Palm Fertility, focus, potency, and divination
Palo Santo If you feel you have been cursed, rub this herb on your body and then bathe.
Pansy Love, divination related to love & relationships, rain magick
Papaya Hang twigs of papaya wood over a door to keep out evil. Eat papaya with a loved one to intensify your love. Mix papaya leaves with mandrake and burn or use in the bath to reverse hexes and jinxes.
Paprika Use to add energy to any spell or mixture. Throw in someone’s yard to cause them problems.

Also Called: African Pepper, Bird Pepper, Chili Pepper, Goat’s Pod, Grains of Paradise, Red Pepper, Sweet Pepper, Tabasco Pepper, Zanzibar Pepper, Capsicum
Papyrus Protection
Parsley Calms and protects the home; Draws prosperity, financial increase, and luck. Restores a sense of well-being. Use in spells to increase strength & vitality after surgery or illness. Use in amulets or other magickal workings to help yourself out of a rut. Eat to provoke lust and promote fertility. Place on plates of food to guard against contamination. Useful for bath magick to purify and end misfortune. Mix with jasmine and carry in your shoe to make you more attractive to the opposite sex.
Parsnip Male sex magick
Passion Flower Magickal uses include attracting friendship and prosperity and heightening libido. Carried to bring great popularity & attract new friends. Placed in house to calm trouble & arguments and bring peace. Used as a wash to diminish disagreements & stress. Placed beneath pillow to promote sleep. Bathe in an infusion of passion flower for 5 days to attract the opposite sex.

Also Called: Passion Vine, Granadilla, Maracoc, Maypops, Purple Passion Flower, Grandilla
Patchouli Used in spells, sachets, baths and mixtures for money & love. Put in the wallet or purse to draw money. Place in a charm or use in incense for fertility. Helps to ground you and bring your consciousness back to the physical level. Burn to bring business growth.

Also Called: Patchouly, Pucha Pot
Pau d’Arco Magickal use is for the ritual healing of severe diseases.

Also Called: Lapacho, Taheebo, Pau Darco
Peach Fertility, love, and wisdom. Eating peaches induces love. Wear a peach pit to keep away evil. Carry peach wood for longevity. Use peach pits or dried fruit in amulets and sachets for fertility and love.
Pear Lust and love Eating pears induces love. Use dried fruit in amulets and sachets for love and lust.
Pearl Moss Sprinkle across the doorway of a home to allow only good spirits to enter.
Peas Money and love
Peat Moss Protection
Pecan Associated with employment, success, job security, and career matters. To insure that you do not lose your job, shell a small amount of pecans. While eating them, slowly visualize yourself working and enjoying your job. Take the shells to work and place them where they won’t be found or removed.
Pennyroyal Magickal uses include peace and tranquility. Carried to avoid seasickness or for physical strength & endurance. Worn to bring success to business. Use to rid the home of negative thoughts against you. Carry when dealing with negative vibrations of any kind. Place on a candle before or during uncomfortable meetings.

Also Called: Tickweed, Squaw Mint, Stinking Balm, Thickweed, Mosquito Plant, Squaw Balm, Lurk in the Ditch, Run by the Ground
Peony Protection from hexes and jinxes. Good luck, good fortune, prosperity, and business success. Hang in the home or car for protection. Used to attract faeries. Use in rituals to cure or reduce lunacy. Warning: While the flowers & petals have the positive qualities listed, the seed is called ‘Jumby Bean’ and is known for promoting dissension and strife.
Pepper, Black Courage, banishing negative vibrations. Burn to rid home or office of bad vibrations. Carry to ward off petty jealousy against you or aid in providing courage to face difficult situations.

Also Called: Piper
Peppermint Use to increase the vibrations of a space or in spells and incense for healing & purification. Place in sleep pillow to ensure peaceful sleep and bring about prophetic dreams. Use to anoint furnishings and household objects. Burn in a new home to clear out sickness and negative energy. Use in magickal workings to provide the push needed to bring change to one’s life. Carry with other herbs to boost love & abundance wishes.

Also Called: Brandy Mint, Lammint
Periwinkle Love within marriage, mental powers, and money. Carry to obtain grace, attract money, and protect against snakes and poison. Use in magickal workings to restore lost memory. Burn with love incense before having sex with your husband or wife. Note: Can be poisonous, use with caution.

