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Juliette de Bairacli Levy went home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Juliette de Levy Bairacli went home

 

 

She past away at the 28. of May 2009 peaceful without pains.

 

We don't organize an official announced funeral,

we plan to bring the ash back to Kythera.

 

In Loving Memory,

Luz, Gunter and Adaya

 

 

Juliette

with gypsy friend

 

read stories

by Luz Lancha de Bairacli Levy

 

read excerpts from Juliette's writings

Spanish

Mountain Life

A

Gypsy in New York

About Juliette

 

Juliette de Bairacli Levy is a world renowned herbalist, author, breeder of

Afghan hounds, friend of the Gypsies, traveller in search of herbal wisdom,

and the pioneer of holistic veterinary medicine. Juliette has a long record

of spectacular cures to her credit and the books she has written have been

a vital inspiration for the present day herbal renaissance.

 

Juliette was born on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11 month, almost

in 1911 (actually 1912) in Manchester ,

England .

Her parents were Jewish - her mother from Egypt and her father from Turkey .

Juliette was raised in a household with three sisters and two brothers, a

nanny, chauffeur, maid and gardener. She was educated at

Lowther College ,

one of the best girls schools in Britain ,

and went on to study veterinary medicine at the Universities of Manchester

and Liverpool . However, Juliette did not

approve of the vivisection and animal experimentation that was going on in

the universities in the name of science and health. So she left university

after two years and went to study with the Gypsies and peasants of the

world. In the late 1930's Juliette ran a distemper clinic in

London where, at a

time when many dogs were dying from this disease, she treated and cured

hundreds of dogs with fasting, herbs and a natural diet. When many Afghan

hound puppies were dying of distemper, Juliette raised a litter of puppies

on her natural rearing methods and these puppies won Best of Show at Crufts

Dog Show.

 

It was in the 1930's that Juliette developed a line of herbal supplements

for animals known as Natural Rearing Products. For the next 50 years these

were the only products of their kind on the market. Today these supplements

are still distributed world wide.

 

During the World War II Juliette worked in the Women's Land Army gathering

sphagnum moss which was used on soldiers' wounds. After the war she went to

Yorkshire where she cured thousands of

sheep who had been declared incurable by conventional vets. This work

brought her to the attention of Sir Albert Howard, founder of the Soil

Association and creator of modern day "organic" farming methods.

Sir Albert Howard encouraged Juliette to learn all she could about herbal

treatments for animals.

 

In the 1940's, while travelling in America ,

Spain ,

France , North Africa and

Turkey ,

Juliette gathered herbal remedies from the nomadic and peasant peoples of

these lands. When her Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable was published

in 1951, it was the first veterinary herbal ever to be published as before

this time, the art of farriers, gypsies and peasants had been passed on

only by the spoken word.

 

Thus Juliette became THE pioneer of what is known today as holistic animal care.

She went on to write The Complete Herbal Book for the Dog. Both these books

together with Juliette's Illustrated Herbal Handbook for Everyone and

Natural Rearing of Children have become classics and many generations of

humans & animals have been raised & healed on these books.

 

Faber and Faber, one of Juliette's publishers, say that for the past 50

years they have always received more inquiries about Juliette than about

any of their other authors who include T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes and William

Golding.

 

Juliette's two children, Luz and Rafik, were born in the early 1950's. She

took her children to live in

Israel where they raised owls,

hawks, dogs, goats, donkeys and bees. Juliette became famous for saving her

hives of bees from shell attack during the six day war. In

Israel and later when she moved to

Greece ,

Juliette continued to write, to raise Afghan hounds, to garden and to

gather herbal remedies. As well as her herbal books, she has written

several travel books, two novels and three books of poems.

 

For the past many years Juliette has been coming to

America every summer to give lectures, workshops and seminars on herbal medicine.

In America she has become recognized as the grandmother of today's herbal renaissance.

In 1998 at their HerbFest in Iowa ,

Frontier Herbs presented Juliette with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her

contribution to the herb world.

 

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