Betonica officinalis - Wood betony
An ancient magical and medicinal plant. The Romans believed it was effective agains sorcery and planted it in graveyards to prevent ghost activity.
The Anglo-Saxons used it against bad dreams and "frightful nocturnal goblins" (sleep paralysis).
It is also part of the 9th century Old English "Nine Herbs Charm" agains poison and sickness, where it is refered to as attorlaðe (adder-loath / anti-snake). It says "Now you, attorlaðe, put to flight the lesser and greater, the greater and lesser, until the cure for both be with him"
In the middle ages it was put inside amulets worn on a red string to protect from witchcraft.
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Jakarn says he wants to rob the place while I’m looting everything right in front of him. I don’t think there will be anything left.
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Betony #wildflower
Stachys officinalis.
Picture taken July 21.
#wildflowers #plants #nature #naturephotography #woods #plant #betony
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Chicago Front Yard
Inspiration for a sizable, traditional, summertime, stone landscaping front yard.
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OH..MY GOD..ok so when i hatched my aether Alexandria and I noticed her Carrot secondary I was like..this feels familiar. I just thought of my banescale Rauscher who also has a carrot secondary, but funny coincidences happen and it's a nice shade of orange.
But I just posted my undertide Bal in dragon share and realized. Her tert is Carrot. That was also why it felt familiar..then i realized. Do I have a Carrot Representative for every ancient??? I remembered I had my Gaoler Keepsie, who is Navy/Carrot/Carrot, but surely I don't have any Aberrations with Carrot..well. Betony has an orange range tert, but that had to be Sunset or something...
It's Carrot. I literally gasped when I confirmed it sdfasd I literally have carrot on every ancient sdafasdf I guess I'm gonna have a tradition to keep up now omggg
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Runetober Day 14: Dried Flowers
(following the woodland magic prompts by smalltownspells)
More dried herbs than dried flowers, but close enough.
Today's illustration is the Nine Herbs Charm. I did a full illustration of it last year, which took so long, I had to stop inktober, but today I made a smaller one with only short text passages.
We have the nine herbs in a circle, with the Anglo-Saxon runes on the spears around them giving a short insight on how they are described in the original Nine Herbs Charm text:
Mugwort, Una, the oldest of herbs.
Waybread, mother of herbs.
Lambcress, the herb growing on a stone.
Nettle, the herb tha fought against the serpent.
Betony, the one that will fight.
Chamomile, prepared for food.
Chervil, the very mighty herb
Crab-apple, sent by a seal across the sea
Fennel shaped the lord when he hung.
Around it, written in the nine segments of a killed dragon/snake the runes read about the creation of the Charm:
A worm came creeping, he tore a man in two
then Woden took nine Glory-Twigs,
struck the adder then, that it flew apart into nine.
In the middle we have Woden, the depiction is inspired, albeit slightly changed, from a 8th century Anglosaxon Sceatta coin.
The Old English text:
Mucgwyrt Una, yldost wyrta
Wegbrade, wyrta modor
Stune, wyrt heo on stane geweox
Stiðe, wyrt seo wiþ wyrm gefeaht
Attorlaðe, seo læsse ða maran
Mægðe to mete gegyrede
Fille, felamightigu wyrta
Wergulu, onsænde seolh ofer sæ
Finule gesceop drihten hongode
Wyrm com snican, toslat he man;
ða genam Woden nigon wuldortanas,
sloh ða þa næddran, þæt heo on nigon tofleah.
In Anglo-Saxon runes:
ᛗᚢᚳᚷᚹᚣᚱᛏ·ᚢᚾᚪ·ᚣᛚᛞᚩᛋᛏ·ᚹᚣᚱᛏᚪ
ᚹᛖᚷᛒᚱᚪᛞᛖ·ᚹᚣᚱᛏᚪ·ᛗᚩᛞᚩᚱ
ᛥᚢᚾᛖ·ᚹᚣᚱᛏ·ᚻᛖᚩ·ᚩᚾ·ᛥᚪᚾᛖ·ᚷᛖᚹᛖᚩᛣᛋ
ᛥᛁᚦᛖ·ᚹᚣᚱᛏ·ᛋᛖᚩ·ᚹᛁᚦ·ᚹᚣᚱᛗ·ᚷᛖᚠᛠᚻᛏ
ᚪᛏᚩᚱᛚᚪᚦᛖ·ᛋᛖᚩ·ᛚᚨᛋᛖ·ᚦᚪ·ᛗᚪᚱᚪᚾ
ᛗᚨᚷᚦᛖ·ᛏᚩ·ᛗᛖᛏᛖ·ᚷᛖᚷᚣᚱᛖᛞᛖ
ᚠᛁᛚᛖ·ᚠᛖᛚᚪᛗᛁᚻᛏᛁᚷᚢ·ᚹᚣᚱᛏᚪ
ᚹᛖᚱᚷᚢᛚᚢ·ᚩᚾᛋᚨᚾᛞᛖ·ᛋᛖᚩᛚᚻ·ᚩᚠᛖᚱ·ᛋᚨ·
ᚠᛁᚾᚢᛚᛖ·ᚷᛖᛋᚳᛖᚩᛈ·ᛞᚱᛁᚻᛏᛖᚾ·ᚻᚩᛝᚩᛞᛖ
ᚹᚣᚱᛗ·ᛣᚩᛗ·ᛋᚾᛁᛣᚪᚾ·ᛏᚩᛋᛚᚨᛏ·ᚻᛖ·ᛗᚪᚾ:ᚦᚪ·ᚷᛖᚾᚪᛗ·ᚹᚩᛞᛖᚾ·ᚾᛁᚷᚩᚾ·ᚹᚢᛚᛞᚩᚱᛏᚪᚾᚪᛋ:ᛋᛚᚩᚻ·ᚦᚪ·ᚦᚪ·ᚾᚨᛞᚱᚪᚾ·ᚦᚨᛏ·ᚻᛖᚩ·ᚩᚾ·ᚾᛁᚷᚩᚾ·ᛏᚩᚠᛚᛠᚻ
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