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Nightshades: Ointments, Oils and Tinctures
Nightshades are a large and common group of plants. We are almost always nearb one...
December 21, 2019
Spellcrafting with Baneful Herbs
Baneful herbs are a most intriguing category of plant magic. These powerful botanical toxins are...
December 10, 2019
Saturnian Plants: Defining Boundaries and Defining Boundaries
The baneful herbs of the Poison Path are under the rulership of Saturn. These plants...
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Thornapple, Gender and Ritual Application
I have found that the majority of plants particularly those associated with spirituality and expanding...
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Preparing for Flight: Techniques for Ritual Entheogens
Entheogens allow our spirits to fly and to go to other worlds. Some of them...
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Deadly Delicacies from Emporium Black
Seamus (SHAY-mus) is a retired culinary artist, pastry chef and chocolatier. He is an artist,...
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Magical Herbalism is quite possibly one of the broadest categories of magickal study and practice....
April 2019
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Baneful Herbs and Traditional Craft
Some plants heal, some are great for cooking and others are especially useful for the...
March 2019
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On the Nature of Plants: Ramblings of a Poisoner
The Poisoner, like the herbalist and the wortcunner, whose blood runs green, has an uncanny...
August 2018
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The Practice of Esoteric Herbalism
When many people begin exploring the world of magic, myth and legend one of the...
June 2018
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Devil’s Apple: A Collection of Datura Folklore
Dark Fairy Herb of the Nocturnal Witch's Garden Datura, known by many names by many...
April 2018
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A Collection of Wolfsbane Lore
"The most prompt of all poisons." -Pliny the Elder, in Natural History. Wolfsbane, Monkshood, Aconite Wolfsbane. Courtesy...
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Fort Wayne Pagan Pride Day-Poisoner’s Apothecary Workshop
This article is a recap of the workshop that I led at Fort Wayne Pagan...
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