Skullcap cut (Scutellaria lateriflora)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Fidelity charm: carry it or tuck it into a partner’s pillow or clothing to keep their affection close and turned away from others.
• Peace sachet: hang a small bag of skullcap in a room where tempers run high.
• Love blends: add to love incense or sachets for faithfulness rather than new attraction.

A Simple Working

• Cut a small square of pink or red cloth.
• Place a tablespoon of skullcap at its centre with a few rose petals.
• Hold it while you think of your partner and the bond you want kept.
• Tie it closed with a red thread, three knots.
• Tuck it under the mattress on the side you share.
• Refresh it each new moon.

Pairs Well With

• Rose petals, for love and tenderness alongside fidelity.
• Lavender, for peace in the house.
• Red thread, for tying fidelity knots.
• Valerian root, another herb for calming a troubled home.

What You Receive

Cut dried skullcap herb, available in 1 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

Scutellaria lateriflora is a slender, blue-flowered perennial of wet meadows and stream banks in North America. It became a staple of American herbal practice in the nineteenth century, traditionally used as a calming tea.

Skullcap earned the name mad-dog weed in the 1700s, when it was promoted across America as a cure for rabies.

The rabies claim was spread by Dr Lawrence Van Derveer of New Jersey in the late 1700s, and the name mad-dog skullcap has stuck ever since, long after the claim fell away.