of common medicine. You can have allergic reactions that could be fatal

~Research the herb before buying, make sure you know what you are getting!