Preparation
highCulpeper lists oil of grape stones among seed oils, while noting that many such oils had fallen out of use and belonged with the simples for comparison.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Grape / Vine
Vitis vinifera
Grape / Vine appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
- Risk
- moderate
- Books
- 152
- Contexts
- 2
- Mentions
- 917
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- grape
- Latin name
- Vitis vinifera(candidate)
- Identity note
- Vine is extremely common and symbolic; grape and Vitis aliases help anchor the plant.
Safety
moderate
Food use is common; grape seed, wine, and medicinal vine preparations have different safety contexts.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- Kew POWO: Food use is common; grape seed, wine, and medicinal vine preparations have different safety contexts.
Aliases
grapegrapesvinevinesVitis vinifera
Grape / Vine in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Grape / Vine (Vitis vinifera) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations, ritual uses, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Astrology
highThe Fourth Book tradition assigns grapes to Venus in horary matter, alongside figs, dates, fish, and pastimes.
Ritual
highAgrippa gives a lamp operation in which oil is bound to flowering grapes until ripening, then burned to make grapes appear.
Preparations and ritual uses
Oil of grape stones
highCulpeper lists oil of grape stones among seed oils, with a warning that many such oils were already out of common use.
Grape lamp operation
highAgrippa describes binding a vial of oil to flowering grapes until they ripen, then burning the oil in a lamp to make grapes appear.
Grape / Vine Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Astrology
8 passages across 8 books; strongest source: Fourth Book & Magical Treatises.
Matched as grapes; high confidence.
Preparation
7 passages across 7 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as grape; high confidence.
Grape / Vine Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"...itruls, Dwarf Elder, Henbane, Lettuce, Flax, Melons, Poppy, Parsley, Radishes, Rape, Ricinum, Sesani, Mustard seed, and Grape stones. *Culpeper.*] Because most of these Oils are out of use, I took not the pains to quote the virtues of them; if any wish to make them, let them look to the simples, and there they have them; if the simples be not to be found in this book, there are other plentiful medicines conducing to the cure of all usual diseases; which are— #### *Oil of Bays.* *College.*] Take of Bay-berries, fresh and ripe, so many as you please, bruise t..."
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Preparationalias: grapehigh confidence
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"... to consist of bitartrate of potassium, pectin, sugar, woody fiber, coloring matter and water. They contain rather more grape-sugar than the ordinary berries, such as strawberries, blackberries, currants, etc., being exceeded only by the cherry and grape. Fresenius found mulberries of the following percentage composition : sugar, 9.19 : malic acid with a little tartaric, 1.86; albuminous matter, 0.361 ; gum, pectin, and fatty matter, 2.31; woody fiber, 0.91 ; ash, 0.66; water, 84. 7L Wright and Patterson {Pharm. Jour. Trans.,Yo]. VIII, 1878, p. 540) found the..."
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Preparationalias: grapehigh confidence
Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy
Pseudo-Agrippa
1565
"...i rhings that are: affimulated umtoigold , Hotfes and birds, fuch as hawks and falcons» Venus doth fienifie farnefy and grapes, figs and dares, fifh and paitimes, Mere wry hath barley, millet, graitymoney, and quickfilver, The (Moon tignifies oats, miik, cheele, fire and falt,cows, rams, hens,and filvery and accordingly plenry and fvarcityiof them, Queftions of the fifth Honfe. LF. you;would know, whetheral woman be wich Child 3°68 oWhether {het wail -haverary, chitdrén; ornoty otk if the Lord.of. the Aicendent beanithe feventh; orthe Lord ofthe ftth in the fi..."
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Astrologyalias: grapeshigh confidence
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1533
"...strange sight of flies; and the skin of a serpent, lighted in a proper lamp, maketh serpents appear. They say that when grapes are in their flower, if any one shall bind a vial full of oil to them, and shall let it alone until they be ripe, and then the oil be put in a lamp and lighted, it makes grapes to be seen; and so with other fruits. If centaury be mixed with honey, and the blood of a lapwing, and be put in a lamp, they that stand about will look much larger than they are wont; and if it be lit in a clear night the Stars will seem to scatter one from ano..."
