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Parsley

Petroselinum crispum

Parsley 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: 32
Contexts: 4
Mentions: 211

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: parsley
Latin name: Petroselinum crispum(candidate)

Safety

moderate

Medicinal or oil doses raise pregnancy and anticoagulant cautions; culinary use is distinct.

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

EMA HMPC: Medicinal or oil doses raise pregnancy and anticoagulant cautions; culinary use is distinct.

Aliases

parsleyPetroselinum crispum

Parsley in Historical Sources

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

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

Folk magic

medium

Frazer records a sowing charm in which a woman grasps her calf after sowing parsley so the parsley may grow as thick as her leg.

The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1906

Â§ 2. Homeopathic or Imitative Magic

Astrology

high

Raphael assigns parsley to Mercury among herbs of mixed nature, brain-and-tongue affinity, or obstruction-clearing virtue.

Manual of Astrology | Raphael (Robert Cross Smith) | 1828

Page 102

Ritual

high

Waite's black-magic digest distinguishes wild parsley from garden parsley by using roots of violets and wild parsley in a fumigation for discerning future events.

Book of Black Magic | Arthur Edward Waite | 1898

Page 187

Preparations and ritual uses

Ritual fumigation

high

Waite records roots of violets and wild parsley as a fumigation for discerning future events.

Book of Black Magic | Arthur Edward Waite | 1898

Page 187

Ointment

medium

Pow-Wows includes parsley in a butter-and-rosin herb ointment formula, though the damaged OCR makes this a cautious medium-confidence preparation.

Pow-Wows | John George Hohman | 1820

Page 76

Parsley Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Medicine

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Family Herbal.

Matched as parsley; high confidence.

Astrology

3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Illustration of the Occult Sciences.

Matched as parsley; high confidence.

Preparation

9 passages across 9 books; strongest source: Book of Black Magic.

Matched as parsley; high confidence.

Safety

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

Matched as parsley; high confidence.

Parsley Cited Excerpts

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

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Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"... --- | --- | | Black Mustard | Common Nightshade | Deadly Nightshade | | Nep | Nailwort | Orpine | | Cow Parsnip | Rock Parsley | Wild Parsnip | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Pellitory of the Wall | Periwinkle | Pepper-wort | | Pimpernel | Plantain | Polypody | | White Poppy | Corn Rose Poppy | Primrose | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Privet | Queen of the Meadow | Meadow Rue | | Cress Rocket | Rattle Grass | Rocket Cress | | Ragwort | Rapture Wort | Saffron | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Meadow Saxifrage | G..."

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Safetyalias: parsleyhigh confidence

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"...ompound. .10.54 hop 1055 horseradish 1050 i'ahorandi 1055 [ousso 1052 linseed 1055 Infusion, orange-peel, compound 1051 parsley, compound 1051 quassia 1056 rhatany 1055 rhubarb 10.50 rose, compound 1055 sage 1051 con, pound 10.56 senna 10.50, 1056 coin])Ound 1056 spigelia 1051 tar 1051 thorough wort 10.50 trailing arbutus, compound 1053 valerian 1057 wild cherry 1055 yellow Peruvian bark... .1050 Infusions 1049 Infnsum antlieniidis 1051 apii conipositum 1051 aurantiiconipositum 1051 barosmw 1051 bravera 1052, 10.53 buchu 1051 caryophylli 1052 catechu 1052 conip..."

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Preparationalias: parsleyhigh confidence

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

1533

"...h disagree with the loadstone, that being set by it, it will not suffer iron to be drawn to it; and sheep fly from frog-parsley as from some deadly thing, and that, which is more wonderful, Nature hath pictured the sign of this death in the livers of sheep, in which the very figure of frog-parsley, being described, doth naturally appear. So goats do so hate garden basil as if there were nothing more pernicious. ' And again, amongst animals, mice and weasels do disagree; whence it is said that mice will not touch cheese if the brains of a weasel be put in the re..."

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Astrologyalias: parsleyhigh confidence

The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"A SALLAD herb cultivated in gardens, but not without its medicinal virtue. It is like parsley in its manner of growth, but the leaves are more divided, and of a paler colour. The stalks are round, striated, hollow, and of a pale green; they divide into several branches, and are about two feet high: the leaves on them are like those from the root, but smaller. The flowers are little and white, they stand in large tufts at the tops of the branches. The seeds are large and smooth. The roots of chervil work by urine, but moderately..."

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Medicinealias: parsleyhigh confidence

The Discoverie of Witchcraft

Reginald Scot

1584

"...es : " And morning dreams, they say, come true." P. 184. " Eleoselinum." Translated in the second edition as " mountain parsley." "Slum" in the second edition is "yellow water-cress". " Acarum vulgare", " common acorus" — our " Asarum Europ." P. 185. "An errand . . . from farre countries." A similar tale is told — in some English work against witchcraft after Scot — of an Italian judge who thus tried a supposed witch. P. 187. "A thousand for one that." Here the "that" does not, as with us, refer to the "one'' but to the " thousand" =" he might have cited a thou..."

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Preparationalias: parsleyhigh confidence

Books Mentioning Parsley

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

32 books

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Parsley in Historical Sources

Folk magic

Astrology

Ritual

Preparations and ritual uses

Ritual fumigation

Ointment

Parsley Archive Contexts

Medicine

Astrology

Preparation

Safety

Parsley Cited Excerpts

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

King's American Dispensatory

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

The Family Herbal

The Discoverie of Witchcraft

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