Luci the Witch

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luna as a tattoo artist

just think about it:

- she gives ginny a stick and poke in their fourth year, the first tattoo she’s ever given anyone - a tiny crescent moon on the inside of her forearm with magic color changing ink - it tells ginny the weather, and glows when the weather is perfect for quidditch

- hagrid gleefully gets a tattoo from luna sometime in the fifth year - on his inner ankle, a square of text tells him about the needs of the creatures around him - he starts sitting with his ankle on his knee to more easily check it

- she gives harry a tattoo the summer before his eighth year - a small horntail, but it moves from his chest to sit on his shoulder or cower in the crook of his elbow as it pleases - it wakes him up from his bad dreams, and keeps him warm in the middle of the night

- she gives neville a tattoo before she was stolen into the malfoy’s manor - it’s a ring encircling his middle finger - the magic of it is simple, transforming into whatever word he needs to see most when he asks it

- seamus gets one not long after neville - it’s a tiny bomb on his collar bone, ticking in time with dean’s heart

- hermione doesn’t want a tattoo at first, but as she grows closer with luna she asks for it very shyly in the middle of her eighth year - it gently pulses with her heart on her shoulder blade, an hourglass on it’s side - it will sometimes stand up and run sand, but only when hermione is very busy or stressed

- george asks for a tattoo that finishes his jokes, many years after the war, when he is an uncle and godfather - luna refuses and instead gives him a non-magical tattoo, a china cup mended with gold over his heart

- draco, many years after luna is an established artist and healer, drops into her shop in diagon alley - he asks her to fix his scar-slashed Mark, and she turns it into a sleeve of flowers, studded with snakes and turtles - the flowers bloom with his moods, and shield him from hurting himself

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1000 Picspams Challenge | #815 Sacred Twenty-Eight | Greengrass

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Illustrations from Vienna Dioscorides c. 512

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Magickal Folk Names for Herbs

Having knowledge of herbs and plants (either magically or medicinally) during the Middle Ages, often was reason enough to accuse a woman of being a “witch,” so there is no doubt some of the country folk at the time took these herbal folk names literal.  Chances are, these names were used merely as descriptors to help remember them easier.  Most plants were given names descriptive of their uses and others were given names for something they generally resembled. Spells written by witches in ancient times were often written with such descriptors, which personally i believe to be a form of secret coding.

Here is a small list of “witchy” herb names (most of these are already floating around the community) that you can use in your craft when you create your spells.  This list could be a great addition to any Grimoire and i hope you find them as useful as i do.

Enjoy ~~~  Cannawitch

Plants

Aaron’s Rod - Goldenrod or mullein stalk Absinthe - Wormwood Adder’s Fork - Adder’s Tongue Fern or Bistort Adder’s Tongue - Dog’s Tooth Violet (or Adder’s Tongue Fern Ague root - Unicorn root Alison - Sweet Alyssum Angel Food, Archangel - Angelica Angel’s Trumpet - Datura Ass’s Ear - colt’s foot or comfrey Ass’s Foot, Bull’s Foot - colt’s foot Auld Man’s Bells, Old man’s bells - wood hyacinth, Hyacinthoides hispanica

