Community & Protection
An online course focused on the threads that make up Southern Italian and Sicilian apotropaic practices.
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Meet Your Teacher
Jenna Faccenda is an Italian American folk practitioner, clinical herbalist and writer. When she isn’t tending to her son, puppy, or cats, she is working with her ancestors through Widow Apothecary (http://www.widowshop.net/).
Her teachings and practices come from her findings through her southern Italian roots of Sicily and Campania, and her teachers on the plant path (Kimberly Geisler, Brooke Johnson, Janet Kent, Dave Meesters, Jen Stovall, Marybeth Bonfiglio, Lisa Fazio, and Lupo Passero).
You can follow Jenna at @widowapothecary.
Join us for our next Piazza Party! Giorno dei Morti edition: Sunday, November 1st - Jersey City Did you know Sicilians celebrate Day of the Dead? It’s referred to as Giorno dei Morti or Festa dei Morti in Italian, and Jornu ri Morti in Sicilian. Traditionally, and especially in the days of our nonni and bisnonni, families would gather in cemeteries for picnics alongside the graves of their loved ones, sharing stories, playing card games and music, and decorating entire cemeteries with flowers, such as chrysanthemums, bringing life, color and celebration to accompany the spirits of those departed.