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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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The
Icelanders
have
a
curious
idea
respecting
the
mountain-ash,
affirming
that
it
is
an
enemy
of
the
juniper,
and
that
if
one
is
planted
on
one
side
of
a
tree,
and
the
other
on
the
other,
they
will
split
it.
It
is
also
asserted
that
if
both
are
kept
in
the
same
house
it
will
be
burnt
down;
but,
on
the
other
hand,
there
is
a
belief
among
some
sailors
that
if
rowan-tree
be
used
in
a
ship,
it
will
sink
the
vessel
unless
juniper
be
found
on
board.
In
the
Tyrol,
the
Osmunda
regalis,
called
"the
blooming
fern,"
is
placed
over
the
door
for
good
teeth;
and
Mr.
Conway,
too,
in
his
valuable
papers,
to
which
we
have
been
often
indebted
in
the
previous
chapters,
says
that
there
are
circumstances
under
which
all
flowers
are
injurious.
"They
must
not
be
laid
on
the
bed
of
a
sick
person,
according
to
a
Silesian
superstition;
and
in
Westphalia
and
Thuringia,
no
child
under
a
year
old
must
be
permitted
to
wreathe
itself
with
flowers,
or
it
will
soon
die.
Flowers,
says
a
common
German
saying,
must
in
no
case
be
laid
on
the
mouth
of
a
corpse,
since
the
dead
man
may
chew
them,
which
would
make
him
a
'Nachzehrer,'
or
one
who
draws
his
relatives
to
the
grave
after
him."
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