Book ID: 73863
Simoons, Frederick J.
Plants of Life, Plants of Death. 1998. 12 figs. 1 map. 568 p. Paper bd.
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 details from history,ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany, andmedicine.