wortlore
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
wortlore (uncountable)
- The traditional knowledge of the medicinal and nutritional use of plants, herbs, and worts.
- 2012, Henry A. Bright, A Year in a Lancashire Garden - Page 6:
- They will come up each year from between the Rhododendrons, and will send their sweet subtle odour through the open windows into the house. And as I write I am told of a recipe showing how, in the Wortlore of old, the firm white petals were esteemed of use.
- 2013, Suzanne Ruthven, Melusine Draco, Shaman Pathways - Black Horse, White Horse:
- This may often have been the case in many instances of horse whispering tricks, but the interview with former race-horse trainer, Paul Harriss, for Alphard magazine reveals that there is more to the true whisperer than mere tricks and wortlore: [...]