Under the Dragon Root
Authored by: Corinne Boyer
Published by: Troy Books
Under the Dragon Root is the final offering in a trilogy by Corinne Boyer. This long awaited book brings twenty plants from the Witches’ Garden into the light, along with their accumulated folklore, folk medicine and historical magical uses, particularly from the past three hundred years out of North Western Europe, though some information is much older.
This book brings together folklore and uses of the plants in an inspiring and yet engaging manner. The plants are organized by season similar to the other books, with the authors own wisdom and personal recipes included at the end of each chapter. Under the Dragon Root has copious footnotes and is exhaustively researched, including source material from fields such as history of pharmacy, grimoire magic, traditional witchcraft, folklore collections from the Victorian era, divinatory methodology and Swedish folk magic.
This book brings together much rare and little known plant lore, with a particular focus on the poisonous plants typically associated with witches, demons and spirits. Corinne has chosen her favorite twenty garden plants including: wormwood, valerian, poppy, autumn crocus, mushrooms, mandrake, bay laurel, daphne mezeron, hellebore, periwinkle, henbane, angelica, lily of the valley, rue, ferns, vervain, belladonna, aconite, foxglove and thorn apple. Corinne has been working with plants and herbalism since 1999 and has been teaching and writing full time since 2010.
There are six appendices that offer detailed instructions and include topics such as the graveyard apothecary, making a root spiritus, making plant charms and powders, and working closely with poisonous plants.
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Paperback Edition
Publication date: 2024.
Original price: £21.50
Contributors
Photography: Claude Mahmood.
Cover Art: Peter Köhler.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm.
Page count: 360 pages.
Illustrative content: B&W. Contains twenty original Medieval woodcuts of the plants.
Binding
Binding: Gloss with cover.
Hardback Edition
Publication date: 2024.
Original price: £35.50
Contributors
Photography: Claude Mahmood.
Cover art: Peter Köhler.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm.
Page count: 360 pages.
Illustrative content: B&W. Contains twenty original Medieval woodcuts of the plants.
Binding
Binding: Brown case binding with copper foil blocking to the front and spine. Green endpapers. Green head and tail bands.
Paper: Printed on 80gsm white paper.
Special Edition
Publication date: 2024.
Original price: £41.50
Copies printed: Limited to 250 copies.
Contributors
Photography: Claude Mahmood.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm.
Page count: 360 pages.
Illustrative content: B&W. Contains twenty original Medieval woodcuts of the plants.
Other: Hand-numbered.
Binding
Binding: Dark Green cloth with copper foil blocking to the front and spine. Brown end papers. Green head and tail bands.
Paper: Printed on 80gsm white paper.
