Amanda Edmiston, Botanica Fabula

… @botanicafabula.bsky.social entices us into The Scots Kitchen to explore the legacy of Florence Marian McNeill’s classic cookbook in “Dreaming Bread and Flourishing Folklore” … #folklore #food www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/drea...

That's the end of another epic #FolkloreThursday 🐉 Today's equinox-worthy theme was "Autumn Folklore” 🍂 This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off! Wishing you the best of luck with your Halloween preparations 🎃 1906 Ivar Arosenius

Gathering beech mast is for my workshop at Allen valley folk festival this coming Sunday where we’ll be looking at tree lore and creating a giant beech mast poem in this beautiful clearing said to have inspired W.H.Auden and been used by John Wesley to share his beliefs💫🍂 #folklorethursday

Hello #Folklorethursday and thank you @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last session. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social offering you a virtual cup of mulled wine as we toast to the stories of the harvest season. Img: The Autumn by Alphonse Mucha

Thanks for the rich harvest of Autumn-lore over the past hour, this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social handing over the #folklorethursday mantle to the magical @mythcrafts.bsky.social who will take you up to the break🍂 I'm now off to gather beech mast!

Houseleeks on the roof to protect from lightning, horseshoe to protect and hold good luck, all the ancient tricks come to play as the grain arrived to be milled…has this all been lost in the last 60 years or are the fragments still there amongst modern farming monoculture? #folklorethursday

The Scottish heritage:bloody ploughman apples are ready to pluck at Culross palace garden~the story goes they first grew from seeds found in the pocket of a ploughman killed for scrumping at Megginch estate in Kinross~ I share the story in my latest book Collected Curiosities #folklorethursday

THE MOWING DEVIL or 'Strange News out of Hartford-shire'. An English woodcut pamphlet from 1678 that narrates a tale of Satan mowing a field in Hertfordshire. The images of reaping & gleaning are reminiscent of #harvest folklore; also cited as an early example of a crop circle #FolkloreThursday

Hello #folklorethursday friends~huge thanks to @willowwinsham.bsky.social for the last hour of magical Autumn lore~this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social flying in from checking on the turnips in the garden(will they be ready for Hallowe'en?✨)here to guest host 'til 12~pic 1893 Bliss seed catalogue

Thanks everyone! @willowwinsham.bsky.social handing over to @botanicafabula.bsky.social now for the next hour of autumn and fall #FolkloreThursday!

After catching an interview on the radio about the World Conker Championships and the current conker crisis, I’ve fallen down a very fascinating rabbit hole - anyone attending this year? #FolkloreThursday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An old Southern graveyard warning for autumn: never plant a red cedar in your yard. Folk belief warns that once its branches grow tall enough to shade your grave, your time is up. Cedar was planted only in cemeteries to keep restless spirits tethered to the soil. #FolkloreThursday 📸= in ALT

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!

This weeks blog post is all about historical herbalism courtesy of the wonderful Amanda Edmison. heathenpilgrim.substack.com/p/stepping-i...

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

#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

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...

#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)

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!

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

Looking forward to being back guest hosting #folklorethursday tomorrow…my session is from 11 til 12 get your plant infused animal lore ready!

Join the inspiring and magical Amanda Edmiston, Botanica Fabula: herbal storyteller for an evening of stories, herbal remedies and an insight into her family history. 💚 Wednesday 6th May, 7pm via Zoom. Tickets: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail... @botanicafabula.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/theherbo... Wow🥰what can I say thank you SO much, what a beautiful review, I’m SO glad you liked it 💚💫🌿🧚🏽