Magic, Spells, and Potions

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and the filthy air! -- Macbeth

Disclaimer

This is NOT a page about Wiccans or neo-pagans, and I do not advocate the belief that Wiccans are Satan-worshippers and/or baby-killers. I am well aware that they are not. This is a starting point for historical research into the great witch craze of 1100-1700 AD. And please, don't ask me for spells.

• Christian Magic. Consequences of the blending of religion and magic.
  Christian Magic The Saints Holidays & the Switch to Christian Magic Sacramentals as Magic
• Cockerel Testicles and Vervain: Love Magic.. Various recipes for love, lust, and power over the opposite sex. Most look not at all tasty. (Updated June 29, 1998)
  Cockerel Testicles and Vervain: Love Magic Love Magic Philtres and Love Potions
• Flying Potions and Getting to the Sabbat. The botanic means by which accused witches orgied with the Devil. (Updated July 10, 1998)
  Flying Potions & Getting to the Sabbat The Economics of Air-Borne Witches How They Flew Flying Ointments The Ingredients Atropine and Solanine Experimental Drugs Witches or Drug-Users?
• Preserve Me From Harm: Protection Against Witches. With hordes of witches scurrying around during the burning times, here's how people protected both themselves and their property. (Updated January 5, 1999)
  Protection From Witches Agrimony Ash Aspen Beer Brass Broom Candles Charms Chickens Church Grim Daisy Dill Elder Emerald Garlic Gemstones Hagstone Hawthorn Hazel Holly Horseshoe Houseleek Iron Lavender Maidenhair Fern Marigold Marshmallow Mistletoe Olive Pins Rowan Rue Salt Saxifrage Scarlet Pimpernel St. John's Wort Trailing Pearlwort Trees Urine Vervain Water Witch Bottles Witch Boxes Wolf's Head Yarrow
• Tools of the Trade. Discover the correlation of brooms, cauldrons, and their ilk to purported witches. (Updated August 23, 1998)
  Tools of the Trade Aiguillette Athame Body Parts Broom Cauldron Dolls Elf Arrows Grimoire Hand of Glory Needles Pins Quirin Speculum Thread Urine Witch's Hat
• A Witch's Garden. Herbs and herbal derivatives associated with witchcraft. (Updated January 5, 1999)
  A Witch's Garden Almond Apples Belladonna Christmas Rose Cinquefoil Corn Datura Deadly Nightshade Elder Ergot Fennel Foxglove Hawthorn Heather Heliotrope Hellebore Hemlock Hemp Henbane Jimsonweed Judas Tree Lavender Lettuce Mandrake Mistletoe Monkshood Oak Oats Olive Orange Pear Tree Poplar Poppy Purple Orchis Ragwort Rowan Rue Saffron Scarlet Pimpernel Scopolia Smallage Sorghum Speedwell St. John's Wort Sweet Flag Tobacco Trailing Pearlwort Vervain Walnut Tree Water Lily Witch Hazel Woodbine Yarrow

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Magic, Spells, and Potions is copyright 1998 to Shantell Powell.