# occult botany plants

For everybody celebrating today's full moon / super moon / blood moon, let me remind you that bloodroot juice is a perfectly viable, vegan, and more ethically-sourced substitute for blood in all spells and rituals.

No particular reason, just PSA.

5 29
2021-05-26

A close relative of wormwood, mugwort is a herb of divination, bringing lucid dreams, heightening psychic awareness, and bestowing deep mystical experiences.

Yes, it's because it has honest-to-science narcotic properties. Thujone is one hell of a drug.

5 28
2021-04-26

In the literature, there are about ten different ways of safely harvesting mandrake. All but one are bogus.

Just wear gloves.

4 16
2021-04-02

I'm making a thing or two. There's still time to join our Patreon this month and reap the benefits while supporting my work on *wink wink*
https://t.co/awpoZ8kths

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2020-06-26

As a thank-you for our Patrons, I'm making these reference cards from the entries in You know, collectible. Come join us; help and me make cool plants and spaceships: https://t.co/iKh6fhS93x

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2020-06-04

Random lore in the morning: Calabar bean, one of the most toxic on the planet, is called in Polish 'Bobotrutka trująca' which basically translates to Poisony McPoisonface.

I can't even. It's a thing you know now. There will be more of those in

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2020-05-23