Meadowsweet

Botanical Name
Filipendula ulmaria
 
Usual Origin(s)
Bulgaria
 
Description
These dried meadowsweet flowers have been rubbed on mesh screens to crumble them slightly. Meadowsweet has a characteristic strong, sweet smell and pleasant flavor. The flowers have been used for flavoring wines, beers, vinegars, and jams.
 
Folk Names
Bride of the Meadow, Bridewort, Dollor, Gravel Root, Lady of the Meadow, Little Queen, Meadowwort, Meadowsweet, Queen of the Meadow, Steeplebush, Trumpet Weed, Meadsweet, and Mead wort.
 
Gender
Masculine
 
Planet
Jupiter
 
Element
Air 
 
Powers
Love, Divination, Peace, Happiness
 
Magical Uses
Fresh meadowsweet is placed on the altar for love spells, or dried is used in various love mixtures, also strewn about the house to keep peace. The scent of meadowsweet cheers the heart.
 
If gathered during midsummer, Meadowsweet will give you information regarding thieves; if you have been robbed, place meadowsweet on water. If it sinks, the thief is a man, but if it floats, a woman. 
 
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