{"podcast":{"title":"Fabulous Folklore with Icy","slug":"fabulous-folklore-with-icy-14744","podcast_index_feed_id":14744,"rss_url":"https://feed.pod.co/fabulous-folklore-with-icy","website_url":"https://www.icysedgwick.com","image_url":"https://images.pod.co/ZN2rfpdZp_71_t8gU6ttJcmIM8RLUK62PNgB6eZOuZU/resize:fill:1400:1400/plain/artwork/7c4ee937-3f0a-4fc5-84dc-62c675fc8b8e/fabulous-folklore-with-icy.jpg","author":"Icy Sedgwick","episode_count":453,"summary":"Fabulous Folklore will give you your weekly fix of fabulous folklore in fifteen minutes (or less)! Hosted by fantasy and Gothic horror writer, Icy Sedgwick, the podcast explores folklore, legends, superstitions, mythology, and all things weird, occult and unusual.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T08:18:26.018563+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fabulous-folklore-with-icy-14744"},"episode":{"title":"Nicholas Culpeper: Apothecary to the Masses","slug":"nicholas-culpeper-apothecary-to-the-masses","published_at":"2026-06-20T08:30:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fabulous-folklore-with-icy-14744/nicholas-culpeper-apothecary-to-the-masses","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fabulous-folklore-with-icy-14744","url":"https://www.icysedgwick.com/nicholas-culpeper/","audio_url":"https://downloads.pod.co/80ce0ddf-6f2a-494c-9d58-e93863be0df3/a9df6b13-5dbf-4eba-adcb-59c26d63d3d0.mp3","summary":"Last week, we met William Turner, who revolutionised English herbals in the 16th century by publishing the first one in English. This gave more people access to the herbal knowledge he felt people should have - although it's likely he intended for physicians and apothecaries to use it. This week, we're going to meet Nicholas Culpeper, who took on the medical establishment in the 17th century, and did so using a herbal. Let’s go to meet him in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! Find the blog post with all the images and references here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/nicholas-culpeper/ Buy Seasonal Herbcraft here: https://school.rowanandsage.com/courses/seasonal-herbcraft1?affcode=437598_3qokpyep Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: http://icysedgwick.com/start-here","meta_description":"Last week, we met William Turner, who revolutionised English herbals in the 16th century by publishing the first one in English. This gave more people acc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1346,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fabulous-folklore-with-icy-14744/episodes/nicholas-culpeper-apothecary-to-the-masses/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fabulous-folklore-with-icy-14744/nicholas-culpeper-apothecary-to-the-masses.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}