Herba Mythica : Myths and Folk Tales of Sacred Healing Plants - Xanthe Gresham-Knight Pages:32 Plates, color; 30 Illustrations, color; 150 Illustrations, black and white Elizabeth Lawson's book shows how

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Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor

Herba Mythica : Myths and Folk Tales of Sacred Healing Plants - Xanthe Gresham-Knight Pages:32 Plates, color; 30 Illustrations, color; 150 Illustrations, black and white Elizabeth Lawson's book shows howFor the time you are reading you are lost, lost to the magic of this book.' Jo Glover, The Association of Master HerbalistsStories are spells. Healers have long recognised the need to travel to psychic realms, from heaven to Hesperides, to effect cures. Ancient medicinal manuscripts pair myth and magical incantation with instruction on how to dig up roots, make salves and concoct tinctures. Herba Mythica draws on this tradition and is a handbook for