Gardening with Fairies

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February/March 2005
By Theresa Mieseler 
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Fairy Garden Herbs

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How to See the Fairies

Recently my long time friend and NASA research scientist, Rexford Talbert, gave me the following information from Eleanour Sinclair Rhode, author of A Garden of Herbs. We had a good laugh over this fairy tale tautology: To make the oil to see the fairies you have to know where the fairies are.

To enable one to see the Fairies: A pint of sallet oyle and put it into a vial glasse; and first wash it with rose-water and marygolde water; the flowers to be gathered towards the east. Wash it till the oyle becomes white, then put into the glasse, and then put thereto the budds of hollyhocke, the flowers of marygolde, the flowers or toppes of wild thyme, the budds of young hazle, and the thyme must be gathered neare the side of a hill where fairies use to be; and take the grasse of a fairy throne; then all these put into the oyle in the glasse and sette it to dissolve three dayes in the sunne and then keep it for thy use.

— “Receipt” dated 1600 

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