Mullein, Our Lady’s Candle

Culpeper Says …

The common mullein has many fair, large, woody white leaves, lying next to the ground, pointed at end, and as it were dented about the edges.

The stalk rises up to be four or five feet high, covered over with such like leaves, but less, so that no stalk can be seen for the multitude of leaves thereon up to the flowers, which come forth on all sides of the stalk.

It is under the dominion of Saturn.

The old country names of mullein such as candlestiock plant — Our Lady’s Candle, Candellaria — seems to testify to the tradition that in ancient days the plant was dipped in suet and burnt as a candle.

The Complete Herbal, 1649