Samhain

Simi Ninati shares plants for protection as the veil thins

Image by Simi Ninati.

At the end of October we are entering a time when the veil between the living and the dead is especially thin. In European folk herbalism, specific plants were traditionally used for protection at Samhain. Some of these lores seem eccentric and outrageous to us modern humans, but today there is still a mystery surrounding plants like Mandrake. Because it’s roots resemble a human body, it’s…