A Witch's Garden: Smallage

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.

Smallage

Also known as lovage, smallage is a culinary herb used as part of a potion by the witch Goody Cloyse in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." Also in this flying potion were cinque-foil, wolf's-bane, fine wheat, and the fat of a new-born babe.

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The preceding botanic illustration is from The Virtual Garden Search Engine, part of the Time Life Electronic Encyclopedia.