Botánica oculta

"The world of magical plants is fascinating; strange and unrealistic," says Perucho. And, no doubt, it is. There are two kinds of magical plants: those that are so by their properties and those that are so by themselves, due to their implausible nature. And the latter are the ones that drive the rationalists crazy and therefore, about which the author ironic - who, on the other hand, admired with devotion the period of the Ilstración or the encyclopedimo. With an imagination totally free of obstacles, which suddenly provides a great and unusual dimension to his texts; Master of literary quotation and implausibility, this book is a study of the most important magical plants, of man's relationship with them, and a kind of dictionary of unknown botany, which surprises with the medicinal properties and magical virtues of spices as fantastic as they are real. In itself, without a doubt, it constitutes a tribute to the magicians, who treasure ancient knowledge, and among them, especially Paracelsus, father of occult botany. On a few occasions the imagination and knowledge have been so closely linked, and even more rarely have they produced a dazzling work. When the centenary of the birth of this author is celebrated, we recover one of his emblematic works that you can also find in the Magic Trilogy, a work that includes the three great works of Perucho on botany, magical bestiary and spa stories. A magical work of the author who discovered Lovecraft.