Comments on: The Nine Herbs Charm https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alice Wilde https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/#comment-1530486 Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:51:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166373#comment-1530486 Yes Imogen I think it was Wood Betony too. Also known as Hedgerow Nettle and Self-heal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betonica_officinalis

I also think the ‘Stune’ is a land cress not watercress. Known as Hairy Bittercress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamine_hirsuta

]]> By: Imogen Oakes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/#comment-1530361 Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:30:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166373#comment-1530361 Hello! I’ve been researching the herbs in this charm and this post has been indispensable. Is it possible that the betony’s Latin binomial would instead be stachys officinalis as that is wood betony, rather than the stated stachys annua which is yellow woundwort?

]]> By: Blackthorn https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/#comment-1465808 Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:21:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166373#comment-1465808 Nice information

]]> By: Fabricio Zárate https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/#comment-1363892 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:38:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166373#comment-1363892 So, in a wonderful video by Leonerde Eald Englisc that explains why the translation: “set and sent [them] into seven worlds” it’s wrong.

The text in old English is “sette and sænde on VII worulde”. The word “worulde” is in the dative case, indicating that it is the object recieveng the action, sette and saende (set and send).

According to OE grammar, the plural form of the accusative for woruld is “woruldum”, and the singular “worulde”.

So, to summarize, the text talks about seven herbs set and sent “in seven to the world”, not “in seven worlds”.

]]> By: Angela https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/#comment-1356376 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:11:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166373#comment-1356376 I caught the part where they say to put it with soap. I wish my mother were alive to help explain it to me better, because she used to put a poultice of mustard sugar/honey and felsnappa soap on splinters that were deep. She was part indian so I wonder if there were some ties with the english. pretty amazing.

]]> By: Walter Braun https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/#comment-1210575 Mon, 28 May 2018 12:32:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166373#comment-1210575 VERY NICE!
Yours must be one of the best blogs in the world –
Thank you!

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/#comment-1208462 Tue, 15 May 2018 10:15:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166373#comment-1208462 Wow! They were keen on fighting venom. Excellent illustrations and rendering of Old English. I could recognise ‘heaven’ and ‘this’, which began with the old rune for thorn. I love how the verb ‘is’ has survived intact from Anglo-Saxon till now.

Sorry I can’t attend the exhibition.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/#comment-1208453 Tue, 15 May 2018 09:39:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166373#comment-1208453 In the past year, I came upon the new-to-me term, “still room book” and was captivated. (Let’s face it, any phrase with “book” pulls me right in…….) I was fascinated by the back story of these
unique books, created over time, and always “kept” with the house. (from grand houses to
cottages) Salves, medicinal potions, recipes, etc — All were recorded for posterity in these
books. As I read through the words above, I could imagine them being inscribed in a still room
book, perhaps accompanied by milady’s water color drawings of the herb cuttings.

Your postings always take me back, and back, and back. Thanks for the journey.

]]> By: Anna https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/#comment-1208438 Tue, 15 May 2018 06:49:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166373#comment-1208438 I am an (amateur) herbalist, I use almost all of the 9 in teas and salves, powerful little plants! I loved this, and the poetry, the plants provide a deep connection to the Earth and the past.
thank you!

]]> By: Shawdian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/15/the-nine-herbs-charm/#comment-1208432 Tue, 15 May 2018 05:29:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166373#comment-1208432 I grow lots of different herbs for all kinds of uses cooking, medicinal etc. some just because the herbs look nice and they make good models for my watercolour paintings. Odd that yesterday I had just found your ‘Last Bomsite in the City of London, Algate, with the intentions of reading that today. Beautiful piece thank you.

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