Description

Origin & Traditional Use

Stinging nettle is the common wild plant covered in fine stinging hairs. Its young leaves are cooked as a green, made into soup and tea, and its fibres were once spun into cloth. In folk magic it is a fierce herb of protection and returning curses.

Uses in the Work

Use it to break curses and return them to the sender. Add it to protective powders, jars and witch bottles, and sprinkle it around the home to drive off evil. Stuff it into a poppet to send pain back to an attacker, and burn it in exorcism and banishing work. It is a classic herb of hexing and revenge.

Pairs Well With

Agrimony – 1 oz; Reversing Oil – 4 dram; Black Salt – 1 oz

Lore

Nettle is one of the nine sacred herbs of the Anglo-Saxon Nine Herbs Charm. In Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans, the princess weaves shirts of nettles to free her brothers from a curse. Milarepa, the Tibetan yogi, was said to have lived on nettles until his skin turned green.

What You Receive

1oz cut form with a green scent, to be stored in a sealed container away from direct light and humidity.