Incense with Fennel

Smoking fennel helps to break through the feeling of loneliness and to look inside ourselves. 

 Loneliness and withdrawal usually come from unresolvable and pent-up emotions that smoking fennel releases. His plant spirit helps us to classify and process our feelings better. It organizes our feelings and has a stabilizing effect. We lose our nervousness and see some things with different eyes. This allows us to take a deep breath and concentrate on the essentials.

Smoking with fennel was done in the Middle Ages to keep evil spirits and negative energies away from house and yard. People who had been hexed with the evil eye were unhexed by incense with fennel. Many herbs that smell very intense were used in the Middle Ages and modern times to drive away everything bad. That probably had something to do with the strong smell of the respective plant.

Fennel was also used for de-hexing. If someone was bewitched, i.e. was perpetually ill or afflicted with bad luck, the person was enchanted with fennel, for example by having to bathe in fennel. Everything that was so hexed on him went into the bath water and they poured it away with the bath water. So the person was liberated. 

The bewitched and enchanted people were also smoked with fennel.