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Henbane in European Pagan Tradition: Uses, Magic, History, Benefits

Witches and seidr    • Witches and Broomsticks=Seidr? What I...   Berserkers and henbane    • Видео   My online apparel/training gear shop https://norse-combat-sportswear.mysho... Instagram   / thormmadj   Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@norsemagicand... Hyoscyamus niger, commonly known as henbane, black henbane or stinking nightshade, is a plant that is poisonous in large quantities, in the family Solanaceae. It is native to temperate Europe and Siberia, and naturalised in the British Isles. Henbane was historically used in combination with other plants, such as mandrake, deadly nightshade, and datura, as an anaesthetic potion, as well as for its psychoactive properties in "magic brews". These psychoactive properties include visual hallucinations and a sensation of flight. It was originally used in continental Europe, Asia, and the Arab world, though it did spread to England in the Middle Ages. The use of henbane by the ancient Greeks was documented by Pliny who said it was "of the nature of wine and therefore offensive to the understanding", and by Dioscorides who recommended it as a sedative and analgesic. The plant was also purportedly used as a fumigant for magical purposes. Albertus Magnus, in his work De Vegetalibus, reported that necromancers used henbane to invoke the souls of the dead as well as demons. Henbane was already being demonized as early as the Late Middle Ages when it became inseparably associated with witchcraft and malefic practices. “The witches drank the decoction of henbane and had those dreams for which they were tortured and executed. It was also used for witches’ ointments and was used for making weather and conjuring spirits. If there were a great drought then a stalk of henbane would be dipped into a spring, then the sun-baked sand would be sprinkled with this” Henbane seeds have been found in a Viking grave near Fyrkat, Denmark, that was first described in 1977.This and other archaeological finds show that H. niger was known to the Vikings. Analysis of the symptoms caused by intoxication of this plant suggest that it may have been used by berserkers to induce the rage state that they used in war.