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Some " fun " and esoteric catnip lore and uses over the ages ...

 

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http://www.tempestwolf.com/herbs/magickal/c/catnipnc_m.htm

 

Magickal

 

Catnip

 

Nepeta cataria

 

Family:Labiatae

 

Other Names:Cat, Cataria, Cat mint, Catmint, Catnep, Catrup, Cat's-play,

Cat's Wort, Catswort, Catwort, Field Balm, Garden Nep, Herba Cataria,

Herba Catti, Nebada, Nep, Nepeta, Nip

 

Parts Used:Flowers, Leaves, Stem

 

Meaning:

 

Astrology:Planet:Venus Gender:Feminine

Sign: Energy:Cold

House: Element:Air, Water

 

Deities:Bast, SekhmetTime:Day:

Celebrations: Month:

Rituals:House BlessingsSeason:

 

Herbe type:Animals (especially felines), Fertility, Religious

 

Uses:-Folk charms for fertility and love.

-Barrennness. Fertility charm.

-Ingredient in love sachets (especially with rose petals).

-Ingredient in love incenses (especially with rose petals).

-Religious Herbe for Bast and Sekhmet.

-Any magick or healing involving felines.

-Shapeshifting (particularly were-cats).

-Self growth (in incense with Dragon's Blood, exorcises bad habits)

-Animals and animal contacts

-Love

-Magickal book bookmarks (large dried leaves)

-Psychic bond with cat (by giving it to and playing with kitty)

 

Incense:-Scent: Grassy or herby with touch of bitter mint.

-Animals (particularly felines)

-Cleansing (as in refreshing, and also as in cleansing ritual tools,

especially blades)

-Consecrating blades

-Commanding

-Dreams

-Harmony

-Love (especially with rose petals)

-Peace

-Rest

-Sleep

-Tranquility

 

Color:

Tarot:Strength (#8) and Nines

 

Lore:

-It is said that the root of catnip, when eaten or chewed, can make even

the most gentle and calm person violently angry and quarrelsome. There

is an old legend of an executioner who could not bring himself to

dispatch anyone until he had chewed/eaten catnip root.

 

Bibliography:

Note: This Bibliography is for the Magickal references ONLY. Information

such as " other names " and " parts used " was found in these books AND some

of the books listed on the medicinal version of this page.

 

Beyerl, Paul, The Master Book of Herbalism, Custer, WA: Phoenix

Publishing Co., 1984.

Culpeper, Nicholas and Pottern, David (editor), Culpeper's Color Herbal,

New York, NY: Sterling, 1983.

Culpeper, Nicholas, Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician,

Enlarged, Glenwood, IL: Meyerbooks, 1990.

Cunningham, Scott, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, St. Paul,

MN: Llewellyn, 1999.

Cunningham, Scott, Magical Herbalism, St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1983.

Smith, Steven R., (Wylundt), Wylundt's Book of Incense, York Beach, ME:

Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1989.

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