Author | : Frederick J. Simoons |
File Size | : 44,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 20 May 1998 |
ISBN | : 0299159043 |
Pages | : 596 pages |
Plants of Life Plants of Death by Frederick J. Simoons Book PDF Summary
This study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine.