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Walnut

Juglans regia

Walnut 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: 58
Contexts: 5
Mentions: 291

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: walnut
Latin name: Juglans regia(candidate)
Identity note: Archive hits include nut, tree, oil, and folk medicine.

Safety

moderate

Nut allergy is relevant; hulls, leaves, and medicinal preparations are separate 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: Nut allergy is relevant; hulls, leaves, and medicinal preparations are separate safety contexts.

Aliases

walnutJuglans regiawalnuts

Walnut in Historical Sources

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

Hermetikon's curated reading of Walnut (Juglans regia) 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.

Preparation

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Culpeper gives compound walnut water as a distilled preparation of green walnuts, radish roots, green asarabacca, radish seeds, and white wine.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Chapter 56

Ritual

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Frazer records a sacred fire fed with walnut or oak logs and guarded carefully because its extinction was thought to endanger the nation.

The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1906

CHAPTER XVII THE ORIGIN OF PERPETUAL FIRES

Astrology

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Frazer's Balkan goat ritual uses walnuts and pomegranates on the Chili stone after omens are drawn from the goats' direction of movement.

The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890

Â§ 5.â€”Tree-worship in antiquity.

Preparations and ritual uses

Distilled water

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Culpeper steeps bruised green walnuts, radish roots, asarabacca, and radish seeds in white wine before distilling compound walnut water.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Chapter 56

New-fire wood

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Frazer records walnut sticks charred in consecrated new fire and then used at home or in fields as protection from fire, lightning, hail, blight, and storms.

The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890

8. The Need-fire

Walnut Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Astrology

5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Illustration of the Occult Sciences.

Matched as walnut; high confidence.

Folk magic

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Golden Bough.

Matched as walnuts; high confidence.

Preparation

5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

Matched as walnut; high confidence.

Ritual

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Golden Bough.

Matched as walnut; high confidence.

Safety

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Compendium Maleficarum.

Matched as walnuts; high confidence.

Walnut Cited Excerpts

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

5 shown

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"... you would have it, put some of the same water to it which was not set in the sun. #### *Aqua Juglandium composita.* Or Walnut Water compound. *College.*] Take of green Walnuts a pound and an half, Radish roots one pound, green Asarabacca six ounces, Radish seeds, six ounces. Let all of them, being bruised, be steeped in three pounds of white Wine for three days, then distilled in a leaden still till they be dry. ### TINCTURES. #### *Tinctura Croci.* Or Tincture of Saffron. *College.*] Take two drams of Saffron, eight ounces of Treacle water, digest them six d..."

Chapter 56Open in Reader

Preparationalias: walnuthigh confidence

The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"...ts of the branches. The flowers are inconsiderable, the fruit is a cone, but very small. It is not bigger than a little walnut. The young leaves are boiled, and the liquor is drank to promote urine, but this is an idle way of getting at the virtues of the tree. Venice turpentine is produced from it, and this liquid resin contains them all in perfection. They cut the trunk of the tree deep, in the heat of summer, and the resin flows out. This works powerfully by urine, and is a noble balsam; it is good against the whites, and to stop the running that often rema..."

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Preparationalias: walnuthigh confidence

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

1906

"...marked out the course which the bright orb was to pursue in the sky. The sacred fire in the temple was fed with logs of walnut or oak, and the greatest care was taken to prevent its extinction; for such an event would have been thought to put the whole nation in jeopardy. Eight men were appointed to guard the fire, two of whom were bound to be always on watch; and the Great Sun himself looked to the maintenance of the fire with anxious attention. If any of the guardians of the fire failed to do his duty, the rule was that he should be put to death. When the gr..."

CHAPTER XVII THE ORIGIN OF PERPETUAL FIRESOpen in Reader

Astrologyalias: walnuthigh confidence

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

1907

"...0 the modern Eregli, now a decayed and miserable place straggling amid orchards and gardens full of luxuriant groves of walnut, poplar, willow, mulberry, and oak. The place is a paradise of birds. Here [pg 123] the thrush and the nightingale sing full-throated, the hoopoe waves his crested top-knot, the bright-hued woodpeckers flit from bough to bough, and the swifts dart screaming by hundreds through the air. Yet a little way off, beyond the beneficent influence of the springs and streams, all is desolationâ€”in summer an arid waste broken by great marshes an..."

Â§ 9. The Burning of Cilician Gods.Open in Reader

Astrologyalias: walnuthigh confidence

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

1913

"...ound the flames began it was the custom to pass across them a great bunch of mullein ( bouillon blanc ) and a branch of walnut, which next morning before sunrise were fastened over the door of the chief cattle-shed. 481 A similar custom prevailed in the neighbouring department of Deux-Sèvres; but here it was the priest who kindled the bonfire, and old men used to put embers of the fire in their wooden shoes as a preservative [pg 192] against many evils. 482 In some towns and villages of Saintonge and Aunis, provinces of Western France now mostly comprised in t..."

Â§ 4. The Midsummer Fires.Open in Reader

Astrologyalias: walnuthigh confidence

Books Mentioning Walnut

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

58 books

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

walnutwalnuts

45 mentionscited

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

walnutwalnuts

28 mentions

The Family Herbal

John Hill | 1755

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Walnut in Historical Sources

Preparation

Ritual

Astrology

Preparations and ritual uses

Distilled water

New-fire wood

Walnut Archive Contexts

Astrology

Folk magic

Preparation

Ritual

Safety

Walnut Cited Excerpts

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

The Family Herbal

The Golden Bough

The Golden Bough

The Golden Bough

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