Lastly, certain plants have been largely used by gipsies and fortune-
tellers for invoking dreams, and in many a country village these are
plucked and given to the anxious inquirer with various formulas.
Footnotes:
- "Primitive Culture," 1873, ii. 416, 417. 2. See Dorman's "Primitive Superstition,"
p. 68. 3. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," 1851, ii. 108. 4. "Primitive Superstitions,"
p. 67. 5. "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 265. 6. Quoted in Brand's "Popular
Antiquities," 1849, iii. 135. 7. See Friend's "Flower-Lore," i. 207. 8. Folkard's
"Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 477.