The Witches Herbal

by Michael Howard

ISBN-978-0-9568114-2-4

“Throughout human history the often secret and sometimes forbidden knowledge of herbs and plants has always been the special province of those practising witchcraft and the magical arts. Although it tends to be a neglected study among those modern witches who live in an urban environment divorced from nature, in the past an understanding of plants that have medicinal properties, are poisonous, or have hallucinogenic qualities was the stock-in-trade of the old cunning man, wise woman, witch, warlock and wizard.”

The Witches’ Herbal is a guide to the subject of magical herbalism in three parts. Part one: a concise history of herbal healing and the use of folk remedies from ancient times to the present day. Part 2: a comprehensive A-Z herbal and plant glossary, providing the reader with a list of herbs and plants common to the British Isles with their botanical, cultural, magical, folkloric and medicinal significance. Part 3: information on the magical, folkloric and pagan religious role of common British trees based on Robert Graves’ famous Celtic Tree Alphabet.
Michael Howard is editor of long running The Cauldron magazine and author of many books on occult and related subjects.

Michael Howard has been the editor of The Cauldron witchcraft magazine since 1976. He has written numerous articles for other occult and neo-pagan magazines and since the 1970s has had over thirty books published on the runes, witchcraft, angelic magic, folklore, herbal remedies, and occult parapolitics.

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