First and foremost, plants are the silent producers of oxygen, which is essential for all living beings, including humans, animals, and even some microorganisms. Through a magical process called photosynthesis, plants convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into glucose (food for the plant) an...
That said, plants clearly have their own thinking and feeling systems, many of which we have yet to understand. It begs the question, what is a vegan to do? If my cucumber can feel my bite, should I become a Breatharian? For now, vegans should probably continue to eat vegetables, but...
First I present the use of metaphors taken from the animal world in love songs belonging to the broader category of magical chants called anent. Then I review the uses of minerals, plants, animals (or their parts) in preparations of pusangas - love potions and magical objects. The review ...
When the clever Arab spice traders met the Europeans, they quickly recognized a lucrative atmosphere full of omens and witchcraft, ripe for harvesting. They used this foundation as an advertising platform−spreading traditional Arabic plant lore associated with their spices and raising the value of...
Themandrake plant (Mandragora officinarum)is claimed to cry when it is pulled out of the ground. The root of this plant can look like a human and stories about it crying have existed since agent times. There are also claims for magical andpharmaceutical uses of the root, and that hearing ...
Witches and apothecaries have been aware of the mysterious and magical properties of plants and flowers for centuries, using them for healing and magic spells. Plants have a personality and individuality, they go through phases and moods just like people, sometimes they are active, other times ina...
Furthermore this mod adds more than 180 different types of plants which itself is extra ordinary. In addition to that the number of plants is increasing with the passage of time. There is also the most notable Magical Brewing Cauldron. This is a rather complex way of getting potions (and ...
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It is important to stress that Matricaria recutita and Ruta graveolens are widely traded and used throughout South America and the Old World [19, 62, 124], because of their magical and medicinal qualities for the preparation of remedies used in therapies of soul and body. The five plant ...
In some cases, these healers affirmed they could 'beat' psychic ailments like being possessed and pathologies like the 'frights' because they amounted to something magical and so are curable 'magically' or with the help of the supernatural: "an ailment is curable magically provided that it invol...