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Marc St Louis:
Sweetgrass that is. My wife and another local woman went picking this afternoon. She got enough for a couple good size braids. We may go back tomorrow and get more
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mullet:
We have some Sweetgrass baskets my wife bought from the Gullah's in the South Carolina Low Country. The Sweet grass basket weaving has been handed down from family members, since slave days.
Marc, what do you do with the braids? Is it significant to a certain NA event or ceremony?
Marc St Louis:
Sweetgrass is a sacred plant to natives up here. It's used for smudging to purify a place or used as a gift. It's also supposed to have healing properties. We hang them up in the house
mullet:
Thanks, Marc. I thought I had read that but wasn't sure.
Josh:
"smudging" is where you fan the smoke onto an object for blessing/healing/purifying, right Marc? I want some sweet grass. Someone was burning some at the last flintknapping event I was at and they didn't have any to sell.
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