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"H" Herbs

Hawthorn

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Also Known As: Bread and Cheese Tree, Gaxels, Hagthorn, Halves, Haw, Hazels, Huath, Ladies' Meat, May, Mayblossom, May Bush, Mayflower, Quick, Thorn, Tree of Chastity
Plant Part: wood, fruit and flowery tops
Properties: Fertility, chastity, fishing majick, happiness, protection, purity, success in working matters. The flowers represent divination, and the wood represents purification. Use the leaves in protective sachets and amulets against evil influences. Promotes happiness in marriage or a relationship. It is bad luck to cut down a hawthorn tree. Burn the berries as an incense when you need energy and change in your life. The wood is used in making majickal wands and other tools. A tea is made and drank during the incantations of wishes.

Hazel

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Air
Also Known As: Coll
Plant Part: wood, fruit/nuts
Properties: Luck, fertility, anti-lightning, protection, wishes, mental ability, wisdom. The wood represents wisdom, learning, strength and poetry, and is used for all sorts of majickal tools. Excellent wood for an all-purpose wand. Forked branches can be used for divining. Especially good in all luck wishes. A sachet of the fruit of the tree is given to new brides for luck in marriage and fertility. Carry, or place the sprigs up high in the room for a powerful majickal protection and luck. Sprigs are especially powerful if bound together by red and gold thread.

Heather

Gender: female
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Also Known As: Common Heather, Heath, Ling, Scottish Heather
Plant Part: entire plant
Properties: Protection, luck, peace, healing, spirituality and rain making and weather majick. Carry as an amulet for a powerful protection. Hang in the bedroom for peaceful sleep. Also promotes peace when hung or used in decorations for the home. Place on the altar for boosting other herbs and items to enhance psychic awareness.

Heliotrope

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Also Known As: Cherry Pie, Turnsole
Plant Part: flowery tops and leaves
Properties: POISON. Exorcism, prophetic dreams, healing, wealth, invisibility, clairvoyance, psychic development, spirituality, banishing. Burn or carry for banishing or repelling negative influences around you and for increasing courage and willpower. It is said if you sleep with this under your pillow you will dream of the person who has stolen from your home. Also used fresh under the pillow for psychic dreams.

Hellebore, Black

Gender: female
Planet: Saturn
Element: Water
Also Known As: Melampode
Properties: POISON. Protection, invisibility, exorcism.

Hemlock

Gender: female
Planet: Saturn
Element: Water
Also Known As: Beaver Poison, Herb Bennet, Keckies, Kex, Musquash Root, Poison Hemlock, Poison Parsley, Spotted Corobane, Spotted Hemlock, Water Parsley
Properties: POISON. Astral projection, purification. Destroys sexual drives.

Hemp

Gender: female
Planet: Saturn
Element: Water
Also Known As: Chanvre, Gallowgrass, Ganeb, Ganja, Grass, Hanf, Kif, Marijuana, Neckweede, Tekrouri, Weed
Properties: healing, love, visions, meditation

Henbane

Gender: female
Planet: Saturn
Element: Water
Also Known As: Black Nightshade, Cassilago, Cassilata, Deus Caballinus, Devil's Eye, Hebenon, Henbells, Hogsbean, Isana, Jupiter's Bean, Jusquiame, Poison Tobacco, Symphonica
Properties: POISON. Both the herb and its fumes are poisonous. Love bringing, rain attracting. Burned outdoors it attracts rain. This herb is carried to attract the love of a woman. The story goes that "to bring love, a man should gather henbane naked, early in the morning, while standing on one foot."

Henna

Properties: Healing. Good as a rinse for blondes to create bold red tones.

Hibiscus

Gender: female
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Also Known As: Kharkady
Properties: lust, love, divination

Hickory

Properties: legal matters

High John the Conqueror Root

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Plant Part: root
Properties: POISON. Money, love, success, happiness, prosperity, health, legal matters. Add to other money herbs and oils for a huge dose of power. An excellent herb for increasing all areas of prosperity. Use this as an additive to candle anointing oils and charms to increase their strength.

