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<\/p>\nI often use dried plant parts in my work. Typically the plants must have some interesting tactile quality, be toxic, and have a cultural myth or superstition. I was looking through a stash of dried plant parts and found some Haworthia limifolia leaves. They have great texture with sharp and pointy tips.<\/p>\n
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I googled Haworthia limifolia looking for information. I was a bit disappointed that the plant isn\u2019t toxic. Apparently it is often used in place of Aloe for skin ailments. I did find a line that popped up in several articles, \u201cHaworthia limifolia is often used by traditional healers as a spiritual remedy to ward off evil.\u201d Curious. What kind of evil?<\/p>\n
I have a contact at the UC Botanical Garden<\/a> so I sent him an email inquiry about the plant. The plant is one that he gave to me several years back. He sent me a pdf of an article that I hadn\u2019t read, Lightning Birds and Thunder Trees<\/a><\/i> authored by Adrian Koopman. The article states that Haworthia is used as a charm to protect against lightning.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t see much in the way of lightning where I live. Before reading about the plant\u2019s reference to lightning, I had already bound the bits to a piece of hardware cloth to become part of a lid. My work must have the appearance of a life lived, so I age<\/i> the work using one or more techniques\u2013wax, heat, fire, salt, molten sugar, chemicals\u2026 and sometimes I bury the work.<\/p>\n The Haworthia bits are bound to the hardware cloth with cotton and bamboo fiber which works great with all of the techniques.<\/p>\n A few lightning information links\u2013<\/p>\n S.A. Weather and Disaster Information Service, South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n Global Hydrology and Climate Center<\/a><\/p>\n StruckbyLightning.org<\/a><\/p>\n Mortality Statistics\u2013Victim of lightning by country<\/a><\/p>\n NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory<\/a><\/p>\n I often use dried plant parts in my work. Typically the plants must have some interesting tactile quality, be toxic, and have a cultural myth or superstition. I was looking through a stash of dried plant parts and found some Haworthia limifolia leaves. They have great texture with sharp and pointy tips. I googled Haworthia … Continue reading Is it Toxic?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,15,26,9,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fiber","category-materials","category-misc-interests","category-nature","category-processes","category-rituals-and-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":72,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Haworthia](\"\/images\/Haworthia1106.png\")
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