Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants (81 page)

Zuylen, Gabrielle van

1995
The Garden: Visions of Paradise
. London: Thames and Hudson.

About the Author

Claudia Müller-Ebeling
, Ph.D., is an art historian and anthropologist and coauthor, with Christian Rätsch, of
Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas, Witchcraft Medicine,
and
Pagan Christmas.
She lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Christian Rätsch
, Ph.D., is a world-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist who specializes in the shamanic uses of plants. He is the author of
Marijuana Medicine
and coauthor of
Plants of the Gods, Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas, Witchcraft Medicine,
and
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants.
He lives in Hamburg, Germany, and lectures around the world.

Wolf-Dieter Storl
, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has taught at Kent State University as well as in Vienna, Berne, and Benares. He is coauthor of
Witchcraft Medicine
and has written a number of books on indigenous culture and ethnobotany. He lives in Allgäu, Germany.

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Copyright © 1998 by AT Verlag, Aarau, Schweiz

English translation copyright © 2003 by Inner Traditions International

Originally published in German under the title
Hexenmedizin: Die Wiederentdeckung einer verbotenen Heilkunst—schamanische Traditionen in Europa

First U.S. edition published by Inner Traditions in 2003

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Müller-Ebeling, Claudia.

[Hexenmedizin. English]

Witchcraft medicine : healing arts, shamanic practices, and forbidden plants / Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Christian Rätsch, and Wolf-Dieter Storl ; translated by Annabel Lee.—1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

Translation of: Hexenmedizin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-59477-661-8

 1. Traditional medicine—Europe. 2. Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric—Europe. 3. Witchcraft—Europe. I. Rätsch, Christian, 1957- . II. Storl, Wolf-Dieter. III. Title.

GN477.M8513 2003

306.4'61—dc22

                                                                           2003016591