In an attempt to tame this aggressive and avaricious sensualist of a plant... well I failed, she overtook me. Held me in her intoxicating limbs and breathed her wanton assistance into my bloodstream. She will not be diminished. And I will present her in all her glory. Well, two of her, there are two useful dissociations in her personality.
Lonicera japonica
This one has her head in the earth and in the entrails. She is a seamstress of diseased flesh. She will sew healthy flesh over the red swellings and pustules of rash-pocked skin. She invades the dark wet of an infected lung and plunges her needles into invaders there. Her spirit lives in her flower. It is strongest after the bud turns from green to white, but never let the bud open, or her spirit will escape.
Dry the buds for a lung tea and make a portion into tincture for use in topical salves. Mixes well with Polyscias fruticosa.
Lonicera periclymenum
A decidedly more abstracted spirit lives in this one. Her wiles are more diverse as well, dipping tendrils in every sweet needpot.
For luck, and also for protection, carry dried flowers on your person, any manner will suffice, a sachet, pocket, or locket. Add rose petals to boost either attribute.
Plant beside your door and allow the vine to arch over the lintel. Should an ill intentioned person enter your home, they will be immediately seized by the honeysuckle’s sweet scent, even if the plant is not flowering. The scent will overpower them to the point of pain. Their gut will feel too light. Their head will feel empty. They will feel watched. They will not stay long and will not harm you.
Burn with bay leaf for money. Write the amount you desire on a piece of paper and add with herbs to a silver or ceramic dish. Will burn better if you roll the honeysuckle and bay leaf up in the paper note.
For weak psychic powers that need a boost mix minced, crushed petals with nutmeg and honey. Paint the mixture on your forehead. Lie with your head ringed by honeysuckle vine and your eyes fixed on the sky or ceiling. Chant your question or desired knowledge over and over again. Do not stop or close your eyes until your question has been answered.
Honeysuckle loves rotting corpses and will devour them readily. If you plan to bury a body on your property plant a honeysuckle atop it. It will grow quickly on its favorite fertilizer.
While honeysuckle does famously attract goats, less well known is that it will attract crossroads demons. Be sure you save for them the flower nectar. They adore it and will give you a better deal on your soul trade in.
Falsehoods (aren’t there always)
· Does not snare witches and will only keep them from entering your home if they mean to harm you. Also not a deterrent if you are wearing honeysuckle on your body. Witches love honeysuckle, it is very useful.
· Witches do not use it to climb to an escape (this is rather nonsensical), but it does open up a witch portal through which a witch can escape pursuers. However, one must make a circle of vines on the ground and recite a lengthy spell, so it isn’t a very useful means of escape if one is in a hurry. The spell, I believe, is somewhere around five hundred lines long. Mistakes in the recitation will likely lead to loss of extremities.
· Will give anyone who sleeps with the flowers under their pillow erotic dreams. Popular lore states that only virgins will have these dreams but in fact, virgins are unlikely to have dreams of things they’ve never experienced (more nonsense and patriarchal wishful thinking).
Can specific dreams be planted into a target’s head? Certainly, but not with honeysuckle. I have a spell for that somewhere…