SWEETGRASS BRAID - 60-65cm (24-26") USA Smudge Herb

SWEETGRASS BRAID
US
For Incense & Magickal Use

"Sweetness, Blessing, Beauty"

Hierochloë odorata

Hand picked and braided in a good way, Sweetgrass is a blessing herb that is used to bless and bring in good, healing energy into a cleared space. It can also be used to protect stored Medicine Items.

Sweetgrass is burnt after smudging with sage, to welcome in good influences after the bad have been driven out. Sweetgrass is very rare today, and traditional Plains people have been attempting to protect the last of it.

Cedar, which is not endangered, can safely be used this way. Also Piñon pine needles (used more frequently by the Southwest Teneh, like the Navajo and Apache, as well as the Pueblo people and the Zuni) and Copal (used by the Yaqui and in ancient times by the Azteca and the Maya) have a similar effect. The three mentioned here are possibly more readily available.

SMUDGING with SWEETGRASS
Sweetgrass is used for calling in spirits, protecting, honouring, sending prayers, and psychic strength. One of the most sacred plants for the Plains Indians, Sweetgrass is a tall wild grass with a reddish bas and perfume-like, musty odour. It grows mainly on the eastern side of the Rockies in Montana and adjacent Alberta, Canada. It also shows up in some small areas of Wyoming and South Dakota. Its botanical name is Hierochloë odorata. Some common names for it are Seneca grass, holy grass and vanilla grass.

Sweetgrass is dried and braided into fragrant-smelling plaits and can also be added to smudge mixtures, but it is often burned alone after the sage or smudge mixture has been used. Sweetgrass brings sweetness and beauty into one's life and surroundings. One can offer a prayer to this effect as the braid is lit.

Magical Uses:
Sweetgrass brings in the good spirits and the good influences. As with cedar, burning Sweetgrass while praying sends prayers up to the Creator in the smoke. High Hollow Horn says in the The Sacred Pipe "This smoke from the Sweetgrass will rise up to you, and will spread throughout the universe. Its fragrance will be known by the wingeds, the four-leggeds, and the two leggeds, for we understand that we are all relatives; may all our brothers be tame and not fear us!" Sweetgrass is also put in pipe bundles and medicine bundles along with sage to purify and protect sacred objects.

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