Bos Herbalenchantment Grimoire How To Create A Moon Tree

// How to Create A Moon Tree // A special gift for the Dark Goddess of the Moon. Done on a Full Moon night.

The highest initiation of Luna is one of Wisdom, allowing the psyche to influence action and to follow an inner voice. The Great Wise Mother holds the secret of feminine spirituality. By making a 'Moo Tree' you can increase communication with the Moon Herself. In addition, it can also be a beautiful Being to adorn your home, bringing the sense of Luna in doors.

INSTRUCTIONS:

01) Willow or aspen branches.

02) Silver spray paint.

03) A container to put branches in.

04) River stones or Clear Quartz crystals or Moonstones (this is the best if you are able to account for and afford so many Moonstones).

05) Clear glass fairy lights.

06) Silver totems: crescent Moons. 07) Thin blue ribbons, seashells, and white papery flowers.

08) Two white or silver candles.

METHOD: 01) Spray the branches and arranged them in the pot supported by the river stones (or crystals). 02) Simply decorate as you like and don't worry if you haven't got all the above; just use your imagination and decorate the tree in your own style.

03) Empower the Tree and bless it by offering it to the full Moon. The following chant can be said under the silver ligh tof the Moon:

BY THE POWER OF HEKATE, KERRIDWEN, AND THE MORRIGAN,I DRAW DOWN THE POWER OF THE FULL MOON INTO THIS MOON TREE. BY THE POWER OF THE DARK GODDESS OF THE MOON,THIS TREE IS SACRED AND BLESSED WITH LUNAR ENERGY. THE POWER OF THE MOON LADY NOW DWELLS WITHIN MY HOME. THIS IS MY WILL, SO MOTE IT BE.

Now place the Moon Tree on an altar or other sacred place where It can be revered and worshiped. I plan to place mine with my Moonstones on my altar so as to always have them charge one another with Lunar Energy.

May the Goddess of the Moon and Her Lunar Spirits be with you.

