To: cat@luckymojo.com (sri catyananda)
From: nagasiva@luckymojo.com (blackman99)
Subject: Black Arts Line-Up
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:50:32 -0800 (PST)

here's what I've dug up on possible Black Arts ingredients....
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BLACK ARTS LINE-UP
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Aloeswood, Wood Aloe (aquilaria agallocha) CHIPS (incense)
 mag:
  lovespells, invoking evil spirits; spirituality, meditation,
  love; love, protect the loved; strengthening magical power


Asafoetida (ferula foetida)
 mag:
  prev disease, banish; hex-increase, black magic power, prot
  vs hex; hexing; destroys manifestations of spirits, exorcism


Balmony, Turtlebloom (chelone glabra -- figwort family)
 mag:
  enhance hex; cast strong hexes
 med:
  tonic, aperient; leaves ointment vs piles irritation/itch


Calamus, Sweet Flag (acorus calamus -- arum family)
 mag:
  add power to hex; controlling; control, dominate, add power
  to a hex (incense); strengthening, binding 
 med:
  mild aromatic; remedy for upset or sour stomach


Chicory (cichorium intybus)
 mag: 
  sure hex; favors from great persons, removing obstacles
 med:
  tea from root for sour stomach


Dog Hair (poodle, black)
 mag:
  hexing, invocatory of the Black Man, Mephistopheles, Der Teuffel
 med:
  none


Dragon's Blood (daemonorops draco; dracaena spp) (palm resin)
 mag:
  foil hex; luck; luck; uncross; luck; banish evil, prot


Eucalyptus 
 mag:
  banish; prot; purif; healing, prot


Ginger (zingiber officinalis)
 mag:
  prot vs evil; love; love; love; love; power, love


Graveyard Dirt/Dust
 mag:
  hexing


Knotgrass (polygonum persecaria -- buckwheat family)
 mag:
  uncrossing; hex, luck;
 med:
  very efficacious as a diuretic; juice used for wounds


Knotweed (polygonum erectum (aviculare?) -- buckwheat family)
 mag:
  bind lover; banish; binding 
 med: 
  mild astringent, vulnerary, styptic, febrifuge


Marjoram (origanum vulgare)
 mag:
  banishing; love; peace, celibacy; prot vs devils; prot, love;
  protection; black magic (incense); love spells
 med:
  herb is carminative and tonic, useful for upset stomach;
  oil is used for liniments


Moss, Spanish
 mag:
  protection
 med: 


Mullein (verbascum thapsus -- figwort family)
 mag:
  banish; courage; call evil spirits (incense); hexing with
  graveyard dirt; black magic (incense); love, prot; black
  magic (incense); substitute for graveyard dirt; prot vs
  magic and evil spirits
 med:
  demulcent, diuretic, anodyne, and anti-spasmodic; the
  infusion being useful in coughs, due to colds, diarrhea,
  etc.; fomentation of leaves in hot vinegar and water for
  local application on external irritations like piles;
  handful placed in old teapot with hot water, inhaling
  steam through spout relieves nasal congestion or catarrh,
  throat irritation, etc.


Mustard, Black (brassica spp) (seeds)
 mag:
  disruption, confusion, distress; luck amulet; flight (India);
  prot vs supernatural beings
 med:


Patchouli (oil)
 mag:
  break spells, love; sex, phys energy, money; graveyard
  dust substitute
 med:


Pepper, Black (piper nigrum) (seeds)
 mag:
  banish; banish; hex
 med:


Pepper, Red/Guinea/Cayenne (capsicum spp)
 mag:
  cause problems; jinxing + power + confusion; enhance jinxes;
  spell-breaking
 med:


Poppy (papaver spp) (seeds)
 mag:
  confusion, domination; confusion, dominating an enemy;
  dream visions
 med:


Skunk Cabbage (simplocarpus foetidus -- arum family) (seeds/root)
 mag:
  crossing, jinx; court case luck
 med:
  internally: stimulant, expectorant antispasmodic, with
  slightly narcotic influences


Sulphur 
 mag:
  jinx, mix w/ asafoetida for banish; jinx/hex additive;
  conversation with spirits
 med:


Valerian (Fragrant), Vandal Root (valeriana offinalis)
 mag:
  black magic; destroy hexes; peace, prot; pacify, hex;
  used as a substitute for graveyard dust
 med:
  excites the cerebro-spinal system; large doses can cause
  headaches, mental excitement, visual illusions, giddiness,
  giddiness, restlessness, agitation and even spasmodic
  movements; in medicinal doses acts as a stimulating tonic,
  antispasmodic and calmative; the infusion and fluid
  extract contain all the virtues of the plant


Vetivert, Khus Khus (andropogon zizanioides -- grass family)
 mag:
  overcome evil; prot, $; prot vs evil; prot vs spirits
 med:
  roots used in the manufacture of fine perfumes


Walnut (Black/White) (juglans nigra/cinerea -- walnut family) (leaves)
 mag:
  hex enemies
 med:
  black -- bark is astringent; white -- cathartic, laxative


Witches Grass, Witch Grass (agropyron repens)
 mag:
  hex, power; increase the power of a hex; unhexing, uncrossing
 med:
  diuretic, aperient, demulcent


Yarrow, Devil's Nettle, Milfoil (achillea millefolium)
 mag:
  psych awareness; invoking Satan's power; purif; psych powers
 med:
  aromatic class of sudorific tonics

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