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Mugwort: The Dream Herb of Witches and Wanderers
Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is more than just a common plant growing wild in hedgerows, wastelands, and along footpaths across Europe. For millennia, it has been revered as a herb of protection, vision, and liminal journeying. For hedgewitches and herbalists, mugwort can be one of the most potent tools in the witch’s cabinet, rooted in ancient…
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Field Notes: The Language of Flowers
Victorian floriography, the language of flowers, developed in a society where emotion was often restrained by etiquette. Flowers became a quiet method of communication. A bouquet could express affection, refusal, grief, remembrance, or hope without a single word spoken. Each flower, and often its colour, carried a particular meaning understood by those who knew how…
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Ragwort: The Witch’s Weed and Fairy Steed
Favoured by the Fae In fairy lore, ragwort has long been considered a plant of the Otherworld. It’s said the fae favour it, and not just for its colour. Some stories claim fairies ride their tall, hollow stalks like horses through the night. Other folklore says that carrying ragwort could help us mere mortals slip…