Blessed be. )O(

Embraced by Her dark wings,Dani

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Internal Dualism

Is it a good spirit or an evil spirit? That question always seems to come up when one is discussing mythological creatures, and usually the answer is 'neither or both.' For unlike Christianity in which the dualism, the opposing forces are contained in two separate beings fairy like beings tend to be their own opposites which makes sense given that nature itself is often unpredictable and it's own opposite. Hermes for example was the deity of both thieves and merchants, for he could help either as he wished. It makes sense for natural beings to be their own opposites, for the same river which brings water to fields also floods them, the same forest which provides food is the place of wolves. It's also important to keep the world of fairies in perspective. For the king of the forest loves the spirits of the trees, they are his children and or his wives. Thus those who cut down trees are killing those he loves. From the perspective of the fairies humans are assaulting them, attacking them. Yet at the same time many of these fairies have a protective streak about them. Thus they will both help and harm humans, depending on the humans relationship with them.This all comes down to the nature of the soul in ancient belief. In order to begin to understanding the ancient European conception of the soul, you must forget everything you think you know about it. Our modern conception does not help in our goal of becoming aware of the real nature of fairies and our relationship to them. Moreover, the modern European beliefs about the soul do not explain some of the important traditions that have been carried over from ancient belief systems.People then, as they often times do now, believed that the soul was separate from the body. At one time people thought that souls inhabit objects as well as living things. "The ancient Egyptians...conceived the Ka or personality as a thing separable from the person or body, and hence 'the statue of a human being represented and embodied a human Ka'. Likewise a statue of a god was the dwelling-place of a divine Ka, attracted to it by certain mystical formulae at the time of dedication." (Wentz, 1911) When someone dies we erect a marker to them, a marker which is then placed in a beautiful location and on which we place flowers and other offerings. That this marker is a remnant of a shrine to the dead person is clear, for we speak to them at it which is in essence a form of prayer to their soul. What's more, we feel reverence around it as we would in a religious setting. So again it is clear that this is a shrine for the dead. What isn't clear, given most peoples current beliefs regarding the soul, is why this shrine must be at the persons body. The answer to this question is surprising as it is plainly obvious - people once believed that the soul remained with the body after death.In Russia, they have funeral songs: "which the grave itself is spoken of as the home of the departed spirit. "Dark and joyless is our prison-house," is the reply constantly made by ghosts when questioned about their habitation. "Stone and earth lie heavy on our hearts, our eyes are fast closed, our hands and feet are frozen by the cold." Especially during the winters do the dead suffer; when the spring returns the peasants say, "Our fathers enjoy repose," and in Little-Russia they add, "God grant that the earth may lie light on you." (Ralston, 1872) From this song, we can see that the Russians believed that the soul remained within the body. Similarly, as we will see further in "Humans Are the Dead", in Celtic, Germanic, Mongolian, Japanese, and nearly every other Indo-European and Tengeri Mythology, humans souls were also thought to grow into flowers, trees, and rivers - things that we previously explained to be fairies. Yet at the same time, side by side with these beliefs, are Celtic and Russian myths that tell of soul taking the form of a winged animal. In Brittany, souls are frequently thought to be in butterfly form, "but that upon leaving the body it is often believed to take the form of a fly and sometimes that of a raven..." (Ralston 1872). The butterfly also seems to have been universally accepted by the Slavonians as an emblem of the soul. Similarly, one of the names in the Government of Yaroslaw is dushichka, a caressing diminutive of dusha, the soul. In Kherson culture, it is believed that if the usual alms are not distributed at a funeral, the dead man's soul will reveal itself to his relatives in the form of a moth flying about the flame of a candle. Then, the day after receiving such a warning visit, the family would call together the poor and distribute food to them. Meanwhile, Bohemian culture holds that if the first butterfly a man sees in the spring is a white one, he is destined to die within the year. The Servians, on the other hand, believe that the soul of a witch often leaves her body while she is asleep and flies abroad in the shape of a butterfly. "The belief in the bird-soul was well known in the Highlands. To illustrate: A farmer was coming home from Inverness to Buntait when at a weird part of the way his mare got uncontrollable and ran up with him to where there was a waterfall (eas). Whereupon he swooned and fell off. On recovering he found his way home and was amazed at finding his mare tied in the stable, not knowing how it happened, for nobody confessed to having tied her. Soon after he hurt himself in moving a heavy box of oats at the farm of Shewglie; a plough or two broke thereafter at the spring-work, always a bad omen. Getting more unwell, he said to his wife the night before his death: "What a beautiful bird I heard singing by my bedside to-night. I well believe it," she replied. To which he answered: "It was my ghost; I cannot live long." (Ralston, 1872)There were also a number of other animal forms which human souls could take. "it was generally