Kitchen ingredient
Four Thieves Vinegar
Kitchen ingredient1 tradition
Legend says four thieves robbed plague victims in Marseille or Toulouse without catching the plague, protected by a vinegar steeped with herbs. Recipes vary but usually include garlic, rosemary, sage, and lavender in vinegar.
Uses
- Protection
- Keeping illness away
- Banishing unwanted people
- Cleansing
Working with it
Steep garlic, rosemary, sage, lavender, and mint in apple cider vinegar for two weeks, strain, and sprinkle it across doorways for protection.
- Planet
- ♂︎ Mars
- Role
- Add-in: stirred into a working
- Element
- Fire
- Works for
- ProtectionBanishingHealingBoundaries
- Forms
- liquid
- How to use
- Floor or door washSprinkle or scatterPotion (charged, then kept or poured out)
Projective
Where the traditions place it
- Mars — Common practice