Magickal Ingredient Lore

  • ACACIA FLOWER ~ (Acacia Tree Resin is also known as Gum Arabic.) Secret love. Spirituality, purification of evil and negativity.
  • ALFALFA ~ Stress reduction and healing. Abundance, money, prosperity.
  • ALLSPICE ~ Luck, health, properity, money.
  • ALMOND ~ Fertility, stamina, masculine energy, business success, money, prosperity, wisdom, intuition, insight.
  • ALOE ~ Protection, luck, healing, success.
  • ALYSSUM ~ Protection, curbs outbursts of anger.
  • AMARANTH ~ Speeds healing, mends broken hearts, wisdom, protection, aids recovery from grief.
  • AMBER ~ Fertility, love, luck, riches.
  • AMBERGRIS ~ Increases personal power, heightens sexual responses, dreaming.
  • AMBRETTE ~ Induces lust/lustful cravings, enhances beauty, attracts love, divination.
  • ANGELICA ~ Protection, cleansing, healing, exorcism, clairvoyance and visions.
  • ANISE ~ Sexual potency, cleansing, wards away nightmares, protective, purification, happiness, youth, psychic powers, luck, calming, soothing, meditation. Wedding rituals.
  • APPLE ~ Love, healing, fertility, good luck , happiness, immortality, fortelling spells.
  • APPLE BLOSSOM ~ Peace of mind, contentment, success, happiness, love attracting.
  • APRICOT ~ Love, love, love! Romance, passion, femininity.
  • ARTICHOKE ~ Sexual stimulation, protection, personal growth.
  • AVOCADO ~ Love, lust, beauty, fertility.
  • AZALEA ~ Brightens one's thoughts and eases one's burdens.
  • BABY'S BREATH ~ Innocence.
  • BALSAM ~ Fertility, purification, strength, rejuvenation, calming and soothing, healing, protection, money, long life.
  • BAMBOO ~ Protection, hex breaking, luck and wishes, fertility, wisdom, feminine energy.
  • BANANA ~ Fertility, potency, prosperity; lightens emotional burdens.
  • BARLEY ~ Gentleness, nurturing, eases emotional burdens, wards off negativity.
  • BASIL ~ Creates empathy between couples; love, fidelity. Invigorates, protection. Mends quarrels.
  • BAY LEAF ~ Uplifting, protection, purification, healing, memory, aphrodisiac.
  • BAYBERRY ~ Brings money to the pockets and blessings to the home. Protection, control.
  • BEET ~ Love.
  • BENZOIN ~ Prosperity, astral projection, purification.
  • BERGAMOT ~ Relaxant, confidence builder. Uplifts emotions, protection, attracts riches.
  • BLACKBERRY ~ Healing, money attraction, protection.
  • BLADDERWRACK and KELP ~ Protection, money, psychic powers, sea spells.
  • BLUEBELL ~ Compells truth, comforting.
  • BLUEBERRY ~ Protection, communication, peace, calm.
  • BRAZILNUT ~ Carry to attract love.
  • CABBAGE ~ Luck.
  • CACTUS ~ Protection, chastity, endurance.
  • CAMELLIA ~ Wealth, riches, prosperity.
  • CAMPHOR ~ Deflects amorous advances, cleansing, divination.
  • CARAWAY ~ Passion, lust, protection, health, mental prowess
  • CARDAMOM ~ Lust, love.
  • CARNATION ~ Power, energy, protection. Fascination, admiration.
  • CAROB ~ Protection, health.
  • CARROT ~ Lust, fertility.
  • CASHEW ~ Wealth.
  • CASSIE FLOWER ~ Aphrodisiac, soothing, inspiring, aids in battling depression.
  • CAT TAIL ~ Stimulates lust.
  • CATNIP ~ Love, beauty, happiness, affinity with animals, shape shifting.
  • CAYENNE ~ Releases endorphins, increases sensation to pleasure centers. Vitality, growth.