believed among the Northern nations that the soul escaped from the body in the shape of a mouse, which crept out of a corpse's mouth and ran away, and it was also said to creep in and out of the mouths of people in a trance. While the soul was absent, no effort or remedy could recall the patient to life; but as soon as it had come back animation returned." (Guerber, 1909)It is also clear that along with these ideas, it was believed that humans changed into some other form after death. What we see from examining the mythology surrounding death is that the same people believed that two or even three things happened to a human soul when we died.Why did the ancient Europeans hold so many beliefs? Is it simply because they were confused by what happens after death? Is it because people were not certain which one of a myriad of choices to believe in so they picked all possible outcomes? Of course, any of these options is possible. Certainly the modern tradition of laying flowers on the grave has persisted even though almost no one truly believes that this does any real good for the dead. So it is also quite possible that the beliefs in Europe changed slowly over time, thus making it appear that they believed that two very different things could happen to a person's soul.There is, however, an alternative option; that people believed many things happened to a person when they died. That like the people of the Steppes in Central Asia, the Ainu, the Japanese, the Finns as well as the forbearers of the Hungarians and North East Europeans some Europeans believed that everyone had multiple souls. These peoples do have some disagreement as to the number of souls a human can have, but they believed that when people die some of their souls reside in nature and become trees or mountains, while others are reincarnated or travel to the afterlife for a time in the form of a winged creature such as a butterfly or a bird. (Ried, 2002) Jacob Grimm points out that Germanic people spoke of the soul as a feminine object, while they spoke of life -integrally related to breath - as masculine. (Grimm, 1835) Clearly, then, there was a distinction of some form between the two, which in turn, supports the idea that at one time the people in Europe believed in more than one soul. The fundamental belief in multiple souls is significant because it shows us not only how some fairies that reside in nature can be connected with ancient humans, but it also explains how an individual fairy can seemingly have many personalities and forms at one time. We see the same belief repeated in Japan where people thought that the Kami had multiple souls, and therefore multiple natures or personalities. According to them, any given Kami has four souls and three natures. Namely, Aramitama, Nigimitama, and Sakimitama. Any one of these natures can become dominant, thus completely changing the way the Kami acts, what they desire, and what goals they will have.The Aramitama is violent and generally destructive. However, it is important to keep in mind that destructiveness is not always harmful. After all, it was violence and destructiveness that saved Japan from the genocide of the Mongols and protected people from other dangers.The second type, Nigimitama, is the gentle nature which Kami uses to make the crops grow and the water pure. However, Kami in this state do not go out of their way to do good. They simply keep the natural order of things so that there is enough for humans and animals to survive.The final nature, Sakimitama, is one in which Kami brings extra luck, creates wealth for humans, and other similar helpful actions. I believe that, just as in the concepts behind the Kami, we see separate natures in fairies of European mythology. For the same fairy that causes people's crops to grow is the one that children are told to avoid. (Frazer, 1922) In the sacred groves, the fairies that people prayed to for wealth and luck would not hesitate to kill those who disturbed them. (Tactis)Hermes in Greek mythology was both the god who protected merchants from thieves and the one who helped thieves rob the merchants. He gave humans secrets to keep them safe, yet snatched children away, dragging them into a dark world from which there was no return. It is clear from these stories that the fairies and deities in European myths had multiple natures, and that their motivations and thoughts changed with their mood. Indeed, fairies and deities can be said to feel things with more intensity than most humans can and so they need to struggle for control much more fiercely. Unlike much of the modern perception of the world, in which the duality between destruction and creation exists in separate beings, fairies exhibit this duality inside themselves. An internalized duality makes sense given that fairies were natural phenomena which are, in themselves, dualistic in a way that is neither good nor evil. After all, if fairies helped humans hunt for food, they must also help wolves source their food, which can include humans as there is no moral difference in the wolf's mind between a deer and a human. In addition, we as humans have every right to kill the wolf to defend ourselves, our own food, and those we love. Why is this comparison significant? Because this is the way of fairies - in fact, the way of all feral creatures - and this is a critical insight into what they think and do.Indeed, when examining fairies, it becomes obvious that humans are not always their closest companions. Fairies often love trees and animals more because these are their friends. When a human chops down a tree they are in fact killing a fairy, which can be a child, mother, or lover of another fairy. To fairies, humans can be the wolves that destroy what they love, the rats that bring disease and eat off their infant's faces. In this sense, fairies have every right to return pestilence onto humanity to protect themselves just as we have the right to defend ourselves from predators and illnesses.

