Astrological and magical significance of herbs, shrubs, fruit and trees. Aconite, sweet flag, cinquefoil and thornapple. An innocent enough list. But combined with hemlock and deadly nightshade, this bunch of common herbs becomes and essential part of a sinister recipe - for the infamous flying ointment of the witches.Poisons, potions, love philtres and drugs; secret pagan rituals and the Christian mysteries. There is no part of the magical and religious life of man in which the secret powers of herbs have not played a part - for good, or evil.The fascinating secrets of the fields and hedgerows are laid here open in a unique and authoritative history.
