The Witch's Cabinet: Plant Lore, Sorcery and Folk Tradition is a collection of well resourced essays about plant lore used in the shadows including witchcraft and magic and their historical uses by Corrine Boyer from Three Hand Press.
Plant folklore contains a persistent group of plants associated with witches, and baneful magic. These spells, rituals, and taboos reflect a hidden dimension of the vegetal world, mantled with ominous attributes. The Witch's Cabinet contains thirteen essays on these dark plant aspects, revealing their powers, fearsome qualities, and occult uses. Certain trees were considered cursed and thought to carry afflicted power, to be exploited by witches. Particular roots and flowers were used for causing disease, conjuring demons, or bringing nightmares; other plants fell under the governance of Satan, or were used to gain the powers of witchcraft itself. A particularly pernicious reservoir of corrupt power was the graveyard, with a unique retinue of plants all its own. Not all such herbal lore is malevolent; countless teachings reveal how certain plants --sometimes the same ones which are considered cursed-- can protect a person from witches, evil spirits or other users of malefic magic. Other plants of dark character, like the Hawthorn, were in perpetual communion with the souls of the dead, and possessed the power to reveal hidden treasure. As a meditation of the shrouded dimensions of plant folklore, The Witch's Cabinet approaches this often-disquieting garden holistically, a gathering of allied power-plants, many of which contain keys of spiritual transformation, healing, and occult mysteries of the plant world. In addition to the enigmatic original drawings of artist Peter Köhler, the book also contains an introduction by Daniel A. Schulke, author of Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism.
Corinne Boyer is an herbalist, teacher, and writer with a passion for traditions surrounding plants and folk magic. She has been studying and working with plants since 1998. She teaches weekly classes from her home that focus on plant lore, medicine making and traditional magic. Plants of the Devil was her first book for Three Hands Press. She has is also the author of Under the Witching Tree, published by Troy Books. She lives with her family in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Contributor Bio: Schulke, Daniel A
Daniel Schulke is a writer on the subjects of folk magic, comparative religion, and occult herbalism. His essays have appeared in the prominent occult journals Starfire, The Cauldron, and Abraxas. Schulke is the general editor of the Western Esotericism in Context book series, and the author of the 2012 book Veneficium, concerning vectors of poison usage in magical traditions. His newest title, an occult herbal entitled The Green Mysteries will be released in late Summer 2020.
The Witch's Cabinet: Plant Lore, Sorcery and Folk Tradition
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