I hope that everyone had a lovely Samhain (Halloween) and that you and your ancestors were well fetted and fed.
The big news this Moonth is the re-release of my very first book TREE MEDICINE TREE MAGIC. The new publisher is Pendraig, out of California. This is a beautifully color illustrated expanded version with many new tree recipes and drinks to make from trees. I have longed for this book to be back in print and here it finally is!
You can purchase a signed copy from me via this website http://www.elleneverthopman.com or find it in the usual places. The search engines can’t seem to find it quite yet so I am including the Amazon link.
MORE BOOK NEWS
- A dramatic reading from Priestess of the Forest
- I got a little bit of press from speaking at “Celebrate Samhain” in Nashua, NH
Photo by Dean Shalhoup – Nashua Telegraph - A Rare Recorded Interview with JRR Tolkien
- Native American Sacred Sites in western Massachusetts (video)
- Meanwhile, a major pipeline in Canada has been cancelled. It can and should happen in the USA too!
- Beltaine blossoms tour – An herbal tour of Ireland!
- Are you descended from an accused Scottish witch? A new digital archive is available.
More…
And More… - Listen to me teach a class
This recording will be available until January 14, 2018 in case anyone wants to hear what I sound like when teaching herbalism!
The book I reference is “Secret Medicines from Your Garden”.
Below is the usual month’s roundup of archeology, nature, religion, politics and ethics news. *Reminder – you can order a book from this website www.elleneverthopman.com and get a signed copy with a personal note – a nice gift idea for Yule!* Enjoy!
ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS
- Reconstructed face of a 3000 year old European woman found in China (video)
- Listen to the Epic of Gilgamesh read in the original Akkadian
- A 4000 year old ear stud found in Lincoln, UK
- Looting threatens to erase Mongolian history
- Food and feasting at Stonehenge (video)
- A 2000 year old Roman ship found in the Black Sea
- Cypriot copper Bronze Age axes found in Sweden
- Bronze Age tablets found in Kurdistan
- An astrolabe from Vasco da Gamma’s fleet is found under water
More… - The history of Rome in 20 minutes
- The last Celtic coin from the largest hoard ever found is removed
- Europe’s oldest battlefield yields evidence
- An ancient theater found in Thouria
- How lead poisoning affected the Roman Empire
- Listen to a song from 500 AD
- A remnant of Caligula’s ship, once used as a coffee table, heads back to Italy
- Hundreds of stone structures found in Saudi Arabia using Google Earth
- The Centurion in the Roman Legion (video)
- Ancient Greek acoustics not what once thought
- Listen to an Orphic hymn to Dionysus (video)
- Temple of Ramses II found in Giza
- Viking funeral customs (video)
- Hurricane Ophelia unearths an Iron Age body
- An ancient Greek city on the Black Sea
- The face of a 4,500 year old Peruvian woman
- The reconstructed face of an ancient Peruvian ruler
- Roman theater found at Jerusalem’s western wall
- Feasting at Neolithic Stonehenge
More about what they ate at Stonehenge - How much beer did 16th century Irish drink while at work?
- American farmers domesticated wild rice 5000 years ago
- Egyptians and Vikings loved their cats
- Stonehenge free access path now open
- How silver became Scotland’s precious metal of choice
- The ancient Irish bee laws (Bechbretha)
- The oldest known paved road is in Iberia
- How Medieval people walked (video)
- Evidence for a 5th century Swedish massacre
- 10th century iron objects found hidden in an oven
- Ice Age art
- Caherconnel, an Irish ring fort (video)
- A massive Bronze Age site in the Middle East
- Who were the Picts? (video)
- Prehistoric sites in the Cheviot Hills (video)
- An Iron Age dun is being excavated in Scotland
- Memsie round cairn (video)
- Why did Greenland’s Vikings vanish?
- Possibly the grave of Saint Nicholas (progenitor of Santa Claus)
- 2000 year old Hellenistic children’s toys from graves in Parion
- A Hellenistic sanctuary found in Tyre
- New finds from an ancient Greek ship wreck
More… - 13,000 year old, pre-Ice Age human bones from Mexico
- Gargoyles as works of art
- New finds at Caithness Brochs
- The Epic of Gilgamesh in animation
- 12 Byzantine rulers (video)
- A Medieval Norse meeting site may have been found in the Highlands
- Ancient stone structures found in New England
- Training in the Roman Legions (video)
- A new section of Hadrian’s Wall found in Newcastle
- What kind or armor did Medieval women actually wear?