Bad Man’s/Devil’s Oatmeal/Porridge - hemlock Bad Man’s/Devil’s Plaything - Yarrow Bastard - false Dittany Bat flower - tacca Bat’s Wing - Holly leaf Bat’s Wool - moss (which moss?) Bear’s Foot - Lady’s Mantle Bear’s Grape Bearberry Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Bear Paw - ramsons Allium ursinum or the root of male fern Dryopteris Felix-mas Bear weed - Yerba Santa Eriodictyon californicum Beard of a Monk - Chicory Beggar’s Lice - Hound’s tongue Beggar’s Buttons - Burdock Bird’s Eye - Speedwell Veronica officinalis Bird’s Foot - Fenugreek Trigonella foenum-graecum (Also bird’s foot violet and bird’s foot trefoil) Bird’s Nest - carrot, Indian pipe Bishop’s Wort, Bishop’s Elder - Wood betony Stachys betonica Bitter Grass - Ague Root Aletris Farinosa Black Sampson - Echinacea Blazing Star - liatris Blind Eyes - Poppy Blood from a head - Lupine * Blood from a shoulder - Bear’s breech * Blood of a Goose - Sap from a mulberry * Morus nigra Blood of an Eye - Tamarisk gall * (probably the tannin extracted from) Blood of Ares - purslane * Blood of Hephaestus - wormwood * Blood of Hestia - Chamomile * Blood - sap of the elder or bloodwort Bloody butcher - Valerian Bloody Fingers - Foxglove Blue Bottle - Bachelor’s buttons Boy’s Love, Lad’s Love: Southernwood Brain Thief - Mandrake Bone of an Ibis - buckthorn * I am not sure if this is Rhamnus cathartica or sea buckthorn Hippophae spp If I can find a recipe containing this, I will know for sure by comparing its purpose to their very different qualities Bread and Cheese - Hawthorn Bride of the Meadow - meadowsweet Bull’s Blood - beet or horehound Burning bush - false dittany, also a modern name for species of Euonymus Cow’s Horn - Fenugreek Trigonella foenum-graecum Bride of the Sun - calendula Brown Dragon - wake robin Buttons - tansy

Calf’s snout - Snapdragon Candlemas Maiden - snowdrop Candlewick - mullein, the flower stalk Capon’s Tail - valerian Carpenter’s Herb - bugleweed Lycopus europaeus Carpenter’s Square - knotted figwort Carpenter’s weed - Yarrow Cat - catnip Cat’s foot - white balsam, black cohosh, ground ivy Cat’s herb - valerian Chameleon star - bromeliad Cheeses - marsh mallow Chocolate flower - wild geranium (I don’t buy it) Christ’s eye - wild clary Salvia verbenaca Christ’s ladder - centaury Christ’s spear - adder’s tongue fern Ophioglossum vulgatum Church steeple - Agrimony Clear eye - clary sage Cleavers - bedstraw Click - goosegrass Clot - great mullien Cocklebur - Agrimony Cock’s comb - amaranth Colt’s Tail - fleabane Crane’s bill - wild geranium Crow’s foot - wild geranium, or wood anemone bulbous buttercup (verified) Crowdy kit - figwort Cuckoo’s bread - common plantago Cucumber tree - magnolia Cuddy’s lungs - great mullein Crown for a king - wormwood

Dagger flower - blue flag Daphne - bay laurel Dead man’s bells foxglove Death angel - fly agaric Amanita Muscaria Death cap - fly agaric Amanita Muscaria Death flower - Yarrow Death’s Herb - Belladonna Delight of the Eye - rowan Devil Plant - basil Devil’s Apple - Mayapple or Mandrake Devil’s beard - houseleek Devil’s bit - false unicorn root Devil’s cherries Belladonna berries Devil’s plaything - yarrow Devil’s dung - asafoetida Devil’s ear - wakerobin Devil’s eye - henbane or periwinkle Devil’s flower - bachelor’s buttons Devil’s fuge - mistletoe Devil’s guts - dodder Devil’s herb - belladonna Devil’s milk - celandine Devil’s nettle - yarrow Devil’s Shoestring: Various varieties of vibernum, esp Black Haw, cramp bark, hobblebush Dew of the Sea - Rosemary Dog Berry - wild rose hips Dog’s mouth - snap dragon Dog’s tongue - hound’s tongue Dove’s foot - wild geranium Dragon - tarragon Dragon Flower - blue flag (really, wild iris? not an arum or a Antirrhinum?) Dragon wort - bistort Dragon’s blood - calamus

Eagle - ramsons Allium ursinum Earth apple - potato Earth smoke- fumitory Elf’s wort - Elecampane Enchanter’s plant - vervain Englishman’s fruit/ White man’s foot - common plantain Everlasting friendship - goosegrass Eye root - goldenseal

Fairy smoke - Indian pipe Fairy fingers - foxglove Fat from a Head - spurge * Felon herb - Mugwort Five fingers - cinquefoil Fox’s Clote - burdock Frog’s foot - bulbous buttercup From the belly - Earth-apple. * potato?? Did the writers know about potatoes? When was pgm written? From the foot - houseleek * From the loins - chamomile *