  • CEDAR ~ Confidence inducing, balancing, grounding, energizing, money, healing, protection, purification.
  • CELERY ~ Amplifies divinatory abilites, strengthens both conscious and subconscious mind, stimulates lust and passion.
  • CHAMOMILE ~ Prosperity, calming & soothing. Love, peace, meditation.
  • CHERRY ~ Stimulates and attracts love, attracts mate. Cheerfulness, good humor, mood elevator, divination.
  • CHESTNUT ~ Amplifies male potency, love.
  • CHOCOLATE/COCOA ~ Lightens emotions, evokes feelings of love.
  • CHRYSANTHEMUM ~ Protection, cheerfulness, friendship, truth.
  • CHYPRE ~ a blend of Civet, Ambergris, Oakmoss and Musk, it is considered a potently sexual combination with wealth drawing properties as well.
  • CINNAMON ~ Male sexual stimulation, passion, lust, healing, protection, energy, creativity, psychic powers.
  • CIVET ~ Musk derived from civet cats, now illegal except in synthetic form. Considered a strong aphrodisiac, has an intense, animal, 'sexual' aroma.
  • CLARY ~ Enhances visions.
  • CLOVE ~ Money attracting, deflects negative and hostile energies
  • CLOVER ~ Protection, preservation of youth, fidelity. Healing, soothing.
  • COCONUT ~ Chastity, protection, purification, receptivity.
  • COMFREY ~ Protection, especially over travelers, draws money.
  • COPAL ~ Love, purification, cleansing.
  • CORIANDER ~ Love attracting, protection, peace, healing. Encourages people to fall in love.
  • CORN ~ Fertility, Abundance, Protection, Luck, Divination.
  • CORNFLOWER ~ Psychism.
  • COTTON / COTTON BLOSSOM ~ Luck, healing, protection; return of lost love.
  • COUMARIN ~ Friendliness, fruitfulness.
  • CRANBERRY ~ Protection, health, deflection of negativity.
  • CROCUS ~ Clairvoyance, visions, purification, healing, love, beauty, happiness, lust.
  • CUCUMBER ~ Healing, fertility, invigorating.
  • CUMIN ~ Good fortune, prosperity, lust, protection, fidelity, exorcism.
  • CURRANT ~ Aids success in love affairs, and a magical representation of blood.
  • CURRY ~ Protection, health.
  • DAFFODIL ~ Regard, sympathy and affection returned, true eternal love, fertility, luck.
  • DAISY ~ Gentleness, innocence, loyalty and romance. Love, reunion, luck.
  • DAMIANA ~ Strong ingredient for lust spells. Love, psychic visions.
  • DANDELION ~ Wishes, intuition, faithfulness, happiness, promotes psychic powers; aids in psychic communication.
  • DATE ~ Improves male virility & sexual prowess.
  • DATE ~ Fertility, potency.
  • DIANTHUS ~ Strength, protection, healing.
  • DILL ~ Attracts women, love, protection of the home, affluence, good fortune.
  • DOGWOOD ~ Wishes granted and protection.
  • DRAGON FRUIT ~ Wishes granted, protection, health.
  • DRAGON'S BLOOD ~ Entices errant lovers to return, increases power of other ingredients. Love, protection, exorcism, potency.
  • EARTH ~ Grounding, centering, protection, renewal, reincarnation, life.
  • ECHINACEA ~ Strengthening, health.
  • EDELWEISS ~ Invisibility, protection.
  • EUCALYPTUS ~ Healing
  • FENNEL ~ Healing, protection, purification, ecstasy, sexual potency.
  • FERMENTED ALCOHOLS: WINE, BEER, HARD LIQUOR, ETC ~ Intoxicant, used as an offering or appeasement for Gods, used in love spells, and celebratory spells.
  • FERN ~ Sincerity, fascination, eternal youth, confidence, riches, creates perimeter of protection, luck.
  • FIG ~ Wisdom, fertility, love, luck, protection, aids restful sleep, divination. Feminine sexuality.
