====== Cotton ======
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latin_names: Gossypium barbadense
folk_names: 
gender_tags: Feminine
planet_tags: Moon
element_tags: Earth
deity_tags: 
effect_tags: Luck, Healing, Protection, Rain, Fishing Magic
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===== Magical Uses =====
If a piece of cotton is placed in the sugar bowl, good luck will follow, as it will if cotton is thrown over the right shoulder at dawn. In this latter case, the good luck will come before the day is over.

Cotton is placed in an aching tooth to stop the pain. Cotton planted or scattered in the yard keeps ghosts away, and cotton balls soaked in vinegar and placed on the windowsills keep evil at bay.

To bring back a lost love, place some pepper in a piece of cotton and sew this into a sachet. Wear to make its magic work.

Cotton is the best kind of cloth (next to wool) to use for making sachets, or for any time cloth is needed in magic.

If you go fishing on a windy day, take twenty cotton seeds with you. Lay them at the edge of the water and you shall have at least one bite. Burning cotton causes rain.
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