Leechcraft: Early English Charms, Plant-Lore and Healing

by Stephen Pollington

Book Overview

A comprehensive and detailed examination of every aspect of the early English approach to illness and healing, including a full list of the plants used and the properties they contain. Other themes include witchcraft, magic and paganism and appendices present healing theories, amulets, causes of disease, charms, dreams, omens and tree-lore. Three key Old English texts are reproduced in full, accompanied by new translations: Bald's Third Leechbook,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1898281475
• ISBN13: 9781898281474
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Anglo-Saxon Books
• Length: 539 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.4"