Laums

Part of the Fairy List Encyclopedia.

The Laumes are female fairy like creatures. Much of the beliefs about the Laumes, especially those of them as anthropomorphous creatures likely goes back to the Neolithic or even pre-Neolithic era.

Fairy like beings who would often appear as birds such as pigeons. They lived in rocks and trees, especially birch trees and often appeared as woman with goats horns, heads, legs, and overly large breasts, or at times with chicken legs. They could also take the form of other animals such as cats, dogs, horses, and bears. Although they would later evolve to aid in farming and choirs the Laumes were originally hunting spirits.

Some of these fairies craved the taste of human flesh. These were depicted as having long spindly arms tipped with claws made of stone, large teeth and large breats. The more dangerous Laumes would live in the forest canopy, abandoned baths, or the waters. As with most fairies iron injured and kept them at bay.

In other cases Laumes was depicted as beautiful girls with gold clothes (when they weren't naked) which would often carry the body of a chicken with them. In some tales the Laumes decended from the sky into the forests, mountain caves, lakes, swamps or islands. On earth they help humans and act to guard morality, giving gifts to the virtuous and punishing the wicked. They especially hated greet and sloth and would punish those who exhibited these traits.

They would come out to dance on the new moon and sing and dance, causing it to rain, hail and storm in their delight.

They would also come out on the nights of the full moons when they would gather in dewy meadows and dance in merry circles. The Laumes had a strong relationship to rain, especially to rainbows for it was believed that they would weave the colorful band into the sky.

Because of their importance in insuring a good harvest they were often offered bread and beer as gifts to insure their help making the fields fertile. Other offerings included silk ribbons and soup (left in the bathhouse for them).

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March Esbat Chaste Moon

From "The Unequivocal Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft"As a consequence known as the Progeny or Pig Moon, the Pure Moon is a time to leave mental seeds-thoughts of doer and hope. This is equally a time of holiness and brightness. It's the time to bless the magickal herbs and flora and fauna in your garden and to start preparing the earth for the seeds that you hand down leave. It's equally the time to rationally produce yourself for new experiences, a new job, pregnancy, plunder a trip, or bringing a new animal happening your home. March is the time for new early stages, violate illusions, and seeing the truth in your life unmoving a great deal it may punch. The energy rule breaks happening the open, a good time for increasing, prospering, and exploring. Glare and Somber are in climb over now. From Brighter Blessings.com The Pure Moon of March (equally known as the Lenten, Progeny, Sap, Pig and Hare Moon) entirely path the celebration of Stool pigeon. It is the faithfulness of the return of the Holy being in all her Maiden thanks. At this time of the rendezvous we produce for planting the fields and zone, blessing the seeds for the crops in the hope that the year's pull together hand down be bountiful.Assume the Holy being of the Moon Diana, individual is supple - panorama about to start to grow happening life all around us. As it should be as the Holy being has visit faces and forms, so can we. The circle prance never ends, distinct revolves once more and once more. Then as the Holy being ever renews her aspect, so can Her children. This new be in first place began with the Stream Moon in February by firming our foundations to produce for change, and now is the time to report our panorama. On the Esbat of the Pure Moon, we normal rasping within ourselves to strengthen our foundations establish to leave the seeds of our new lives, and report what lies current waiting, equivalence the Maiden, to be undamaged. In suitable a week, the Sabbat of Ostara hand down be splendid. The stirrings of Father Native land are now patent, with the exceed in detail plant life began to come out of from the earth, the woodlands begin to get your hackles up and whoosh with new life and the plants begin to return and serenade us following once more - the intone of the Robin is now not the distinct intone to be heard. Her Associate now seeks out the Maiden Holy being, and their conciliator grows in power and wisdom. As this tolerance develops, so too can we make deeper and arise new strengths to compel to our own nauseated heights.A Pure MOON AdvantageOn the night of the full Pure Moon, okay the vivid seeds for your personality spiritual growth that you would equivalence to sow. They may well be seeds of understanding, seeds of boldness, or seeds of progressiveness for sort. You can leave these seeds fair with your hand down, by meditation or, for a associations ritual, you may well choice to leave some in detail bulbs, or seeds to boost the seedlings for your vegetable garden, for sort. Release each child a pot and earth, and a handful of bulbs or seeds. Assign to each of these bulbs or seeds (as visit as you hunger after for each original) the reverberation you wish to forward. For each bulb or seed that is sown, perk up (if you so wish) the in the same way as incantation:"Instill, sow, stimulate, and roll up,This is my wish (insert wish)Holy being Moon make it so." Then in the months ahead you can forward your seedlings which is a brilliant learning preparation for descendants children, to pertain to first-hand the power of individual. This is equally respectable for from way back children, as by planting their desires they are faithfully answerable for their seedlings. Several edge you choice in that case, you make a corpulent enthusiasm that your seedlings hand down be nurtured and dashing in the months that lay ahead, so that they hand down roll up, flower and wash down fruit. (To be recycled as a facade foundation - or not at all as you prefer!)As soon as endorsement an Esbat ritual, it is a lovely sense to merge a meal with group obscure. A huge way of piece of legislation this, (that is equally fun youthful for the children, and can be part of the day's assembly), is to get into Moon Biscuits.To do so you hand down need:MOON BISCUITS295 grams flour1 1/2 teaspoon furious powder1/2 teaspoon briny120 grams unfold230 grams little one1 egg, well beaten1-teaspoon vanilla1 Tablespoon milk or creamThrough young ingredients where achievable, elementary assess the flour, furious powder and briny happening a cavern. In unorthodox cavern, cream together the unfold and little one until it has paled in colour. Add the egg, the vanilla and the milk a near to the ground at a time and concoction until the mixture is dull. Now add the dry ingredients a near to the ground at a time. Put happening the refrigerator and dance the mixture for at least possible 1 hour. Close, inventory out the dough to in this area 1/8 inch coated on a subtly floured show and cut it happening circles with a curvy biscuit ship, or a floured glass/mug. Fall with little one. Earn on an ungreased furious canvas at 375 f, 190 c or gas score 5 for 8-10 account. For an late addition special extravagance, liquefy a bar of dark young tan by the Bain-Marie edge, or in the microwave (carefully!) and following the cookies are fit to be eaten and frozen, dip half of the biscuit happening the melted tan to start the ball rolling half-moon cookies. Now, eat and enjoy!

