The Black Toad: Familiar and Prima Materia

In the middle of my black nightshade experience, I went up to the woods to escape from the heat. I took a path I’ve taken before, one walked by many. During my walk, I noticed a couple of things besides a lot of self-heal: toadstools and toad. There were two stands of toadstools. [...]

August 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Magic & Alchemy, Plant Work | 11 comments

Viridarium Umbris & Black Nightshade

I have been meaning to page through Viridarium Umbris : The Pleasure Garden of Shadow to see if Daniel Schulke had anything to say about black nightshade, but I kept getting distracted. Today I took the time to look through the book for black nightshade entires and found two. The shorter one is on p. [...]

July 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Magic & Alchemy, Plant Work | 30 comments

Wonderberry and the Black Sun

Had my first Wonderberry today. Not dead yet, nor has it affected me in the negative way that the black nightshade berries did, by putting me in a ferocious mood. It had way less taste than a black nightshade berry, though. In fact, it was kind of like eating warm water with seeds and a [...]

July 21st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Gardening, Plant Work | 12 comments
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