Yew Sprig

Common name: Yew Sprig

Botanical name: Taxus baccata

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Cultivation: Wild Harvested by Elfhame

Origin: Australia

Size: 1 sprig roughly 10cm in length

Yew has a long association with death, necromancy, baneful workings and eternal life in witchcraft. Every witch I know always keeps a watchful eye when entering a graveyard, looking for a Yew tree. Yew is sometimes planted in a graveyard to keep the dead from wandering, this is because Yew is believed to stand between this world and the spirit world.

Burning Yew is a traditional method for raising the dead, but extreme caution is needed as Yew is extremely poisonous.