Also Called: Sorceror’s Violet
Persimmon Changing sex, healing, and luck
Pettitgrain Protection
Pikaki Draws comfort, prosperity success, and well-being
Pimento Love
Pimpernel Protection and health
Pine Promotes clean breaks, new beginnings, prosperity, success, strength, grounding, and growth; Also used for cleansing, purification, and repelling negativity. Great for house and business blessing.
Pineapple Luck, money, and chastity. Add an infusion of pineapple to the bath to attract luck.
Pink Root Healing

Also Called: Indian Pink, Maryland Pink, Wormgrass, Wormroot, Starbloom
Pink Rose Buds Divine, emotional, and thinking love; start with these to build a long lasting relationship.
Pistachio Breaking love spells
Plantain Protection from evil spirits and snake bites, removing weariness, healing headaches; house & business blessing. Place a pinch of dried leaves in the flame of a candle or throw into an East wind for healing. Hang plantain leaves in the car for protection from evil and jealousy.
Pleurisy Root Healing

Also Called: Butterfly Weed, Wind Root, Canada Root, Silkweed, Orange Swallow Wort, Tuber Root, White Root, Flux Root, Asclepias
Plum Healing, peace, and love
Plumeria Promotes persuasiveness, eloquence, and success in dealing with people; Attracts the notice of others.

Also Called: Graveyard Flowers, Melta, Temple Tree
Poke Root Magickal uses include finding lost objects and breaking hexes and curses. Carry to increase courage. Add an infusion of poke root to bath water to break hexes.

Also Called: Phytolacca, Shang Lu
Pomegranate Divination, wishes, wealth and fertility
Poppy Fertility, prosperity, love and abundance.

Also Called: Opium Poppy, Mawseed
Poppy Seeds Pleasure, heightened awareness, love, luck, invisibility. A popular ingredient in food magick. Sleep on a pillow stuffed with poppy seeds to bring relief from insomnia.

Also Called: Opium Poppy, Mawseed
Potato Image magick, money, luck, and healing
Prickly Ash Bark Magickal uses include safe travel, fertility, removing spells and breaking hexes.

Also Called: Toothache Tree, Yellow Wood, Suterberry
Primrose Promotes the disclosure of secrets, resolution of mysteries, and revelation of truth; Breaks down dishonesty and secrecy. Put an infusion in a child’s bath water or the dried herb in their pillows to get them to behave.

Also Called: English Cowslip, Butter Rose, Password
Pumpkin Lunar magick
Pumpkin Seed Health
Quassia Love. Mix with a snippet of hair from yourself and your lover (with his/her permission, of course!) with quassia chips, burn, and keep the ashes in a small bottle to preserve the love.
Quince Love, happiness, luck, and protection from evil. Carry quince seeds in a red flannel bag to protect against physical attacks and harm. Use quince seeds in charms and spells pertaining to love, protection, and happiness.
Radish Protection and lust
Ragwort Courage. Used in charms to ward off evil spirits. Associated with faeries.

Also Called: Fairie’s Horse, Faerie’s Horse, Fairy Horse, Faery Horse
Raspberry Leaf Used for healing, protection, love. Raspberry leaves are carried (NOT EATEN) by pregnant women to reduce the pain involved in pregnancy & childbirth. Bathe in an infusion of raspberry to keep your current love relationship alive.
Red Clover Magickal uses include fidelity, love, money, protection, and the blessing of domestic animals. Carry to aid in financial arrangements. Sprinkle around the home to remove negative spirits.

Also Called: Cleaver Grass, Marl Grass, Cow Grass, Trefoil, Purple Clover, Wild Clover
Red Willow Bark Magickal uses include meditation and clearing. A fabulous incense wood with a sweet and dry aroma.
Rhubarb Fidelity and protection
Rice Rain, fertility, money, and protection. Use in money spells and fertility charms.
Rose Magickal uses include divine love, close friendships, domestic peace/happiness, and lasting relationships. Great for use in incense, potpourri or bath magick. Place around sprains and dark bruises to help them heal faster.
Rose Geranium Averts negativity, especially in the form of gossip or false accusations.
Rose Hips Used in healing spells and mixtures, brings good luck, calls in good spirits.
Rosemary Carried and used in healing poppets for good health, used in love/lust spells, worn to improve memory, used in dream pillows to prevent nightmares, burned as incense for purification and removing negativity. Wear or carry while reading or completing tasks to improve memory of the material and aid clear thinking (great for students!). Use an infusion of rosemary to wash hands before any healing magick. Use in bath magick for purification. Associated with faeries.

Also Called: Elf Leaf, Sea Dew, Polar Plant, Guardrobe, Compass Weed, Dew of the Sea, Mary’s Cloak, Stella Maria, Star of the Sea, Incensier
Rowan Protection, magickal power, success, anti-haunting. Use leaves and berries in amulets for healing and promoting psychic powers. Also good for use in luck spells and mixtures. Rowan wood is often used to make wands and divining rods.

