![]() ![]() Over the past twelve years her herbal storytelling has taken her on an incredible journey, she has woven words for Chelsea Physic Garden in London, taken Scottish folklore and regional plant use and legends to the National Museum of Rural Life and the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, created new fairy tales to share the experiences of staff and patients at a The Crichton, a former mental hospital and shared historical secrets concealed within stories at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow. ![]() It leads participants through a tangled world of fairy tales, folklore, magic, social history and herbal remedies using storytelling techniques to explore tastes, look at traditional remedies and share stories… do you dare join us?Īmanda Edmiston ‘A dyed in the wool storyteller’, former student of herbal medicine: Amanda Edmiston (Botanica Fabula), comes from a long line of storytellers, plant people, writers and artists. ![]() Join herbal storyteller Amanda Edmiston (Botanica fabula) as we travel back in time and dust off the dark green bottles in this piece, inspired by the work done towards the end of the Scottish witch trials by the first woman to publish a herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell. Many herbal stories shed light on benevolent remedies, but what lurks at the back of the Apothecary’s cabinet? Tales from the back of the Apothecary’s CabinetĪ look into the dark recesses of The Very Curious Herbal! ![]()
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