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Hawthorn: The Herb of the Heart

Hawthorn is a hedgerow tree, one of the most common in the British and European landscape, thorny and dense and ancient-looking even when young. In late spring it covers itself in white blossom. In autumn the branches are heavy with deep red berries (haws). Most...

Dream Herbs: A History of Plants and the Sleeping Mind

Humans have always been interested in their dreams, not just in interpreting them after the fact but in cultivating them, in finding ways to make the dream space more accessible, more vivid, more legible. And across cultures that developed this interest, certain...

Mugwort: The Dreaming Herb and Its Ritual History

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is a plant that has never quite sat comfortably within simple categories, because it has always belonged to both folk medicine and spiritual practice simultaneously. The genus name Artemisia honors the Greek goddess of the moon, of...

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...

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