1. A friend in Bulgaria says they use Equisetum arvense as a sore throat gargle, but people are warned not to swallow it [St Mary Cray, Kent, February 2019].
2. September 2015. On sale at Spellbound, a shop ‘for all your pagan needs’, College Street, Gloucester, small polythene bags full of fragmented horsetail: ‘Horsetail, £4.99, used in fertility mixes or placed in the bedroom for this purpose’.
3. Horsetails put in bath water to relieve bad backs [Addingham Moorside, West Yorkshire, April 1993].
Images: main, Mill Pits, Arlesey, Bedfordshire, September 2015; inset, field horsetail, Equisetum arvense, Tooting Common, London Borough of Wandsworth, April 2020.