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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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The
sisters
of
Phaëthon,
bewailing
his
death
on
the
shores
of
Eridanus,
were
changed
into
poplars.
We
may,
too,
compare
the
story
of
Daphne
and
Syrinx,
who,
when
they
could
no
longer
elude
the
pursuit
of
Apollo
and
Pan,
change
themselves
into
a
laurel
and
a
reed.
In
modern
times,
Tasso
and
Spenser
have
given
us
graphic
pictures
based
on
this
primitive
phase
of
belief;
and
it
may
be
remembered
how
Dante
passed
through
that
leafless
wood,
in
the
bark
of
every
tree
of
which
was
imprisoned
a
suicide.
In
German
folk-lore[30]
the
soul
is
supposed
to
take
the
form
of
a
flower,
as
a
lily
or
white
rose;
and
according
to
a
popular
belief,
one
of
these
flowers
appears
on
the
chairs
of
those
about
to
die.
In
the
same
way,
from
the
grave
of
one
unjustly
executed
white
lilies
are
said
to
spring
as
a
token
of
the
person's
innocence;
and
from
that
of
a
maiden,
three
lilies
which
no
one
save
her
lover
must
gather.
The
sex,
moreover,
it
may
be
noted,
is
kept
up
even
in
this
species
of
metempsychosis[31].
Thus,
in
a
Servian
folk-song,
there
grows
out
of
the
youth's
body
a
green
fir,
out
of
the
maiden's
a
red
rose,
which
entwine
together.
Amongst
further
instances
quoted
by
Grimm,
we
are
told
how,
"a
child
carries
home
a
bud
which
the
angel
had
given
him
in
the
wood,
when
the
rose
blooms
the
child
is
dead.
The
Lay
of
Eunzifal
makes
a
blackthorn
shoot
out
of
the
bodies
of
slain
heathens,
a
white
flower
by
the
heads
of
fallen
Christians."
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