How to Use It
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Courage sachet: carry a spoonful in a red bag when you have to face something or someone.
- Protective line: sprinkle a little across a doorway to guard a room.
- Passion bath: add a pinch, tied in muslin, to a bath before a night with a lover.
A Simple Working
- Light a red chime candle.
- Place a teaspoon of black cohosh powder on a small square of red cloth.
- Add a pinch of ginger and a piece of bay leaf.
- Name what you need the courage to do.
- Tie the cloth closed with red thread.
- Carry it on the day you face the challenge.
Pairs Well With
- Ginger, for heat and drive.
- Bay leaves, for victory.
- Rose petals, in passion and love blends.
- A red chime candle, for courage and lust.
What You Receive
Black cohosh root powder, wildcrafted, available in 1 oz and 1 lb.
Origin & Lore
Actaea racemosa, long known as Cimicifuga racemosa, is a woodland perennial of eastern North America with a dark, knotted root. The root was traditionally used by Native American peoples and later by American herbalists.
The tall white flower spikes of black cohosh smell so rank to insects that the plant earned the name bugbane.
The name rattleweed comes from the dry seed pods, which rattle in the wind in autumn. Black snakeroot reflects an old belief that the root served against snakebite.
Did You Know?
The old genus name Cimicifuga means “bug-repeller”, from the Latin cimex, a bug, and fugere, to flee.



