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Ebony
- Also Known As: Lama, Obeah Wood
- Properties: protection, power, harmony
Echinacea
- Also Known As: Black Sampson, Coneflower, Rudbeckia
- Properties: strengthening spells and banishing and warding off colds
Edelweiss
- Properties: Invisibility, bullet-proofing. A test of courage and love - to obtain it for your beloved, you must climb craggy mountain slopes where it grows.
Elder
- Gender: female
- Planet: Venus
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Alhuren, Battree, Bourne Tree, Bour Tree, Eldrum, Ellhorn, Frau Holle, Hildemoer, Hollunder, Hylder, Lady Ellhorn, Old Gal, Old Lady, Pipe Tree, Rob Elder, Sureau, Sweet Elder, Tree of Doom
- Plant Part: wood, leaves, fruit, and flowery tops
- Properties: Exorcism, protection, healing, prosperity, sleep, purification, love. The dried fruit and leaves are used for protection. The wood is used widely in making wands and other majickal tools. Leaves hung around the doors and windows will ward off evil. Also burned for cleansing. It is very bad luck to burn elder wood. It is the Lady's tree. Do not burn without permission. You must also ask permission before cutting or harvesting elder limbs, leaves or berries. Elderberry wine added to bath water served as a youth-preserving ritual bath.
Elecampane
- Gender: male
- Planet: Mercury
- Element: Earth
- Plant Part: stalk, root and leaves
- Properties: Love, protection, psychic powers, banishing. Dispels violent, angry vibrations. Aids in meditation. Useful in raising spirits. Add to love sachets and incenses. Hide a sachet of the herb in a room, or sprinkle powdered herb along the doorways and hallways.
Elm
- Gender: female
- Planet: Saturn
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Elven, English Elm, European Elm
- Properties: love
Endive
- Gender: male
- Planet: Jupiter
- Element: Air
- Properties: Lust, love. Court your lady as the Medieval suitor did: give her an endive seed to convince her that you have all the traits she wants in a lover.
Eryngo
- Gender: female
- Planet: Venus
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Sea Holly
- Properties: Travelers luck, peace, lust, love. The candied root of the sea holly was made to be used as an aphrodisiac.
Eucalyptus
- Gender: female
- Planet: Moon
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Blue Gum Tree, Stringy Bark Tree
- Plant Part: leaves, seeds/pods
- Properties: Healing, protection, sleep, reconciliations. Useful in healing rituals, charms and amulets. Used in sleep and dream sachets. Place the leaves around a blue candle and burn for healing energies. Green pods worn around the neck eases the discomfort of colds, sore throats and congestion. Hang in the home to ward off sickness. Place with other healing herbs for bringing healing especially to chest area. Carry in an amulet or sachet to help in the reconciliation of relationships. Careful, the other person must be willing.
Euphorbia
- Gender: female
- Planet: Saturn
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Crown of Thorns, Spurge, Wolf's Milk
- Properties: POISON. Purification, protection.
Evergreen
- Properties: Emphasizes the reconciliation between the transitory and the eternal. Promises eternal life and the continuity of life. Another ancient, honored and complex symbol; the ability of the self to reach into heaven while still having roots in the Earth.
Eyebright
- Gender: male
- Planet: Sun
- Element: Air
- Also Known As: Euphrosyne, Red Eyebright
- Plant Part: entire plant
- Properties: Mental powers, psychic powers, clairvoyance, meditation. Anoint eyelids with the infusion daily to induce clairvoyant visions and psychic dreams. Helps with other appropriate herbs to open the third eye and aid in meditation.
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