Holly

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Also Known As: Aquifolius, Bat's Wings, Christ's Thorn, Holy Tree, Holm Chaste, Hulum, Hulver Bush, Tinne. Sea Holly is also known as Eryngo.
Plant Part: entire plant
Properties: Protection, anti-lightning, luck, dream majick. Plant around the home for protection against evil. The wood can be used for all majickal tools, as it will enhance any wish you have. The leaves and berries can be carried by a man to heighten his masculinity, virility and to attract a lover.

Holy Ghost Root

Properties: protection

Holy Herb

Properties: protection

Honesty

Gender: female
Planet: Moon
Element: Earth
Also Known As: Lunary, Money Plant, Silver Dollar
Properties: money, repelling monsters

Honey

Properties: Passion, fertility. Natural appetite suppressant, reduces the urge to eat sugar. Reputation of honey as a passion and fertility enhancement may be attributed that the hexagons of the honeycomb, six being the sacred sexual number of Aphrodite.

Honeysuckle

Gender: male
Planet: Jupiter
Element: Earth
Also Known As: Dutch Honeysuckle, Goat's Leaf, Woodbine
Plant Part: flowery tops
Properties: Money, psychic powers, protection, divine inspiration, peace, balancing, prosperity, divination. Used widely in prosperity spells and love charms. Add to all prosperity oils and incense for a quick abundance. Fill a sachet and wear it, or light a scented candle for clairvoyance. Crush the flowers and rub into the forehead for psychic powers. Place flowers in an herbal bath for balancing yourself when you're feeling out of sorts.

Hops

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Water
Also Known As: Beer Flower, Flores de Cerveza
Properties: Healing, sleep, balancing, dream majick. Used in healing incenses and charms. Hops placed in a pillow will help with sleep. A tea drank before bedtime helps with a restful sleep, and drank after majickal workings helps to balance and refocus oneself back to the everyday world. Also a mild sedative.

Horehound

Planet: Mercury
Element: Earth
Plant Part: entire plant
Properties: Protection, mental powers, exorcism, healing, energy, power. Carried or burned for protection wishes. Increases the power of strength and mental clarity wishes. As a tea, use for increased energy and strength when needed in situations.

Horse Chestnut

Gender: male
Planet: Jupiter
Element: Fire
Also Known As: Buckeye
Properties: money, healing

Horseradish

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Properties: purification, exorcism

Horsetail

Gender: female
Planet: Saturn
Element: Earth
Also Known As: Bottle Brush, Dutch Rushes, Paddock Pipes, Pewterwort, Shavegrass
Properties: snake-charming, fertility

Houndstongue

Gender: male
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Also Known As: Dog-bur, Dog's Tongue, Gypsy Flower, Sheep Lice, Tongue of Dog, Woolmat
Properties: tying dogs tongues, dog majick

Houseleek

Gender: male
Planet: Jupiter
Element: Air
Also Known As: Hen and Chickens, Sengren, Welcome-Home-Husband-Though-Never-So-Drunk, Welcome-Home-Husband-Though-Never-So-Late
Properties: luck, love, protection

Huckleberry

Gender: female
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Properties: Luck, protection, dream majick, hex-breaking. The leaves are used for luck.

Hyacinth

Gender: female
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Plant Part: flowery tops
Properties: Love, protection, happiness. Used in dream pillows to ward off nightmares. Used as a protective charms against negative influences. The oil is best to use and you can also anoint a candle for protection with this herb and oil. Carried in sachets and amulets to ease grief and childbirth pains.

Hydrangea

Also Known As: Seven Barks
Properties: luck, hex-breaking

Hyssop

Gender: male
Planet: Jupiter
Element: Fire
Also Known As: Hyssop Herb, Isopo, Ysopo, Yssop
Plant Part: entire plant
Properties: Purification, protection, spiritual assistance, cleansing, healing, psychic development. Use in purification or healing baths, protective and banishing spells. Was widely used during the middle ages for purification, cleansing and consecration rituals. If burnt as an incense or thrown into a fire, it is said one may draw upon majickal dragon energy. Used as a tea for protection of all types, physical and mental.