The Great Mandrake Robbery
Step right up for a wildly entertaining herbal caper! Join the Seed Sistas, Fi and Kaz, herbalists, witches, and botanical mischief-makers, as they uncover The Great Mandrake Robbery. Once revered as a sacred, screaming root of magic and medicine, Mandrake has been snatched from the people’s hands and locked away by modern legislation.
Through theatrixs, myth-busting, and a healthy dose of sass, the Seed Sistas tell the tale of Mandragora, from ancient tombs and Shakespearean drama to JK Rowling’s unfortunate cartoon baby. Discover how this infamous root once symbolized fertility, love, death, and transformation… and how it’s been silenced by the very systems meant to “protect” us.
Expect laughter, lore, and a dash of rebellion as the Seed SistAs revive Mandrake’s story, exposing the myths, celebrating the magic, and reclaiming the power of the plants.
Medicine. Magic. Mischief.
Speaker Bio
Mandrake is ready to rise again. Are you? Fiona Heckels and Kaz Goodweather, the Seed Sistas, are clinical herbalists, authors, and co-founders of Sensory Solutions Herbal Evolution CIC. With over 20 years’ experience, they blend herbal medicine, science, and a sprinkle of magic to reconnect people with plants. Authors of The Sensory Herbal Handbook, Poison Prescriptions , and The Sensory Herbal Oracle, their work features on BBC Sounds’ Witch and Ritually podcasts. Through their social enterprise, they offer accessible herbal education, community projects, and immersive online learning.Discover more at seedsistas.co.uk
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Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience.
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