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Wild Herbs for Practical and Magical Purposes
Certain plants of the commonest sort may be of great use in the procuring of both physical and spiritual benefits. It would be superfluous to treat at
length here those cultivated herbs all gardeners know, powerful though they be
for tonics and teas; yet those other plants, the lowly stalks many ignore by
the path or roadside, or from which they idly strip the leaves with no thought
of what treasures they cast down, may serve the Wise most faithfully.
Cherish then those leaves, flowers, or other parts that are healthful, and pluck them at their height, to be dried and brewed as teas, or otherwise used
as will be directed. Those that are of value in their spiritual aspects may be
prepared and duly fashioned into charms, and kept carefully, as will be
described.
Here follow some whose virtues are undeniable, yet too little honored by most persons (who surely ever have need of them).
* The yellow Avens, called also Geum, has a modest flower which yet produces pertinacious hooked seeds. Take then its manner as a pattern, and bind
twenty-two of these seeds in a small bag of gauze, to call forth strength of
purpose from even the most malleable of natures.
* The leaves of the Bayberry will produce a vigorous tea, of healthful flavor and inspiriting vapor, good to be taken by those who require renewal in the
midst of misfortune. The silver frosted berries may be boiled a while in
rainwater and the freed wax then skimmed off the surface. This wax mixed with a
pure oil will make a balm of value for soothing the skin, and hence the mind.
* Bedstraw, its stalks starred along their length by radiating leaves, should be laid beneath the pillow, secretly, to strengthen a failing marriage.
* The Bindweed, unwrapped from some other plant to which it clings, may be thrice knotted and thus kept to assure the fidelity of a lover. If it should
break at all in the knotting, it must be cast away and another strand of the
weed gathered. Yet if three strands should thus break, it shall be a sign
that this lover is weak and unworthy of your attentions.
* The Black Mustard, a plant of great vigor, may be dried and worn in a bag about the neck for safety from illness and misadventure. It shall also be of
value when held in the hand during an eclipse of the Sun, assuring that no evil
influence may enter into one upon whom the Moon's shadow falls.
* Burrs of the Burdock, packed in a wooden box, must inspire honesty in one
to whom they are given. There is also another use that shall be shown later in this book.
* The Buttercup, its blossoms filled to overflowing with the Sun's benisons,
shall confer a harmony as of milk and honey upon the household where a bunch
is hung over the doorway, and the falling petals allowed to remain for a week upon the threshold.
* Use the golden sap of the Celandine as a powerful ink, especially for charmed inscriptions upon parchment or fine leather.
* The lowly Chickweed, flowering like small stars tangled in the meadow grasses, may yield a tea of noble nourishment; also let it be wound into a
garland and hung about the neck to attract the favors of the Heavens.
* Cut ten strong stalks of blue-flowered Chicory with a sharp knife and bind them about from top to bottom with a cord. This wand should then be given to
one who is ill that he may be strengthened in blood, flesh, and bone.
* All Cinquefoils assist the works of magic. Sprigs thick-leaved should he held in the hand for some moments before the inception of any spiritual task, and
likewise after such an undertaking is completed.
* The Daisy is named Flower of the White Sun, and all endeavors of high virtue may be better accomplished by its influence. Where this plant blooms, you shall
walk about it thrice and name it as it is named here. Take away a single
flower, from which the petals should then be plucked and pressed in a white
paper. Thereafter swallow one petal each day, again naming the name, until all
shall be consumed and your own pure fire thereby strengthened.
* Collect some white sap from stalks of the Dandelion, and mix it with a little cow's milk as a bitter potion-this to be performed and taken when you would
chasten greed and pride, lest these faults lead you from the ways of truth.
* The Fringed Loosestrife shall yield inner peace to one who gathers it from the roadside and wears it on the breast for seven days.
* Goatsbeard, combining powers of the Sun and Moon, as its head is first gold-rayed and then silverglobed, should be plucked in both guises and the
stems' juices pressed upon your palms. Thus shall the right hand and the left
hand both serve you well.