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Blodlessing 10

Yesterday, on Shabbat Blodlessing 9, I acknowledged in the mail my wolfsbane talisman containing the power of apiece life and death. In the apportion with it was a tarot gift card - the nine of chalices. I dotingly located the talisman in my microscopic (3 1/2" x 2 1/4" x 2 1/8") handcrafted grating black altar spell box featuring a gold pentacle. The tarot card I located upright onto the elephant hide of my visual display unit to dream it overnight fashionable the daylight.

Later that day, a links associate recalled a movie that she had habitual weeks ago which was forever current expression waiting to be watched. We watched it. That movie was Accord Neediness Nirvana. The in the beginning decide (in the in the beginning interact I clicked on in a earth to interact to it for this post) I saw (Kristin Pettit) rated the pall nine.

I know with conviction that I am group for secure and nice enjoyment.

Behindhand night on Motzei Shabbat Tishrei 9, I dreamt... (afterward post)

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Fairy Tale Contest

Cyn Balog is hosting a fabulous contest on her blog. And the GRAND Prize is a signed ARC and a hand-crafted, silver fortune cookie necklace with a special message, Believe. This same necklace is just like the one that Morgan wears in FAIRY TALE! There are other prizes and if your interested go HERE and follow the contest guidelines. Easy Peasy! Here is a blurb to wet your appetite

A CAPTIVATING AND WITTY DARK FANTASY THAT WILL HAVE GIRLS LUSTING AFTER IT.

Morgan Sparks has always known that she and her boyfriend, Cam, are made for each other. But when Cam's cousin Pip comes to stay with the family, Cam seems depressed. Finally Cam confesses to Morgan what's going on: Cam is a fairy. The night he was born, fairies came down and switched him with a healthy human boy. Nobody expected Cam to live, and nobody expected his biological brother, heir to the fairy throne, to die. But both things happened, and now the fairies want Cam back to take his rightful place as Fairy King.Even as Cam physically changes, becoming more miserable each day, he and Morgan pledge to fool the fairies and stay together forever. But by the time Cam has to decide once and for all what to do, Morgan's no longer sure what's best for everyone, or whether her and Cam's love can weather an uncertain future.

