Artemisia vulgaris
Mugwort 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.
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Use caution around pregnancy, allergies, and concentrated Artemisia preparations.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, ritual uses, and folk magic. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Mugwort has especially strong folk-magic evidence. Golden Bough passages describe gathering it on Midsummer Eve or St. John's Day, wearing it as an amulet, or hanging it over doors and windows for protection.
§ 2.—Balder.
In ritual instructions, mugwort can become a material component rather than only a charm herb. The Key of Solomon uses green mugwort gathered before sunrise as part of a garter operation.
Culpeper places mugwort among herbs used to 'provoke the terms,' so its medicinal archive profile includes menstrual and humoral categories distinct from modern safety advice.
A CATALOGUE OF SIMPLES IN THE NEW DISPENSATORY.
Golden Bough material describes mugwort gathered on Midsummer Eve or St. John's Day, worn as an amulet or hung at doors and windows.
§ 2.—Balder.
The Key of Solomon uses green mugwort gathered before sunrise as filling material in a ritual garter operation.
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Three Books of Occult Philosophy.
Matched as mugwort; high confidence.
5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Illustration of the Occult Sciences.
Matched as mugwort; high confidence.
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: The Golden Bough.
Matched as mugwort; high confidence.
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as mugwort; high confidence.
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Golden Bough.
Matched as mugwort; high confidence.
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
Balder the Beautiful, Volume I
James George Frazer | 1913
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
The Evolution of the Dragon
G. Elliot Smith | 1919
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
An Introduction to Mythology
George W. Cox | 1873
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1906
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
Transcendental Magic
Eliphas Levi | 1854
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1908
The Magus (Vol 1)
Francis Barrett | 1801
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
Magick in Theory and Practice
Aleister Crowley | 1929
Genethlialogia
John Gadbury | 1658
Encyclopaedia of Occultism
Lewis Spence | 1920
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533
Key of Solomon
King Solomon | 1400
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley | 1909
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
Fourth Book & Magical Treatises
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (attributed) | 1655