====== Black Mustard ======
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latin_names: Brassica spp.
folk_names: 
gender_tags:  Masculine
planet_tags: Mars
element_tags: Fire
deity_tags: 
effect_tags: Fertility, Protection, Mental Powers
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===== Magical Uses =====
The Hindus used mustard seed to travel through the air. A more down-to-earth use is carrying mustard seed in a red cloth sachet to guard against colds and to increase mental powers.

Italian peasants sprinkle mustard seed on the doorsill for protective reasons, and mustard seed buried under your doorstep will keep all manner of supernatural beings from your home.

When eaten, mustard seed increases fertility in women.
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