Bruce Burnett

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Angelica

One competing legend about angelica claims that a monk named the herb during the Black Death after an angel appeared and showed him that it could cure the plague. Another maintains the herb is named after St. Michael the Archangel because it blooms on the saint’s feast day, May 8th. n Angelica has a longstanding reputation as a protector against evil. In Medieval Europe, peasant children wore angelica leaf necklaces to protect them from illness and witchcraft. The herb

April 18, 2008