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Preparationalias: grapeshigh confidence
Fourth Book & Magical Treatises
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (attributed)
1655
"...l things that are affimulated unto gold, horfes and birds, fuch as hawks and falcons. *Venus* doth fignifie fatnefs and grapes, figs and dates, fifh and paltimes. *Mercury* hath barley, millet, grain, money, and quickfilver. The *Moon* fignifies oats, milk, cheefe, fire and falt, cows, rams, hens, and filver, and accordingly plenty and scarcity of them. ### *Questions of the fifth Houfe.* IF you would know whether a woman be with Child, or whether fhe will have any children, or not, look if the Lord of the Afcedent be in the feventh, or the Lord of the fifth i..."
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Astrologyalias: grapeshigh confidence
Books Mentioning Grape / Vine
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
grapegrapesvines
76 mentionscited
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
grapegrapes
35 mentionscited
Encyclopaedia of Antiquities
Thomas Dudley Fosbroke | 1825
grapegrapesvines
31 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1907
grapegrapesvines
30 mentions
Metamorphoses (Books I-VII)
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) | 8
grapegrapesvines
26 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1908
grapesgrapevines
24 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
grapesgrapevines
21 mentions
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer | 1870
grapesgrapevines
19 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1912
grapesgrapevines
18 mentions
Isis Unveiled, Vol. 2: Theology
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | 1877
grapegrapes
16 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1913
grapegrapesvines
16 mentions
Bulfinch's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch | 1881
grapegrapes
15 mentions
Metamorphoses (Books VIII-XV)
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) | 8
grapegrapesvines
15 mentions
The Mathnawi, Vol. 2
R. A. Nicholson | 1926
grapegrapesvine
14 mentions
Bulfinch's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch | 1855
grapegrapes
14 mentions
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
grapesvinevines
14 mentions
The Mathnawi
R. A. Nicholson | 1925
grapegrapesvines
13 mentions
Star Names
Richard Hinckley Allen | 1899
grapevinesgrapes
13 mentions
Theogony & Works and Days
Hesiod | 700 BCE
grapegrapesvines
12 mentions
The Holy Kabbalah
Arthur Edward Waite | 1929
grapesgrape
12 mentions
Heathen Mythology
Anonymous | 1842
grapesgrape
12 mentions
The Age of Fable
Thomas Bulfinch | 1855
grapegrapes
12 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1911
grapesgrape
11 mentions
Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) | 1493
grapegrapes
11 mentions
The Nag Hammadi Library
Various Gnostic Authors (Ancient) | 1945
grapes
10 mentions
Young Folks' Treasury Vol. 2
Hamilton Wright Mabie (ed.) | 1909
grapes
10 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1918
grapegrapes
10 mentions
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller | 1901
vinesgrapes
9 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
grapegrapes
8 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1907
grapesgrape
8 mentions
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot | 1584
grapegrapesvines
8 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1906
vinesgrapes
8 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1917
grapegrapes
8 mentions
Mysteries of All Nations
James Grant | 1880
grapes
8 mentions
Myth, Ritual and Religion Vol. 2
Andrew Lang | 1887
grapegrapesvines
7 mentions
Morals and Dogma
Albert Pike | 1871
grapes
7 mentions
Migration of Symbols
Goblet d'Alviella | 1891
grapesgrape
7 mentions
Student's Mythology
Catherine Ann White | 1873
grapevinesgrapes
6 mentions
Zanoni
Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 1842
grapegrapes
6 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1916
grapegrapes
6 mentions
The Complete Book of Fortune
Anonymous | 1930
grapegrapes
6 mentions
Guide for the Perplexed
