Remedies, recipes, magic, and brews for the winter season.

Auteur: Ellen Evert Hopman, voorwoord van Lucya Starza

Jaar: 2023

Druk: niet vermeld

ISBN: 9781644117804 / 1644117800

Taal: Engels

320 pagina's

Uitgeverij: Destiny Books, USA

Paperback, nieuw.

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For millennia cultures have taken time out to honor the darkest days of the year with lights, foods, and festivities.

In ancient Egypt, people decorated their homes with greenery at the festival of the rebirth of the God Horus. The ancient Romans shared gifts, especially candles, at the midwinter festival of Saturnalia. In Scandinavian and Germanic cultures, the Yule Log was burned in the hearth, fruit orchards were wassailed, and sheaves of wheat were displayed to carry luck into the New Year. In Celtic cultures, mummers and guisers went door to door, and European mistletoe (Viscum album) was gathered by Druids as a medicinal and magical aid.

Ellen Evert Hopman shares folklore, recipes, rituals, and crafts to enliven your Yuletide observance. She explores the origins of the Christmas tree and Santa Claus as well as holiday Spirits and Yuletide animals. She explains how to perform Winter Solstice divinations and make traditional foods and drinks such as Elizabethan gingerbread cookies and Wassail. And she looks in depth at the medicinal and magical properties of the many herbs, barks, and berries associated with the Christmas and Yuletide season such as Frankincense and Myrrh, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Hibiscus, Bayberry, and many more. This guide offers practical and magical ways to celebrate and honor the darkest days of the year.

"A festive hamper brimming over with magical and medicinal herbs found and used at Yule. A comprehensive guide to working magic and connecting with the energy of the season. Highly recommended." -  Rachel Patterson, author of A Witch for Every Season.

"This is a delightful culinary and medicinal reference with Pagan sensibilities. Hopman's culinary recipes call for unusual herbs blended with humor and cautions in equal measure... What a treat!" - Lyrion Aptower, author of Musings & Miscellany.

Ellen Evert Hopman is a master herbalist and lay homeopath, who has been a Druidic initiate since 1984. She is a founding member of the Order of the White Oak, the Archdruidess and founder of Tribe of the Oak, a former professor at the Grey School of Wizardry, and a member of the Grey Council of Mages and Sages. She is the author of Celtic herbals and Druid novels, including Secret Medicines from Your Garden, The Sacred Herbs of Samhain, and Once Around the Sun: Stories, Crafts, and Recipes to Celebrate the Sacred Earth Year. She lives in Massachusetts.

Zoekwoorden: kruiden, planten, magie, kruidenmagie, boek, kopen, bestellen, winkel, webshop, Midwinter, Joelfeest, Sun Return, Alban Arthan, Paganistisch Nieuwjaar, Saturnalia, Winterzonnewende, Finn’s Day, Yuletide, Festival of Sol, Great Day of the Cauldron, Festival of Growth, Rozenvergadering, de vergadering van de Oudsten, Julfest