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Merry Meet..... Ever heard of crows foot? or bats wing? well these were just names of herbs back in the day to keep them undercover.... Here is a list of old herbal names and there herb!

Maybe you might like to use it in you BOS? Or in your spell making?...

Here are some old time names for herbs:

A Bone of an Ibis: Buckthorn

Adders Tongue: Dogstooth Violet

A Titan's Blood: Wild Lettuce

A Lion's Hairs: Tongue of a Turnip [i.e., the leaves of the taproot]

A Man's Bile: Turnip Sap

A Pig's Tail: Leopard's Bane

A Hawk's Heart: Heart of Wormwood

An Eagle: Wild Garlic

Ass's Foot or Bull's Foot: Coltsfoot

Blood: Elder sap or another tree sap

Blood of Hephaistos: Wormwood

Burning Bush: White Dittany

Bread and Cheese Tree: Hawthorne

Blood from a Head: Lupine

Bird's Eye: Germander Speedwell

Blood of Ares: Purslane

Blood of a Goose: A Mulberry Tree's Milk

Bloodwort: Yarrow

Blood of Hestia: Camomile

Blood of an Eye: Tamarisk Gall

Blood from a Shoulder: Bear's Breach

Bat's Wings: Holly

Black Sampson: Echinacea

Bull's Blood or Seed of Horus: Horehound

Bear's Foot: Lady's Mantle

Calf's Snout: Snapdragon

Cat's Foot: Canada Snake Root and/or Ground Ivy

Candelmas Maiden: Snowdrop.

Capon's Tail: Valerian.

Christ's Ladder: Centaury

Cheeses: Marsh Mallow

Chocolate Flower: Wild Geranium

Christ's Eye: Vervain Sage

Clear-eye: Clary Sage

Click: Goosegrass

Cucumber Tree: Magnolia

Clot: Great Mullein

Corpse Plant: Indian Pipe.

