Plants of life, plants of death
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Plants of life, plants of death
University of Wisconsin Press, c1998
- cloth
- pbk.
Available at 4 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 460-535) and index
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Description
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.
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