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Wild Garlic and Wild Garlic Soup Recipe

It’s that time of year when you’ll start seeing (and smelling!) wild garlic popping up in shady and damp woodlands, fields and hedgerows throughout Britain, Ireland and Europe.

If you don’t know what it looks like, it has tiny white flowers and bright green leaves, but it can be quite scarce.

It is commonplace in ancient woods, where it creates a carpet of star shaped white blossoms, instead of the blue flooring of bluebells.

MAGICKAL PROPERTIES

In Witchcraft, wild garlic can be used just like regular garlic and is primarily used for protection, banishing and warding.

It can offer protection from break-ins when kept around the house or utilised in wards. It can also ward against nightmares, if used in sleep charms, and is useful for banishing negativity and unwelcome spirits. By this token, you could probably also use wild garlic to get rid of unwanted mindsets, habits, emotions, etc. Finally, it can protect the user from gossip and psychic attacks, and it can be used in wards of almost any purpose.

Garlic has strong associations with Hecate and the ancient Greeks would place garlic at cross roads as an offering to her.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Wild garlic is useful in treating bronchitis, allergies and asthma, by helping to open the lungs and ease breathing. It is also a healthy antioxidant and has antimicrobial properties. Additionally, it can aid in preventing clots by thinning blood and therefore should be used in moderation, due to these properties.

It can also help to lower cholesterol and blood sugar levels and it’s juice can be applied directly, or in a poultice, to burns.

Please take care, when picking wild garlic, to only remove the leaves. Don’t pull too hard, or you can pull the bulb straight out too, which has the potential to spoil next years crop and contribute to it’s scarcity. As with all foraging, take only what you need and treat the site with care, so you can enjoy it again next year!

Also, don’t pick anything from the side of the road, as there is too much pollution there from cars, or where people regularly walk their dogs, as no one wants pee or poop in their food!!

WILD GARLIC SOUP RECIPE

You’ll need the following ingredients:

• 40 g butter (or veggie/vegan alternative);

• 1 medium onion (chopped);

• 3 medium potatoes (peeled and diced);

• 1.5 ltr vegetable stock;

• 300 g wild garlic leaves (washed and patted dry);

• 100 ml double cream (or veggie/vegan alternative); and

• Salt and pepper.

Method:

Melt the butter over a medium heat, add the onions and saute until soft.

Add the vegetable stock and potatoes to the pan and simmer gently until the potatoes are fully cooked.

Add the wild garlic to the pan and allow to wilt for a couple of minutes.

Use a jug or hand blender (please be careful, as it’ll be boiling hot!) to blend the soup until you have a smooth and silky consistency.

Stir through the cream, season to taste and serve.

Serve with crusty bread.

Recipe Source: “wild garlic soup – Lost in Food” https://lostinfood.co.uk/wild-garlic-soup-a-mini-mid-week-adventure/

The Void….

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post on here! Mundane life got in the way, so sorry about that! Here’s a short post I’ve been thinking of writing for a while to get me back in the swing of posting more regularly.

When we cleanse or banish something, it leaves a void, or an empty space, where we have removed any negativity, bad feelings, bad habits or even harmful spirits or entities.

However, hardly anyone realises this or even talks about it like it’s an actual thing. This in itself can be dangerous or perilous, as you run the risk of that void filling up again with something negative or untoward, or you find yourself slipping back into those bad habits or letting the negativity creep back in.

This is likely to happen, unless you actively do something or create something full of love and positivity to take the place of what you have cleared or banished.

Therefore, once you’ve undertaken your spell, ritual, spiritual activity or other workings, you should find something to fill that void space with something that is positive, happy or full of light.

Some ways to go about this would be to light some incense that makes you feel happy, relaxed and loved, like jasmine or rose, or even spray some Florida Water around your space.

Or, you could run yourself a ritual bath to unwind in, with salts and oils, even flower petals and sliced citrus fruits, to help you to cleanse your body and soul and, in turn, allow your positive vibes to fill up that void space.

You can even do something as simple as make yourself a tasty fruit or herbal tea, sweetened with honey or agave syrup, which may help you to raise your vibrations within your space and fill that void with light so nothing dark can creep in again.