Grimoire — By Category
Lore & History
Botanical history, folk tradition, and the long human relationship with the plant world. Essays on what was known, believed, and practiced across centuries.
4 entries
23 April 2026
Witch Gardens Through History: From Monasteries to Moonlight
From temple groves tended by priestesses of Hecate to hedgerow plots hidden from inquisitors, the witch garden has always been a living act of remembrance. A journey through sacred soil, poison plots, and the secret magic of cultivated green.
18 April 2026
The Cunning Folk
They did not call themselves witches. They called themselves cunning — from the Old English for to know. A history of the village healers who kept their notebooks in code and their knowledge alive through centuries of suppression.
14 March 2026
On the Doctrine of Signatures
For centuries, healers read the bodies of plants as a physician reads the body of a patient — shape, colour, and texture whispering their purpose to those who knew how to listen.
28 February 2026
The Poisoner's Garden
Some gardens are built for healing. Others were built as warnings. A tour of history's most deliberate collections of the deadly and the dangerous.