Ida Mae's Herbals

Can  you compel, entice & prosper with traditional blends of herbs and oils? When I studied any herb, I didn’t think I had learned enough until I had understood its place in mythology, lore, history, witchcraft, hoodoo, voodoo, superstition and Southern and Appalachian root magic.  Still, I discover more about herbs every day.  As a Southerner that was raised by those of Irish descent it wasn’t strange for me to hear that if a broom fell that company was coming or if a garden spider spelled your name that you would surely die, or that if you put tobacco on your bee sting that the swelling would go down, or you should throw salt over your shoulder if you spill some.  It was sometimes hard to sort out superstition from what wasn’t.  And since I earned my first degree in anthropology, and studied people and their beliefs, I couldn’t very well dismiss the significance that herbs have for some on a spiritual level. Now that I have studied herbs medicinally, and I have bec

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