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The Rowan tree or Mountain ash, is used by the Scottish peasantry with the same view; and a small twig of it is sewed up in the cow's tail, to preserve the animal and its produce from the influence of witches and warlocks. See Pharmacologia, by Dr. Paris. Vide "Amenetates Academicae," vol. 4.
Paris, in his Pharmacologia, “to find a word which is used to express general characters subsequently become the name of a specific substance in which such characters are predominant; and we shall find that some important anomalies in nomenclature may be thus explained.
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