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Medicine Stories

Lost Lineages & Ever Evolving Lore - Milla Prince

Medicine Stories

Amber Magnolia Hill

Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

As people and communities move and change with time, stories evolve and lineages are lost. But information always goes where it needs to in order to survive and resurface again when needed. Ancestral stories can guide us on our paths, and lost lineages can be remembered.

Milla Prince is an herbalist, writer, and teacher who moved from Finland, where she had been deeply immersed since childhood in ancestral plant lore from that intact tradition, to the west coast of America about 10 years ago. Her blog, newsletter, Instagram account, Fireweed & Nettle herbal medicines, and The Cauldron zine reach tens of thousands of people each month. But I knew her when... and we talk about how funny that when was, as well as touching on a large range of other topics.

We talk about:

  • The unexpected internet subculture that first brought us together
  • Bear lore and the myth that spans the northern lands and shapes Milla's online identity
  • Baba Yaga arising in the collective consciousness right now
  • The dream that guided Milla to change her work in the world
  • The circuitous paths we take when finding ourselves
  • Ancestral medicine & being indigenous to a place
  • Cultural appropriation as a symptom of spiritual longing
  • #witch #ancestry #medicine and mimetic expression online (evolving lore!)
  • The trauma of the burning times
  • Working with ancestral lines that are lost to you

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello friends and welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast. I am your host

0:09.1

Amber Magnolia Hill and this is episode two, the first episode featuring another human.

0:17.0

That human is my dear friend, Mila Prince.

0:21.0

If you are in my online realm, which I'm guessing you are since this is only the second episode of the podcast you probably got here because you know me in some way, then you're probably in Mila's online realm too because hers is much bigger than mine and rightfully

0:36.4

so. Mila is an herbalist, a writer, teacher, filmmaker, business owner, zine publisher, homesteader, and all around which, she grew up in Finland and

0:48.6

the word for which there is Noita, N-O-I-T-A, Noita. I think that's a really cool word it also means shaman and as

0:58.0

Mila has taught me the word shaman and which are often interchangeable and that shamanic practices really were and

1:07.8

are witchy practices. So Mila is half finish and she shares a lot about that on Instagram and on her website.

1:17.8

Her handle there is the woman who married a bear and we get into the story of why she chose that name and the myth behind that name and how it's

1:28.4

meaningful to her.

1:31.0

So she shares a lot about Finnish folk medicine and food and herbalism and but what people don't know is that she's also half Palestinian.

1:42.8

And the reason that she doesn't share as much about that

1:46.6

is because she did not grow up in that culture

1:48.5

and she does not know her father at all,

1:51.2

from whom she is dissented from the Palestinians.

1:55.0

So in this episode, among many other things,

1:58.1

we talk about the ways that she has learned

2:02.0

to connect with that lineage that she will never know in real life and

2:07.0

the practices that she has cultivated that kind of plug her into that culture and that branch of her ancestry. So you can take a lot from that, dear

2:17.3

listener, as you explore your own ancestry, which is something I certainly hope that this podcast inspires you to do.

2:24.4

It's really an endless endeavor and there are always going to be lines going back on your tree that

2:30.8

you just can't trace back any further or you're never really going to know

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