Amanda Edmiston, Botanica Fabula
@botanicafabula.bsky.social
Herbal storyteller, folklorist, creative practitioner, writer. The Time Traveller’s Herbal published by David and Charles. Botanica Fabula school of herbal storytelling 💚🌲🌱💫 #botanicafabula #timetravellersherbal
The dangers of dealing with the Scottish fae folk and the herbal potions to seek out or avoid 🧚🏽💫💚🌿🌀📚in this short film over on my Substack!
Dark Fae and Dangerous Potions
Making dangerous deals with the fae, or be careful what you wish for!
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This weeks blog post is all about historical herbalism courtesy of the wonderful Amanda Edmison. heathenpilgrim.substack.com/p/stepping-i...
Stepping into the Time Spiral
A Review of Amanda Edmiston's Newly published 'Collected Curiosities'
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My second book Collected Curiosities is out in the world…if you want to find out more, I chatted to my publishers about it for this interview substack.com/@verbenabook...
Its just so lovely as an artist and writer when golknlike the things you do 😊💚📚🌿💫https://substack.com/@ann1436924/note/c-280642760?r=rq9ng&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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Then you uncover the delights inside.. Thank you @Amanda Edmiston~BotanicaFabula @Jean Edmiston and @Verbena Books! I don't know if there are any of these left but if there are don't wait!
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#FolkloreThursday was brought to you today by: @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social @botanicafabula.bsky.social @mythcrafts.bsky.social @willowwinsham.bsky.social @crystalponti.bsky.social @shanonsinn.bsky.social Thank you so much for helping us celebrate our 11th birthday! 🎨Peter Nicolai Arbo
That's the end of a special #FolkloreThursday 🧞 Today's theme was "Favourite Folklore” for our 11-year anniversary! This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social l signing off. Until next time ✨ 1493 Nuremberg Woodcut
Hello there #FolkloreThursday 🐉 A huge thanks to @crystalponti.bsky.social for resharing your posts before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your last host today -- for the next one hour. Today's theme is "Favourite Folklore” 🤩 1912 Warwick Goble
Marking the fabulous 11th birthday of #FolkloreThursday is the start of a run of celebrations for me~My book launch for Collected Curiosities begins on Saturday! Huge thanks to @folklorethursday.bsky.social because if they hadn’t asked me to guest host~my writing wouldn’t have been spotted!💚📚🌿💫
I'm @crystalponti.bsky.social l and it's been a pleasure hosting today's #FolkloreThursday. Thank you all for sharing your favourite folklore. But we're not done celebrating yet! Join @shanonsinn.bsky.social for our final birthday celebration hour at 6:30 BST. Until next time! 🎉 Art: Arthur Rackham
"Sussex and the magic bun. "Hot cross buns were known...as Good Friday buns...many people thought that they were a kind of magic bun, endowed with all manner of powers...I remember...seeing a bun on a long string hanging by the...kitchen mantelpiece." Bexhill Observer 7.5.1987. #FolkloreThursday
Thank you so much to everyone for sharing their favourite lore for our #FolkloreThursday birthday celebrations. This is @botanicafabula.bsky.social off to dance round a walnut tree in an attempt to garner knowledge...passing the parcel to @mythcrafts who will entertain you up 'til cake time!
Huge Happy Birthday love #FolkloreThursday One of my favourite bits of folklore surrounds St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) or 'Chase the Devil'~wound healing anti depressant~said if found unsought to keep traveller's safe ~oozes purple 'blood of St John' when pressed~said to terrify demons...
On the 11th birthday #FolkloreThursday sharing your favourite folklore, this is @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social with my favourite Todmorden folklore, discussed in one of my favourite books! Fairies, aliens, Alan Godfrey… & so handing on to my favourite Otherworld person @botanicafabula.bsky.social …
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to us😁🎂✨💫Huge thanks to the fab @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social for opening the #folklorethursday celebrations This is @botanicafabula.bsky.social signing on as guest host sharing your favourite lore til 12 and below are some pics from some of my fave moments over the last decade💚💫
Happy 11th Birthday #FolkloreThursday! Post your favourite folklore to the hashtag and our fabulous hosts will share them at the following times BST: 9am-1pm 1.30-3pm 3.30-4.30pm 6.30-7.30pm Don't forget @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social grand finale 5.30-6.30pm! (Link in comments) Img: Will Clayton
#FolkloreThursday is 11 years old on 18th June! Celebrate with us by sharing your favourite folklore to the hashtag between 9am-4.30pm and 6.30-7.30pm BST and join us for the final @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social 5.30-6.30pm BST. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cultur... (Image:James Petts)
“There would be no Beat Generation, no San Francisco Renaissance, without the primal muse of poetry as it came through Helen Adam” —Kristin Prevallet Helen Adam (1909–1993): fey child prodigy & daughter of the manse; bardic matriarch; Worm Queen #WyrdWednesday #poetry caesuramag.org/posts/kristi...
