A Digital Grimoire
Salve is a very old word that exist in several Germanic languages. It derives from the old English sealfe (healing ointment), Old Saxon and High Germanic salba (ointment), and West Germanic salbo (oily substance). An excavation of the etymology of the Indo-European root of the word, selp (fat) and it’s connotations with Greek elpos (fat,…
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Herbs and aromatic oils have been used for cleaning and healing purposes since the dawn of human civilisation. Smell is one of our oldest and most potent senses. The olfactory nerves have receptors that send information directly to the limbic system – the oldest part of the brain which is linked to functions of the…
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Everyday Magic 