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(Dracoena draco) of Orotava was an object of sacred reverence; [4] and in Burmah at the present day the eugenia is held sacred. ...

makes the common fern (Polypodium vulgare) to have sprung from the Virgin's milk. Numerous flowers have been identified with her ...

to some old writers, the black briony went by this name, and Hare gives this explanation:--"'Our Lady's seal' (Sigillum marioe) ...

In connection with Christ's birth it may be noted that the early painters represent the Angel Gabriel with either a sceptre or s ...

But some trees were not so thoughtful, for "the brooms and the chick- peas rustled and crackled, and the flax bristled up." Acco ...

Him to carry; a plant still put by Catholics into the hands of statues of Christ. But in Poland, where the plant is difficult to ...

In Brittany, vervain is popularly termed the "herb of the cross," and when gathered with a certain formula is efficacious in cur ...

Similarly the later saints had particular flowers dedicated to their memory; and, indeed, a complete catalogue of flowers has be ...

CHAPTER XX. PLANT SUPERSTITIONS. The superstitious notions which, under one form or another, have clustered round the vegetable ...

were half-starved by hybernating--having remained for days without food--they were suddenly restored by eating the arum. There i ...

wood, and adds that divination by wands was known and practised in Babylon, "and that this was even the most ancient mode of div ...

"They tell us something strange and odd About a certain magic rod That, bending down its top, divines Whene'er the soil has gold ...

In 1659, the Jesuit, Gaspard Schott, tells us that this magic rod was at this period used in every town in Germany, and that he ...

considered to be a most effectual means of ascertaining the whereabouts of concealed wealth. Hence it has been invested with an ...

great pestilence in Padua was preceded by the same phenomenon. [2] Shakespeare speaks of this superstition:-- "'Tis thought the ...

announced, and she was adjusting her dress, Mr. Lewis happened to make some remark on a beautiful rose which Miss Kay wore in he ...

And there is the following well-known couplet:-- "With a four-leaved clover, a double-leaved ash, and a green-topped leave, You ...

brother. In Hesse, it is said that with knots tied in willow one may slay a distant enemy; and the Bohemians have a belief that ...

other hand, evil-smelling trees, like the elder, were carefully cleaned away from fruit-trees, lest they should become tainted. ...

CHAPTER XXI. PLANTS IN FOLK-MEDICINE. From the earliest times plants have been most extensively used in the cure of disease, alt ...