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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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With
this
usage
may
be
compared
one
performed
by
the
fishermen
of
Weymouth,
who
on
the
first
of
May
put
out
to
sea
for
the
purpose
of
scattering
garlands
of
flowers
on
the
waves,
as
a
propitiatory
offering
to
obtain
food
for
the
hungry.
"This
link,"
according
to
Miss
Lambert,
"is
but
another
link
in
the
chain
that
connects
us
with
the
yet
more
primitive
practice
of
the
Red
Indian,
who
secures
passage
across
the
Lake
Superior,
or
down
the
Mississippi,
by
gifts
of
precious
tobacco,
which
he
wafts
to
the
great
spirit
of
the
Flood
on
the
bosom
of
its
waters."
By
the
Romans
a
peculiar
reverence
seems
to
have
attached
to
their
festive
garlands,
which
were
considered
unsuitable
for
wearing
in
public.
Hence,
any
person
appearing
in
one
was
liable
to
punishment,
a
law
which
was
carried
out
with
much
rigour.
On
one
occasion,
Lucius
Fulvius,
a
banker,
having
been
convicted
at
the
time
of
the
second
Punic
war,
of
looking
down
from
the
balcony
of
a
house
with
a
chaplet
of
roses
on
his
head,
was
thrown
into
prison
by
order
of
the
Senate,
and
here
kept
for
sixteen
years,
until
the
close
of
the
war.
A
further
case
of
extreme
severity
was
that
of
P.
Munatius,
who
was
condemned
by
the
Triumviri
to
be
put
in
chains
for
having
crowned
himself
with
flowers
from
the
statue
of
Marsyas.
Allusions
to
such
estimation
of
garlands
in
olden
times
are
numerous
in
the
literature
of
the
past,
and
it
may
be
remembered
how
Montesquieu
remarked
that
it
was
with
two
or
three
hundred
crowns
of
oak
that
Rome
conquered
the
world.
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