1 Quotes by Gina Rae La Cerva
- Author Gina Rae La Cerva
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Most herbal knowledge was kept alive as folk medicine, handed down from mother to daughter, a kind of inheritance..But a woman in control of her own body was a dangerous thing, .. The wise women who continued to practice their art were considered witches. Between 1450 and 1750 in Europe and North America, an estimated thirty-five thousand to one hundred thousand people, most of them women, were accused of wildcrafting and put to death.
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