{"id":986,"date":"2024-07-31T21:10:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/?p=986"},"modified":"2024-08-04T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T16:31:05","slug":"trota-prepares-a-fumigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/trota-prepares-a-fumigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trota Prepares a Fumigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

Twelfth-century Salerno<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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One neighbor has come to me, swathed\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in her cloak and veil blue as the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She begs me to provoke<\/span><\/p>\n

bleeding from her stopped womb. I grind<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

madder and marsh mallow. I mix\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the paste with egg whites and flour,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

pat it into small cakes. Another neighbor\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

knocks upon my door for her<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

bleeding has not ceased for forty days\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

or nights and no dove has returned<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

with branch in beak. I instruct her, so worried and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

weak, to come back with a pair<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

of old shoes. We take their soles\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and cook them with laurel<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and pennyroyal to make a fumigation.<\/span><\/p>\n

When it burns off, we collect<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the ashes and blend them with hot, red\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

wine from Salerno\u2019s vineyards. This<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

we take and twist in a square of linen. After it\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

has cooled a bit, I insert it into her womb<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

with as much gentleness as I can muster.<\/span><\/p>\n

I send her home with spikenard and clove.<\/span><\/p>\n

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