Atropa belladonna is a cold hardy perennial, each year dying back and retreating into the dark depths of the soil where it will live until spring. Belladonna, like mandrake, Wolfsbane and other root dwelling spirits are connected to the underworld, the lower world, the terrestrial realms. They are khthonigens, power plants of the lower realms. Their spirits dwell in the roots of the world tree, in Niflheim, the realm of the dead and the wells of fate and memory. Teaching us about death and rebirth and that being eternal means infinite small deaths. We transform and are reborn over and over again. — #deadlynightshade #atropabelladonna #nighsthade #solanaceae #veneficium #banefulherbs #poisonpath #thepoisonpath #witchingherbs #niflheim #helheim #khthonigens #entheogens #underworldherbs https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck_YB1_LjaT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
