# Plants that attract shadows and spirits

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**Category:** Witchy Wisdom\
**Tags:** plants\
**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/plants-that-attract-shadows-and-spirits/22008 "2022-04-25T15:32:35Z")\
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This is super interesting! 🤩 I hope you don’t mind, but I thought this was such a great topic to explore that I pulled it out of the recipe comments and into a thread all its own. I didn’t want it to get buried in the replies!

> [@LadyFireCancer](#):
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> to stop seeing shadows floating through out the house I have to stop bringing them in the house…also lilacs.

This is the first I’ve heard about dandelions attracting spirits and shadows- I have always considered and used them as an element of the sun 🌞. But I suppose it is thanks to the sunlight that there are shadows, yes? 😁 I’d love to learn more about the “darker aspects” of dandelions!

Lilacs, however, I _have heard_ about their darker side: attracting spirits and bad luck. Here in Poland, there is a folk legend that if you take a replant a lilac tree, someone in your family will soon die. My partner says its true 😳

It’s tricky, because when I look online, information about lilacs seems mixed and even contradictory- the [Learn Religions article about Lilac Magick and Folklore](https://www.learnreligions.com/lilac-magic-and-folklore-4064885) says:

> The purple and red varieties are usually less feared, but even they are sometimes excluded from house-decorations as bringers of misfortune…

But then later in the article they say:

> Plant lilacs around your property to keep out those who might do you harm, or cut some to keep indoors as a way of preventing malevolent spirits, or other ghosts and haunts, from hanging around.

A bit confusing- I guess lilacs are one of those things where you should use your own personal judgment and experiences to determine its uses in magick. For some, it may be a protective barrier, like wisteria, while for others it may be used to attract and draw spirits in the same way that [heather](https://forum.spells8.com/t/medicinal-and-magickal-an-introduction-to-heather/3164) is.

Purple/blue flowers sure have a lot of interesting uses in magick! 💜 😆

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