Herbal Folklore: Juniper by Guido Masé
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Juniper, these ground-hugging shrubs are common denizens of the temperate and arctic regions of the northern hemispheres, and are well-respected as practical, helpful trees in the Dolomites. Locals harvest the limbs and berries from high mountain crags, bringing them back to the villages and stables for protection, wealth and prosperity. Sit with Guido Masé as we explore the folklore of this aromatic botanical.
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This series is charming! A terrific storyteller!
Hi Kathy, Thank you so much for watching. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Sounds like you'll be happy to hear we have 3 more videos with Guido, each featuring a different herb. We'll be posting them every week on Sunday. Warmly, ~Melissa
I love these stories, please keep them up!
Hi MamaMittens, Thank you so much for watching. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Sounds like you'll be happy to hear we have 3 more videos with Guido, each featuring a different herb. We'll be posting them every week on Sunday. Warmly, ~Melissa
Che belle storie queste, thank you for posting.
Juniper is my Scottish clan plant 🙂
The efficacy of many folklore stories is very practical in many ways to the our health and that of our animals also. They are not just stories to entertain us.
Hi there, Thank you so much for watching. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Sounds like you'll be happy to hear we have 3 more videos with Guido, each featuring a different herb. We'll be posting them every week on Sunday. Warmly, ~Melissa
Just wanted to say, I absolutely loved the speaker and the setting for this video. It was so pleasant to watch, makes me want to check out more of your videos now! The story alongside the usage details was great. I hope to see more from y'all that are similar to this!
Hello Christina, Thank you so much for watching. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Sounds like you'll be happy to hear we have 3 more videos with Guido, each featuring a different herb. We'll be posting them every week on Sunday. Warmly, ~Melissa
love folklore. great stories.
Hi there, Thank you so much for watching. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Sounds like you'll be happy to hear we have 3 more videos with Guido, each featuring a different herb. We'll be posting them every week on Sunday. Warmly, ~Melissa
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I feel like a kid at story time! Love the stories! Thank you
Hi Tammy, Thank you so much for watching. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Sounds like you'll be happy to hear we have 3 more videos with Guido, each featuring a different herb. We'll be posting them every week on Sunday. Warmly, ~Melissa
I Love this series!
In love.
This was a really cosy and soothing video :) thanks for the story :)
Hi there, Thank you so much for watching. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Sounds like you'll be happy to hear we have 3 more videos with Guido, each featuring a different herb. We'll be posting them every week on Sunday. Warmly, ~Melissa
Thank you for the herbal chat
Hi Denise, Thank you so much for watching. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it. Stay tuned because we have 3 more videos with Guido, each featuring a different herb. Warmly, ~Melissa
Wait that's it? aww come on more please! encore! encore!
Amazing storyteller, I really enjoyed this keep up the great work Xx
Hi Luna, I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed it. Stay tuned because we have 3 more in this video series! We'll be posting them every Sunday, now Through Thanksgiving weekend. Take care! ~Melissa
Very interesting!
Hi Jenna, Thank you so much for watching. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Stay tuned because we have 3 more videos with Guido, each featuring a different herb. Warmly, ~Melissa
definitely need to get some juniper tea now
Thumbs up to that! ~Melissa
Wow
I use juniperberry oil on my beard🌲
We bet it smells amazing! ~Melissa
are they poisonous to humans, either raw or cooked?
Lovley story I like to write poems of flowers and herbs gathering inspiration from books and video like Mountain Rose Herbs. Flowers you gave(Garden of delight) Who can I compare you with? You are like unto the iris born from a generation of lily-white queens sheltered by the glassy tulip bells: like the Madonna dreaming of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. O! Ancient civilization in days of old; you called Lily your pure bride to be. Virgil did exalt you in a land of wonder. Where you were once free, where the red rose led the garden into a colourful dance. Every flower clapped and cheered. The marigold from Mexico sheltered under the barking willow tree awaiting your arrival. Don’t let him frighten you, said Daisy. No replied Lily, I am a tiger. But, you look nothing like one, with your fanning fragrance sweet perfume. You daffodil chasing nymph, I saw you running through golden fields. There were yellow, blue and green wild pansies; sweet as gentle lamb, with eyes bright and white like the snowdrops bowing their pretty heads. They gazed up shyly, fearful of the crimson carnation flourishing brilliance.
