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Wonderful book --Sunday Independent
Delightful, informative, a book no enthusiast should be without --Irish Examiner
A treasury of ancient and interesting information --Sunday Tribune
Delightful, informative, a book no enthusiast should be without --Irish Examiner
A treasury of ancient and interesting information --Sunday Tribune
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In ancient Ireland there were 365 different body parts, and a different plant to cure each part. So the wild plants of Ireland are bound up in our culture and folklore from the earliest times, featuring in the Brehon Laws, early Irish nature poetry and herbal medicine. To carry a four-leaved shamrock brings luck in gambling, putting nine ivy-leaves under her pillow means a girl will dream of her future husband. Plants are described in seasonal order, a perspective of our ancestors. After the history of herbs and traditional herbal medicine in Ireland, different aspects of plant folklore are examined. Included are their roles in magical protection, in charms and spells (especially for love!), as emblems in children s games, and in Irish place names and folklore cures. As with Irish Trees Myths, Legends and Folklore, this book is beautifully illustrated with watercolours by Grania Langrishe
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