* Ground Ivy, called also Gill-over-the- Ground, may be brewed into a bitter tea and sipped, to overcome weakness and timidity. Strewn about the floors of
the house, these leaves will promote serenity and benign dreams.
* The Heal-All, also called SelfHeal, is in all its parts most fervent as a favorable charm. Dried, tied up in a bag of purple silk and hung on a cord
about the neck, it will soothe the stomach, clear the consciousness, enliven
the eye, and guard the hand from hesitation. Treat this good herb with esteem
and it shall not fail.
* The Jewelweed, also called Touch-Me-Not, and also Orange Balsam, provides a most excellent lotion for afflictions of the skin, particularly ivy poisoning.
Crush the whole plant and press its juices upon the malady, then bind on a good
number of the leaves, bruised, as a poultice. This should be left in place from
dawn to dawn.
* Beware the powerful Jimsonweed, an ancient poison. Shun its touch, yet wearing a glove uproot it and carry it to the rat's tunnel. Forthwith thrust it
in, and drive it deep below with an iron rod or stake. This should then be
repeated with further stalks until the space is filled, which will thus be of
great efficacy in driving away the thieving vermin.
* Take berried branches of the juniper at the Winter Solstice and hang them over your doorway for thirteen days. Then take them down and pluck the berries
therefrom, saving these in a small box, in honor of life renewed. Keep them
well all the year, until the Winter Solstice comes again, when they should be
solemnly burned and the same gathering of branches performed anew.
* The elegant Lady's Thumb, as it grows perfect and chaste in the worst of waste places, shall be plucked and kept for a charm against all foulness and
corruption.
* Lady's Sorrel, called also Sourgrass, may well be eaten as it grows, for health and a clear intelligence, or else be brewed into a broth, with a little
salt added, to the same end.
* The May Apple, called also False Mandrake, may be used for the same purposes of sorcery as the true and deadly Mandrake or Mandragora. While its fruit is
benign, it serves also magically, whereby it should be dried and pierced with
spines of the Hawthorn as an object of spite. The root is a source of poison,
and may be employed in a dire charm later prescribed within this book.
* The fragrant Melilot, called also Sweet Clover, both white and yellow varieties, should be gathered in great bunches when it flowers, and hung upon
the walls of every chamber in your house. Thus will its scent prove a benison
to you for many months there after.
* When the Milkweed buds and blooms along the dusty roadside, its emanations are as of the costliest perfume; yet who, passing by, shall think to savor it?
Gather then an immense bouquet, and set it soon in water within your house.
This attention shall be rewarded by such sweetening of the air that all evil
shall be driven from your spirit, and you shall be thus blessed as
long as the fragrance shall last.
* The clever Mistletoe, of berries white and leaves substantial, shall render powerless your staunchest enemy if you will keep it hung above your bed; and
later in this book a further charm shall yet be told.
* A stiff sprig of Motherwort, rough with leaves, ripe-seeded and sharp- husked, should be carried to the place where a woman lies in labor. Its keen
barbs are scratched lightly upon each of her palms; two leaves are laid upon
her brow, and a leaf given her in either hand to grasp. Thus shall she be
succored by the Earth, who stands Midwife of midwives to all life.
* Pound well in a mortar the fresh leaves of Mullein, and make of them a poultice for infections, warts, and rashes of the skin. These woolly leaves,
whole, may be used in charms attracting fertility and prosperity to those whose
lands grow dry and barren.
* A few seeds of Peppergrass should be chewed to cure the headache. They may also be used as a charm for wealth.
* Pluck up the lowly Pineapple Weed by its poor roots, and crush it in the hands; such fruitful fragrance shall thereby be liberated as shall renew
forgotten hope and expectation, and inspire the hands to strengthened works.