Then what can be? The lark asked. We will sing - a sweet- receding violet song. Purple today like a month in May concealed in box wood bush. Autumn dusk followed by and by with morning dew drops unfolding like ripples in the cerulean skies. Shakespearean light; demand I this of the night, a generation of broken dreams, sparkling like springs, where hidden nests are revealed. Frosted bare branches glisten silver silhouetting under the moonlight shadows. The branches cried out, Bavaria! Bavaria! Dark days gloom. But once again fiery blue is lightening up the sky. A snow-white swan takes flight, an angel, reminder of the Christmas song. That you sang.
Kindle then, not thy flame in youth for want of bounty and not love. Changing from yellow to gold, not liken unto the turtledove. In remembrance the purple rhododendron evergreen leaves spoke softly of a love once lived now passed. Azaleas for a grave melt away the heart.
May Philo watch over you! Phoebus bright, covered with Phyllis foliage leaves, you were doomed from the beginning until the end of time. This our tender night is then like everlasting lilac wine, with heart shaped rich green leaves, and petals like falling stars. Let this be exotic perfume at your door: Ficus plants, and climbing cherry blossom. Nymphs play musing music on their harp and lyre, to lull you near. Like a spider to her gossamer spiders’ web: And the weather? Jasmine enquired. Levantine, Levant, levanter, replied Lavender, Pray do stay, tarry awhile, I will make an end of it.
O! Orpheus where for art thou? Eurydice awaits you, woo her if you can. The catkins smell soft. Look unto the hazel tree. But do you remember catty? So jealous was she flaming by the hearth. Plunge down into the river Styx, was it there Hermes said she was? Charm Charon, let the old man ferry you across. Eurydice’s kind tender floral heart bleeds streams of hidden dreams for you. Be like two angels, immortalised carved with petals and leaves in dead oak. Night blowing cereus glowing gold-white shrines shines softly in the ghostly moonlight. Cerberus, dear pet be mused, stay awhile you drank no Lethe-water in hell. Your memories came floating down like the sweetest elderberry wine. But, go Orpheus - to a monastery, where young men succumb to your learning. Be for them a bumblebees haven feeding on microscopic drops of nectar. Snowberry clustered fruit glistening berries frost-white flowers fruits in plenty for the pheasant.
But what of Eurydice, a rosette of swords strike into the perfumed air and pierced her heart, where a yucca pale jet of blossom flowers and gliding aspidistra, become an eternal shrine, and softly sparkling diamonds melt into the moonlight. There was no rest for her, her jealousy inflamed became one with her maenads that once were nymphs and devotees of Dionysus.
And so, Orpheus was hacked to pieces. Thy mother buried thee at Libethra, at the mount of Olympus where the nightingales sing so sweetly. And princes dance in a cluster of stars. Dionysus anger appeased, Apollo hung Orpheus’s lyre as a starry-constellation, and Lesbos, is since ever blessed with music wine and poetry sang by the dancing princess’ in the gentle night sky. Hyacinth girls, wear a garland of flowers for thy crowns, and feast in Genzano. Carpet her long ascending streets in blue petals, green leaves. And dark-red-roses, yellow petals sunset jewels: Heliotrope for the sun firmly placed like precious stones for everyone to come. Star like flowers dancing in June. Joseph, mother Mary and child, walk this street so tender, meek and mild.
Wow, I"m blown away! Correct me if I'm wrong, but your beautiful poem is also a true sonnet, correct? Beautiful! You made my morning! ~Melissa
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Which species of juniper to take?
Hey Pablo! We carry Juniperus communis. I hope that helps!