Moses Maimonides | 1190
grapesgrape
6 mentions
Strange Survivals
Sabine Baring-Gould | 1892
grapesgrape
6 mentions
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
Anonymous Compiler | 1900
grapes
6 mentions
Pagan and Christian Creeds
Edward Carpenter | 1920
grapegrapes
6 mentions
The Prophecies
Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus) | 1555
grapesgrape
6 mentions
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533
grapesgrapevines
5 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1906
grapes
5 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
grapesgrape
5 mentions
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet | 1813
grape
5 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 2
Aleister Crowley | 1909
grapegrapesvines
5 mentions
Fundamental Principles
Zelia Nuttall | 1901
grapegrapes
5 mentions
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception
Max Heindel | 1909
grapegrapes
5 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 1
Aleister Crowley | 1909
grapegrapes
5 mentions
A World of Wonders
James Grant | 1845
grapegrapes
5 mentions
The Magus (Vol 1)
Francis Barrett | 1801
grapes
5 mentions
Magick in Theory and Practice
Aleister Crowley | 1929
grapesgrape
5 mentions
Demonology and Devil-lore
Moncure Daniel Conway | 1879
grapes
5 mentions
Myths of the Cherokee
James Mooney | 1900
grape
5 mentions
Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy
Pseudo-Agrippa | 1565
grapesvines
4 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1906
grapegrapes
4 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
grapegrapes
4 mentions
Compendium Maleficarum
Francesco Maria Guazzo | 1608
grapesvinesgrape
4 mentions
The Blood Covenant
H. Clay Trumbull | 1885
grapegrapes
4 mentions
The Evil Eye
Frederick Thomas Elworthy | 1895
grape
4 mentions
Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
Anonymous (Attributed to multiple authors) | 1785
grapegrapes
4 mentions
A Vision
William Butler Yeats | 1925
grapegrapes
4 mentions
Meister Eckhart: Sermons
C. de B. Evans | 1924
grape
4 mentions
Mythology of Greece and Rome
Otto Seemann | 1881
grapes
4 mentions
A Book of Myths
Andrew Lang | 1889
grapesvine
4 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 6
Aleister Crowley | 1911
grapesgrapevines
4 mentions
Balder the Beautiful, Volume I
James George Frazer | 1913
grapes
4 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 7
Aleister Crowley | 1912
grapesgrapevines
4 mentions
Isis Unveiled Vol. 1
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | 1877
grapes
4 mentions
Primitive Culture Vol 1
Edward B. Tylor | 1871
grapesgrape
4 mentions
Demonologia
J. S. Forsyth | 1827
grapes
4 mentions
Antient Mythology Vol 2
Jacob Bryant | 1774
grape
4 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 5
Aleister Crowley | 1911
grapevines
4 mentions
The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen | 1894
grapes
4 mentions
Fourth Book & Magical Treatises
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (attributed) | 1655
grapes
3 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1912
grapesgrape
3 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
grapes
3 mentions
Aradia
Charles Godfrey Leland | 1899
grapegrapes
3 mentions
Myths and Myth-Makers
John Fiske | 1873
grapesvines
3 mentions
Splendor Solis
Solomon Trismosin (Legendary) | 1582
grapes
3 mentions
Bible Myths
Thomas William Doane | 1882
grapegrapes
3 mentions
Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses
Anonymous (Attributed to Moses) | 1800
grapes
3 mentions
Chips from a German Workshop (Vol 1)
F. Max Müller | 1867
grapes
3 mentions
Custom and Myth
Andrew Lang | 1884
grapes
3 mentions
Mystic London
Charles Maurice Davies | 1875
grapes
3 mentions
The Phantom World
Augustine Calmet | 1746
grapes
3 mentions
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
grape
2 mentions
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley | 1909
grapes
2 mentions
The Evolution of the Dragon
G. Elliot Smith | 1919
grapegrapes
2 mentions
An Introduction to Mythology
George W. Cox | 1873
grape
2 mentions
Myths of Greece and Rome
H.A. Guerber | 1897
grapegrapes
