Wild Garlic: Folklore, Foraging, and Magic
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Welcome to “Wild Garlic: Folklore, Foraging, and Magic”
Join Story Crow on a journey through the enchanting world of wild garlic, where history, folklore, foraging, and magic intertwine.
In this captivating video filmed in an ancient British Woodland, we’ll delve into the rich tapestry of folklore surrounding wild garlic, exploring its mystical properties and cultural significance. Plant of healing. Plant of fertility. Plant of the underworld. Plant of banishment. From warding off evil spirits to bringing good luck, wild garlic has long been revered for its magical and sacred qualities.
Join us as we venture into the wilds to uncover the secrets of foraging for the native british garlic, known as 'Bear's Garlic, or Ramsons.
Learn the essential tips and techniques for identifying, harvesting, and utilising wild garlic in your culinary creations and magical practices.
Whether you’re a seasoned forager, a folklore enthusiast, or simply curious about the wonders of nature, this video is sure to inspire and delight.
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Wild Garlic. Rich in folklore - and tasty too! Cant get enough Ramsons this time of year.
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My grandparents are from Slovakia and lived most of their lives up in the Carpaithian mountains. They hung garlic above all doorways of our house to keep the vampires 🧛♂️ and evil spirits away 👻 ❤😊
@@Kim-J312 YES! Love this, thank you. The old ways live on 🧛 👻 👹
@@TheStoryCrow It's a Slavic/Slav thing ♥️ and great grandma 👵, never ever cut ✂️ her hair , long braids past her waist . I'm a real Bohemian ♥️👱♀️
I wish it was still called Bohemia…
I grow garlic all over my property. I absolutely love it. I also make medicine from it for the winter season.
We cannot truly appreciate folklore and myth and magic without plants. Truly they go hand in hand. Foraging itself is a magical working. Thank you so much for not neglecting it. Love to hear the folklore of the green kingdom.
Glad to hear it ☺️
I agree with your folklore/ forage philosophy 👍
Your dog looks wise and contemplative!❤
He’s a 1000 year old being
@@TheStoryCrow I believe that! Lol
Foraged a bit in Northwest Arkansas a few years back. The tiny little wild onions were my favorite thing to find there. The leaves, when dried and used as a spice, made everything it touched "savory ". There were also some good gourmet mushrooms and morels to be found in the old growth oak groves scattered everywhere in that region. Now I am in the Texas panhandle where the only thing really worth going after is the prickly pear cactus fruits, which I like to use in homemade ice cream. Watch out though, it will turn your tongue a nice royal shade of purple, but it's delicious and worth making.
Still, it sounds delicious 😋 🌵
Love this very much!
Never thought I'd watch and enjoy a vid on the Folklore of Garlic but here we are
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❤ fascinating 👏
Fascinating thanks
Thank you great video 😊
Thanks for watching!
Ha! We need to hear the badger story now!
All I’ll say is… protect the genitals! 😅
Garlic is so versatile! Love it. Like braiding common garlic stalks when they are freshly picked and have hung them above or near front door. Can also weave cut hair into the garlic braid to heal illness, protection, prosperity or even binding depending on what you wish to do. My mom gifted me a long braid of my hair when I finally cut my hair as a kid. Comes in handy😊
Love this! Thanks for sharing ☺️🙏🌱
Love the braiding idea, thanks for sharing that one! :D
I love wild garlic! I eat it almost every day for 3 months every year and make a years supply of garlic salt 😊
Ooooh. Garlic salt ☺️
foraging and folklore? instant like!
also nerd time:
bear garlic is also strongly rooted in slavic folklore, back in a day it was considered a very potent healing herb that gave the power of the bear to whomever consumed it often enough (sometimes it needed to be prepared by a wisewoman/herbalist to activate this power). it was also known as the 'witch's onion' and it was believed that it can ward off evil spirits called upiór/upyr (where the word vampire comes from) maybe that's where the notion that garlic in general works for vampires comes from?
Ahh, that’s really interesting - thank you 🙏
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Planning to go out and do some foraging for wild garlic this weekend. My grandma has demanded more wild garlic butter and pesto, so we've received our orders! It really is a wonderful plant, thank you for the video about it :)
Good luck foraging!
Very good - thanks
I find Wild Garlic in Northern Michigan were we share with Bears. That's why I never go in to the Woods without a bell on my boots in early Spring. Tell them where you are to give them a chance to protect little Bears.. Later in the Summer the Bears tend to be close to Blueberry patches around here.
Lucky to have bears where you are. Wearing a little bell. I love that.
