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Meadow Keep: Celebrating the History, Folklore and Superstitions of Herbs
Meadow Keep: Celebrating the History, Folklore and Superstitions of Herbs
Meadow Keep: Celebrating the History, Folklore and Superstitions of Herbs
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Meadow Keep: Celebrating the History, Folklore and Superstitions of Herbs

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MEADOW KEEP is a journey into the world of herbs that have nourished, cured, and delighted mankind for centuries.

Did you know that the Pied Piper of Hamelin actually lured the rats with dried valerian? His music was but a decoy.

Did you know that William Wallace used blue dye from the woad plant to make war paint for his men to wear into battle?

Queen Elizabeth of Hungary used rosemary water in her bath every day and it kept her young and beautiful. The King of Poland, a handsome man of 54 declared his undying love for her beauty and asked for her hand in marriage and she a woman of 72.

Llewelyn, Prince of Glamoran lived to be 108 years old by drinking lemon balm tea every morning.

You might want to make a trip to your garden center and pick up several rosemary and lemon balm plants and many of the other plants mentioned in this collection.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateOct 24, 2013
ISBN9781491822630
Meadow Keep: Celebrating the History, Folklore and Superstitions of Herbs
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Elizabeth C Burgess

Elizabeth Burgess taught primary school in Schweinfurt, Nuremburg, and Baumholder, Germany, and Yokosuka, Japan for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools. She visited primary schools in Germany, Japan, and Moscow, Russia. Burgess traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. She graduated from Appalachian State University and is a Writing Project Fellow from UNC–Pembroke, where she did graduate work. Burgess is the author of Prison Camp Road, A Day in Cascilla, The Twins’ Café, and the poetry anthology, “Meadowkeep”. This is her first children’s book. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International for key women educators during her teaching years. bettecarnesburgess999@yahoo.com

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    Meadow Keep - Elizabeth C Burgess

    B URNET

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    His mother, like other mothers

    sending their sons off

    to the Revolutionary War

    tucked a leather pouch of seeds

    and dried burnet leaves

    into his satchel with a tin cup.

    Each mother gave these instructions:

    " Son the night before you go into

    battle make a tea from a few

    dried leaves and seeds of burnet.

    It will slow the blood in your veins

    and if you are shot you will not

    bleed to death."

    As they marched from skirmish to

    skirmish the boys carried their muskets,

    satchels and pouches of burnet leaves

    believing their mothers tale

    of slowed blood.

    They believed even as their

    young blood soaked

    into the American soil

    and the burnet seeds

    took root where they fell.

    W OAD 1

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    When late spring came to the highlands

    of Iona the men sheared the reluctant sheep.

    The matted wool was cleaned and the women

    spun the wool into skeins of yarn.

    The village lasses were sent into the hills

    with their woolen sacks to collect the leaves

    of the woad plant.

    In the village the mothers poured water

    into the dye pots and added more peat

    to the fire. The lasses sang as they

    returned with the leaves and added them

    to the boiling water. The woad leaves

    would dye the yarn a beautiful indigo for

    their tartans, capes, tams and weskits.

    The eldest daughters would feed the wool

    through the woad water with large wooden

    paddles letting the color seep into

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