Gather 'Round: Hellebore & the Cure for Madness

Send us Fan Mail What if a flower bloomed between worlds—between poison and medicine, madness and healing, death and rebirth? In this episode of Gathered: Storied Botanicals , I offer a retelling of the Greek myth of Melampus and the daughters of King Proetus, whose divine curse drives them into a feral madness that only a mysterious “black flower” can cure. Woven through this story is the…