Mugworts In May: A Folklore of Herbs

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Mugworts In May: A Folklore of Herbs

by  Linda Ours Rago

Paperback, 128 pages

An herb woman for several decades, author Linda Rago has tended, cooked, and cured with herbs, collecting their stories, charms, and tales along the way. In this book, she passes along 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.

From  Herb Gathering  March/April 1996

A 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 Woman’s 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.

From the Introduction:

"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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