* The Plantain of common growth, its hardy spike arising from broad leaves, shall, when decocted to a lotion with rain water, and rubbed upon the skin,
invigorate the whole flesh to a condition of redemption, and the senses to a
state of exhaltation.
* Gather the spiked leaves of Prickly Lettuce and dry them well, then crush them, and they may be burned as an incense to renew the senses and heal the
wounded spirit.
* Brew the young leaves of Queen Anne's Lace (taking care that it be indeed this herb itself, and not one of those, as the notorious Hemlock, that
resembles it but yields an extreme poison) and thus produce a tea of very
healthful flavor and properties. The petals of the dried blossoms, scattered
throughout the house, shall work a beneficial influence on all who live
therein.
* Those who suffer in summer from the pollen of Ragweed should take the plant before it flowers, break it small, and pound these fragments to a dust. A pinch
of this powder placed, on each of seven mornings, upon the left palm, while the
word Laredo is
uttered, shall serve to weaken the plant's powers over the afflicted.
* St. Johnswort, an herb of ancient repute, may simply be carried in the pocket as a powerful charm against all evil. Otherwise it is useful as a beneficial
bath, if the leaves and flowers are infused in a tub full of water and the
whole body immersed therein.
* The Sandbur, called also Sand Spur, whose hurtful spines will sting the careless foot, may yet bring an assuagement of pain to the grieving and
heartsore. Wrap three of these burrs in a lock of lamb's wool and keep these in
a small bag of leather hung about the neck, for the length of three lunar
months. So shall the viper sorrow be vanquished.
* Scrub the teeth with a split twig of Sassafras for cleanliness of the mouth and facility of speech. Flatten three of its lobed leaves within a book, and
later hang them in your window against the works of evil wizards; boil its
twigs in water to produce a lotion of benefit to the skin. In all ways this
plant shall be of service to you and further your well-being.
* The Stinging Nettle, which must in wisdom be avoided for its malevolent
properties, yet shall yield a nutritious tea if the leaves are plucked young (by hands safeguarded in gloves the while). Also it may work a fitting revenge
upon one who has betrayed you, if a box full of the stems, these wrapped in
gaudy paper, be sent to the offender secretly at the waxing of the Moon.
* The Sunflower, whether growing wild or boldly planted in the garden, may bestow great strength upon all who attend it. Let one plant be observed from
day to day, and when its fire shall cool, its growth cease, and its seed be
firm, cut the bowed head off with a hand's length of stalk remaining. Tie this
tightly with a cord, and thus suspend it from a hook fixed to a ceiling within
your house, that it may hang there all the winter and be well preserved. In the
spring take it down, remove the seeds, and plant all but one of these in a
great circle surrounding your house. The remaining seed you should then crack
open and swallow the kernel thereof, thus to become one with its Sun-engendered
flesh, while you live thereafter encircled by the new flowers that grow yourself
the fertile center of their solar influence.
* The purple blooming Thistle, of many forms and sizes, is, like the Stinging Nettle, both vicious and mild. For its best use, take from it the sword-guarded
flowers, when in the autumn they shall pale and open to silver silk. Collect
this fine floss, and pack it into a small box, to be kept in readiness
thereafter to treat any bleeding wound. Lay it soon, in abundance, upon the
place, saying:
Thistledown across thee
Now comfort, stanch, and close thee.
* The Violet, herb of beauty and true love, yields a tea of exquisite azure if the flowers be duly steeped in boiling water. This identical infusion is also
to be used in preparing a ceremonial potion which will later in this book be
described. Presently the recipe will be given for a charmed
confection made from Violet blossoms.
* Behold the motley Viper's Bugloss, of spired flowers fair to view yet frail, of spiny stems and leaves all pricking and bristling. One blossom from each of
seven stalks, to be plucked and pressed dry within a sacred book, then kept in
a folded paper over the heart, shall strengthen the immortal spirit.
* The Wild Rose embodies such immutable sweetness and immaculate virtue that a tea made from its petals and given to any malefactor must change his very
nature.
