20 Hexing Herbs Every Witch Should Know: The Baneful Botanical Arsenal
- WhiteRaven
- Apr 8
- 3 min read
There’s a darker side to the garden. Quiet, thorned, and powerful. This isn’t about love spells or sugar jars. This is for the Witches who know that sometimes justice wears thorns and comes in the form of a leaf, a root, or a dried sprig that hits like a curse.
Whether you practice brujería, folk magic, or traditional Witchcraft, these ancient herbs have been used to sour energy, block blessings, summon spirits, and unleash spiritual wrath.
The Witch’s Poison Garden: Hexing with Plants
These aren’t kitchen herbs for flavor. These are spiritual disruptors. Nature’s messengers of wrath. If you’re looking to work with baneful herbs for spells, this is your list. Use with care, intention, and clarity, because once a plant has carried your curse, there’s no taking it back.
20 Powerful Hexing Herbs and Their Parts
Herb | Commonly Used Part(s) | Notes / Warnings |
Belladonna ☠️ | Leaves (rarely berries) | Highly toxic. Extreme hexing, cursing, and to call upon baneful spirits. |
Mandrake Root ☠️ | Root | It is rare. American Mandrake (Mayapple) is often used instead. It is used in serious cursing, especially for long-lasting effects. |
Henbane ☠️ | Leaves and seeds | Toxic. Use dried only. Psychic disruption, madness, confusion spells. |
Wormwood | Leaves and stems | Excellent for incense, jars, and baneful oils. It drives away good luck and causes sorrow and bitterness. |
Datura ☠️ | Seeds and leaves | Highly toxic. Used in dream-based and mental hexes. |
Hemlock ☠️ | Leaves and seeds | Extremely poisonous. A plant of endings, used to spiritually paralyze or silence enemies and poison luck or stop progress completely. |
Blackthorn (Sloe) | Thorns, wood, bark, berries | Thorns are popular for doll magic and binding. Spiteful protection and revenge spells. |
Thistle | Leaves and flowers | Great in jars, powders, and mirror curses. Defense through aggressive spiritual retaliation. |
Rue (Ruda) | Leaves | Common in brujería. Can reverse or sour energy. |
Night Jasmine | Flowers and leaves | Used in emotional or seductive hexes. For love hexes and romantic traps. |
Mullein | Leaves | Good for graveyard and spirit-work spells. Used as a “graveyard herb” to call in the dead for assistance. |
Black Mustard Seed | Seeds | Easy to find. Classic for sowing confusion, delay justice, block success. |
Poke Root | Root | Powerful for curse work and cutting cords. |
Spanish Needle | Leaves and seeds | Used in stagnation spells and to "stick" bad luck. Used to keep someone stuck or “needled” with misfortune. |
Nettles | Leaves and stems | Excellent for baneful protection, irritation magic, and spiritual backlash for enemies. |
Celandine | Leaves and flowers | Used to blind insight or bring misdirection. Madness |
Yew | Leaves and bark | Tied to death energy; used in cursing and ancestral wrath. |
Elder | Leaves and bark | Spirit ally that can be baneful if disrespected; used in witch's justice work. |
Larkspur (Delphinium) | Flowers | Used in aggressive banishment and protection. |
Foxglove ☠️ | Leaves and flowers | Very toxic. Used ritually for heartache, heartbreak, and severing emotional connections with a curse. |
How to Use These Hexing Herbs in Witchcraft
Burn in curse rituals and baneful incense blends ⚠️ Make sure to burn in open spaces since some of these plants are highly toxic!
Grind into powders or add to hex jars
Sew into poppets or dolls
Infuse in oils for black candle spells
Bury near thresholds or crossroads under the Waning Moon
Always spiritually protect yourself before working. These herbs don’t play games.
Simple Hex Jar Using Herbs
You’ll Need:
Dried Wormwood, Spanish Needle, and Thistle
One black thread
Dried nettles and poke root
A small black jar
Layer the herbs with focused intent. Wrap the jar in black thread, seal it, and store it somewhere hidden. Shake when you need to stir consequences. Bury it when you’re ready to unleash the curse fully.
⚠️ Respect the Baneful Path
These plants aren’t “evil.” They’re powerful. They’re part of nature’s balance, used for justice, defense, and spiritual protection. Work with them when your spirit is clear and your cause is justified.
Final Thought: Not every Witch grows roses. Some of us grow nettles, belladonna, and foxglove, and we sleep just fine.
Stay Wicked! ❤️
WhiteRaven
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