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In Mugworts , Rago traces the "roots" of herbal history - from the pyramids, through the dark forest of western Europe, and into the New World. She speaks of the learned monks and Wise Women who dispensed the herbs, along with the lore surrounding them. You will read about Shakespeare's favorite herbs, and the deadly herbs from the "dark side of the hedgerow." This book is a must for the historian, folklorist, and herbalist alike. In addition to a glowing herbal history and wonderful charms, the book concludes with an alphabetical "Compendium of Herbs." In the compendium you'll find the uses and stories of over 150 herbs.
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Linda Rago has tended, cooked, and cured with herbs for over 30 years, collecting their stories, charms, and tales along the way. In this book, she passes along those charms. She explores herbal folklore, a history with an oral tradition that has been passed down from grandmothers, scholars, friends, and "Wise Women." Mugworts In May contains charming rhymes and ditties to help your love life, your garden, and your health.
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To my mind, herbs are the most intimate of our green friends. Usually these little gray or green plants do not fuel our body like grains and vegetables. However, they have been closely linked with the energy of our healing, our spirits, and our emotions for eons. Indeed, many of the Greek herbal practices employed in the temples of Aesculapius (the Greek god of medicine) are still recognizable in our herbal folk traditions. Herbs remain firmly entwined on every coil of the spiral of our lives: from conception, through celebration, to death. At the present time, humankind's very exitence depends upon our respect for the sovereignty of the earth. Our ancestors served as guardians of practical information and mystical herb lore. We should give them our gratitude for the secrets they have held (often at great personal risk) and passed to us. Those ancestors were quite often the oldest and wisest among us - the Wise Women. It is for us now to cherish and tend our plants and pass the mysteries on to another generation of garden keepers - wise women and wise men.
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Good. In Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, you will find a Wise Woman tending her herb garden--Linda Ours Rago. She may recite a few herbal charms for you, or fix you some chamomile tea. In Mugworts in May, she shares herbal folklore that has been passed down through the generations. In this book, you will find herbal tales and charms for improving your gardening, health and well-being, and love life!If they would eat Leeks in MarchAnd Mugworts in MaySo many young maidens wouldn'tGo to the clay.-----TraditionalFrom Moonrise, Winter 1997Mugworts in May is a completely delightful book! It takes its name from the first line of a short poem that instructs young women what herbs to eat to live longer.It explores the importance of herbal usage in the past, and the myths and lore associated with their planting, harvesting and use. Ms. Rago explains how some of the folkore grew up, to get around the laws that covered herbalism in the days of the witch-hunts.The book instructs you in planting a wise Womans Garden in any locale, with short paragraphs about each herb and the folklore associated with it.Ms. Rago also devotes a chapter to the use of herbs from the dark side, and cautions against using them without great care and knowledge. Many of these are herb, which are used in synthesizing prescription medication (such as digitalin). They are the ones where a little will cure, but too much may kill or injure.The book has a collection of herbal charms and bits of poetry for use with the herbs. There are charms for everything from those to recite while picking certain plants to herbal healing charms to treat household injuries, and, of course, for a young woman to find her own true love.The book is completed by a listing of common herbs. Their magickal properties and modern uses are detailed in a short paragraph about each herb.This is a wonderful book to delight and amuse the herbalist or Wise Woman in your life.From Herb Gathering March/April 1996A charming collection of herbal history and folklore by Linda Ours Rago, a traditional Appalachian herb woman who has spent over 30 years tending, cooking, and crafting rare tidbits of fact and fiction about them. A detailed tour of a Wise Womans Garden is just the beginning of this literary excursion into a world of herbal charms and tales-much of which has almost been lost and forgotten. Mugworts in May also includes a compendium of some 150 herbs and their magic uses listed alphabetically, with information you seldom run across in mainstream herb books. Quaint illustrations are sprinkled throughout. Out of the ordinary-but definitely delightful. Seller Inventory # SONG0964619709
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