* Likewise a dust of rose petals, well dried, pulverized, and mixed with a little powdered Orris root, may be sprinkled in the bed of a contrary lover; so
shall it turn love's vagaries to a faithful path again.
* The Woody Nightshade, also called Bittersweet, has not the deadly character of the greater nightshades. Yet take t not for brew or potion, lest its kinship
with these others work you harm. Use it, rather, for the comely and passionate
appearance of its flowers and berries, as a charmed bouquet, to bestow where
you would receive in return the amorous desires of a lover.
* Leaves of the melancholy scented bone-pale Yarrow may serve as an aromatic to revive the fainting senses, or as a tea to slake the thirst of a fevered brain,
but best of all as a reminder of mortality. Dried and hung up above the mirror
where you most often see your face, it shall remain a chastisement to all
ambitious vanities. Yet as Moon without Sun loses her strength, so yarrow's
truth is incomplete.
* For the whole of wisdom, you must match it with the solar Goldenrod, gathering both at their height. Set them to dry within an earthen jar, to bloom
and shine all winter, and favor you with signs of everlasting life. Thereby
shall you be made all-wise, seeing that death, while potent, is not omnipotent.
Certain plants of the commonest sort may be of great use in the procuring of both physical and spiritual benefits. It would be superfluous to treat at
length here those cultivated herbs all gardeners know, powerful though they be
for tonics and teas; yet those other plants, the lowly stalks many ignore by
the path or roadside, or from which they idly strip the leaves with no thought
of what treasures they cast down, may serve the Wise most faithfully.
Cherish then those leaves, flowers, or other parts that are healthful, and pluck them at their height, to be dried and brewed as teas, or otherwise used
as will be directed. Those that are of value in their spiritual aspects may be
prepared and duly fashioned into charms, and kept carefully, as will be
described.
Here follow some whose virtues are undeniable, yet too little honored by most persons (who surely ever have need of them).
* The yellow Avens, called also Geum, has a modest flower which yet produces pertinacious hooked seeds. Take then its manner as a pattern, and bind
twenty-two of these seeds in a small bag of gauze, to call forth strength of
purpose from even the most malleable of natures.
* The leaves of the Bayberry will produce a vigorous tea, of healthful flavor and inspiriting vapor, good to be taken by those who require renewal in the
midst of misfortune. The silver frosted berries may be boiled a while in
rainwater and the freed wax then skimmed off the surface. This wax mixed with a
pure oil will make a balm of value for soothing the skin, and hence the mind.
* Bedstraw, its stalks starred along their length by radiating leaves, should be laid beneath the pillow, secretly, to strengthen a failing marriage.
* The Bindweed, unwrapped from some other plant to which it clings, may be thrice knotted and thus kept to assure the fidelity of a lover. If it should
break at all in the knotting, it must be cast away and another strand of the
weed gathered. Yet if three strands should thus break, it shall be a sign
that this lover is weak and unworthy of your attentions.
* The Black Mustard, a plant of great vigor, may be dried and worn in a bag about the neck for safety from illness and misadventure. It shall also be of
value when held in the hand during an eclipse of the Sun, assuring that no evil
influence may enter into one upon whom the Moon's shadow falls.
* Burrs of the Burdock, packed in a wooden box, must inspire honesty in one
to whom they are given. There is also another use that shall be shown later in this book.
* The Buttercup, its blossoms filled to overflowing with the Sun's benisons,
shall confer a harmony as of milk and honey upon the household where a bunch
is hung over the doorway, and the falling petals allowed to remain for a week upon the threshold.
* Use the golden sap of the Celandine as a powerful ink, especially for charmed inscriptions upon parchment or fine leather.
* The lowly Chickweed, flowering like small stars tangled in the meadow grasses, may yield a tea of noble nourishment; also let it be wound into a
garland and hung about the neck to attract the favors of the Heavens.
