Code used in spells and recipes by Pagans, ancient doctors, alchemists, etc. going back to the Greek Magical Papyri.It means Holly Leaf, which is probably due to the similarity in appearance between an actual bat's wing and the leaf of the plant.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rev. Wendy Van Allen, author of the new Relighting the Cauldron.
Over the centuries when the Roman Catholic and later Christian churches supplanted the Pagan religions of Europe, we know that many...