In Central Europe, the knowledge of "smoky herbs", which according to folk tales is said to have come from the "fairies and witches", has been preserved almost until the present day.

This tradition was lost for various reasons: the increasing persecutions against the "wise women" since the Reformation and the Renaissance destroyed many carriers of the folk medicine. At the same time, tobacco, which was actually imported from America, displaced many of the native plants. Sergius Golovin unites in this book four contributions from our immediate past: they introduce us to various scholars who saved from oblivion important facts of our folk culture in this field. 

From the contents: On the ethnology of the tobacco pipe / Karl Kiesewetter: From the witch botany / The smoke in European magic / H. Fühner: Solanazeenn als Berauschungsmittel. A historical-ethnological study. This book is supplemented with articles from "The Wise Women and their Beer" - From the traditions of the 15th-19th centuries.

Nachtschatten Publishing House

Edition 1.

Edition 2003

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