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We've got a big Christmas show coming up next on the paranormal podcast. Paranormal Podcast. PODCAST. This is the paranormal podcast with Jim Herald.

Welcome to the paranormal podcast.

I am Jim Herald.

So glad to be with you once again and Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everybody listening

And we've got a great Christmas show for you today in the second part of the show we have Ellen Everett Hopman and she's going to talk about the sacred herbs of

Yule and Christmas.

And did you know there's a secret history of Christmas baking?

Well indeed there is and you're about ready to find out about it right now. I love this time of the year.

One thing I don't love though is trying to find books that fit the

theme of the show and fit this season of the year but we've got a great one

because we're gonna talk about secret history.

Specifically, the secret history of Christmas baking

recipes and stories from tomb offerings to gingerbread boys

and our guest is Linda Radish and we are so glad to have her. She has been contributing crafts, recipes,

an ethnobitanical lore to Luellens herbal almanac since 2012.

She's the author of the Old Magic of Christmas and the Lour of Old Elfland.

Outside the kitchen, she has special interests in paper crafts, minority languages, and exploring the suburban jungle. You can follow her culinary crafting and linguistic

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