Witch's Garden
Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine
$35.98
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2021
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787394360 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787394360 |
| Author: | Sandra Lawrence - Kew Royal Botanical Gardens |
| Publisher: | Welbeck Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Welbeck |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 560g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 150mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
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About The Author
Sandra Lawrence - Kew Royal Botanical Gardens
Sandra Lawrence is a journalist and author. She writes for the Evening Standard, Guardian, Financial Times, The Times, Londonist.com and the English Garden. She is the London columnist for British Heritage magazine and is on the Q&A panel of experts for History Revealed magazine.
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