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The Folk Magic of Flowers: May Day Herbs and Traditions

The first of May is the hinge between spring and summer in the European folk calendar, and has been for as long as there are records of folk practice in the British Isles and across Northern and Western Europe. Beltane in the Gaelic tradition, Walpurgis Night in the...

Herbs in the Celtic Tradition: An Introduction

When we talk about the Celtic herbal tradition, we are speaking of something that exists more in fragments, traces, and echoes than in the coherent documented systems of the Greek, Arabic, or Chinese traditions. The ancient Celts left no written medical texts. What...

The Herbs of Samhain: Plants of the Threshold

Samhain (pronounced approximately SAH-win in Irish, or SAH-ven in Scots Gaelic) falls on October 31 and is the most significant of the four Celtic fire festivals in the folk calendar. It marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter: the dark half of...

The Herbs of Yule: A Winter Solstice Herbal Tradition

The winter solstice (Yule in the Norse tradition, Midwinter in the Anglo-Saxon, Alban Arthan in Druidic tradition) falls around December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the longest night and the return of the light. The celebration of this astronomical event...

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