Protect against negativity

 

There are many ways of protecting oneself from negativity. Use either the following:

Salt: (It soaks up bad energies). It can be sprinkled in the corners of the room, to ward off evil energies from entering your home. Making a circle with a little salt can keep things clear inside. Putting a small amount of salt in a pouch will be carried around and worn to keep evil and unpleasant energies away. 

Crystals: Wearing crystals is a personal way to protect yourself. Some crystals work different. The most strongest guardian crystal against negativity is black tourmaline. Quartz is a shield against bad spirits. Obsidian helps to clear away unpleasant rubbish energies and encourage fresh positivity. Black jade is for warding off bad people's vibes and keeps their ill luck away. Pyrite helps to clean the body, mind and spirit of harmful energies from technology. Amethyst helps calm you from stress, but also can keep nightmares away if placed under your pillow. Citrine can be worn and put under the pillow to encourage better health, positive feelings and grow wellness.  

Incense: Sticks or cones that give a powerful scent also dispels negative energy. Certain incense resins keep out bad energy and can send away any stray unpleasant feelings or bad spirits. This helps if you suffer with unfriendly poltergeists and toxic neighbours: Dragon's Blood is a healer, from the dracaena palm tree that has a powerful aroma that gives inner peace and strong positivity. Myrrh can clean a place of bad energies, and also give a person more inner healing. Frankincense can help calm depression, lift moods and settle the room of bad spirits when used by spirit mediums. Cedar can heal misery by sending away cluttered bad feelings. Sage is a cleaning incense used since ancient times. 

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Hydrangea

Hydrangea is a flowering plant that is also diverse, as they can be both evergreen and deciduous. These plants can be found on shrubs as well as climbers and trees. Another name is hortensia. Often found in gardens they look like big bunches of flowers in many colours that make it look like ice creams. However though, they're nothing of the sort! These plants are very sour tasting but more on this in a moment. Mostly decorative and gorgeous, these flowering plants have been used in Asia to make tea. There's something else you need to know about these flowers too: 

It's poisonous.

They shouldn't be eaten. This plant has cyanogenic glycoside, which releases hydrogen cyanide when eaten. The causes will result in stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea and headaches. They're especially harmful to animals, including cats, rabbits, horses, hamsters and dogs. While it's not likely that anyone would want to chew on bitter and unpleasant tasting plants, even if they look like candies, it's best to seek medical help if someone has done this and may have allergies or suffering bad side effects. Animals that have eaten this plant should be taken to the vets. 

While poisonous, this plant has magical qualities. Known amongst healers, and witches, hydrangea bark and roots have medicinal properties to treat burns and muscle pain. Herbal tonics extracted from the hydrangea plant is for healing prostate infections, kidney stones and bladder problems. In folklore, the hydrangea plant is used in spells to lift curses and hexes. 

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Maighdean Uaine

The maighdean uaine is a Gaelic term that means "green maiden". The green maidens are also well known as Green Ladies, for they have been seen as ghosts haunting various places around the British Isles. These famous landmarks for the Green Ladies are in many castles, including Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Knock Castle at the Isle of Skye, Ashintully Castle in Perthshire Scotland and Longleat in Somerset, England. Another name for them is Glaistig as they're called in the Scottish Highlands. They can be considered either scary or benign. 

They always appear as beautiful women dressed in green although its believed by some that if they show up, it's a sign of death. The Scottish green maidens can be like banshees and they tend to have faun features, with the upper torsos of women and lower bodies of goats. They cover their lower selves with flowing green gowns. In other versions they look human with golden hair, grey complexions and dressed all in green. They scream and wail when they're noticed. She's nicknamed a "water imp" as she appears alone beside rivers, streams and lochs in the Scottish Highlands. Described as both a spirit of earth and water, she also is a trickster being. The more sinister versions of the maighdean uaine are similar to vampires. They lure men to their seductive beauty, their dancing and enchanting singing voices, just so that they can drink their blood. Stones have been placed to alter paths so travellers avoid going near the green maidens of death. But they're not all so bad.

The glaistig are considered guardians spirits. These green maidens care for the cattle and also as well protecting farmers and herders. The green maidens have played around in the fields with village children as their mothers milk the cows. People put out fresh milk in stone basins or wooden bowls for the green maidens because the gleistig protect the cattle. But then one day in the village of Ach-na-Creige on the Isle of Mull, a troublemaker from a village poured boiled milk into the stone, which burned the mouth of a green maiden when she drank it. For this wicked prank, the glaistig went away and abandoned the cattle in that place. Another legend has a green maiden swapping cattle for deer to help hunters, so she's known as friend and guardian of cattle and deer, and also goddess of the hunt.

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