Leechcraft Early English Charms, Plantlore and Healing

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. 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, the Lacnunga Manuscript, and The Old English Herbarium Manuscript 5. This is a fascinating work of reference, packed full of information and interesting details.Pollington, Stephen is the author of 'Leechcraft Early English Charms, Plantlore and Healing' with ISBN 9781898281238 and ISBN 1898281238.