Crowdy Kit: Figwort

Cuddy's Lungs: Great Mullein

Crow Foot: Cranesbill

Cuckoo's Bread: Common Plantain

Clear Eye: Clary Sage

Crow's Foot: Wild Geranium

Devils Dung: Asafoetida

Dragon's Blood: Calamus

Dog's Mouth: Snap Dragon

Daphne: Laurel/Bay

Devil's Plaything: Yarrow

Dove's Foot: Wild Geranium

Dew of the Sea: Rosemary

Dragon Wort: Bistort

Earth Smoke: Fumitory

Eye of Christ: Germander Speedwell

Elf's Wort: Elecampane

Enchanter's Plant: Vervain

Englishman's Foot: Common Plantain

Erba Santa Maria: Spearmint

Everlasting Friendship: Goosegrass

Eye of the Day: Common Daisy

Eye of the Star: Horehound

Eye Root: Goldenseal

Eyes: Aster, Daisy, Eyebright

Frog's Foot: Bulbous Buttercup

From the Loins: Camomile

Fat from a Head: Spurge

Fairy Smoke: Indian Pipe

Felon Herb: Mugwort

From the Belly: Earth-apple

From the Foot: Houseleek

Five Fingers: Cinquefoil

Fox's Clote: Burdock

Graveyard Dust: Mullein

Goat's Foot: Ash Weed

God's Hair: Hart's Tongue Fern

Golden Star: Avens

Gosling Wing: Goosegrass

Graveyard Dust: Mullein

Great Ox-eye: Ox-eye Daisy

Hairs of a Hamadryas Baboon: Dill Seed

Hair of Venus: Maidenhair Fern

Hag's Taper: Great Mullein

Hagthorn: Hawthorn

Hare's Beard: Great Mullein

Herb of Grace: Vervain

Hind's Tongue: Hart's Tongue Fern

Holy Herb: Yerba Santa

Holy Rope: Hemp Agrimony

Hook and Arn: Yerba Santa

Horse Tongue: Hart's Tongue Fern

Horse Hoof: Coltsfoot

Hundred Eyes: Periwinkle

Innocense: Bluets

Jacob's Staff: Great Mullein

Joy of the Mountain: Marjoram

Jupiter's Staff: Great Mullein

King's Crown: Black Haw

Knight's Milfoil: Yarrow

Kronos' Blood: of Cedar

Lady's Glove: Foxglove aka Witches' Gloves

Lion's Tooth: Dandelion aka Priest's Crown

Lad's Love: Southernwood

Lamb's Ears: Betony

Little Dragon: Tarragon

Love in Idleness: Pansy

Love Leaves: Burdock

Love Lies Bleeding: Amaranth or Anemone

Love Man: Goosegrass

Love Parsley: Lovage

Love Root: Orris Root

Man's Health: Ginseng

Maiden's Ruin: Southernwood

Master of the Woods: Woodruff

May: Black Haw

May Lily: Lily of the Valley

May Rose: Black Haw

Maypops: Passion Flower

Mistress of the Night: Tuberose

Mutton Chops: Goosegrass

Nose Bleed: Yarrow

Old-Maid's-Nightcap: Wild Geranium

Old Man's Flannel: Great Mullein

Old Man's Pepper: Yarrow

Oliver: Olive

Password: Primrose

Pucha-pat: Patchouli

Peter's Staff: Great Mullein

Priest's Crown: Dandelion leaves

Poor Man's Treacle: Garlic

Queen of the Night: Vanilla Cactus

Queen of the Meadow: Meadowsweet

Queen of the Meadow Root: Gravelroot

Ram's Head: American Valerian

Red Cockscomb: Amaranth

Ring-o-bells: Bluebells

Robin-run-in-the-grass: Goosegrass

Semen of Helios: White Hellebore

Semen of Herakles: Mustard-rocket

Semen of Hermes: Dill

Semen of Hephaistos: This is Fleabane

Semen of Ammon: Houseleek

Semen of Ares: Clover

Seed of Horus: Horehound

Sparrow's Tongue: Knotweed

Soapwort: Comfrey or Daisy

Shepherd's Heart: Shepherd's Purse

Swine's Snout: Dandelion leaves

Shameface: Wild Geranium

See Bright: Clary Sage

Scaldhead: Blackberry

Seven Year's Love: Yarrow

Silver Bells: Black Haw

Sorcerer's Violet: Periwinkle

St. John's Herb: Hemp Agrimony.(this is not St. John's Wort)

St. John's Plant: Mugwort

Star Flower: Borage

Star of the Earth: Avens

Starweed: Chickweed

Sweethearts: Goosegrass

Tarragon: Mugwort

Tartar Root: Ginseng

Thousand Weed: Yarrow

Thunder Plant: House Leek

Tanner's Bark: Common Oak

Toad: Toadflax

Torches: Great Mullein

Tongue of dog: houndstongue

Tears of a Hamadryas Baboon: Dill Juice

Unicorn Root: Ague Root

Unicorn's Horn: False Unicorn:Helonias Dioica

Unicorn Horn: True Unicorn Root

Wax Dolls: Fumitory

Weazel Snout: Yellow Dead Nettles/Yellow Archangel

White: Ox-eye Daisy

White Wood: White Cinnamon

Witch's Asprin: White Willow/Willow Bark

Witch's Brier: Brier Hips

Weasel Snout: Yellow Archangel

Wolf Foot: Bugle Weed

Wolf Claw: Club Moss

Wolf's Milk: Euphorbia

Weed: Ox-Eye Daisy

White Man's Foot: Common Plantain

Enjoy using these guys!
Blessed Be
White lilie

You do realise now that people who can hear me in the kitchen are going to get really disturbed now lol. I have to say though, it does add that dramatic influence that can really put some energy into your workings.

Thanks again

Cadno

I'm so glad you're here and so glad you posted this, I love it.

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