Cherry

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Cherry - Folk Names: Sweet Cherry & Mazzard Cherry. The cherry has long been used to stimulate or attract love. A beautiful Japanese spell to find love is simple: tie a single strand of your hair to a blossoming cherry tree. Then collect as many cherry stones as years you are old. Drill a hole through no more than one stone each night, begining on the night of the New Moon. Don't drill any holes during the Waning Moon. This means that the most you can drill in one month is 14 stones. When you have finished drilling, wait until the next New Moon. Thread them on a piece of red or pink threead & tie this around the left knee each night for 14 nights. Sleep with it on & remove each morning. This will bring you a husband or a wife. To find out how many years you will live, run around a tree full of ripe cherries, then shake it. The number of cherries that fall represents the number of years left. (be sure to shake the tree hard!) Cherry juices is also used as a blood substitute where called for in old recipes.
Gender is Feminie, Planet is Venus, Element is Water.

Selected Sources:
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
www.avarella.com