"Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.” - So ends Practical Magic, the 1998 cult film whose recent return taps into a collective yearning for whimsy, ritual and rapture. \u200b As the season turns towards Samhain and the boundary between worlds is said to grow thin, we cross the threshold into five homes as woven with enchantment and botanical abundance as the Owens family's Victorian beach house. \u200b Here, kitchens become sites of gathering, gardens filled with medicinal herbs teeter on the edge of the otherworldly and collected curios carry traces of those who came before. |
