Sweet Grass Braids- Hand Braided Sweet Grass for Attracting Good Spirits During

This listing is for one braid of Sweetgrass harvested and braided in Massachusetts. Many indigenous native tribes and spiritual leaders throughout North America have long used Sweet Grass in prayer, smudging or purifying ceremonies  and is also used intensely in healing as well as talking circle, round table, and even in some council meetings  because it has a calming effect. This is a big reason why many consider it a very sacred plant medicine for spiritual and medicinal bundles to have and keep on hand as you never know for what intent it may be needed to serve it’s purpose for the good of the people and whatever their situation now before you may be. Sweet grass was used around religions elsewhere too, but with less regard and honor than the tribes of Turtle Island. For example, Sweet Grass was strewn before church doors on Saints’ days in northern Europe, presumably because of the sweet smell that arose when it was trodden on. Sweet Grass is one of the four medicines in the sacred hoop… it is the plant medicine we use to honor our elders, which we do in the direction North.  which comprise a group of healing plants used by the people in Anishinabe, Bode’wad mi, and Odawa societies. The other three are Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica, Nicotiana tabacum), Cedar (Thuja plicata, Libocedrus decurrens), and Sage (Salvia apiana, Artemisia tridentata). Usually people identify Sweet Grass when it’s  braided,  To us, it is the sacred hair of Mother Earth; its sweet aroma r