* Cut ten strong stalks of blue-flowered Chicory with a sharp knife and bind them about from top to bottom with a cord. This wand should then be given to
one who is ill that he may be strengthened in blood, flesh, and bone.
* All Cinquefoils assist the works of magic. Sprigs thick-leaved should he held in the hand for some moments before the inception of any spiritual task, and
likewise after such an undertaking is completed.
* The Daisy is named Flower of the White Sun, and all endeavors of high virtue may be better accomplished by its influence. Where this plant blooms, you shall
walk about it thrice and name it as it is named here. Take away a single
flower, from which the petals should then be plucked and pressed in a white
paper. Thereafter swallow one petal each day, again naming the name, until all
shall be consumed and your own pure fire thereby strengthened.
* Collect some white sap from stalks of the Dandelion, and mix it with a little cow's milk as a bitter potion-this to be performed and taken when you would
chasten greed and pride, lest these faults lead you from the ways of truth.
* The Fringed Loosestrife shall yield inner peace to one who gathers it from the roadside and wears it on the breast for seven days.
* Goatsbeard, combining powers of the Sun and Moon, as its head is first gold-rayed and then silverglobed, should be plucked in both guises and the
stems' juices pressed upon your palms. Thus shall the right hand and the left
hand both serve you well.
* Ground Ivy, called also Gill-over-the- Ground, may be brewed into a bitter tea and sipped, to overcome weakness and timidity. Strewn about the floors of
the house, these leaves will promote serenity and benign dreams.
* The Heal-All, also called SelfHeal, is in all its parts most fervent as a favorable charm. Dried, tied up in a bag of purple silk and hung on a cord
about the neck, it will soothe the stomach, clear the consciousness, enliven
the eye, and guard the hand from hesitation. Treat this good herb with esteem
and it shall not fail.
* The Jewelweed, also called Touch-Me-Not, and also Orange Balsam, provides a most excellent lotion for afflictions of the skin, particularly ivy poisoning.
Crush the whole plant and press its juices upon the malady, then bind on a good
number of the leaves, bruised, as a poultice. This should be left in place from
dawn to dawn.
* Beware the powerful Jimsonweed, an ancient poison. Shun its touch, yet wearing a glove uproot it and carry it to the rat's tunnel. Forthwith thrust it
in, and drive it deep below with an iron rod or stake. This should then be
repeated with further stalks until the space is filled, which will thus be of
great efficacy in driving away the thieving vermin.
* Take berried branches of the juniper at the Winter Solstice and hang them over your doorway for thirteen days. Then take them down and pluck the berries
therefrom, saving these in a small box, in honor of life renewed. Keep them
well all the year, until the Winter Solstice comes again, when they should be
solemnly burned and the same gathering of branches performed anew.
* The elegant Lady's Thumb, as it grows perfect and chaste in the worst of waste places, shall be plucked and kept for a charm against all foulness and
corruption.
* Lady's Sorrel, called also Sourgrass, may well be eaten as it grows, for health and a clear intelligence, or else be brewed into a broth, with a little
salt added, to the same end.
* The May Apple, called also False Mandrake, may be used for the same purposes of sorcery as the true and deadly Mandrake or Mandragora. While its fruit is
benign, it serves also magically, whereby it should be dried and pierced with
spines of the Hawthorn as an object of spite. The root is a source of poison,
and may be employed in a dire charm later prescribed within this book.
* The fragrant Melilot, called also Sweet Clover, both white and yellow varieties, should be gathered in great bunches when it flowers, and hung upon
the walls of every chamber in your house. Thus will its scent prove a benison
to you for many months there after.
* When the Milkweed buds and blooms along the dusty roadside, its emanations are as of the costliest perfume; yet who, passing by, shall think to savor it?
Gather then an immense bouquet, and set it soon in water within your house.
This attention shall be rewarded by such sweetening of the air that all evil
shall be driven from your spirit, and you shall be thus blessed as
long as the fragrance shall last.
