Ultimate Grimoire and Spellbook

banks of rivers or lakes, or on the branches of trees, combing and arranging their golden locks: "Know you the Nixes, gay and fa ...

CHAPTER VIII. LOVE-CHARMS. Plants have always been largely used for testing the fidelity of lovers, and at the present day are s ...

There are numerous charms connected with the ash-leaf, and among those employed in the North of England we may quote the followi ...

"The gentle daisy with her silver crown, Worn in the breast of many a shepherd lass." In England the marigold, which is carefull ...

'Now, gentle flower, I pray thee tell If my love loves, and loves me well; So may the fall of the morning dew Keep the sun from ...

usual custom being to put one plant for herself and another for her sweetheart. Should these grow together, it is an omen of an ...

"Wee Jenny to her granny says, 'Will ye gae wi' me, granny? I'll eat the apple at the glass I gat frae uncle Johnny.' She fuff't ...

In very early times flowers were mcuh in request as love-philtres, various allusions to which occur in the literature of most ag ...

CHAPTER IX. DREAM-PLANTS. The importance attached to dreams in all primitive and savage culture accounts for the significance as ...

At the present day, the yarrow or milfoil is used by love-sick maidens, who are directed to pluck the mystic plant from a young ...

I'll redde your dream, my sister dear, I'll tell you a' your sorrow; You pu'd the birk wi' your true love; He's killed,--he's ki ...

portends troubles; if they prick you, secret enemies will do you an injury with your friends; if they draw blood, expect heavy l ...

folk-lore, to dream of being surrounded by this plant is a propitious sign, foretelling that the person will before long have so ...

Christmas, New Year's Day, Midsummer, and All Hallowe'en. According to the mode of procedure practised in the northern counties, ...

Lastly, certain plants have been largely used by gipsies and fortune- tellers for invoking dreams, and in many a country village ...

CHAPTER X. PLANTS AND THE WEATHER. The influence of the weather on plants is an agricultural belief which is firmly credited by ...

In the same way the weather of certain seasons of the year is supposed to influence the vegetable world, and in Rutlandshire we ...

year of corn." A Surrey proverb tells us that "It's always cold when the blackthorn comes into flower;" and there is the rhyme w ...

in the autumn indicates the "pits" or graves of those who shall succumb to the hard and inclement weather of winter; but, on the ...

But if the grass grow in January, the husbandman is recommended to "lock his grain in the granary," while a further proverb info ...