  • FLAX ~ Money, protection, beauty, psychic amplification, health.
  • FORSYTHIA ~ Increases feelings of anticipation.
  • FRANGIAPANI ~ Trust, confidence.
  • FRANKINCENSE ~ Purification, Consecration, Protection, Exorcism
  • FREESIA ~ Innocence, chastity, charm.
  • GARDENIA ~ Mood elevator; powerfully 'magnetic' for women, enhances visage, love, passion, peace, healing, spirituality.
  • GARLIC ~ Protection from all forms of danger, deflection of negativity
  • GERANIUM ~ Stability of emotions, hex~breaker; love, healing, fertility, protection.
  • GINGER ~ Fiery and fortifying, induces passion. Intensifies love spells and success spells. Love, money, success, power. Ginger increases sensitivity in the erogenous zones.
  • GINSENG ~ Love, lust, virility, enhances perception of beauty; wards away evil Wishes granted, healing, protection.
  • GRAPE ~ Fertility, increases mental prowess, money attracting.
  • GRAPEFRUIT ~ Refreshes and uplifts the spirit, eases exhaustion, beauty and youth glamour.
  • GRASSES ~ Wishes granted, enhances psychic powers, protection.
  • GUAVA ~ Encourages romantic notions and fantasy.
  • HAY ~ Friendliness, fruitfulness.
  • HAZELNUT ~ Intuition, wisdom, protection, fertility.
  • HEATHER ~ Admiration and beauty; protection, especially over women and virtue. Peace, beginnings, elemental magic, wishes granted.
  • HELIOTROPE ~ Clairvoyance, healing, protection, wealth, exorcism, invisibility.
  • HEMP ~ Healing, love, meditation
  • HIBISCUS ~ Induces lust/lustful cravings, enhances beauty, attracts love, divination.
  • HICKORY ~ Aids legal matters.
  • HIGH JOHN ~ Prosperity, success, love attractant; protection from curses and hexes.
  • HOLLY ~ Aphrodisiac, promotes beauty; for consecration, foresight, strongly protective, luck.
  • HONEY ~ Enticing, seductive; use to bewitch a straying or hesitant lover. Happiness, fulfillment.
  • HONEYSUCKLE ~ Bonds of love, generosity; attracts money, prosperity, clairvoyance, healing, creativity, protection.
  • HOPS ~ Healing, promotes sleep
  • HOREHOUND ~ Protection, anti-hex, removes enchantments.
  • HUCKLEBERRY ~ Dreams, wishes, luck, good fortune, deflection of negativity.
  • HYACINTH ~ Attracts love and luck; protection, playfulness, joy, relieves grief, eases childbirth. Dependability, constancy, friendship.
  • HYDRANGEA ~ Hex breaking.
  • HYSSOP ~ Purification, protection, deflection of negativity.
  • IRIS ~ Frienship, faith, wisdom, valor and promise; purification, resurrection.
  • IVY ~ Wedded love, fidelity, friendship, affection, protection, sex, divination, healing, stamina.
  • JASMINE ~ Self confidence, anxiety reduction, prosperity; powerful love attractant, spiritual love.
  • JONQUIL ~ Love, affection returned, desire, sympathy.
  • JUNIPER ~ Emotionally calming, physically energizing. Attracts lovers, deflects thieves. Cleansing, purifying, love charms, exorcism, health.
  • KARU KAROUNDE ~ Love spells, aphrodisia.
  • KIWI ~ Encourages athletic lovemaking and zestfulness.
  • LAVENDER ~ Soothes/ restores body and mind. Arouses sexual desire in men, loyalty, purification, protection, healing.
  • LEMON ~ Energizing, uplifting. Longevity, faithfulness, fidelity, friendship. Used to attract spirits.
  • LEMON GRASS ~ Lust, increases psychic powers.
  • LEMON VERBENA ~ Makes one attractive to the opposite sex, adds power to other ingredients
  • LETTUCE ~ Cools lustful passions, chastity, love, divination, promotes rest.
