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Mace
- Gender: male
- Planet: Mercury
- Element: Air
- Properties: psychic powers, mental powers
Magnolia
- Gender: female
- Planet: Venus
- Element: Earth
- Also Known As: Blue Magnolia, Cucumber Tree, Swamp Sassafras
- Properties: fidelity, meditation, peace, spirituality
Maguey
- Gender: male
- Planet: Mars
- Element: Fire
- Also Known As: Agave Muguet
- Properties: lust
Mahogany, Mountain
- Gender: male
- Element: Fire
- Properties: anti-lightning
Maidenhair
- Gender: female
- Planet: Venus
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Maidenhair Fern
- Properties: love, beauty
Mallow
- Gender: female
- Planet: Moon
- Element: Water
- Properties: love, protection, exorcism
Mandrake
- Gender: male
- Planet: Mercury
- Element: Fire
- Also Known As: Alraun, Anthropomorphon, Baaras, Brain Thief, Circeium, Circoea, Galgenmannchen, Gallows, Herb of Circe, Haxenmannchen, Ladykins, Mandragen, Mandragor, Mannikin, Raccoon Berry, Semihomo, Wild Lemon, Womandrake, Sorcerer's Root, Witches' Mannikin, May Apple
- Properties: POISON. Protection, love, money, fertility, maintaining health, image majick. The root can be carried to increase courage. Used as a protective charm for the home. The root increases fertility in women and decreases impotency in men when carried. Charge a mandrake root with your personal energy, sleep with it for 3 nights prior to the full Moon. Offers powerful protection for the user. Can treat skin problems but should be used with extreme caution.
Maple
- Gender: male
- Planet: Jupiter
- Element: Air
- Properties: love, longevity, money
Marigold
- Gender: male
- Planet: Sun
- Element: Fire
- Also Known As: Bride of the Sun, Calendula, Drunkard, Goldes, Holigolde, Husbandman's Dial, Marybud, Marygold, Mary Growles, Ruddes, Ruddles, Spousa Solis, Summer's Bride
- Properties: Protection, prophetic dreams, psychic powers, prophesy, clairvoyance, dreams, love, business or legal matters, renewing personal energy. Sometimes added to love sachets. It should be gathered at noon. Place the flower beneath the head at night to induce clairvoyant dreams. For internal use, the flowers are prepared by infusion and recommended for the flu, fever, rheumatism, jaundice and painful menstruation. Externally, buds are made into compresses for the treatment of burns. Petal ointment can help chapped hands and varicose veins, and it also works wonders with eczema and inflammation. To ease inflammation, dip a compress into a strong marigold tea combined with an equal part of apple cider vinegar. Sprains can also be helped with marigold petals steeped in vinegar, or make a lotion with milk. Simmer 12 heads in 2 cups of milk, steep, strain, and apply. Also used as an antiseptic in first aid.
Marjoram
- Gender: male
- Planet: Mercury
- Element: Air
- Also Known As: Joy of the Mountain, Knotted Marjorane, Marjorlaine, Mountain Mint, Pot Marjoram, Sweet Marjoram, Wintersweet
- Properties: Protection, love, healing, happiness, money, maintaining health. Encourages blessings and joy. Add to all love charms, place a piece in rooms for protection. Give to a grieving person to bring them happiness. Take a cleansing bath in thyme and marjoram (in tea form or whole herbs) before working candle majick.
Masterwort
- Gender: male
- Planet: Mars
- Element: Fire
- Properties: strength, courage, protection
Mastic
- Gender: male
- Planet: Sun
- Element: Air
- Also Known As: Gum Mastic, Masticke
- Properties: psychic powers, manifestations, lust
May Apple
- Also Known As: American Mandrake, Duck's Foot, Hog Apple, Mandrake, Raccoon Berry, Wild Lemon
- Properties: POISON. Money. See Mandrake
Meadow Rue
- Also Known As: Flute Plant
- Properties: divination, love
Meadowsweet
- Gender: male
- Planet: Jupiter
- Element: Air
- Also Known As: Bride of the Meadow, Bridewort Dollor, Gravel Root, Lady of the Meadow, Little Queen, Meadowwort, Queen of the Meadow, Steeplebruch, Trumpet Weed
- Properties: Love, divination, peace, happiness, balance, harmony. Protection against evil influences. Promotes love. Place meadowsweet on the altar when making love charms and conducting love spells to increase their potency. A sacred herb of the Druids. Wear at Lammas to join with the Goddess.
