Category: BOOK

Ethnobotany and folk botanical knowledge in Slovenia

Folk medicine – from magical to experiential healing

Pagan witchcraft and belief in the supernatural

Experiential healing with medicinal plants

Knowledge of medicinal plants in the Middle Ages

Botanical knowledge in folk medical manuscripts

Folk healers and their practice in the 19th century

Folk medicine in the cultural heritage of Slovenia

The home pharmacy and plant-based medicinal preparations

Common plants in folk medicine

Poisonous plants in folk medicine

Plant emetics and abortifacients

Plants in folk veterinary medicine

Common plants used in the treatment of domestic animals

Plants in the customs and traditions of the life cycle

Plants in the customs and traditions of the annual cycle

Spring celebrations: vigorous growth and the power of life

Summer festivals: the power of midsummer plants

Autumn: harvest festivals and cults of fertility

Winter and the magical powers of evergreen plants

Church-blessed plants

Jernejevo – the plant gatherers’ day

Mythological and magical plants in folk tradition

The miraculous powers of mythological plants

Magical plants in folk superstition