Life Everlasting (Rabbit Tobacco)

Life Everlasting (Rabbit Tobacco) – Premium Dried Herb for Longevity, Spirit Work & Protection

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Walk between worlds and protect your spirit with authentic Life Everlasting, one of the most sacred herbs in Southern folk magic and Native American traditions. Also known as Rabbit Tobacco, Sweet Everlasting, and Cherokee Tobacco, this powerful botanical has been revered for centuries for longevity work, connecting with ancestors, protecting against restless spirits, and cleansing negative spiritual influences.

What You'll Receive

• Premium dried Life Everlasting (Gnaphalium obtusifolium)
• Hand-selected whole plant material (stems, leaves, flowers)
• Ready for smudging, altar work, and spiritual protection
• Perfect for ancestor work and spirit realm magic

Traditional Magical Uses Life Everlasting is your ally for spiritual protection and longevity:

• Promoting long life and health
• Connecting with ancestors and the spirit world
• Protection from ghosts and restless spirits
• Banishing unwanted spiritual entities
• Cleansing spaces of negative energy
• Protecting against witchcraft and ill will
• Divination and spirit summoning work
• Protection for newborns and vulnerable people
• Relieving nightmares and spiritual harassment
• Underworld and death deity work
• Smudging for spiritual cleansing
• Blessing and protection of the home

Popular Ways to Work with Life Everlasting

Longevity Work (Hoodoo Tradition): Keep Life Everlasting in an open jar or bowl in your home to promote long life and safety. Dress with Healing Oil or Blessing Oil for added power. Add to conjure bags carried for health, protection, and longevity.

Smudging for Spirit Protection: Burn Life Everlasting alone or blend with Eastern Cedar (Juniper) to cleanse homes of unwanted spirits, especially after a death or when ghosts are causing disturbances. Traditional practice involves taking four breaths of the smoke.

Ancestor Offerings: Place on ancestor altars as offerings to honor the dead and maintain healthy connections with those who have passed. The plant's ability to persist after death makes it sacred for spirit work.

Ghost Banishing: Smudge yourself or your home when being harassed by restless spirits, suffering nightmares, or experiencing spiritual disturbances. Particularly powerful when combined with Eastern Cedar.

Witchcraft Defense (Seminole Tradition): Smudge hands and body after being in crowds or when you suspect someone has left bad witchcraft behind. Also smudge the home after suspicious visitors.

Protection Medicine Bags: Carry dried flowers in a medicine bag for ongoing protection from the dead, witchcraft, and negative intentions.

Newborn Protection: Gently smudge babies or place near (not on) their sleeping area for spiritual protection, as babies have recently crossed between worlds and may be vulnerable to spirit influence.

Psychic Collecting: Use as a spiritual detector—the dried plant can sense good or evil energies around it, making it powerful for protection or psychic work.

Underworld Work: Incorporate into rituals involving death deities, shadow work, or journeying between worlds. The plant's ability to walk the borderline between living and dead makes it essential for deep spiritual work.

Magical Correspondences

• Element: Air
• Themes: Longevity, spirit communication, protection from ghosts, banishing, ancestral connection, breath/life force
• Sacred Names: Rabbit Tobacco, Sweet Everlasting, Cherokee Tobacco, Owl's Crown, Indian Posey, Old Field Balsam
• Works Well With: Eastern Cedar/Juniper, blessing oils, healing oils

Traditional Folklore & Symbolism Life Everlasting holds profound spiritual significance across multiple traditions. Native American tribes, particularly the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Menominee, and Yuchi, considered it sacred medicine for walking between the world of the living and the dead. The Sioux described it as a plant that exists on the borderline—evidenced by the way its flowers persist after the plant dies and how dried herbs suddenly release scent after months or years, as if returning from the spirit realm.

In Southern Hoodoo and Geechee traditions, Life Everlasting became known as "the poor man's tea" and was central to longevity practices. Elders who drank it regularly were known to live to extreme old age, and families kept it in the home year-round for protection and blessing.

The plant's connection to breath and spirit is profound—in the Yuchi language, part of its name comes from the word for breath in the sense of spirit or life force. This makes it particularly powerful for reviving what has been lost, whether that's physical breath, mental clarity, or spiritual connection.

Also known as "Owl's Crown," the plant's association with owls links it to sorcery, wisdom, and the liminal spaces between worlds. It's considered powerful sorcerer's medicine, able to dispel and gather back, to protect and connect, to banish and summon.

Whether you're seeking long life, protecting against spiritual harassment, honoring your ancestors, or working with underworld deities, Life Everlasting offers sacred, time-tested magic for the most profound spiritual work.