Goat’s foot - morning glory Goat’s Horn - Fenugreek Trigonella foenum-graecum God’s hair - hart’s tongue fern Golden’s star - avens Gosling’s wing - goosegrass Graveyard dust - mullein (and sometimes it’s just graveyard dust)

Hag’s taper - mullien stalk Hagthorn - hawthorn Hair of Venus - Maidenhair fern Hairs of a Hamadryas Baboon: Dill Seed * Hare’s beard - mullein Hawk’s Heart, Old Woman - Wormwood Artemisia absinthium crown or seed head * Hind’s tongue - hart’s tongue fern Holy herb - yerba santa Holy rope - hemp agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum Horse tongue - hart’s tongue fern Hundred eyes - periwinkle

Innocence - bluets

Jacob’s Staff - Great Mullein Joy of the Mountain - Marjoram Jupiter’s Staff - Great Mullein

King’s Crown: Black Haw vibernum Knight’s Milfoil - Yarrow Kronos’ Blood - sap of Cedar *

Lady’s glove - foxglove Lamb’s ears - betony but more likely lamb’s ear Stachys byzantina Lion’s Hair - The extra little roots that stick out of the turnip bulb or the base leaves Brassica rapa * Lion’s tooth - dandelion Little dragon - tarragon Love in idleness - pansy Love Lies Bleeding - amaranth (Not so ancient, a modern ornamental variant) Love Leaves - burdock Love man - goosegrass Love Parsley - lovage Love root - orris root

Maiden’s Ruin - Southernwood Man’s Bile - Turnip Juice * Man’s Health - Ginseng Master of the Woods - Woodruff May Lily - Lily of the Valley May Rose - Black Haw viburnum May - Black Haw viburnum Maypops - Passion Flower Mistress of the Night - Tuberose Mutton Chops - Goosegrass

Nose Bleed - Yarrow

Old Man’s Flannel - Great Mullein Old Man’s Pepper - Yarrow Old-Maid’s-Nightcap - Wild Geranium

Password - primrose Peter’s Staff - Great Mullein Poor Man’s Treacle - Garlic Priest’s Crown - Dandelion leaves

Queen of the Meadow Root - Gravelroot Queen of the Meadow - Meadowsweet Queen of the Night - Vanilla Cactus

Rats and Mice - Hound’s tongue Ram’s horn - valerian Ring a Bells - bluebell Robin run in the grass - goosegrass

Scaldhead - blackberry Seed of Horus - horehound See bright - Clary sage Semen of Ammon - Houseleek * Semen of Ares - Clover * Semen of Helios - White Hellebore * Semen of Hephaistos - Fleabane * Semen of Herakles - arugula * Semen of Hermes - Dill * Seven Year’s Love Yarrow Shameface - Wild Geranium Shepherd’s Heart - Shepherd’s Purse Silver Bells - Black Haw viburnum Snake Root - black cohosh Soapwort - Comfrey or Daisy or maybe Soapwort Sorcerer’s Violet - Periwinkle Sparrow’s Tongue - Knotweed St. John’s Herb - Hemp Agrimony St. John’s Plant - Mugwort Star Flower - Borage Star of the Earth - Avens Starweed - Chickweed Sweethearts - Goosegrass Swine’s Snout - Dandelion leaves

Tail of a Pig - Leopard’s bane * Tanner’s bark - toadflax Tartar root - ginseng Tears of a Hamadryas Baboon - Dill Juice * Thousand weed - yarrow Thunder plant - houseleek Titan’s Blood - Wild Lettuce Lactuca virosa * Torches - mullein flower stalk

Unicorn’s horn - unicorn root or false unicorn root Urine - dandelion or maybe urine

Wax dolls - fumitory Weasel - rue Weasel snout - yellow archangel Winter wood - wild cinnamon Canella alba White - ox eye daisy Witch’s Asprin - white willow bark (this is ancient?) Witch’s brier - wild brier rose hips Wolf claw - club moss Wolf’s foot - bugleweed Wolf’s milk - euphorbia Woodpecker - herbLpeony Worm fern- male fern Dryopteris Felix-mas

