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Magical Properties: Cleansing - Purification - Strength - Consolation - Hope - Love - Miracles - Friendship
Planet: Saturn
Element: Water
Gender: Female
Deities:
Cerridwen - Brigit - White Lady - Epona - Lugh - Bel - the Horned God - Amaethon - Dagon - Demeter - Aglaia - Euphrosyne - Persephone - Hecate - Gaea - Rhea - Cronus - Pan - Adonis - Hades - Carpo - Aristaeus - Ceres - Ops - Proserpina - Flora - Tellus Mater - Saturn - Faunus - Mars - Jupiter - Consus - Triptolemus - Vertumnus - Renenet - Heqet - Min - Osiris - Ra - Hapi - Amen - Cinteotl - Xilonen - Gucumatz - Yum Caax - Itzamna - Xipe - Xochipilli - Tezcatlipoca - Tailtiu - Druantia - The Green Man - Fairies - Elves - Gnomes
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Botanical Information:
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Genus: Galanthus
Species: Galanthus nivalis
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Basic Information
By producing their own heat, snowdrop actually melt the snow in their surroundings. Like candles, Snowdrops offer us our own light of hope in the grey of winter days. They are the emblems of friendship in adversity, harbingers of spring. The first sight of snowdrops growing wild represents the ing of sorrow. In various religions, they are a sign from the gods that good times will come once more.
In Greek mythology Persephone, Queen of the Underworld and the goddess of vegetation, is said to have carried Snowdrops on her return from Hades in Spring.
Despite the joy that the little flowers bring to early Spring days, snowdrops have been known as objects of dread. No-one seems sure about the roots of this fear, but in folklore from many parts of the British Isles this feeling was uppermost.
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In Magic
Snowdrops can be used in a type of cleansing called 'white cleansing'. In a purification ritual, simply carry a bouquet of snowdrops from room to room.
One of the old Moldovan legend says that once in a fight with the winter witch, that didn’t want to give up its place, the beautiful lady Spring cut her finger and few drops of her blood fell on the snow, which melted. Soon on this place grew a snowdrop and in such a way the spring won the winter.
However, in some folklore, snowdrops are seen as unlucky. The reason for this is perhaps that they often grow in cemeteries and churchyards. Along with other white flowers, superstition says it is courting disaster to bring snowdrops into the house. To do so is to invite death into the home, can mean the parting of a loved one and, in the west country, is thought to cause eggs to turn addled. One should never even pick wild snowdrops, especially from a graveyard. The sight of a single snowdrop blooming in the garden foretells of impending disaster.
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