====== Ivy ======
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latin_names: Hedera helix, H. spp
folk_names: Gort
gender_tags: Feminine
planet_tags: Saturn
element_tags: Water
deity_tags: Bacchus, Dionysus, Osiris
effect_tags: Protection, Healing
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===== Ritual Uses =====
The thyrsus, used in worshipping Bacchus, was often wound round with ivy.
===== Magical Uses =====
Ivy is carried by women for good luck in general, and is worn by brides for this same reason.

Where ivy grows or is strewn, it guards against negativity and disaster.

Ivy is also used in fidelity and love charms. It is magically "paired" to holly.
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