Wort Cunning using herbs and plants is more than simple herbalism; it's European folk magic. Many of us love to work with these herbs, or simply have them in our gardens, but we know very little about them compared to previous generations. Herbs have always been used as medicine, but many folk cures didn't just use a plant, they enlisted the plant's magical aid. Here I talk about using plants magically in spells or cures and what we can understand from old folk magic practitioners of the past.

Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest
by Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, 1807-1873 - https://archive.org/details/leechdoms...

Trolldom - Spells and Methods of the Norse Magic Tradition
by Johannes Bjorn Gardback
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