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Posted Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:38 pm...

Potatoes

The humble Potato may seem an unlikely magical tool but our forebears would have worked most frequently with the things which are at hand, for these would have been those whose properties they were most familiar with.

As the Mandrake is in fact a member of the Potato family it is perhaps not so surprising that the Potato can be used in its own right. Potatoes make excellent poppets or fith-faths for working image magic. When working healing inscribe the name of the subject on a Potato and bury it in the ground at the Full Moon: as the Moon wanes, so will the disease. Potato juice mixed with red ink is excellent for writing magical talismans.

A Potato which has naturally gone hard and black has long been carried in the pocket as a cure for rheumatism. Somewhat more scientific is with practice of drinking raw Potato juice which has a high concentration of potash salts. Hot Potato water compresses also relieve the pain of rheumatism and arthritis. Pounded raw Potato will reduce the inflammation of a bruised or blackened eye. The floury center of the baked Potato, when mixed with oil, is helpful in healing over-chilled and frostbitten skin. Be sure to make a wish when eating the first new Potatoes of the season.

Two things which any eater of Potatoes, whether Witch or no, should be aware of are that green Potatoes can be toxic, and a Potato boiled without its skin loses one third to one half of its goodness in the water.

"Silence is often mistaken for wisdom."

~from the Real Witches Year by Kate West

If you cant explain it simply, you dont understand it well enough.-- Albert Einstein

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