#vipers bugloss

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Lots of Bugloss

Rich blues of viper's bugloss, flowering in the grasslands at RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes.

[kvetch19]

Viper's bugloss

[aspelladay]

Banish Incubi (3)*

An Anglo-Saxon defense against an incubus may represent a Christian overlay over an older spell.

Collect hops, wormwood, lupine, bishopwort, henbane, harewort, garlic, fennel, heathberry plants, ashthroat, viper’s bugloss, and githrife.

Place the botanicals in a jar and place beneath and altar.

Sing nine masses over them.

Boil them in butter and mutton fat.

Add salt.

Strain the mixture through cloth.

Take the strained herbs and dispel of in running water.

Anoint yourself with the salve as needed.

*Note: This is an historical spell. The formula is not safe to reproduce as it contains toxic ingredients.

(from The Element Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes)

[s2pdskwid]

Inktober 2021

Day 22: Viper's Bugloss

[malswebparty]

Wild Flowers in Surrey

The first photograph above shows a dandelion flower by a clump of flowering nettles.  The second one shows several dandelions and vipers bugloss, as well as a few nettles (both flowering and stinging).

(photographed 22/04/2020, posted 10/06/2020)

[wildfloweroftheday]

26 June 2019

Vipers Bugloss - Echium vulgare

I love the red stamens that contrast with the purple-blue funnel shaped corollas. The flowers are in curved cyme clusters all the way up the spotted, bristly stem.

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Viper's Bugloss

The frothy blue and pink flowers of viper's-bugloss, out in the afternoon sun at RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes.

[laylaspence]

Vipers bugloss and blackberry in watercolour and charcoal