(Laurus nobilis) The culinary leaves may be slightly narcotic, and aid digestion when added to Bouquet garni, marinades, pâte, soups and stews. The wood is used to give an aromatic tang to smoked foods, and oil of Bay, from the fruit, flavors some liqueurs. A leaf decoction added to bath water will relieve aching limbs, and diluted leaf essential oil can treat sprains and rheumatic joints but may irritate the skin. The leaf and berry are used in salves for itching, sprains, bruises, skin irritations, and rheumatic pain. The fruit and leaf are simmered until soft and made into a poultice with honey for chest colds. Bay leaf and berry tea makes a bath additive that helps the bladder, bowel, and female reproductive organs. Use two tablespoons per cup and steep for forty-five minutes, add to bath water.
Tag: Bay
Bay:
Power to heal, purify, protect, and strengthen and used to facilitate psychic powers and induce prophetic dream visions. Also used to break hexes, remove family curses, exorcise demons and poltergeists, and guard against lightning. Also potent in love Magick and wish Magick.
Bay –
This is my first season with bay. I have always used the dried leaves in Italian cooking, stews and soups but have never grown it before so this is a trial period for me. It’s a tradition in our family that whoever finds the bay leaf that I’ve forgotten to strain out will have good luck. It is an excellent plant for container gardening. It needs full sun or just partial shade in order to thrive and must be brought inside during the winter months as cold temperatures and strong winds will damage or kill the plant. The Bay Laurel is a most noble plant, as the twigs and leaves were fashioned into wreaths to crown the heads of ancient heroes.
OF THE SACRED HERBS OF THE GODS:
Adonis: myrrh, corn, rose, fennel, lettuce, white heather
Aesculapius: bay, mustard
Ajax: delphinium
Anu: tamarisk
Apollo: leek, hyacinth, heliotrope, cornel, bay, frankincense, date palm, cypress
Attis: pine, almond
Ares: buttercup
Love and Success
Devil’s Shoestring
Latin Name Viburmum alnifolium
Parts Used Roots
Magickal Uses In Hoodoo practices, these roots [usually in numbers of nine] are used in protection spells to “trip up the devil” [or evil spirits] and keep him at bay. Carried, they are effective gambling tools and for general good luck. You may stamp them into the ground near ones front door for protection against hexing and evil influences. Carry a root to job interviews, so as to bring success in that endeavor. The root may be bound and hung on walls, and amulets of protection and wealth strung from it, in order to invite these things into your life.
Greenmantle
by Blair Colquhoun
According to Ojibway mythology, Greenmantle was the daughter of an Ojibway chief. She was captured by the Sioux when they invaded the Thunder Bay, Ontario, area, over a hundred years ago. She was taken prisoner and forced by the Sioux to lead them to the Ojibway encampment. Pretending to betray her tribe, she leads them over Kekabeka Falls, instead, and escapes to warn her people.
Witch's Well 