This is especially common in the British Isles, where one plant can be known by as many as two dozen distinct names.įinally, there are a whole bookful of plants with appellations such as “Our Ladies Fingers” or “Old Man’s Oatmeal.” These are plants originally dedicated to the Pagan goddesses and gods of the common folk and after the introduction of Christianity were assigned new roles as representative of the Virgin Mary and the Devil respectively.įollowing is a list of some magical names of herbs, along with their more common ones. Then, too, many plants were given “folk” names which reveal their uses in magic or the superstitions surrounding them. Crow’s foot, dog’s tooth, horse-tongue, Jew’s ear–are all magical and dialectical names for herbs and plants.
“Eyes” mean any one of a group of plants resembling the eye, such as the aster, daisy, chamomile, or perhaps even eyebright. “Tongue of dog” is simply hound’s tongue, a common herb. The second type of name, covered by the next 4 names, are names similar to the first, but with 'of' or 'of the' in between the two words. The first type, covered by the first 3 names, are two word names, like 'Divided Honor' and 'Cutlass Ancients'. after node names have been exchanged, the magic cookies the nodes present to. The names have been divided into 3 types.
The list of such names is quite long and varied, but a few examples can be given here. A node is an executing Erlang runtime system that has been given a name. Every ingredient he lists as being in the Witches’ pot (filet of a fenny snake/in the cauldron boil and bake:/eye of newt, and toe of frog,/Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,/ adder’s fork, and blindworm’s sting/Lizards leg, and howlet’s wing,/etc.) refers to a plant and not to the gruesome substance popularly thought. She was often associated with the moon and with storms, making this name a good alternative to more familiar names like Selena, Luna and Tempest. The name may mean 'willpower' or 'far-reaching'. The often quoted illustration from Shakespeare’s Macbeth serves as a useful example of this practice. In Greek mythology, Hecate is associated with witchcraft and magic.
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