Why read Sacred Plants in Folk Medicine & Rituals?

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1 author picked Sacred Plants in Folk Medicine & Rituals as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sara Raztresen

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I am Slovene-American, my mother being off the boat. This book told me what I’d wanted to know: how my people engaged with the world around them, not just physically, but metaphysically. Anyone interested in understanding the way folk belief mixed with medicine, and why people would resort to beliefs we would view strange in modern day, could learn quite a bit from this book about the rural folk of Slovenia and their medicine.

It’s also a key resource for one fantasy book I still have in the works, which is reminiscent of Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale, and…

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