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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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But,
to
quote
another
kind
of
sympathy
between
human
beings
and
certain
plants,
the
Cingalese
have
a
notion
that
the
cocoa-nut
plant
withers
away
when
beyond
the
reach
of
a
human
voice,
and
that
the
vervain
and
borage
will
only
thrive
near
man's
dwellings.
Once
more,
the
South
Sea
Islanders
affirm
that
the
scent
is
the
spirit
of
a
flower,
and
that
the
dead
may
be
sustained
by
their
fragrance,
they
cover
their
newly-made
graves
with
many
a
sweet
smelling
blossom.
Footnotes:
1.
See
Tylor's
"Primitive
Culture,"
1873,
i.
474-5;
also
Dorman's
"Primitive
Superstitions,"
1881,
p.
294.
2.
"Primitive
Culture,"
i.
476-7.
3.
Jones's
"Ojibways,"
p.
104.
4.
Marsden's
"History
of
Sumatra,"
p.
301.
5.
Mariner's
"Tonga
Islands,"
ii.
137.
6.
St.
John,
"Far
East,"
i.
187.
7.
See
Tylor's
"Primitive
Culture,"
i.
475.
8.
Dorman's
"Primitive
Superstitions,"
p.
294;
also
Schoolcraft's
"Indian
Tribes."
9.
See
Thorpe's
"Northern
Mythology,"
iii.
61.
10.
"Origin
of
Civilisation,"
1870,
p.
192.
See
Leslie
Forbes'
"Early
Races
of
Scotland,"
i.
171.
11.
Folkard's
"Plant-lore,
Legends,
and
Lyrics,"
p.
463.
12.
Conway's
"Mystic
Trees
and
Flowers,"
Blackwood's
Magazine,
1870,
p.
594.
13.
Thorpe's
"Northern
Mythology,"
i.
212.
14.
See
Black's
"Folk-Medicine."
15.
"Mystic
Trees
and
Flowers,"
p.
594.
16.
"Primitive
Culture,"
ii.
215.
17.
Metam.,
viii.
742-839;
also
Grimm's
Teut.
Myth.,
1883,
ii.
953-4
18.
Grimm's
Teut.
Myth.,
ii.
653.
19.
Quoted
in
Tylor's
"Primitive
Culture,"
ii.
221.
20.
Thorpe's
"Northern
Mythology,"
ii.
72,
73.
21.
Ibid.,
p.
219.
22.
"Superstitions
of
Modern
Greece,"
by
M.
Le
Baron
d'Estournelles,
in
Nineteenth,
Century,
April
1882,
pp.
394,
395.
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