Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-173) and index.
Contents:
Shadows of works and days: A revised history of cereals, legumes, and their pathogens from Neolithic through premodern Europe. -- Deep time of the cunning women: Origins, evolution, and exploitation of ethnobotany in Europe and the Mediterranean. -- Mare's eggs and thorn-apples: Potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, maize, and other American plants in European folktales and other folkways. -- Kitchen witches: Facts, folklore and fakelore on the transfiguration of the herb-women. -- Vestiges of vanished Gods: Plants and agriculture in the calendars and customs of Northwest Europe.
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