Guid Crack: Near Beltane's Eve with Amanda Edmiston

Join herbal storyteller Amanda Edmiston (Botanica Fabula) for an evening 'Near Beltane's Eve', a reworking of the legends of the marriage of the May Queen and the Green Man, drawing on the plant, fire and faerie filled stories that grow through the folklore surrounding this season.

Do you dare loiter under the Hawthorn tree?Another fun and friendly session of Edinburgh’s monthly storytelling club held upstairs in the Waverley Bar, with the usual open-floor section for anyone to share a story, song or poem around the theme or otherwise.~~~~~Writer and profession herbal storyteller with a background in herbal medicine, Amanda Edmiston takes people into other worlds through her stories, redolent with layers of history, lore, and the oft-forgotten wisdom of the natural environment.

Immersion into one of Amanda's stories involves all the senses and reveals facts that threaten to drift from the everyday consciousness.