Also Called: Moutain Ash, Delight of the Eye, Quickbane, Ran Tree, Rowanberry, Thor’s Helper, Witch Bark, Wicken Tree, Wild Ash, Witchwood
Rue Magickal uses include healing, health, mental powers, freedom and protection against the evil eye. Use as an asperger to cast salt water for purification of the circle or removing negativity from the home. Hang the dried herb indoors to help yourself see and understand your mistakes. Burn to banish negativity or bad habits. Add to incenses and poppets to prevent illness or speed recovery. Add to baths to break hexes and curses that may have been placed against you.

[Warning – Rue should not be handled by women who are pregnant.]

Also Called: Herb-of-Grace, Herb of Grace, Herbygrass, Garden Rue, Mother of Herbs, Rewe, Goat’s Rue
Rye Love, fidelity, and self-control
Safflower Mix with jinx incense to cause destruction to an enemy (not recommended!). Rub on the inside of the knees to attract exciting sexual encounters.
Saffron Aphrodisiac, love, healing, happiness, wind raising, lust and strength. Burn, wear, or carry for healing and strengthening psychic awareness. Commonly used in love magick, healing spells, and to control the weather. Wash hands with water and saffron or keep saffron sachets in your home to bring happiness.

Also Called: Kum Kuma, Zaffran, Kesar, Autumn Crocus, Spanish Saffron, Dyer’s Saffron, Thistle Saffron, Bastard Saffron, American Saffron, Parrot’s Corn
Sage Used for self purification and dealing with grief and loss. Carried to improve mental ability and bring wisdom. Used in healing sachets & incense. Promotes spiritual, mental, emotional & physical health and longevity. Removes negative energy. Place near a personal object of a person who is ailing when performing healing spells or rituals. Write a wish on a sage leaf and place it under your pillow for 3 nights — if you dream of your wish, it will come true; if not, bury the leaf in the ground so that no bad will come to you.

Also Called: Garden Sage, White Sage, Red Sage, Sawge
Salt Petre For women who do not want their partners to have outside relationships. Stops sexual tension.

Also Called: Salt Peter, Petre Salt, Saltpetre, Saltpeter
Sandalwood Scatter sandalwood powder around the home to clear it of negativity. Burn during protection, healing, and exorcism spells. Use the wood for healing wands. Write your wish on a chip of sandalwood and burn it in the censer or cauldron while visualizing your wish to make it come true. Helps in healing by aligning the chakras for better energy flow. Good for meditation, healing, and manifestation. Facilitates concentration.

Also Called: Sandal, Santal, White Saunders, White Sandalwood, Red Sandalwood, Yellow Sandalwood
Sanicle Used for safety in travel.

Also Called: Sancile, American Sanicle, Black Snakeroot, Wood Sanicle, Pool Root, Butterwort, Alum Root
Sarsaparilla Sexual vitality, health, love and money. Mix with sandalwood and cinnamon and sprinkle around home or business to draw money. Alleged to prolong life, hinder premature aging, excite passions, and improve virility when worn or carried.

Also Called: Black Creeper, Sariva, Kalisar, Dudhilata, Sugandhi, Red Sarsaparilla, Tu Fu Ling, Dwipautra
Sassafras Magickal uses include health, money and overcoming addictions. Placed in wallet or purse to attract money and make the money you have go farther. Used as a prosperity incense. Added to sachets for healing.

Also Called: Ague Tree, Cinnamon Wood, Saxifrax, Saloip
Savoury Sensuality, sexuality, and passion; great for sex magick!
Saw Palmetto Berries Magickal uses include healing protection, exorcism, passion and spiritual openings.

Also Called: Dwarf Palm Tree, Cabbage Palm, Sabal, Sabal Serrulata
Scullcap Worn by women to keep their husbands faithful. Used in sleep pillows for relaxation & peace. Used to bind oaths and consecrate vows & commitments (handfasting, initiations, etc.). Used in bath magick to clam the aura of tensions and stress. Burned for relief of disharmony and disruptive situations. Place a pinch in a lover’s shoes to keep then from being affected by charms of others.

Also Called: Skullcap, Scullcap, Hoodwort, Quaker Bonnet, Helmet Flower, European Skullcap, Greater Skullcap, American Skullcap, Blue Skullcap, Blue Pimpernel, Hoodwart, Hooded Willow Herb, Side-Flowering Skullcap, Mad Dogweed, Mad Weed, Madweed, Helmet Flower, Hoodwort
Sea Salt Uses include cleansing crystals, purification, grounding, protection magick and ritual. Used on the altar to represent the Earth. Used with water for asperging, sea spells, consecration and casting circles. Used with garlic and rosemary to banish evil.
Senna Magickal uses include all matters of lust and love. Enhances tact & diplomacy. Bathe with your mate in an infusion of senna to ensure faithfulness.