Mesquite
- Gender: female
- Planet: Moon
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Mizquitl (Aztec)
- Properties: healing
Mimosa
- Gender: female
- Planet: Saturn
- Element: Water
- Properties: Protection, love, prophetic dreams, psychic powers, purification
Mint
- Gender: male
- Planet: Mercury
- Element: Air
- Also Known As: Spearmint, Peppermint, Garden Mint
- Properties: Money, healing, strength, luck, safe travel, love, lust, exorcism, protection, mental powers, purification. Augments power, and aids in safe traveling. Stimulate heartfelt longing with mint, lavender and rosemary. Mint in tea form eases upset stomachs, the flu, hiccups, anger, and headaches, particularly premenstrual headaches. Inhalation of the leaves in boiling water is recommended for head colds and asthma. Nervous headaches can be relieved if you lie in a dark room with fresh peppermint leaves on the forehead. Aids the respiratory and circulatory systems. An anti-inflammatory and an antiseptic. Ideal for treating indigestion, flatulence, varicose veins, headaches, migraines, skin irritations, rheumatism, toothaches and general fatigue.
Mistletoe
- Gender: male
- Planet: Sun
- Element: Air
- Also Known As: All Heal, Birdlime, Devil's Fuge, Donnerbesen, European Mistletoe, Golden Bough, Holy Wood, Lignam Sanctae Crucis, Misseltoe, Thunderbesem, Witches Broom, Wood of the Cross
- Properties: POISON. Protection, love, hunting, fertility, exorcism, maintaining health. Worn for protection and to attract love or help conceive.
Molukka
- Also Known As: Fairy's Eggs, Virgin Mary's Net
- Properties: protection
Moonwort
- Gender: female
- Planet: Moon
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Unshoe-Horse
- Properties: money, love
Morning Glory
- Gender: male
- Planet: Saturn
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Blindweed
- Properties: POISON. Happiness, peace
Moss
- Properties: luck, money
Muguet
- Also Known As: Lily
- Properties: Archaic word for lily. See Lily
Mugwort
- Gender: female
- Planet: Venus
- Element: Earth
- Also Known As: Artemis Herb, Artemisia, Felon Herb, Muggons, Naughty Man, Old Man, Old Uncle Henry, Sailor's Tobacco, St. John's Plant
- Properties: Clairvoyance, psychic powers, prophetic dreams, astral projection, divination, protection, strength, healing. Picked on a full Moon night, you catch it at the height of its potency. If the leaves are rubbed on your majickal tools, it will increase their power. Place under your pillow to astral travel while you sleep. The fresh leaves rubbed on a majick mirror or scrying crystal will strengthen divinatory abilities. Place in the shoes for protection and to prevent fatigue on long journeys. Carry it for protection. It's also good for relieving nervousness, shaking, insomnia, and is said to induce ones menses. Mugwort is perhaps the most widely used witches herb of all time.
Mulberry
- Gender: male
- Planet: Mercury
- Element: Air
- Properties: protection, strength
Mullein
- Gender: female
- Planet: Saturn
- Element: Fire
- Also Known As: Aaron's Rod, Blanket Leaf, Candlewick Plant, Clot, Doffle, Feltwort, Flannel Plant, Graveyard Dust, Hag's Tapers, Hedge Taper, Jupiter's Staff, Lady's Foxglove, Old Man's Fennel, Peter's Staff, Shepherd's Club, Shepherd's Herb, Torches, Velvetblack, Velvet Plant
- Properties: Courage, protection, health, love, divination, exorcism. Protection from wild animals and evil spirits. Used for cleansing ritual and psychic places before and after majickal workings. Also used for cleansing and purifying ritual tools and altars.
Mushroom
- Properties: Symbolic of the borders of consciousness and the awareness of other worlds (states of consciousness).
Musk
- Properties: Courage, fertility, lust, magnetic to attract the opposite sex.
Mustard
- Gender: male
- Planet: Mars
- Element: Fire
- Properties: Fertility, protection, mental powers
Myrrh
- Gender: female
- Planet: Moon
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Gum Myrrh Trr, Karan, Mirra Balsom Odendron
- Properties: Protection, exorcism, healing, spirituality, meditation, purification. Purifying and protective incense for ritual areas. Can be used to consecrate tools. An excellent insect repellent. As a tincture, it is good for bad breath and gum problems.
Myrtle
- Gender: female
- Planet: Venus
- Element: Water
- Also Known As: Bayberry
- Properties: Love, fertility, youth, peace, money, harmony. Grow indoors for good luck. Myrtle was sacred to the Greek goddess Venus and has been used in love charms and spells throughout history. Carry or wear myrtle leaves to attract love. Charms made of the wood have special majickal properties. Wear fresh myrtle leaves while making love charms, potions, or during rituals for love. Elizabethan bridesmaids would plant sprigs of myrtle to make their romances blossom into marriage.
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