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The Power Of Om

Scarcely, I bolt been concentrating mostly on exploring Consideration, Yoga and mixed eastern techniques and philosophies.Consideration to me is when all's said and done about interrupting the hope of dissertation life, and thoughts that status frozen our minds, frequently flaw us realising it. Our inner life is very major, and plainly thoughts all sniping and favorable can bolt a best part model on us, this is an essential thing to fulfillment for qualities beginning magical practice, and even mature magicians can frequently get carried comatose with the senior advanced techniques and lose about the basics of meditation and fear of the right mind and Drive.One of the techniques I bolt been experimenting with (not for the surpass time in my practice) is the use of mantras. I fixed to use a very simple and the utmost unpleasant one which of course is - "Om".Om, is an ancient Sanskrit word, and if I accelerate exactly so from reading Crowley's book "Magical In Assumption And Formula", Crowley understood it, and it's derivatives to be a very powerful magical word.So, I used this word in the sphere of my meditation practice, surpass of all saying it silently in my right mind, and then I found myself saying it out shooting, quietly at surpass. It then became louder, and I found uncommon tones started to project and all but appear. At the end of the day this became a shake, rather than truthful a word, or even a reliable. It became a shake that united me with some range of measureless core, and the shake enlivened and empowered my creature, filling it with energy. At this shrink all unruly thoughts in addition seemed to pelt.I would be inquiring to drawback from qualities also who has any heavy experiences.Om - read senior (Wikipedia witness).OmFrater Therion

