Unguenti: Making Flying Ointment with Lisa Fazio

Saturday, June 6

1:00pm – 4:00pm

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$40 per person

Join us in making your own unguento! Based in the tradition of Italian Folk Medicine we will be discussing flying ointments and witches salves and how they were used as a means of herbal healing both medicinally and spiritually. Flying ointments have long been associated with witches and their infamous meetings at ritual sabbaths, in particular those that were held around the walnut tree in Benevento (La città delle streghe/The city of witches) in Southern Italy. Witches' salves or unguenti (italian for salves) were also used as a simple folk remedy to address a variety of ailments. We’ll discuss the herbs used in these and together make a “flying ointment” with Mugwort which is one of the most common plants used in these salves.  About our guide: Lisa Fazio is an Irish/Italian American folkloric witch, heretic, herbalist, astrologer, and the founder of “The Root Circle,” an educational center dedicated to revitalizing and promoting plant medicine as an integral component of healthy human community. Her primary focus is ancestral revival and remembrance within the Italian American diaspora. She practices the Folk Catholic and animistic traditions of her Italian ancestors who were the original people of Calabria; the Oneotrians and Brutti people, and Benevento; the Samnite people. She is a mother of 4 children and Nonna to 2 grandchildren. She is the author of “Della Medicina: The Traditions of Italian American Folk Healing”.

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