Wormwood | Artemisia absinthium

🌿 Overview:
Silvery-green leaves with a sharp, bitter edge and a velvety texture, wormwood is steeped in shadowed lore and long-held rites of boundary and banishment.

🔮 Traditional Uses:
Traditionally bundled or scattered in thresholds to ward off what’s unwelcome. Revered in folk rites for its strong spirit and ability to mark sacred space.

✨ Lore & Myth:
Once thought to keep witches at bay and guide wandering souls, wormwood was a staple in protective spells, dreamwork, and graveyard rituals across many cultures.

🌍 Origin & Sourcing:
Wild-harvested and slowly dried to maintain its dusty hue and pungent, herbaceous scent that lingers like a warning whispered in the wind.

🧭 Notes:
Acrid, earthy, and hauntingly green. Conjuring windblown moors, old boundary lines, and the dry rustle of forgotten paths.