  • LICORICE ~ Love, lust, fidelity, sexual potency.
  • LIFE (or) PEARLY EVERLASTING ~ Longevity, health, healing; restored youth.
  • LILAC ~ Inspires peace and harmony, humility, youthfulness, protection.
  • LILY ~ Purity, modesty. Wards away evil, protects, and breaks love spells.
  • LILY OF THE VALLEY ~ Soothing and calming on the nerves. Sweetness, mental prowess, happiness.
  • LIME ~ Healing, love, protection.
  • LINDEN BLOSSOM ~ Strong protective force, attracts love, immortality, luck, restful properties.
  • LOTUS ~ No man can refuse the woman who wears this; lovers’ reunited, protection.
  • LOVAGE ~ Love attractant, attracts attention, psychic cleansing.
  • MAGNOLIA ~ Nobility. Psychic enhancer; inspires peace and harmony; fidelity.
  • MANDRAKE ~ (poison) Powerfully protective, draws prosperity, aids female conception, but should not be used around pregnant women..
  • MANGO ~ Increases male libido, spiritually elevating.
  • MAPLE ~ Love attraction, longevity; money attractant.
  • MARIGOLD ~ Strengthening & comforting, prophetic dreams, divination, aids legal matters, protection.
  • MARJORAM ~ Draws happiness and love, also for cleansing and protection
  • MARSHMALLOW ROOT ~ Fertility, happiness, creativity, increase in psychic awareness, intuition, love, protection, exorcism. Gently commanding and persuading.
  • MAY APPLE {aka American Mandrake} ~ Uses and powers are identical to true mandrake.
  • MELONS ~ Water magic, fertility
  • MILK/BUTTER/CREAM ~ Nurturing, soothing, eases troubled relationships. Goddess energy.
  • MISTLETOE ~ Protection, love, fertility, health, exorcism.
  • MORNING GLORY ~ Peace, happiness, harmony, banishing of nightmares, encourages spontaneity.
  • MOSSES ~ Luck enhancing, financial success, protection, charity. Parental love.
  • MUGWORT ~ Love, fertility, preserves youthful beauty, psychic power, protection, prophetic dreams, healing, astral projection.
  • MULBERRY ~ Luck, willpower. protection, strength.
  • MUSHROOM ~ {edible}
  • MUSHROOM ~ {poisonous/psychedelic}
  • MUSK ~ Self confidence and strength, sexual attractant, heightens passions and arousal.
  • MUSTARD ~ Fertility, protection, mental strength.
  • MYRRH ~ Stimulating, soothing. Powerful guard against evil.
  • MYRTLE ~ Love and marriage.
  • NARCISSUS ~ Egotism, formality, sweetness.
  • NASTURTIUM ~ Conquest, victory in battle.
  • NEROLI ~ Sensual, relieves tension & anxiety; quells apprehension, encourages a shy lover, confidence building.
  • NETTLE ~ Protection and deflection of negativity
  • NUTMEG ~ Strengthens clairvoyance, luck, money, health, fidelity.
  • NUTS ~ Fertility, prosperity, love, luck, fortitude.
  • OATS ~ Prosperity, abundance, sustenance, money spells.
  • OLIVE ~ Potency, fertility, healing, peace, protection, lust.
  • ONION ~ Protection, purification, healing
  • ORANGE & BLOSSOMS ~ Strong 'magnet' to attract men; eternal love, marriage, fruitfulness, thoughtfulness, happiness, tribute.
  • ORCHID ~ Strong love symbol; beauty, refinement, fertility, psychic powers.
  • ORRIS ROOT ~ Attracts and helps inspire love. Protection, divination.
  • OSMANTHUS ~ Potency, fertility, healing, peace, protection, lust.
  • OUD (Agarwood) ~ Love, aphrodisia, spirituality, health.
  • PALM ~ Fertility, potency.
