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The Witch's Garden describes over 50 of the world's most powerful, harmful, legendary and storied plants - from the screaming mandrake to calming St John's Wort, to predicting the weather with seaweed, the creation of salves for broken hearts, sore heads, protection from evil spirits and to even induce immortality. Wise women, apothecaries, witches, herbalists: whatever you like to call them, those who cultivate plants for their apparent mystical properties have existed for thousands of years. The Witch's Garden tells the story of our folkloric fascination with these magical specimens, documenting the beliefs and rituals surrounding the natural world. Illustrated with pages from herbals held within the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, along with botanical illustrations and archival images depicting magic and mayhem, The Witch's Garden beautifully evokes the bewitching nature of mysterious plants.

Table of Contents
Introduction * Healing plants of the ancient world * Great minds * From superstition to respectability - and back * The seasons * The stations of life * Cures for the body * Plants and the heavens * The cunning woman's stillroom * The dark mirror - plants of the shadows * Plants of hope.

Kew - Witch's Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic

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      Publisher Headline Publishing Group
      Published 17 September 2020
      ISBN-13 9781787394360
      978-1787394360
      ISBN-10 1787394360
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      Non Fiction Home & Garden Gardening: plants and cultivation guides Natural History Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Witch's Garden describes over 50 of the world's most powerful, harmful, legendary and storied plants - from the screaming mandrake to calming St John's Wort, to predicting the weather with seaweed, the creation of salves for broken hearts, sore heads, protection from evil spirits and to even induce immortality. Wise women, apothecaries, witches, herbalists: whatever you like to call them, those who cultivate plants for their apparent mystical properties have existed for thousands of years. The Witch's Garden tells the story of our folkloric fascination with these magical specimens, documenting the beliefs and rituals surrounding the natural world. Illustrated with pages from herbals held within the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, along with botanical illustrations and archival images depicting magic and mayhem, The Witch's Garden beautifully evokes the bewitching nature of mysterious plants.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction * Healing plants of the ancient world * Great minds * From superstition to respectability - and back * The seasons * The stations of life * Cures for the body * Plants and the heavens * The cunning woman's stillroom * The dark mirror - plants of the shadows * Plants of hope.

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