Fern Seed & Fairy Rings: Plants and Plant lore from Cornwall and Devon default-HIDE "The Herbal Arts" explores over

"The Herbal Arts" explores over 100 herbs

legends and life-histories of a selection of animals which are commonly employed as motifs in the history of witchcraft: culturally maligned creatures such as reptiles

The magic of Iceland is known to all those who have set foot on this seemingly desolate rock in the North Atlantic

as well as the basis of cures

both he and the Wild-women or Silvaticæ are the deified reservoirs of Nature-as-other

Fern Seed & Fairy Rings: Plants and Plant lore from Cornwall and Devon default-HIDE "The Herbal Arts" explores overAuthor: Rupert White 'Fern Seed and Fairy Rings' is a first ever compilation of plant lore from Cornwall and Devon. It includes seasonal festivities, charms, fairy tales, herbal remedies, superstitions and practical uses from a period of over 500 years. 'A fascinating and enjoyable book, and one to which I will refer again and again' Gemma Gary (Troy Books) 'Amazing, and very much needed' Alex Langstone (Lien Gwerin)