  • PANSY ~ Draws love, ensures your lover will think of you when separated, divination.
  • PAPAYA ~ Love, protection, fertility. Magnification of devotion
  • PARSLEY ~ Love, protection, purification
  • PASSION FLOWER ~ Peace, love, friendship, sleep.
  • PASSION FRUIT ~ Friendship, love.
  • PATCHOULI ~ Soothes and uplifts; sensual, sexually stimulating, lust, fertility, money.
  • PEA ~ Love, fertility, money multiplier.
  • PEACH ~ Love. Promotes fertility, happiness, and abundance. A symbol of marriage. Longevity, wishes granted.
  • PEANUTS ~ Masculine energy.
  • PEAR ~ Love, lust, passion, longevity and luck.
  • PECAN ~ Money, employment.
  • PENNYROYAL ~ Strength, protection, peace.
  • PEONY ~ Protective, used for exorcisms. Root is a substitute for Mandrake. Happy life, happy marriage.
  • PEPPER ~ Protection, fidelity, dispels envy and evil, exorcism, breaks hexes.
  • PEPPERMINT ~ Stimulates, restores and uplifts. Cleansing, purification, relaxation, sleep, healing, psychic amplifier.
  • PERSIMMON ~ Sex, sexual identity, healing, good fortune.
  • PETUNIA ~ Soothes anger and resentment.
  • PINE (Nuts, Cones, Needles) ~ Fertility, purification, strength, rejuvenation, calming and soothing, healing, protection, money, long life.
  • PINEAPPLE ~ Draws money and luck; chastity, protection.
  • PISTACHIO ~ Breaking of love spells. Antidote to spells and curses.
  • PLUM ~ Inspires & maintains love, protects dwelling against evil and intrusion.
  • PLUMERIA ~ Love, strong ingredient for love spells.
  • POMEGRANATE ~ Divination, luck, wishes granted, wealth, fertility.
  • POPPY ~ Fertility, prosperity, love. Deepens feelings, instills calmness. Imagination, pleasure, wealth, success.
  • POTATO ~ Healing, primal energy. A common tool of 'image magic' - carved into representations of people and things.
  • PRIMROSE ~ Attracts love and sexual interest. Inspires respect & loyalty in children. Draws truth from liars, protection.
  • PUMPKIN ~ Fertility, plenty, abundance, prosperity. Male sexual stimulant.
  • QUINCE ~ Protection, love, happiness, fidelity, marital bliss.
  • RADISH ~ Protection, lust.
  • RAGWEED ~ Courage.
  • RASPBERRY ~ Love inducing, aids in pregnancy discomforts, protection. Stamina, vigor.
  • RHUBARB ~ Protection, fidelity, willpower.
  • RICE ~ Protection, rain, fertility, abundance, money.
  • ROSE ~ Self confidence, strong aphrodisiac properties, attracts affection & love, fertility, divination/clairvoyance.
  • ROSE GERANIUM ~ Blessings, Fertility, Love, Protection.
  • ROSEMARY ~ Intellectual stimulation, purification, love, sensuality, wards against dark forces, invigorating.
  • ROSEWOOD ~ Love, spreads an exotic aura, mystery, darkness. Enhances psychic powers, healing, divination, luck, protection.
  • RYE ~ Love, fidelity, devotion, increases feelings of love.
  • SAFFRON ~ Love, beauty, happiness, lust. Purification, healing, clairvoyance.
  • SAGE ~ Healing, prosperity, cleansing. Wisdom, longevity, protection, wishes granted.
  • SALT ~ protection, purification, grounding, feminine energy. Resurrection, baptism.
  • SANDALWOOD ~ Love, exotic, sensual atmospheric; aphrodisiac. Healing, spirituality, exorcism.
  • SASSAFRAS ~ Health, money.
  • SASSPARILLA ~ Love, wealth.
  • SCULLCAP ~ Love, fidelity, peace of mind.
  • SESAME ~ Money, lust, life force.
