10 most useful magic collections from Salem

The famous "Salem witches", accused of witchcraft, used recipes from medieval treatises on magic, which caring women brought to the American city of Salem from Europe. For the most part, these recipes, like any natural magic, are nothing more than a combination of symbolism and medicine.

Photographer Amelia Bauer, together with florist Elizabeth Parks Kibbey, carefully collected still lifes from herbal collections for all occasions that a modern person may need. Basically, they work — they need to be carried around like a herbarium, dried and drunk like tea, or watered by someone.

The main thing is that when creating your magic, you are firmly confident in the result — and then everything will definitely work out. However, the girls deliberately do not give exact recipes so that you do not do stupid things…

Acorns, waxwort, cinnamon, coins (old or foreign), horseshoes, lavender, parsley, silk ribbon, clover, thyme, tulip

Almonds, dill, fern, myrrh, marjoram, poppy, evasive elm

Pepper, saffron, verbena

Apple blossom, geranium, jasmine, rose, rosemary, vanilla pods, verbena

Waxwort, bay leaf, black serpentine kirkazon, cinnamon, geranium, ginger, rose, verbena

Cedar, lavender, nutmeg

Acacia, apple blossom, calendula, mint, rue, sage, thyme, violet

Angelica, rosemary, white candles, pearls

Apple, cedar, cinnamon, holly, garlic

Apple, apple blossom, basil, cucumber, ginger, hazel, moss, jasmine, lemon, lime, myrtle, orange, pomegranate, poppy, red clover, raspberry, strawberry