The Charmer's Root: Witching Ways with Common Flora - Paperback

by Roger J. Horne (Author)

A unique course of study in the folkloric witching ways of common plants, The Charmer's Root weaves together historic folk-magical knowledge with modern animist techniques, recipes, and rituals that any practitioner can master using the wild and ubiquitous flora of North America and the British Isles. Reach into the roots of the herbal charming arts, and learn how to:

Craft legendary herbal preparations using easy-to-follow recipes, including the lesser-known formulae of inks, salts, flower and leaf essences, plant spirit waters, and the "plant-veiled stone"Practice safe methods for working with the magics of even dangerous or poisonous plantsDevelop your own approaches to ritual and incantation, drawing on historic grimoires and loreMaster herbal charms that draw on the powers of flora to accomplish a variety of goalsConjure the plant spirit to aid and empower magical workings Discern the personalities and properties of plants using the age-old doctrine of signaturesForm partnerships and pacts with your own personal guides and familiar spiritsExplore the relationships between plant magics around you as occult maps and ontologiesExperience spirit flight via the fabled practice of "riding plants" via unguent or potionBless and consecrate dried plant matter to awaken its full potency by "hallowing the leaves"Call the plant spirit into relics and talismansDeepen your bond with the land around you and the hidden land of the otherworld

In addition, The Charmer's Root includes in-depth folk-magical profiles on 36 legendary herbs, most of which can be foraged easily in regions that experience frost, as well as a further index of over 200 plant associations adapted from lesser-known Victorian compendiums. This volume also includes an eco-sinistral exposition on "The Black Meadow," exploring the meaningful relationship between dark folk witchery and our innate calling to revere the sacred wild.