- Stonehenge and Trumpian news manipulation
- Did the Irish reach the New World before Columbus?
- The temple of Isis at Philae
HERB NEWS
- Sideritis or Ironwort, Mountain tea, Shepherd’s tea
- Forage for wild violets
- Violas
- How to grow and use Calendula
- How to dry and store rose hips
- Make fermented apple ginger beer
- Herbs for the male libido
- Herbs to dispel negative energies
- Solomon’s Seal for joints, bones and more
- Magical Herbalism: High John, Low John and Southern John root
- How to figure out the best herbal remedies
- Shade tolerant herbs
- A 1000 year old herbal is now available on line
- Grow herbs and vegetables aquaponically
- Dandelion chickory root coffee
- Chickweed
HEALTH NEWS
- Monsanto papers reveal the company has covered up cancer concerns about RoundUp
- Humans are now excreting RoundUp in their urine
- How to de-toxify your body from RoundUp using herbs and vegetables and probiotics
- New findings on why Lyme spirochetes resist antibiotics
- Families who are true blue bloods
- Trump’s terrible executive order on health care makes it easier for con men to sell insurance
- Las Vegas shooter was prescribed Valium, which causes aggression in some
- Wildlife photographer of the year awards (and pictures)
- Victorian women and syphillis
- The health effects of chronic sleep deprivation
- A warning for Pug owners about Puguccino themed cafes (yes, that’s a thing)
- DNA surgery (gene editing) is a cure for diseases caused by mutations
- Did the Medieval love of squirrel fur and meat lead to the spread of leprosy?
NATURE AND CLIMATE NEWS
- Earliest bird capable of bounding flight
- Shrews shrink their brains to get through the winter
- Stephen Hawkings 1966 PHd thesis now available on line
- First interstellar object identified and coming our way
- 3/4 of flying insects in Germany have disappeared – ecological Armageddon looms
- The culture and social lives of cetaceans
- Lava tube/cave found on the Moon that could be a base for Lunar colonizers
- When neutron stars collide and where gold and platinum come from
- Yellowstone super volcano may erupt sooner than thought
- Good news. The native Irish honeybee is not extinct after all
- Trump administration to replace Clean Power Plan with ‘dirty power plan’
- Gravitational waves discovered at last (video)
- Is the theory of Dark Matter completely wrong?
- How extinct marine creatures lived and ate
- Wild born California Condors hatch a chick for the first time since 1985
- Why Tartigrades will inherit the Earth
RELIGION NEWS
- Psalm 53 sung in Aramaic for Pope Francis
- Sacred wells in Ireland
- Washington, D.C. the City of the Goddess (video)
- The origins of Halloween
- Pagan Gods (video)
CELTIC NEWS
- Samhain’s origins
More… - The White Mare at Samhain
- Cauldrons and flesh hooks at Samhain
- Halloween in Irish folklore
- Death customs in Killanne, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
- The ancestral Otherworld
- The art of traditional storytelling
FAIRY NEWS
POLITICS AND ETHICS
- The 25th Amendment and how to remove a president from office
- Trump demands Facebook account info of anti-Trump activists
- Gun sales booming, Trump signs bill to nullify ban on mentally ill buying guns
- Why Australians think USA gun laws are nuts
- The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery
- The end of the American empire
- Gun ignorant Liberals and their clumsy attempts at gun laws
- Most Americans want stricter gun controls (poll taken before the Las Vegas massacre)
- 93 Americans die by a gun every single day on average, most are suicides
- The research is clear – more guns = more gun deaths
More… - The drums of war are sounding in North Korea
- Trump is “unraveling” according to those who know him best
- Trump and nukes – why you should be terrified
- The one area where Trump has been wildly successful
- The Christian Right presidency
- America has six political parties – can you name them?
- Republicans just voted to give lawsuit immunity to banks
- Why we fight Nazis (amazing that this needs to be said in the USA)
- Harvard study on racism in America, discrimination
- We need to go back to the 91% tax rate for the rich