Also Called: Senna Pod, Rajavriksha, Fan Xia Ye, American Senna, Locust Plant, Wild Senna, Fan Xie Ye
Sesame Money, lust, and passion
Shallots Add an infusion of shallots to the bath for luck.
Shave Grass Magickal uses include snake charming & fertility. Place in the bedroom to increase fertility.

Also Called: Scouring Rush, Equisetum, Pewterwort, Corncob Plant, Bottle Brush, Horsetail, Dutch Raisins, Paddock Pipe
Sheep Sorrel Carry to protect against heart disease. Place in sickrooms to aid in recuperation from illnesses and wounds.
Shepherd’s Purse Healing

Also Called: Mother’s Heart, Shepard’s Purse/Heart, Cocowort, Pickpocket, Toywort, Pick Purse, St. James’ Weed, St. James’ Wort, St. Anthony’s Fire, Pepper Grass, Case Wort, Permacety
Skunk Cabbage Legal matters
Slippery Elm Magickal uses include protection and halting gossip. Tie a knotted yellow thread around slippery elm and throw it into a fire to cease all gossip about you.

Also Called: Red Elm, Moose Elm, Sweet Elm, Indian Elm
Snapdragon Protection, exorcism, and purification
Snowdrop Passing of sorrow
Solomon’s Seal Root Magickally used for protection and cleansing. Used in offertory incense. Used to bind magickal workings and keep sacred oaths & promises forever binding. Carry in an amulet or sachet for all-purpose protection. Use in protection magick to exorcise spirits and ward off negative influences and demons. Keep on altar to promote success in all rituals. Sprinkle an infusion of the root to drive away evil.

Also Called: Lady’s Seals, St. Mary’s Seal, Sigillum Sanctae Mariae, Scean de Solomon
Sow Thistle Increases strength & stamina, repels witches, and provides invisibility from enemies.
Spanish Moss Protection, opening blockages, and dispelling negativity
Spearmint Healing, love and protection while sleeping. Burn for healing magick, especially of respiratory conditions. Carry for healing. Use in ritual baths for strength and vitality. Write a wish on paper and wrap it in spearmint leaves; place in a red cloth and sew with red thread, then keep in a safe and secret place — by the time the scent is gone, your wish should have come true.

Also Called: Garden Mint, Mackerel Mint, Our Lady’s Mint, Green Mint, Spire Mint, Lamb Mint, Yerba Buena, Sage of Bethlehem, Fish Mint
Spiderwort Love
Spikenard Wear in a sachet around the neck to bring luck & ward off illness. It is said that wetting a picture of a loved one in an infusion of spikenard will keep them close to you.

Also Called: Spignet, Life of Man, Pettymorell, Old Man’s Root, Indian Root, Bitter Root, Nard, Nardo
Squaw Vine Magickal uses include all matters of fertility & childbirth. Pregnant women can add an infusion of squaw vine to bath water once a week to protect the unborn child from jealousy.

Also Called: Squawvine
Squill Root To draw money, place in a container with a dime, a quarter and a dollar and say a prayer for prosperity.
St. John’s Wort Worn to prevent colds & fevers. Placed under pillow to induce prophetic, romantic dreams. Protects against all forms of black witchcraft. Place in a jar in a window or burn in a fireplace to protect from lightning, fire and evil spirits. Used for banishing, protection & blessing. Carry to strengthen courage and convictions or when confronting nasty situations. Burn to banish spirits and demons. Used in divination for the care of crystals. Note: Can be poisonous, use with caution.

Also Called: Saint John’s Wort, Goat Weed, Herba John, Kalimath Weed, Tipton Weed
Star Anise Burned as incense to increase psychic awareness & abilities. Placed on the altar to increase the power generated. Carried to bring luck.

Also Called: Chinese Anise, Anise Star
Straw Image magick and luck
Straw Flower Luck, longevity, and protection. Use in magick to get the effects to last. The flower of Samhain, signifying the transition from one type of life to another. Note: Poisonous, use with caution.
Strawberry Attracts success, good fortune, and favorable circumstances. Served as a love food. Leaves are carried for luck. Pregnant women carry a packet of the leaves to ease the pain of pregnancy and childbirth.
Sugar Love spells, sex magick
Sugar Cane Love, lust, and sympathy
Sulfur Powder Dispels or prevents a hex on you; destroys an enemy’s power over you.

Also Called: Brimstone
Sunflower Energy, protection, power, wisdom, and wishes.
Sweet Bugle Crush and place under the mattress to attract love and marriage prospects.
Sweet Pea Attracts friends and allies; Draws the loyalty and affection of others.
Sweet Potato Image magick
Sweetgrass Peace, unity, and calling spirits