A Witch's Garden: Saffron

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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.

Saffron

It was said that saffron could incite secual desires especially in women, and it was thus used in love magic, often in combination with Betel, Hemp, Poppy, and Thornapple.... In late Medieval Europe, saffron was also employed as a powerful magical device to combat St. Anthony's fire (cf. Ergot) and was an ingredient in the Witches' Ointments (Rätsch 144).

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