2 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 8
Aleister Crowley | 1912
grapes
2 mentions
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | 1897
grapes
2 mentions
Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
E.A. Wallis Budge | 1914
grapes
2 mentions
The Interpretation of Dreams
Various Esoteric Authors | 1910
grapes
2 mentions
The Hermetic Museum
A. E. Waite (Translator/Editor) | 1678
grapes
2 mentions
The Twelve Keys
Basil Valentine | 1599
grapes
2 mentions
Modern Magic
Angelo John Lewis | 1876
grapes
2 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1926
grapes
2 mentions
Superstitions of Witchcraft
Howard Williams | 1865
grape
2 mentions
Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Kramer (Institoris) | 1487
grapes
2 mentions
Sworn Book of Honorius
Honorius of Thebes (Legendary/Unknown) | 1250
grape
2 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 10
Aleister Crowley | 1913
grape
2 mentions
The Mystics of Islam
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson | 1914
grapes
2 mentions
Curiosities of Superstition
William Henry Davenport Adams | 1882
grapes
2 mentions
Kabbalah Unveiled
Anonymous (Medieval Kabbalists) | 1300 BCE
grapes
2 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 3
Aleister Crowley | 1910
grapesgrape
2 mentions
Argonautica
Apollonius Rhodius | 250
vines
2 mentions
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
vines
2 mentions
Indian Palmistry
J. B. Dale | 1895
grape
2 mentions
Strange Pages from Family Papers
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer | 1887
grape
2 mentions
Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites
John Netten Radcliffe | 1854
grapes
2 mentions
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers | 1895
grapes
2 mentions
The Dawn of History
Charles Francis Keary | 1878
grapes
2 mentions
Primitive Culture, Vol. 2
Edward Burnett Tylor | 1871
grapes
2 mentions
Meister Eckhart, Vol. 2
C. de B. Evans | 1931
grapes
2 mentions
Error's Chains
Frank S. Dobbins | 1883
grapes
2 mentions
Custom and Myth
Andrew Lang | 1884
grapes
2 mentions
Antient Mythology (Vol 1)
Jacob Bryant | 1774
grapes
2 mentions
Religions of Primitive Peoples
Daniel Garrison Brinton | 1897
grape
1 mention
The White Spark
H. Stanley Redgrove | 1912
grape
1 mention
Anima Astrologiae
Henry Coley | 1676
grapes
1 mention
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley | 1669
grapes
1 mention
Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy
Grillot de Givry | 1929
grapes
1 mention
The Message of the Stars
Max Heindel | 1913
grape
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 9
Aleister Crowley | 1913
grape
1 mention
The Triumphant Chariot of Antimony
Basil Valentine | 1604
grapes
1 mention
On the Cave of the Nymphs
Porphyry | 270
grapes
1 mention
Psychology of Suggestion
Boris Sidis | 1898
grapes
1 mention
The Authentic Red Dragon and Black Hen
Anonymous | 1800
grape
1 mention
Genethlialogia
John Gadbury | 1658
grape
1 mention
Christian Astrology
William Lilly | 1647
grapes
1 mention
Transcendental Magic
Eliphas Levi | 1854
grape
1 mention
Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers
Arthur Edward Waite | 1888
grape
1 mention
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay | 1841
grapes
1 mention
Adventures of a Modern Occultist
Oliver Bland | 1920
grapes
1 mention
Hypnosis and Suggestion
Hippolyte Bernheim | 1884
grapes
1 mention
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
G.R.S. Mead | 1900
grapes
1 mention
Varieties of Religious Experience
William James | 1902
grapes
1 mention
The Book of Enoch
R. H. Charles (Translator) | 200 BCE
vines
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 4
Aleister Crowley | 1910
grape
1 mention
History of Witchcraft and Demonology
Montague Summers | 1926
grape
1 mention
Sacred Magic of Abramelin, Book 3
Abraham von Worms (Attributed Author) | 1458
grapes
1 mention
Heaven and Hell
Emanuel Swedenborg | 1758
vines
1 mention
The Legends of the Jews
Louis Ginzberg | 1909
grapes
1 mention
Myths and Legends of All Nations
Logan Marshall (Editor) | 1914
vines
1 mention
Proofs of a Conspiracy
John Robison | 1797
grapes
1 mention