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"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.
"Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 486. Mr. Conway, Fraser's Magazine, 1870, p. 593. Mr. Conway, Fraser's Magazine, 1870, p. 107. "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 411. Folkard's "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 448. See Friend's "Flower-lore," i. 68. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," ii. 104. "Mystic Trees and Flowers," Fraser's Magazine.
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.
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.
Folkard's "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 460. See Kelly's "Indo-European Folk-lore," pp. 47-8. The vast proportions which the great witchcraft movement assumed in bygone years explains the magic properties which we find ascribed to so many plants in most countries.
"Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity," 1837, p. 300. See Phillips' "Pomarium Britannicum," 1821, p. 351. "Plant-lore of Shakespeare," 1878, p. 101. See Dr. Prior's "Popular Names of British Plants," p. 154. Hogg's "Vegetable Kingdom," p. 34. See Friend's "Flowers and Flower-lore," ii. 355. "Mystic Trees and Flowers," Fraser's Magazine, November 1870, p. 591.
Folkard's "Plant-lore," p. 379. Hunt's "Popular Romances of the West of England," 1871, p. 415 Folkard's "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 216. See Black's "Folk-medicine," 1883, p.195. Quarterly Review, cxiv. 245. "Sacred Trees and Flowers," Quarterly Review, cxiv. 244. Folkard's "Plant Legends," 364. Fraser's Magazine, 1870, p. 591. "Mystic Trees and Plants;" Fraser's Magazine, 1870, p. 708.
May I hope to meet you tomorrow in this place?" "I cannot promise that. But if no, I cannot say more now." Fan was back with a spray of the plant, but he had somehow lost all interest in it. That about his botany had all been pure fiction; but it had served its purpose, and now, he regretfully remarked, his plant-lore, he found, had completely faded from his mind.
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.
But peculiarities of this kind are very varied, and form an extensive section in "Plant-lore;" very many curious examples being found in old travels, and related with every semblance of truth. In some instances trees have obtained a fabulous character from being connected with certain events. Thus there was the "bleeding tree."
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