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Also interesting that a lot of the herbal magic blog list are specifically referencing these Greek texts to say that magic didn't really use animal sacrifice, all of the animal parts were codes for plants. While the Greek lists in the book I linked earlier clearly also have codes for animal parts and fluids. So I feel like this whole thing (in the pagan blogosphere) was maybe a way to sanitise their hobby for themselves, and promote the idea that you can be interested in magic without harming animals?

In trying to answer for myself whether uses of mustard were plausibly secret in the 16th century, I found a PDF of Bald's Leechbook, 9th century, which is very open and specific about what all mustard will 'cure'. It's delightful. Well worth a read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald's_Leechbook

I think I've got a lead on the idea of codes for herbs? Seems there was a spate of books by different people in the 1990s that were pulling these lists from Galen, Paul of Aegina, and Dioscorides. Silly magical woo woo, but at least they cite their sources. Does not include newt, so I guess that get's added to the list along the way as more pagan bloggers copy, paste, and amend the list. But the list, or the bulk of the list, seems to come from compilations like this. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K0hCj5u3HNQC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=%22Titan%E2%80%99s+Blood+Wild+Lettuce%22&source=bl&ots=y8o6FbCsPj&sig=ACfU3U2z-Mqk2ALxY_kZZeX64gDd3dfkSA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwir4pnUqoD1AhVw7rsIHSHzBPsQ6AF6BAggEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Titan%E2%80%99s%20Blood%20Wild%20Lettuce%22&f=false

You're doing CGP Grey's act. (Which is totally cool.. just be careful to timebox the amount of research you put into the etymological origins of spice names.. or you'll fall down the same well he did with the name "Tiffany". :)