Poems by Helen Adam — Caesura
Helen Adam is a singular luminary whose ballads, if you read them out loud and late at night, will sneak into your mind and create phantasmagorias of exquisite, sensual, brooding, and melancholy fairy...
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🐇🐇🐇it’s the first of June🌿and Collected Curiosities is out on the 30th 💚💫📚 Woke up to discover a lovely friend had messaged me to say I was number six on the Amazon hot releases in Folklore list! HUGE THANKS to everyone who has preordered that has totally made my morning!
#FolkloreThursday was brought to you today by: @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social @willowwinsham.bsky.social @botanicafabula.bsky.social @mythcrafts.bsky.social @shanonsinn.bsky.social Thanks to everyone for a fab day and we'll see you all next month! 🎨Circe and her Swine, Briton Rivière
Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines is finally here! 😻The first seeds for this one were planted way back in lockdown, so it feels extra special being able to finally share it with everyone - huge thanks to @batsfordbooks.bsky.social for making it a reality!
With today’s #folklorethursday on legendary animal lore it seemed essential to share that there are a few stories about my fave folkloric+magical creatures and herbal recipes to help you work with them in my new book😊💚💫🌿📚Collected Curiosities www.botanicafabula.co.uk/collected-cu... mermaids anyone?
“In Scotland it has been an old belief that the otters have a king, of larger size than the rest of the species, and farther distinguished by having his coat streaked or varied with white…” —Robert Scott Fittis, Sports & Pastimes of Scotland (1891) #FolkloreThursday (& yesterday was #WorldOtterDay)
![[…] their sakes who are of my brotherhood." On the other hand, the "base vermin" has been regarded with far different feelings by the peasantry of a water-side. The Highland people affectionately call it caraid nam bochd, "the poor man's friend," because of its habit of eating no more than a bit from the back or shoulder of a salmon, and then leaving the fish lying on the bank, to be picked up by the first passer-by. In Scotland it has been an old belief that the otters have a king, of larger size than the rest of the species, and farther distinguished by having his coat streaked or varied with white. His skin, moreover, was thought to possess inestimable virtues to mankind. It was an antidote for infectious diseases: the Highlanders were anxious to line their targets with it to ensure victory in battle; and mariners valued it as an infallible preservation against shipwreck at sea. But, as we are told, "the otter-king is very rarely seen, and very hard to be killed;" and he is never killed without the sudden death of a man or an animal at the same moment!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vmd2oqboco524fhpqdu7pnbn/bafkreifttxghvgwfeqrqp3wx7rfgvlk4llqcrmojac6jpwxpsrlgck6e54)
Hello #FolkloreThursday and thank you to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last session! This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social for the next hour of animal folklore! Send us some critters 🦔🦎🐇 Img: The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Huge thanks for the last hour of fabulous #folklorethursday animal lore! This is @botanicafabula.bsky.social handing over to @mythcrafts.bsky.social who will lead you next. I best get off+try to find the Salmon of Knowledge~or at least eat some hazelnuts~in order to solve the next puzzle of my day!
I share one of my favourite sea buckthorn and nettle recipes for resilience in my forthcoming book Collected Curiosities www.botanicafabula.co.uk/collected-cu... #folklorethursday Incidentally Sea Buckthorn is now used to help with altitude sickness…surely a significant consideration for Pegasus!
FolkloreThursday@folklorethursday.bsky.social · 2mo agoGood morning #folklorethursday folks! Huge thanks to @willowwinsham.bsky.social for the last hour of folkloric fauna. This is @botanicafabula.bsky.social flying into the role as guest host fresh from spotting Sea Buckthorn (the favourite food of Pegasus) to share your animal-lore for the next hour!
Thanks for a great hour! @willowwinsham.bsky.social handing over to @botanicafabula.bsky.social for more folklore of the animal kingdom! #FolkloreThursday (🎨Goya - Witches Sabbath)
"The running of a hare along the street or mainway of a village, portends fire to some house in the immediate vicinity." Notes and Queries, 1851, Northants. #FolkloreThursday 🎨A Hare Running, with Ears Pricked - James Seymour
Huge thanks @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social! @willowwinsham.bsky.social here now for the next hour of folklore of the animal kingdom! #FolkloreThursday (🎨Joanna Lisoweic. Puss in Boots, from Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines by Willow Winsham)
My favourite bit of plant related creature lore:the tomato (Love Apple~Blackwell 1757) also known as ‘the wolf peach’ was avoided in C18th UK as some believed it was used by witches to turn their enemies into werewolves~{The Werewolf, Lucas Cranach the Elder1472-1553) #folklorethursday
Today has been all about Elderflowers~the beautiful tree not only traditionally shelters witches+harbors dryads but the flowers infused also regulate fevers In The Time Traveller’s herbal I share a traditional charm to recite on harvesting www.botanicafabula.co.uk/time-travell... #folklorethursday