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Gardening For The Fey

Let's get one thing straight here, fairies are "not" cute. Shakespeare made them seem cute, and Disney finished off the job (sorry, Heather, but it's true). The Fey are capricious, mischievous, arrogant, menacing, and sometimes downright evil and dangerous to humans. The Fey include elves, fairies, gnomes, trolls, goblins, and a host of other supernatural beings who are somewhere 'between men and angels'. Almost all of these beings have a very close connection to nature. Rosemary Sicilians thought that this was a favorite plant of the fairies, and that young fairies would take the form of snakes and lie amongst the branches, and the baby fairies would sleep in the flowers. Ragwort Also known as St. John's Wort, this plant has a strong connection with the fey. In Ireland, it's called Fairy's horse, since supposedly fairies would ride through the air on it. Leprechauns are supposed to have buried their treasure underneath the roots of this plant. And on the Isle of Man, there is the belief that if you stepped upon a ragwort plant on St. John's eve after sunset, a fairy horse would spring up out of the earth and carry you off until sunrise, at which time it would leave you wherever you happened to be. Elder Almost all trees are home to some sort of elven kind, including elm, oak, willow, yew, fir, holly, etc. However, elder trees have the highest elf population. The Elder Mother who dwells within the tree is very protective of her domain, and it is taboo to cut part of the tree without asking her permission first. Stories tell of the Elder Mother tormenting children who were in cradles of elderwood (which had not been asked for) by pulling them by the legs. The chant for asking permission is: Old Woman, Old Woman, Give me some of your wood And when I am dead I'll give you some of mine And if you stand under an elder tree at midnight on Midsummer eve in Denmark, you will see Toly, the King of the Elves, go by. Oak In Germany, this is the fairies' favorite dwelling place, and they are especially fond of dancing around it. Barley A common grain, but one of the main foods of the fairy. Fairies would often borrow oatmeal from storehouses, and returned a double measure of barley as repayment. Silverweed Also known as silver cinquefoil, the roots of this plant were another of the fairies' favorite foods, which they called brisgein. However, it likes to grow in marshy areas, so cultivating it might be a problem. Heather This is another of the fairies' favorite foods. Wild Thyme Another herb that was thought to be home to fairies, since they liked the aromatic flowers, and spend their leisure time among them. If you picked the flowers from a patch of wild thyme where the little folk did live, and placed them on your eyes, you would be able to see the fey. Cowslip This flower is also known as Fairy Cups in Lincolnshire, and was often a hiding place for frightened fairies. At dawn, as the light shines on the dewdrops, the fairies "hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear." Ferns This plant was guarded by Oberon on Midsummer night, since this is when the fern would flower--a beautiful sapphire blue--and Oberon wanted to prevent mortals from obtaining the fern seed. If you managed to collect it despite him, you would be under the protection of spirits, and while you carried the seed it would render you invisible. Clover Finding a four-leafed clover grants you a wish, and gives you the power to see the fairies dancing in their fairy rings. This is also the main ingredient of fairy ointment, which gives you the power to penetrate the fairies' glamour and see them as they truly are. Be careful, though: if you unknowingly carry a four-leafed clover (in a bundle of grass) the fairies have the power to enchant you. Foxglove The flowers serve as petticoats for the fairies and in Ireland, they serve as fairies' gloves. Also, flowers are used as thimbles when fairies mend their clothing. Furze Bushes The cobwebs collected on its branches are used to make fairies' mantles. Stichwort In Devonshire, people do not pick this for fear they be "pixy led." Held in special honor by fairies. Strawberries In Bavaria, fairies are very fond of strawberries and peasants will tie a basket of them between cows' horns to assure an abundance of milk. Rose In Germany and Scandinavia, this plant is under special protection of dwarfs and elves, both who are ruled by King Laurin, Lord of the Rose Garden. Cabbage stalks Also serve as transportation for fairies, who ride these like horses. Cuscuta Epithymum In Jersey, known as "Fairies' Hair." Peziza Coccinea Used for fairies' hats. Elecampane In Denmark, this is known as 'Elf-Dock'. Toadstools These are thought to be 'Stylized Pixy Stools' and in the north of Wales are called 'Fairy Tables'. Pyrus Japonica Used as kindling for fairy fires. Tulips The flowers are used as cradles for fairy children. A folktale from Devon tells of a woman who grew many tulips in her garden because she once went out at night and saw the babes sleeping in them. After she died, the man who moved into her cottage dug up all the tulips because he thought they were useless, and instead planted vegetables and parsley. This so enraged the fairies that every night they would dance on the vegetables and tear their roots out of the ground and shred the parsley leaves. Only on the woman's grave were the tulips still big and beautiful and fragrant. In time, though, the grave became forgotten, the tulips were trampled, and the fairies withdrew far away. Since then, tulips have lost their size and splendor. Wood Anemone Shelters fairies in wet weather. Wood Sorrel From Wales, its white flowers are known as "fairy bells" and are used to summon fairies to their reveries. Mallow The fruit of this plant is called "Fairy Cheeses" in the North of England. Nightwort Evil elves prepare poison in this plant. It is also one of the sacred plants of the Dutch Alven, along with elf-leaf, which they watered and strengthened against the coming day. The Alven would sicken or kill people or cattle that touched the plants. Globe Flower Also called the "Troll Flower", trolls are supposed to unlock the flower at night and drop venom in the cup to poison dairymaids and herdsmen. Hawthorn In Brittany and Ireland, also called "Fairy Thorn", this tree is the trysting place of fairies. To pick a branch or leaf from a hawthorn is to court the displeasure of the fairies. Wormwood This is 'Dian's Bud' which Oberon used to remove the enchantment from Titania. Wormwood is also protection against the Rusalky of Russia, who will tickle you to death if they find you in the woods without some of this in your pockets. Flax The flowers are not only protection against sorcery, but also are beloved of Queen Hulda, who leads a procession through the valley between Kroppbuhl and Unterlassen while the flax is blooming. Fairy-flax is used by the fairies to weave all their linen. Poludnitsa, the Noon Woman, interrogates women she finds in the flax fields at noon, to make sure they know how to cultivate and spin flax. If they answer incorrectly, she kills them. To prepare a sleeping place for Queen Titania, you should plant these flowers: 'Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. There sleeps Titania sometime of the night Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight.' Any fruit out of season or remaining after the harvest is the property of the fairies. In the West of England, strays are left to assure fairy goodwill. Fairies, like witches, don't like yellow flowers and will go out of their way to avoid them. Many thanks to my gothic garden researcher, Anagram..... And for the less dark side of the fae, visit The Faery Garden, a much more complete page than this....

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