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Hazel

Corylus avellana

Hazel 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: low concern
Books: 65
Contexts: 2
Mentions: 232

Overview Reading Contexts Citations Related Books

Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name: hazel
Latin name: Corylus avellana(candidate)
Identity note: Hazel has strong divination, wand, and folk-tree material.

Safety

low concern

Nut allergy is relevant; otherwise historical tree references are generally low concern.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

Kew POWO: Nut allergy is relevant; otherwise historical tree references are generally low concern.

Aliases

hazelCorylus avellanahazel tree

Hazel in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Hazel (Corylus avellana) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are ritual uses and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Ritual

high

Spence gives a counter-sorcery operation that cuts a one-year hazel branch before sunrise on Saturday and recites prayers over it.

Encyclopaedia of Occultism | Lewis Spence | 1920

Page 46

Astrology

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Agrippa includes hazel among Mercurial plants and trees, grouping it with five-leaved grass, mercury, fumitory, pimpernel, marjoram, and parsley.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533

Page 115

Ritual

medium

Frazer describes the Pfingstl figure wrapped partly in alder and hazel leaves before being led through the village and drenched with water.

The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890

9. The Magic Spring

Preparations and ritual uses

Counter-sorcery branch

high

Spence's operation cuts a one-year hazel branch before sunrise on Saturday, lays it on a table, and recites prayers against the worker of evil.

Encyclopaedia of Occultism | Lewis Spence | 1920

Page 46

Leaf-clad Pfingstl

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Frazer's Pfingstl figure is partly wrapped in hazel leaves, led through the village, and drenched with water.

The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890

9. The Magic Spring

Hazel Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Astrology

8 passages across 8 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

Matched as hazel; high confidence.

Preparation

6 passages across 6 books; strongest source: King's American Dispensatory.

Matched as hazel; medium confidence.

Hazel Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

5 shown

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Lewis Spence

1920

"...ffects of it and cause it to return to him who has cast it, one must take, on Saturday, before sunrise, the branch of a hazel tree of one year, and recite the following prayer : " I cut thee, branch of this year, in the name of him whom I wish to wound as I wound thee." The branch is then laid on the table and other prayers said, ending with " Holy Trinity, punish him who has done this evu, and take him from among us by Thy great justice, that the sorcerer or sorceress may be anathema, and we safe." Harrison Ainsworth's famous novel, The Lancashire Witches, deals ..."

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Astrologyalias: hazel treehigh confidence

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"...to the body of Man, so they heat the head: as* Anacardia, Cubebs, Nutmegs. *The breast.* Bitter Almonds, Dates, Cubebs, Hazel Nuts, Pine Nuts, Figs, Raisins of the sun, Jujubes. *The heart.* Walnuts, Nutmegs, Juniper berries. *The stomach.* Sweet Almonds, Cloves, Ben, Juniper berries, Nutmegs, Pine Nuts, Olives. *The spleen.* Capers. *The reins and bladder.* Bitter Almonds, Juniper Berries, Cubebs, Pine Nuts, Raisins of the sun. *The womb.* Walnuts, Nutmegs, Bayberries, Juniper berries. *Cool the breast.* Sebastens, Prunes, Oranges, Lemons. *The heart.* Orang..."

A CATALOGUE OF SIMPLES IN THE NEW DISPENSATORY.Open in Reader

Astrologyalias: hazelmedium confidence

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"...lled hamamelis and Lloyd's colorless hydrastis form a safe and efiicient injection for most Ciises of gonorrho'a. Witch-hazel enters into many of the ointments designed for application Xo piles. An ointment made with lard and a decoction of white oak bark, apple-tree bark, and witch-hazel has been successfully employed for this purpose. Dose of decoction of witch-hazel, from 2 to 4 fluid ounces, 3 or 4 times a day; of distilled hamamelis, 5 to 60 drops; of specific hamamelis, 1 to 30 drops. Specific Indications and Uses.— Venous debility, with relaxation and ..."

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Preparationalias: hazelmedium confidence

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

1533

"... that are artificial, as glass; and those which have a color mixed with green and yellow. Amongst plants and trees, the hazel, five-leaved grass, the herb mercury, fumitory, pimpernel, marjoram, parsley, and such as have shorter arid less leaves, being compounded of mixed natures and divers colors. Animals, also, that are of quick sense, ingenious, strong, inconstant, and swift; and such as become easily acquainted with men, as dogs, weasels, apes, foxes, the hart and mule; and all animals that are of both sexes, and those which can change their sex, as the h..."

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Astrologyalias: hazelmedium confidence

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

1890

"...of peonies. The sleeves of his coat were also made of water-plants, and the rest of his body was enveloped in alder and hazel leaves. On each side of him marched a boy holding up one of the Pfingstlâ€™s arms. These two boys carried drawn swords, and so did most of the others who formed the procession. They stopped at every house where they hoped to receive a present; and the people, in hiding, soused the leaf-clad boy with water. All rejoiced when he was well drenched. Finally he waded into the brook up to his middle; whereupon one of the boys, standing on th..."

9. The Magic SpringOpen in Reader

Preparationalias: hazelmedium confidence

Books Mentioning Hazel

Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.

65 books

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Hazel in Historical Sources

Ritual

Astrology

Ritual

Preparations and ritual uses

Counter-sorcery branch

Leaf-clad Pfingstl

Hazel Archive Contexts

Astrology

Preparation

Hazel Cited Excerpts

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

King's American Dispensatory

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

The Golden Bough

Related Archive Material

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Books Mentioning Hazel