* The clever Mistletoe, of berries white and leaves substantial, shall render powerless your staunchest enemy if you will keep it hung above your bed; and
later in this book a further charm shall yet be told.
* A stiff sprig of Motherwort, rough with leaves, ripe-seeded and sharp- husked, should be carried to the place where a woman lies in labor. Its keen
barbs are scratched lightly upon each of her palms; two leaves are laid upon
her brow, and a leaf given her in either hand to grasp. Thus shall she be
succored by the Earth, who stands Midwife of midwives to all life.
* Pound well in a mortar the fresh leaves of Mullein, and make of them a poultice for infections, warts, and rashes of the skin. These woolly leaves,
whole, may be used in charms attracting fertility and prosperity to those whose
lands grow dry and barren.
* A few seeds of Peppergrass should be chewed to cure the headache. They may also be used as a charm for wealth.
* Pluck up the lowly Pineapple Weed by its poor roots, and crush it in the hands; such fruitful fragrance shall thereby be liberated as shall renew
forgotten hope and expectation, and inspire the hands to strengthened works.
* The Plantain of common growth, its hardy spike arising from broad leaves, shall, when decocted to a lotion with rain water, and rubbed upon the skin,
invigorate the whole flesh to a condition of redemption, and the senses to a
state of exhaltation.
* Gather the spiked leaves of Prickly Lettuce and dry them well, then crush them, and they may be burned as an incense to renew the senses and heal the
wounded spirit.
* Brew the young leaves of Queen Anne's Lace (taking care that it be indeed this herb itself, and not one of those, as the notorious Hemlock, that
resembles it but yields an extreme poison) and thus produce a tea of very
healthful flavor and properties. The petals of the dried blossoms, scattered
throughout the house, shall work a beneficial influence on all who live
therein.
* Those who suffer in summer from the pollen of Ragweed should take the plant before it flowers, break it small, and pound these fragments to a dust. A pinch
of this powder placed, on each of seven mornings, upon the left palm, while the
word Laredo is
uttered, shall serve to weaken the plant's powers over the afflicted.
* St. Johnswort, an herb of ancient repute, may simply be carried in the pocket as a powerful charm against all evil. Otherwise it is useful as a beneficial
bath, if the leaves and flowers are infused in a tub full of water and the
whole body immersed therein.
* The Sandbur, called also Sand Spur, whose hurtful spines will sting the careless foot, may yet bring an assuagement of pain to the grieving and
heartsore. Wrap three of these burrs in a lock of lamb's wool and keep these in
a small bag of leather hung about the neck, for the length of three lunar
months. So shall the viper sorrow be vanquished.
* Scrub the teeth with a split twig of Sassafras for cleanliness of the mouth and facility of speech. Flatten three of its lobed leaves within a book, and
later hang them in your window against the works of evil wizards; boil its
twigs in water to produce a lotion of benefit to the skin. In all ways this
plant shall be of service to you and further your well-being.
* The Stinging Nettle, which must in wisdom be avoided for its malevolent
properties, yet shall yield a nutritious tea if the leaves are plucked young (by hands safeguarded in gloves the while). Also it may work a fitting revenge
upon one who has betrayed you, if a box full of the stems, these wrapped in
gaudy paper, be sent to the offender secretly at the waxing of the Moon.
* The Sunflower, whether growing wild or boldly planted in the garden, may bestow great strength upon all who attend it. Let one plant be observed from
day to day, and when its fire shall cool, its growth cease, and its seed be
firm, cut the bowed head off with a hand's length of stalk remaining. Tie this
tightly with a cord, and thus suspend it from a hook fixed to a ceiling within
your house, that it may hang there all the winter and be well preserved. In the
spring take it down, remove the seeds, and plant all but one of these in a
great circle surrounding your house. The remaining seed you should then crack
open and swallow the kernel thereof, thus to become one with its Sun-engendered
flesh, while you live thereafter encircled by the new flowers that grow yourself
the fertile center of their solar influence.
