Bearheart again, just thought I'd suggest a book for your own field of work, which focuses upon European folkloric traditions pertaining to herbs and healing, which might be of possible interest to you? It's called 'Witchcraft Medicine - Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices and Forbidden Plants.' By: Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Christian Ratsch and Wolf-Dieter Storl. A fascinating scholarly read by a very eclectic group of specialist authors. It might possibly be a bit out of tangent with your own interests, and it's possibly too 'female' biased. But it's a wonderful poetic study of what we may think of as early European shamanic herbalism (diabolised into 'witchcraft'). I'll let the poor Mudcat return to folk music now... Be interesting to continue the conversation offlist if you fancy though, Cheers Rosie