![]() ![]() The original manuscript, referred to as Harley 585, is currently housed in the British Museum. The Lacnunga is an ancient 11th-century Anglo-Saxon manuscript written around 1000 AD. The nine herbs charm is part of the Lacnunga (remedies) text. Wort craft combined the use of herbal magic along with herbal knowledge and herbal healing. Wort cunning was the knowledge of how to use the secret, occult properties of herbs for healing purposes. elfwort = elecampane, liverwort = agrimony, coughwort = coltsfoot. ![]() Wort was an Anglo-Saxon word meaning herb. And on branch of wood whose limbs to east do lout.”.Here is an example of an ancient Anglo-Saxon charm that would have been found in the leech books of the time: A leech book was an Anglo-Saxon book of medicine, which contained a variety of charms, spells, herbal remedies, and healing rituals, which a leech could refer to when healing their patients. Leech craft was the use of herbs for healing purposes and was often combined with amulets, prayers, charms, and spells. 596-1066 AD) were meant to rid the body of these obnoxious intruders. The treatments that were used at this time (c. Anglo-Saxon leeches thought disease was caused by the entrance of demons and evil spirits into the body. ![]() Leech is an Old English word, which means healer. The herbs mentioned in this charm are the nine sacred herbs of the Anglo-Saxons which were thought to have been given to humans by Woden, the God of healing. ![]()
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