* The purple blooming Thistle, of many forms and sizes, is, like the Stinging Nettle, both vicious and mild. For its best use, take from it the sword-guarded
flowers, when in the autumn they shall pale and open to silver silk. Collect
this fine floss, and pack it into a small box, to be kept in readiness
thereafter to treat any bleeding wound. Lay it soon, in abundance, upon the
place, saying:
Thistledown across thee
Now comfort, stanch, and close thee.
* The Violet, herb of beauty and true love, yields a tea of exquisite azure if the flowers be duly steeped in boiling water. This identical infusion is also
to be used in preparing a ceremonial potion which will later in this book be
described. Presently the recipe will be given for a charmed
confection made from Violet blossoms.
* Behold the motley Viper's Bugloss, of spired flowers fair to view yet frail, of spiny stems and leaves all pricking and bristling. One blossom from each of
seven stalks, to be plucked and pressed dry within a sacred book, then kept in
a folded paper over the heart, shall strengthen the immortal spirit.
* The Wild Rose embodies such immutable sweetness and immaculate virtue that a tea made from its petals and given to any malefactor must change his very
nature.
* Likewise a dust of rose petals, well dried, pulverized, and mixed with a little powdered Orris root, may be sprinkled in the bed of a contrary lover; so
shall it turn love's vagaries to a faithful path again.
* The Woody Nightshade, also called Bittersweet, has not the deadly character of the greater nightshades. Yet take t not for brew or potion, lest its kinship
with these others work you harm. Use it, rather, for the comely and passionate
appearance of its flowers and berries, as a charmed bouquet, to bestow where
you would receive in return the amorous desires of a lover.
* Leaves of the melancholy scented bone-pale Yarrow may serve as an aromatic to revive the fainting senses, or as a tea to slake the thirst of a fevered brain,
but best of all as a reminder of mortality. Dried and hung up above the mirror
where you most often see your face, it shall remain a chastisement to all
ambitious vanities. Yet as Moon without Sun loses her strength, so yarrow's
truth is incomplete.
* For the whole of wisdom, you must match it with the solar Goldenrod, gathering both at their height. Set them to dry within an earthen jar, to bloom
and shine all winter, and favor you with signs of everlasting life. Thereby
shall you be made all-wise, seeing that death, while potent, is not omnipotent.
Source:
Valerie Worth
The Crone's Book of Charms & Spells
ISBN 1-56718-811- 7cc -p. 6-19
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We expanded over the years to become well known at what we do. Now we represent over 100 artisans and craftsman that are well known in their venues and some just starting out. Some of their works have been premiered in TV, stage and movies on a regular basis.
Specializing in Medieval, Goth , Stage Film, BDFSM and Practitioner.
Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries a Dept of, Ask For IT was started by artists and former military veterans, and sword fighters, representing over 100 artisans, one who made his living traveling from fair to festival vending medieval wares. The majority of his customers are re-enactors, SCAdians and the like, looking to build their kit with period clothing, feast gear, adornments, etc.
Likewise, it is typical for these history-lovers to peruse the tent (aka mobile store front) and, upon finding something that pleases the eye, ask "Is this period?"
A deceitful query!! This is not a yes or no question. One must have a damn good understanding of European history (at least) from the fall of Rome to the mid-1600's to properly answer. Taking into account, also, the culture in which the querent is dressed is vitally important. You see, though it may be well within medieval period, it would be strange to see a Viking wearing a Caftan...or is it?
After a festival's time of answering weighty questions such as these, I'd sleep like a log! Only a mad man could possibly remember the place and time for each piece of kitchen ware, weaponry, cloth, and chain within a span of 1,000 years!! Surely there must be an easier way, a place where he could post all this knowledge...
Traveling Within The World is meant to be such a place. A place for all of these artists to keep in touch and directly interact with their fellow geeks and re-enactment hobbyists, their clientele.
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