The Folk-lore of Plants eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 288 pages of information about The Folk-lore of Plants.

The Folk-lore of Plants eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 288 pages of information about The Folk-lore of Plants.

Footnotes: 

1.  See Moncure Conway’s “Demonology and Devil Lore,” 1880, ii. 324.

2.  See Friend’s “Flower Lore,” ii. 529-30.

3.  “Demonology and Devil Lore,” ii. 324.

4.  Grimm, “Teutonic Mythology,” 1883, iii. 1051.

5.  Folkard’s “Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics,” 1884, p. 91.

6.  Thorpe’s “Northern Mythology,” iii. 19.

7.  Grimm’s “Teutonic Mythology,” iii. 1052.

8.  See Thorpe’s “Northern Mythology,” iii. 267.

9.  See Folkard’s “Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics,” p. 209.

10. Ibid., p. 104.

11.  See Kelly’s “Indo-European Folk-lore,” pp. 225-7.

12.  See Hardwick’s “Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore,” p. 117;
    also Grimm’s “Teutonic Mythology,” 1883, iii. 1083.

13.  See Thorpe’s “Northern Mythology,” 1852, iii. 21, 137.

14.  “Popular Romances of the West of England,” 1871, p. 330.

15.  Grimm’s “Teutonic Mythology,” iii. 1084.

16.  See Thorpe’s “Northern Mythology,” iii. 208-9.

17.  See chap.  “Doctrine of Signatures.”

18.  See Yardley’s “Supernatural in Romantic Fiction,” 1880, pp. 131-2.

19.  See Fiske, “Myths and Mythmakers,” p. 44; also Baring-Gould’s
    “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,” 1877, p. 398.

20.  “Survey of London.”  See Mason’s “Folk-lore of British Plants” in Dublin University Magazine, September 1873, p. 326-8.

21.  Mr. Conway’s “Mystic Trees and Flowers,” Fraser’s Magazine,
    1870, 602.

22.  “British Herbal.”

23.  See Folkard’s “Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics,” p. 380.

24.  “Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics,” p. 376.

25.  Henderson’s “Folk-lore of Northern Counties,” 1879, p. 225.

26.  “Folk-lore of Northern Counties,” 1879.

27.  “Folk-medicine,” p. 202.

CHAPTER VI.

PLANTS IN DEMONOLOGY.

The association of certain plants with the devil forms an extensive and important division in their folk-lore, and in many respects is closely connected with their mystic history.  It is by no means easy always to account for some of our most beautiful flowers having Satanic surroundings, although frequently the explanation must be sought in their poisonous and deadly qualities.  In some cases, too, the student of comparative mythology may trace their evil reputation to those early traditions which were the expressions of certain primitive beliefs, the survivals of which nowadays are found in many an apparently meaningless superstition.  Anyhow, the subject is a very wide one, and is equally represented in most countries.  It should be remembered, moreover, that rudimentary forms of dualism—­the antagonism of a good and evil deity[1]—­have from a remote period

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