The Witchs Garden, Sandra Lawrence
The Witchs Garden, Sandra Lawrence
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The Witch's Garden
Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine

Author: Sandra Lawrence

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Unabridged: 4 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/14/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Plants


Synopsis

The Witch's Garden describes over fifty 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. This book beautifully evokes the bewitching nature of mysterious plants.

About Sandra Lawrence

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tina

The content was good, interesting, but the title really doesn’t warrant the witchy title. It’s basically a history of how the herbs and plants grown at Kew have been used in medicine. It wasn’t very detailed, so a bit disappointing.......more