Yerba Santa Maria - epazote

Plant Parts/Body Parts

Blood - Sap or juice Eye - The disc of a composite flower, or a seed Foot - Leaf Guts - Roots, stalks, tangly bits Hair - Very stringy roots (sometimes silk or tangly stems) Head - Flower head or seed head Tail - Stem Tongue - Petal, sometimes stigma Toes - leaf or bud Paw - sometimes bud, usually leaf Privates - Seed pod Worm - stringy roots Wool - Moss

Minerals

A Snake’s Ball of Thread - soapstone * Blood of a Snake - hematite * Crocodile Dung - Soil from Ethiopia * A Physician’s bone - sandstone *

Animal Parts

A Snake’s Head - A leech * Blood of a Hyrax - A rock badger, * small weasel-like/rodent-like (but actually neither) creature native to Africa and the Middle East Blood of a Hamadryas Baboon - Blood of a spotted gecko * Bull’s semen - the egg of a blister beetle * Lion Semen - Human semen * Kronos’ Spice - Pig Milk *

* From Ecloga ex Papyris Magicis: Liber I, V, xxvi

More Sources for verification -

Galen - De succedaneis, Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, v 19

Paulus Aegineta, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum IX/2 vII

Dioscorides De Materia Medica

Witchipedia

Lady Raven

Tryskelion

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Please note that this list is only applicable to the Greek Magical Papyri and the cited Materia Medica rather than a universal rule across all grimoires. When the Greater Key (for example) says black cat’s blood, it means black cat’s blood and catmint juice will not be an appropriate substitution due to having the incorrect planetary correspondence.

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The Marchmont School of Magic:

Siren’s Isle, Sixth Borough*, New York City

The Marchmont School of Magic is not the oldest of magical schools, dating back to only the late 1880s, but its location, so close to the magical heart of the city, the Sixth Borough, nonetheless makes it a fine choice for the education of magical children. Its founding too, can be said to raise a few eyebrows. A young pureblood of an old family bought the grounds and built the sprawling mansion for the express purpose of impressing a girl, Genevieve Marchmont. When she rebuffed him to marry another, he persevered, opened the school with the help of his friend, and her sister, Jessamine Marchmont, for whom the school is named.

The beautiful Victorian building stands alone on the unplotted Siren’s Island, an island in the Sound between the Bronx and Queens. The grounds are not quite as sprawling as many other magical institutions, but it still supports a sizable quidditch pitch and gardens. A train station is situated on the north side of the island, connected to the Wizarding Rail out of Grand Central, allowing for a few day students to commute from their city homes.

Majority of the students, however, dorm in the school. There are no houses at the school, students are separated only by grade. The first year of education begins with sixth grade. Independence and exploration of the city are highly encouraged. The sixth and seventh grade students are watched more closely, but at eighth grade all students receive a metropolitan rail card and are loosed upon the streets of the Sixth Borough, along with the other muggle five. Siren’s Station has a train that goes direct to the Borough.

Subjects include Magical History, Arithmancy, Magical Theory, Herbology, American Magical History, Charms, Practical Defense, Theoretical Defense, Transfiguration, Muggle Studies and Potions. Elective courses such as Magical Arts, Photography, Astronomy (practicals conducted only at March Light off the coast of Montauk) and Divination are also offered for a well rounded magical education.

*The Sixth Borough is inspired by the great blog, American Wizarding, specifically this post.

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Lucilinburhuc School of Witchcraft and Wizardry by SweetLittleVampire

Since I am still bitter about us having to go to Beauxbatons, I created us a school of our own. The links included in the text will show you pictures of the actual locations.

Based in: Luxembourg, Europe

Located in: Castle of Beaufort (appears fallen apart to Muggles; technique borrowed from Hogwarts) (Here is a map of Luxembourg; Beaufort is somewhere between Diekirch and Echternach. I live in Luxembourg, and it takes me about 45 minutes by train to go from there to Diekirch.)

