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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...

St. John’s Wort: Harvesting the Midsummer Herb

Hypericum perforatum flowers around the feast of St. John (June 24) in the Northern European tradition, and this timing is not a coincidence: the plant is genuinely at its peak at midsummer, when the flowers are just opening and the red oil-producing glands in the...

Herbs and the Solstice: Midsummer Plant Traditions

The summer solstice marks the year’s longest day and the point at which the light, having reached its peak, begins its long turn toward winter. In the folk calendars of Northern and Western Europe, this transition point was one of the most significant of the...

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