Meadow Keep Meadow Keep

Meadow Keep

Celebrating the History, Folklore and Superstitions of Herbs

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Publisher Description

Meadow Keep is a journey into the world of herbs that have nourished, cured, and delighted mankind for centuries.

Did you know that the Pied Piper of Hamelin actually lured the rats with dried valerian? His music was but a decoy.

Did you know that William Wallace used blue dye from the woad plant to make war paint for his men to wear into battle?

Queen Elizabeth of Hungary used rosemary water in her bath every day, and it kept her young and beautiful. The King of Poland, a handsome man of fifty-four, declared his undying love for her beauty and asked for her hand in marriage, and she a woman of seventy-two.

Llewelyn, Prince of Glamoran, lived to be 108 years old by drinking lemon balm tea every morning.

You might want to make a trip to your garden center and pick up several rosemary and lemon balm plants and many of the other plants mentioned in this collection.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
24 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
76
Pages
PUBLISHER
AuthorHouse
SIZE
386.4
KB

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