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Names of herbs
Some people think what kind of evil things does witches boil in their cauldrons. Actually many names used in folk traditions and Witchcraft Herbal Lore to identify botanicals are code words that gives a symbological or similar image.
Here, you will find a list of botanicals with their common name, Wiccan (Witchcraft) name with the Scientific or Latin name.
If you find anything wrong on the information in these list, please inform me so that I can correct them. Thank you.


Common Name Witches Name Latin (Scientific) Name
- Lizard's Tongue Sauroglossum

- Adder's Meat Microstylis Ophioglossiodes

- Stinking Goose Foot Chenopodium foetidum

Adder's Tongue Fern Snake's Tongue Ophioglossum vulgatum

Agrimony - Agrimonia Eupatoria

All Heal - Stachys Sylvatica

American Mandrake Duck's Foot Podophyllum peltatum

Angelica - Angelica Atropurpurea

Ash Black Boy Resin Xanthorrhoea arborea

Ash Tree Leaves - Fraxinus Excelsior

Ash Weed Goat's Foot Aegopodium podograria

Avens - Geum Urbanum

Balm - Melissa Officinalis

Balmony Snake Head Chelone glabra

Barberry - Berberis Vulgaris

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  From the Witches' Pharmacopoeia and Materia Medica



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