Mind you, not sure wether I actually want bears in my woodland life. I like falling asleep in the forest and not worry about being eaten, except by midges 😂😂😂
@@TheStoryCrow 🤣🤣🤣 as long as you don't have a necklace of bacon dipped in maple sugar they let you sleep.
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Interesting....Garlic and Onion grew out of the Devil's footsteps as he was chased out of Paradise....
almost as if the plants rapidly spread themselves to ward off from their domain. Like the life force of the garden repelled. Cool lore. It's pretty inspiring.
Nicely stated 🌳🌱👹
I heard those Ramson flower heads, if picked when still unopened, are great pickled.
I don’t pickle enough, frankly
Lady crow is a doll. You're both amazing. Xx
Thank you ☺️
Anything ''Sativa'' [0:42] focuses my interest.
Yeah same lol
I love garlic... Now I have a reason to love it more!
🙏🙏🙏Thankyou for a fantastic video xxx
I love wild garlick. I shall go foraging now.
Do it!
@@TheStoryCrow I did it! Love it! Made a bean soup
Found some hairy garlic while weeding once.Pretty cool,apparently from warmer climates like the med.Likely planted from mixed flower bulbs.
Lots of regular wild garlic in my garden and a couple of places nearby.
Hadn’t heard of that, now I have, thanks!
💞 herb lore and foraging 👍
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Thank you once again for your great video xx
You are welcome Joan ☺️🙏
Love this! I'm an avid forager myself and always love to know more than just the surface propertiesof a plant. I have a 20x20 meter patch of this stuff in my backyard atm, it gets eaten a lot but keeps expanding by a about a meter every year. Have to be careful when gathering this with other people though, here it likes to intermingle with a stand of lilly of the valley.😅
Ahh lucky you. A no effort salad bed ☺️
Some very interesting corelations you're pointing out. It really sparks my interest in foraging. I ought to get into nature more and educate myself of the green. Thanks!
Pleasure. Happy hunting!
Fantastic, loads of this growing in my garden 😊
Great stuff it’s it. Make pesto. Do it!
@@TheStoryCrow I'm on that one, thank you 😊
They repel ticks and fleas and such like.. Little vampires lol 🙏
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Little disclaimer: please harvest for personal use only (only take what you need!) and never take the whole plant. I've seen some patches completely bare because of over-harvesting, it's sad.
Yes, well said, thanks for that.
I’m used to there being a carpet of the stuff - but even then, best to pick from here and there and sparingly
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🎩Hi. We have loads of ransoms growing by the canal where we live. Lovely stuff. If you roast the root/tuber of lords and lady’s it gets rid of the tingles and is like parsnip 😋
I didn’t know that, cheers!
🎩Hi. Was just getting coal in and noticed, Jack in the hedge right outside. It will go nicely with the dhal I’m going to make.
Oooh, the devils dhal. Sounds fit.
Garlic wards off evil but attracts the French, sounds like a mixed blessing to me. 🤔
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I'll take the evil 😂 Na I love garlic too much 🧄♥️
And isn't it rather odd that something said to have grown from the devils footsteps is so good for us?
I know, I wondered that. Folklore is a labyrinth 🤷🏼♀️😂
It's funny how connotations of both good and bad often run concurrently in legends,myths,and folklore.....
True that 😉
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Thankee, interesting. A wee bit o' technical feedback to do with what you will... Perhaps tis intentional but in the main shot where you're lying in amongst the wild garlic and in another recent vid I watched it was very noticeable... the shadows particularly look pushed hard into the green (and red to some degree) in the colour mixing giving a murky dark green wash across your face - or that's where it distracts. It is effecting the highlights too as the sky appears light green instead of grey or blue. Just thought to mention it as it slightly detracts to me anyway. It could be remedied by increasing the blue in the colour mix. Obviously the foliage is green but it looks to me like the colour AI on your camera is going a bit loopy there with the prevalence of green in the foliage and so losing the colour contrast elsewhere.
All zee best.
Ah thanks for that. I don’t really colour balance, but sometimes I smack a snazzy filter on, but maybe I should leave it as it is. Not much of a technical wizard over here. Just a regular plain old wizard. 😂
@@TheStoryCrow Aye, colour is an oft' overlooked module in the BTEC Nat. Dip. in Modern Wizardry. ...Yet one which pays dividends - took me nigh on 20 years before I dared venture out of black and white mind'.
Bärlauch, in german.
That Lily of the Valley is a Snowflake, related to Snowdrops. Probably still wise not to eat it, though...
Thanks for that 🙏☺️
I made ramps salt and pesto this spring which is in my freezer now. I made a stir fry with it as well but at this point the snails have shat all over it 🤮😒
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