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Folkard's "Plant-lore, Legends, and Lyrics," p. 463. Conway's "Mystic Trees and Flowers," Blackwood's Magazine, 1870, p. 594. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," i. 212. See Black's "Folk-Medicine." "Mystic Trees and Flowers," p. 594. "Primitive Culture," ii. 215. Metam., viii. 742-839; also Grimm's Teut. Myth., 1883, ii. 953-4 Grimm's Teut. Myth., ii. 653.
In many cases, too, it should be remembered, the choice of flowers for dedication to certain saints originated either in their medical virtues or in some old tradition which was supposed to have specially singled them out for this honour. Sanscrit for lotus. Hindu poem, translated by Sir William Jones. "Flower-lore," p. 118. Folkard's "Plant Legends," p. 245. "Flower-lore," p. 120.
H.G. Adams's useful work on the "Moral Language and Poetry of Flowers," not to mention the constant allusions scattered throughout the works of our old poets, such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Drayton. Introduction, p. 12. Folkard's "Plant Legends," p. 389. See Judith xv. 13. "Flower-lore," pp. 197-8. "Plant-lore of Shakespeare." "Flower-lore," p. 168.
"Primitive Culture," 1873, ii. 416, 417. See Dorman's "Primitive Superstition," p. 68. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," 1851, ii. 108. "Primitive Superstitions," p. 67. "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 265. Quoted in Brand's "Popular Antiquities," 1849, iii. 135. See Friend's "Flower-Lore," i. 207. Folkard's "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 477.
These legends, in addition to illustrating the fairy mythology of bygone years, are additionally interesting from their connection with the plants and flowers, most of which are familiar to us from our childhood. See Crofton Croker's "Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland," 1862, p. 98. Folkard's "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 30. Friend, "Flowers and Flower Lore," p. 34.
"Reliquiae Antiquse," Wright and Halliwell, i. 195; Quarterly Review, 1863, cxiv. 241. Coles, "The Art of Simpling," 1656. Anne Pratt's "Flowering Plants of Great Britain," iv. 9. Black's "Folk-medicine," p. 201. Folkard's "Plant-Lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 248. Fraser's Magazine, 1870, p. 591. "Plant-Lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 349. Black's "Folk-medicine," p. 185.
And although an immense amount of superstition has been interwoven with folk-medicine, there is a certain amount of truth in the many remedies which for centuries have been, with more or less success, employed by the peasantry, both at home and abroad. See Tylor's "Primitive Culture," ii. See Folkard's "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 164. "Mystic Trees and Shrubs," p. 717.
We promised to give old Folkard's message, and soon afterwards we parted from him. Peter told us that he had heard his father speak of Ben Folkard as one of the most noted and skilful trappers of the Rocky Mountains, and that he never turned up without a large supply of skins and peltries.
It is said that the prophet Mohammed having one day washed his shirt, threw it upon a mallow plant to dry; but when it was afterwards taken away, its sacred contact with the mallow was found to have changed the plant into a fine geranium, which now for the first time came into existence. "Plant-Lore Legends and Lyrics." Folkard's "Plant Lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 430.
"I left my horse down in the hollow yonder," said the trapper; "we will get him first, and then I'll try and help catch yours; they are not far off I suspect. It will be daylight soon, and we have no time to lose." Several more minutes were spent before we reached the spot where old Folkard's horse was securely tethered. He having mounted, we set out in search of our own steeds.
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