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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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"Besides,
in
medicine,
simples
had
the
power
That
none
need
then
the
planetary
hour
To
help
their
workinge,
they
so
juiceful
were."
The
adder's-tongue,
if
plucked
during
the
wane
of
the
moon,
was
a
cure
for
tumours,
and
there
is
a
Swabian
belief
that
one,
"who
on
Friday
of
the
full
moon
pulls
up
the
amaranth
by
the
root,
and
folding
it
in
a
white
cloth,
wears
it
against
his
naked
breast,
will
be
made
bullet-proof."
[3]
Consumptive
patients,
in
olden
times,
were
three
times
passed,
"Through
a
circular
wreath
of
woodbine,
cut
during
the
increase
of
the
March
moon,
and
let
down
over
the
body
from
head
to
foot."
[4]
In
France,
too,
at
the
present
day,
the
vervain
is
gathered
under
the
different
changes
of
the
moon,
with
secret
incantations,
after
which
it
is
said
to
possess
remarkable
curative
properties.
In
Cornwall,
the
club-moss,
if
properly
gathered,
is
considered
"good
against
all
diseases
of
the
eye."
The
mode
of
procedure
is
this:--"On
the
third
day
of
the
moon,
when
the
thin
crescent
is
seen
for
the
first
time,
show
it
the
knife
with
which
the
moss
is
to
be
cut,
and
repeat
this
formula:--
'As
Christ
healed
the
issue
of
blood,
Do
thou
cut
what
thou
cuttest
for
good.'
At
sundown,
the
operator,
after
carefully
washing
his
hands,
is
to
cut
the
club-moss
kneeling.
It
is
then
to
be
wrapped
in
a
white
cloth,
and
subsequently
boiled
in
water
taken
from
the
spring
nearest
to
its
place
of
growth.
This
may
be
used
as
a
fomentation,
or
the
club-moss
may
be
made
into
an
ointment
with
the
butter
from
the
milk
of
a
new
cow."
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