“What set tea apart, though, was its intimacy,” writes Erick DuPree. “Astrology required training and calculation; alchemy demanded secrecy, resources, and years of study. Tea-leaf reading needed only a pot, a cup, and an attentive eye.”
Arts & Culture
The Festival of Pomona
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Siobhan Ball celebrates the end of apple season with the myths and folklore surrounding Pomona, the Roman goddess of apples, and includes a frustrating but authentic recipe for a Minutal of Fruit from Apicius, the ancient Roman gourmand.
Europe
Get your blackberries before the Púca does!
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Siobhan Ball introduces TWH’s readers to the folklore of the blackberry – including why you need to eat them before the Faerie Folk claim them for their own – and also offers a delicious recipe for a blackberry and apple crumble.
Culture
Banish demons and slay your enemies… with parsley
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Whatever you think of the taste and its position in the culinary hierarchy, parsley’s role in folklore and magic is significantly more dramatic, bringing together life, death, love, and demons like the very best of operatic metal albums.
Culture
Recipes to celebrate the Sun: strawberries, milk, and walnuts
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There’s something about the solstices that seems to connect with a deep, fundamental part of the human psyche. The solstice is a moment where the world seems to hold its breath, the sun hung motionless overhead or hidden below the horizon, before it dives across the threshold of one side of the year to the other: light to dark and dark to light.