“Give it rhythm, make it rhyme, they’ll remember every time.”

Do you like secret codes, ciphers and riddles? I do, too. And long ago, when common knowledge was banned and people who practiced natural medicine, especially with plants, were called witches and sorcerers and severely punished or executed, the common folk adopted a practice that is part of what is called “oral tradition”, in order to protect themselves and preserve and hand their knowledge down.

Witch’s Runes-The Nine Children of the Green is a two part e-book that offers an entertaining short story demonstrating the practice of oral tradition and a detailed explanation of the secret knowledge embedded in the little rhymes in the story. (an archaic meaning of the word “runes” is “an aphorism, poem, or saying with mystical meaning or for use in casting a spell” according to Dictionary.com.}

Available on Smashwords.com for $4.99

It may inspire you to create your own oral tradition to add a little fun to your herbal practice, or perhaps re-explore those stories and nursery rhymes from childhood to discover whether there are secrets buried within!