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Botanical Name
Daucus carota
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Wild carrot, also called Queen Anne's lace, is a flowering plant of the carrot family, native to temperate Afro-Eurasia. Wikipedia says the cultivated carrot is the domesticated subspecies Daucus carota subsp. sativus. Cunningham calls it masculine, with Mars and fire, and lists fertility and lust. He says the seeds, eaten, help women become pregnant, and carrots are eaten to promote lust and cure impotence. His folk names are Bird's Nest, Philtron, Gizri and Queen Ann's Lace. Wikipedia warns that wild carrot resembles deadly poison hemlock, and describes how to tell them apart. Cunningham is the only source for the magical use.

Caution

Wikipedia warns that wild carrot looks like the deadly poison hemlock, and that falcarinol in carrots is toxic to mice but that normal consumption of carrots has no toxic effect in humans.

References

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Correspondences

Elements
Fire
Celestial Bodies
Mars
Zodiac Signs
No zodiac signs recorded.
Colours
No colours recorded.
Deities
No deities recorded.

Folk Names

  • Bird's Nest
  • Gizri
  • Philtron
  • Queen Ann's Lace
  • Wild Carrot

Categories

  • Fertility
  • Lust

Substitutes

No substitutes recorded.

Forms

Root

Cunningham has carrots eaten to promote lust and cure impotence.

References

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Seed

Cunningham has the seeds eaten to help women become pregnant.

References

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References

Notes

  1. Cunningham, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical, under "Carrot".
  2. Wikipedia, under "Daucus carota."
  3. Cunningham, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical, under "Carrot".
  4. Cunningham, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical, under "Carrot".

Bibliography

  • Cunningham, Scott. Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs. 2nd ed. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2012. (EPUB.)134
  • Wikipedia, under "Daucus carota." Accessed October 23, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daucus_carota&oldid=1375087850. Open the Source (opens in a new tab)2
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