Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen by Scott Cunningham Page A
Authors: Scott Cunningham
Tags: Self-Help, Spirituality, shamanism, shaman, shamanic, dreamwork, journeying, pathworking, sel-empowerment, ancestors, shamanism100511
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American lore, if half a pumpkin is left exposed in the kitchen, negative energies will arrive to spoil the cooking. 22
The pumpkins carved with faces and lit with candles on the last night of October in the United States are related to the similarly prepared turnips carried by children in the U.K. They are created to scare away evil.
Pumpkins are sometimes featured in Samhain celebrations by Wiccans as symbols of the fruitfulness of the earth and of the Godâs death beneath the sickle of time. These round, orange vegetables are also symbols of the Mother Goddess.
Magical uses: Add pumpkin dishes to health diets. Dry, roast, and eat the seeds, or enjoy such delicious treats as pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread.
Pumpkin is also a nutritious money-attractant. Make a pumpkin pie and add cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg to flavor it with money-drawing energies.
Radish
(Raphanus sativus)
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Energies: Protection
Lore: Wild radishes, eaten before breakfast, were once thought to protect the diner from being flogged and to enable one to overcome all obstacles and enemies.
Magical uses: Slice thinly and eat for protection, especially in salads with onions, bell peppers, and other protective foods.
Rhubarb
(Rheum spp.)
Planet: Venus
Element: Earth
Energies: Love, protection
Magical uses: Rhubarb is native to China, where it is still used in medicinal herbalism. 104 All parts of the plant are poisonous save for the red stalks.
Rhubarb is a love food. The zingy taste ensures zingy, exciting relationships, if rhubarb is prepared with visualization. Rhubarb or rhubarb/strawberry pie is one of the ultimate love foods. The addition of sugar (necessary if rhubarb is to be enjoyed) seals the loving qualities of this Venusian vegetable.
A wedge of rhubarb pie makes an excellent protective dessert.
Seaweed
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Energies: Weight loss
Lore: Seaweed (more correctly, sea vegetables) are surprisingly nutritious foods that are rarely found in Western diets, except as processed food additives (such as carageenan).
In Cornwall, pieces of a seaweed known as Ladyâs Tresses were placed on small stands near the chimney to guard seaside cottages from fire. 35
Seaweed is eaten throughout the year by the Japanese, who also serve it on their lunar New Year for happiness. 46
Magical uses: Add seaweed to your diet if you wish to lose weight. Seaweed has been prescribed for this purpose since ancient times. Dried kelp (a generic term for seaweed) is available in all health-food stores.
Soy
(Glycine max)
Planet: Moon
Element: Earth
Energies: Protections, psychic awareness, spirituality
Lore: We know soy in two forms: soy sauce and tofu. While soy sauce has always enjoyed popularity in the West as a flavoring for Chinese food, tofu is only now gaining ground as a nutritious alternative to meat. It is especially popular with vegetarians.
The Chinese have eaten soybeans for at least 2,000 years and the Japanese for 1,000. 98 People in both cultures usually eat them in the form of tofu. In Japan, two deities, Ebisu and Daikotu, are involved in the old-style preparation of tofu. Symbols of these deities are burned into the side of the wooden boxes used to measure the soybeans to be processed into tofu. This blesses them with the energies of Ebisu and Daikotu. 98
Throughout Japan, fried tofu is an acceptable offering at the inami, agricultural shrines that dot the countryside. These shrines are dedicated to agricultural deities. 54 On the Japanese New Year, handfuls of roasted soybeans are scattered onto the floor in homes and temples. These âbeans of good fortuneâ are then thrown through an open window to the chant of âOut with evil; in with good fortune!â 54, 60
In the 1600s, the Emperor Nintoku established the Womenâs Mass for Needles. In this ceremony, a cake of tofu is situated on the household altar. Women push all the needles which have been bent or broken in
The pumpkins carved with faces and lit with candles on the last night of October in the United States are related to the similarly prepared turnips carried by children in the U.K. They are created to scare away evil.
Pumpkins are sometimes featured in Samhain celebrations by Wiccans as symbols of the fruitfulness of the earth and of the Godâs death beneath the sickle of time. These round, orange vegetables are also symbols of the Mother Goddess.
Magical uses: Add pumpkin dishes to health diets. Dry, roast, and eat the seeds, or enjoy such delicious treats as pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread.
Pumpkin is also a nutritious money-attractant. Make a pumpkin pie and add cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg to flavor it with money-drawing energies.
Radish
(Raphanus sativus)
Planet: Mars
Element: Fire
Energies: Protection
Lore: Wild radishes, eaten before breakfast, were once thought to protect the diner from being flogged and to enable one to overcome all obstacles and enemies.
Magical uses: Slice thinly and eat for protection, especially in salads with onions, bell peppers, and other protective foods.
Rhubarb
(Rheum spp.)
Planet: Venus
Element: Earth
Energies: Love, protection
Magical uses: Rhubarb is native to China, where it is still used in medicinal herbalism. 104 All parts of the plant are poisonous save for the red stalks.
Rhubarb is a love food. The zingy taste ensures zingy, exciting relationships, if rhubarb is prepared with visualization. Rhubarb or rhubarb/strawberry pie is one of the ultimate love foods. The addition of sugar (necessary if rhubarb is to be enjoyed) seals the loving qualities of this Venusian vegetable.
A wedge of rhubarb pie makes an excellent protective dessert.
Seaweed
Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Energies: Weight loss
Lore: Seaweed (more correctly, sea vegetables) are surprisingly nutritious foods that are rarely found in Western diets, except as processed food additives (such as carageenan).
In Cornwall, pieces of a seaweed known as Ladyâs Tresses were placed on small stands near the chimney to guard seaside cottages from fire. 35
Seaweed is eaten throughout the year by the Japanese, who also serve it on their lunar New Year for happiness. 46
Magical uses: Add seaweed to your diet if you wish to lose weight. Seaweed has been prescribed for this purpose since ancient times. Dried kelp (a generic term for seaweed) is available in all health-food stores.
Soy
(Glycine max)
Planet: Moon
Element: Earth
Energies: Protections, psychic awareness, spirituality
Lore: We know soy in two forms: soy sauce and tofu. While soy sauce has always enjoyed popularity in the West as a flavoring for Chinese food, tofu is only now gaining ground as a nutritious alternative to meat. It is especially popular with vegetarians.
The Chinese have eaten soybeans for at least 2,000 years and the Japanese for 1,000. 98 People in both cultures usually eat them in the form of tofu. In Japan, two deities, Ebisu and Daikotu, are involved in the old-style preparation of tofu. Symbols of these deities are burned into the side of the wooden boxes used to measure the soybeans to be processed into tofu. This blesses them with the energies of Ebisu and Daikotu. 98
Throughout Japan, fried tofu is an acceptable offering at the inami, agricultural shrines that dot the countryside. These shrines are dedicated to agricultural deities. 54 On the Japanese New Year, handfuls of roasted soybeans are scattered onto the floor in homes and temples. These âbeans of good fortuneâ are then thrown through an open window to the chant of âOut with evil; in with good fortune!â 54, 60
In the 1600s, the Emperor Nintoku established the Womenâs Mass for Needles. In this ceremony, a cake of tofu is situated on the household altar. Women push all the needles which have been bent or broken in
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