  • SLIPPERY ELM ~ Protection, persuasion, discourages gossip.
  • SMOKE ~ In addition to the attributes of whatever is being burned (resins, woods, etc), smoke is for cleansing, purification, renewal, consecration, concealment and celebration.
  • SNAP DRAGON ~ Deflects negative magic, protective
  • SPEARMINT ~ Stimulates, energizes and uplifts. Love, purification, healing, . psychism, creativity. Protects the home.
  • ST. JOHN'S WORT ~ Protection, exorcism, strengthens the will, divination.
  • STAR ANISE ~ Clairvoyance
  • STEPHANOTIS ~ Promotes happiness in marriage, stimulates desire to travel.
  • STOCK ~ Bonds of affection, attentiveness, beauty.
  • STRAW ~ Luck, image magic.
  • STRAWBERRY ~ Attraction, draws fortunate circumstances in all areas of your life.
  • SUGAR ~ Attracts love, luck, sweetness and riches. Lust inducing.
  • SUNFLOWER ~ Adoration, fertility, love, wishes granted, wisdom, health, masculine energy.
  • SWEET PEA ~ Lasting pleasure, blissfulness, youthful attraction, friendship, chastity, courage, strength.
  • TAMARIND ~ Love.
  • TARRAGON ~ Relieves womanly discomforts, improves mental alertness and clarity, dispells negative influences.
  • TEA ~ Invigorating, refreshing, mentally and physically uplifting, lust. Riches, courage, strength.
  • THISTLE ~ Wards off thieves, aids recuperation, courage, strength, protection, hex-breaking, healing.
  • THYME ~ Protection from negativity, rejuvenating. Health, healing, sleep, psychic power enhancement, love, purification, courage.
  • TIGER LILY ~ Enhances and amplifies femininity.
  • TOBACCO ~ Healing, purification, spiritualism.
  • TOMATO ~ Love attraction, repelling of negativity.
  • TONKA ~ Love, money, courage, wishes granted; wards off illness.
  • TUBEROSE ~ Dangerous pleasure. Excitement, sensuality.
  • TULIP ~ Love, perfection, protection, prosperity.
  • TURMERIC ~ Purification.
  • TURNIP ~ Protection, ending relationships.
  • VALERIAN ~ Love, harmony, protection, purification, sleep.
  • VANILLA ~ Aphrodisiac, inspires happiness, playfulness, sexual arousal, lust, vitalizing.
  • VERBENA ~ Mood uplifting, makes one attractive to the opposite sex, everlasting love.
  • VERVAIN ~ Love, prosperity, purification, dispels nightmares. Peace, money, youth, healing.
  • VETIVER ~ Enhances perception of beauty. Love, sensuality, money, luck, hex-breaking.
  • VIOLET ~ Love, faithfulness, modesty; calming, balancing, healing, protection, draws luck & fortune, lust.
  • WALNUT ~ Leaves promote fertility, carry nuts to delay pregnancy. Wishes granted, strengthens the heart, enhancement of mental powers. Dark earthly powers.
  • WATER ~ Cleansing, purifying. Fertility, Goddess energy, fluid of life. Renewal.
  • WATER LILY ~ Purity of heart.
  • WHEAT ~ Friendliness, fruitfulness, fertility, money.
  • WILLOW ~ Mourning, healing, wishes, protection, divination. Feminine energy, inspiration, fertility.
  • WINTERGREEN ~ Protection, healing, hex breaking.
  • WISTERIA ~ Welcoming of new person into your life. Youth, eloquence.
  • WORMWOOD ~ Divination, protection, love, calling spirits.
  • YARROW ~ Love, long-term marital harmony, increases perception, dispels fear.
  • YLANG YLANG ~ Strongly sensual, attraction, attention, irresistibility, soothes marital problems.
  • YUCCA ~ Transmutation, protection, purification.
  • ZINNIA ~ Friendship, innocence, affection, memory, to keep you in their thoughts.