I am an herbalist and teach plant spirit work, and have long been interested in the traditional practices for working with medicinal plants not only in shamanically active cultures but in Europe, where shamnism has gone underground.

Do hope folks will keep this thread up.

There are a lot of folk traditions in the British Isles and elsewhere (my mother's people come from Hungary and I know they did it too) which involve singing songs to plants during harvesting, especially if they were to be used in a special way. Or songs sung while using plants or foods (apples for instance)while doing certain things, like divining the name of the person someone will marry. We think of them as kid's games now.

Unfortunately other obligations are keeping me busy, and I'm without my personal computer for a time, but I know there is lots of source material out there.

I think I remember a long time ago seeing articles in the Folklore Journal...