Cailleachs Herbarium
Exploring Scottish Folk Practices and Traditions
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Tallow Rendering – for Cooking, Salves and Enfleurage
Before modern nut and seed oils – expressed by expensive machinery, chemically fractured plant products or petroleum-based products imported into the UK – our ancestors used animals fats rendering tallow from cow and deer tallow and pig lard – to…
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Straw craft , Wheat Weaving, Corn Dollies and Kern Idols
It’s nearing that time of year again. The wheat, rye and barley are almost ripe and the Raspberries and Bilberries are coming out in force. Poppies dot red the yellowing seas of grain. It’s nearing Lunastal and folks are readying to take in…
Spin the wheel and seal your fate – Spinning and weaving in folk magic practice
Island Spinning Song Hullamackadoo, hooravahee Hoorovahinda, hoorovahinda, Hullamackadoo, hooravahee, O dicko-o-deck-o-dandy When will someone come to me? Will he come by land or sea Will he my own lover be? O, tell me truly, wheel. Wheel o’ fate what is’t…