Monographs

Everyone knows the hazel tree — children, young men, but especially shepherds and woodcutters, who use its smooth and bright branches to make all kinds of flutes and pipes.

As much loved as it is feared, the elder (Sambucus nigra) has deep roots both in history and in the magical imagination of European peoples.

From the Neolithic to the present day, wheat has been humankind’s staple food. It is only natural, then, that a multitude of cultural aspects became interwoven around it, endowing it with sacred symbolism.

The morning air seeps through the cracks in the clay walls; the silence begins to be broken by the faint barking of a dog in the distance, while your body still aches from yesterday’s haymaking.