Name Origin: Lucilinburhuc was the name of a small roman castellum located in what is known today as Luxembourg City.. Count Siegfried 1st. used it to build his castle in 963, and the city formed itself around it.  It literally means “tiny castle”, and the country´s actual name derives from it. The castle itself lies in ruins, and they´ve become an actual tourist atraction, and is since 1994 part of the UNESCO World Heritage.

Status: European boarding school. Students allowed to attend are from Luxembourg and all of the other European dwarf states (San Marino, Malta, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, the Vatican). 150 places are reserved to pupils from Belgium and the Netherlands who would prefer not to attend Beauxbatons. Classes will be held mostly in English; different language classes are available as options.

Accomodation Space: For up to 1200 students (to compare: Joanne K. Rowling said Hogwarts had around 1000 students; the book however suggests that there might have been up to 1700. My own high school - located in Luxembourg´s city centre - has about 1400).

School Houses: Two. House Melusina (blue) and House Sigefroi (red) → more info to be added later.

The Crest: It depicts the colours of the two Houses as well as their attributes - wave-like structures for Melusina, and regal-looking damask for Sigefroi. Together with the white divider, they are reminiscent of Luxembourg´s national colours, red, white, and blue. They underline the unification of the diversity within the two Houses in one small country, who likes to keep its identity and heritage alive while welcoming and embracing foreign cultures. We chose not to include the actual symbols for Melusina and Sigefroi into the main coat of arms, since we believe that its simplicity makes enough of a statement.

The Motto: “in Varietate Concordia” means Unity in Diversity. Since Lucilinburhuc does not only accept Luxembourgians but students from other dwarf states as well, we saw this motto as the most fitting, since the school tries to provide a home and education for all of its pupils, no matter where they are from. It is also the official motto of the European Union, which Luxembourg is a founding state of.

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Lucilinburhuc School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - School Houses 

Does anyone recall the Wizarding School I created for Luxembourg, since I will always be bitter about us having to go to Beauxbatons? I thought it was about time I updated this. School houses, finally!

 With a bit of info on the Houses themselves and the story behind their names.

So far I posted a bit of info about the school itself and the uniform designs.

I think next up migh be…the story of the school. Who founded it, when, why, why is it located in Beaufort and not in the capital…the whole shebang.

The rest is under a Read More, because this is an awful lot of text. XD

Keep reading

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The Marchmont School of Magic:

Siren’s Isle, Sixth Borough*, New York City

The Marchmont School of Magic is not the oldest of magical schools, dating back to only the late 1880s, but its location, so close to the magical heart of the city, the Sixth Borough, nonetheless makes it a fine choice for the education of magical children. Its founding too, can be said to raise a few eyebrows. A young pureblood of an old family bought the grounds and built the sprawling mansion for the express purpose of impressing a girl, Genevieve Marchmont. When she rebuffed him to marry another, he persevered, opened the school with the help of his friend, and her sister, Jessamine Marchmont, for whom the school is named.

The beautiful Victorian building stands alone on the unplotted Siren’s Island, an island in the Sound between the Bronx and Queens. The grounds are not quite as sprawling as many other magical institutions, but it still supports a sizable quidditch pitch and gardens. A train station is situated on the north side of the island, connected to the Wizarding Rail out of Grand Central, allowing for a few day students to commute from their city homes.

Majority of the students, however, dorm in the school. There are no houses at the school, students are separated only by grade. The first year of education begins with sixth grade. Independence and exploration of the city are highly encouraged. The sixth and seventh grade students are watched more closely, but at eighth grade all students receive a metropolitan rail card and are loosed upon the streets of the Sixth Borough, along with the other muggle five. Siren’s Station has a train that goes direct to the Borough.

Subjects include Magical History, Arithmancy, Magical Theory, Herbology, American Magical History, Charms, Practical Defense, Theoretical Defense, Transfiguration, Muggle Studies and Potions. Elective courses such as Magical Arts, Photography, Astronomy (practicals conducted only at March Light off the coast of Montauk) and Divination are also offered for a well rounded magical education.

*The Sixth Borough is inspired by the great blog, American Wizarding, specifically this post.

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