Herbcraft & Potions

Known as the 'dream herb,' mugwort has been used for centuries to enhance psychic abilities and induce vivid, prophetic dreams. Place it under your pillow or burn it as incense before divination work.

White sage is the most well-known cleansing herb. Burning sage (smudging) clears negative energy from spaces, objects, and people. It has been used by Indigenous peoples for millennia.

Lavender brings peace and tranquility. Use it in sleep sachets, love spells, and purification baths. Its calming scent eases anxiety and opens the heart to gentle energies.

Rosemary is one of the most versatile magical herbs. It can substitute for almost any other herb in a pinch. Burn it for cleansing, carry it for protection, or add it to healing baths.

The key ingredient in absinthe, wormwood has a long history in necromancy and spirit work. Burn it to enhance psychic vision or to communicate with the dead. Handle with respect.

Gentle but powerful, chamomile attracts prosperity and good fortune. Wash your hands in chamomile tea before gambling or business deals. Drink it before meditation for deeper states.

One of the most dangerous and powerful witching herbs. Historically used in flying ointments and vision quests. Belladonna opens doorways that are difficult to close. Study only — do not handle.

Every culture that found the mandrake root agreed on one thing: it screams when you pull it from the earth. And the scream kills. The root grows in a shape that is unmistakably, disturbingly human. Two legs. Two arms. Sometimes a head. Medieval Europeans believed the plant was alive in a way other plants were not — occupying a space between the vegetable and the animal, between the living and the dead. The harvesting ritual was elaborate: tie a rope around the root, tie the other end to a dog, plug your ears with wax, and drive the dog forward. The dog pulled the root. The root screamed. The dog died. You collected the root and buried the dog with honors. In magical practice, mandrake root is the ultimate amplifier. Place it on your altar and every working gains weight. The root does not care about your intentions. It amplifies whatever is already there.

Black Hellebore blooms in the dead of winter, often pushing through snow to flower in December and January — a plant that defies the death of the season. Historically used in 'flying ointments,' the hallucinogenic preparations that witches allegedly rubbed on their skin before sabbaths. The alkaloids in the plant cause vivid visions, a sense of weightlessness, and profound dissociation from the body. At higher doses: seizures, cardiac arrest, death.

Datura goes by many names: Jimsonweed. Thorn Apple. Devil's Trumpet. Its alkaloids — scopolamine, hyoscyamine, atropine — produce a complete break from consensus reality. Users do not know they are hallucinating. They believe they are awake, speaking to real people, performing real actions. Historically, datura was the primary ingredient in flying ointments. The witch did not fly. She believed she flew. The distinction may not matter as much as we think.

It is not blood. It is not from a dragon. But it bleeds from trees like a wound that refuses to close — and it has been used to seal, protect, and bind for longer than any written spell. Dragon's Blood is a deep crimson resin harvested from several species of trees, most notably Dracaena and Daemonorops. The resin has been found in Roman burial sites, Chinese lacquerwork, medieval grimoires, and Hoodoo practice. Every tradition that discovered it independently arrived at the same conclusion: this substance locks things in place. Burn it as incense to amplify any spell. Add it to ink for writing petitions that stick. Sprinkle the powder across a threshold and nothing uninvited crosses. Mix it with other resins and the blend becomes exponentially more powerful. Dragon's Blood does not create energy. It seals it. Whatever you cast with Dragon's Blood stays cast.