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Purple Looststrife



Magickal Uses: This plant was considered most powerful when gathered at Kupalo. One could control demons and troublesome spirits with the root if the following words were chanted over it before a sacred image:

Tear-weed, tear-weed

You have wept long and much but gained little.

May your tears not drown the open field

Nor your cries sound over the deep blue sea.

Frighten off the demons and the witches!

If they do not submit to you, then drown them in your tears!

If they run from your glance, throw them over cliffs or into pits!

May my words be firm and strong for hundreds of years!