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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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And
the
common
fumitory,
"was
used
when
gathered
in
wedding
hours,
and
boiled
in
water,
milk,
and
whey,
as
a
wash
for
the
complexion
of
rustic
maids."
[16]
In
some
parts
of
France
the
water-hemlock
(nanthe
crocata),
known
with
us
as
the
"dead-tongue,"
from
its
paralysing
effects
on
the
organs
of
voice,
was
used
to
destroy
moles;
and
the
yellow
toad-flax
(Linaria
vulgaris)
is
described
as
"cleansing
the
skin
wonderfully
of
all
sorts
of
deformity."
Another
plant
of
popular
renown
was
the
knotted
figwort
(Scrophularia
nodosa),
for
Gerarde
censures
"divers
who
doe
rashly
teach
that
if
it
be
hanged
about
the
necke,
or
else
carried
about
one,
it
keepeth
a
man
in
health."
Coles,
speaking
of
the
mugwort
(Artemisia
vulgaris),
says
that,
"if
a
footman
take
mugwort
and
put
it
in
his
shoes
in
the
morning,
he
may
go
forty
miles
before
noon
and
not
be
weary;"
but
as
far
back
as
the
time
of
Pliny
its
remarkable
properties
were
known,
for
he
says,
"The
wayfaring
man
that
hath
the
herb
tied
about
him
feeleth
no
weariness
at
all,
and
he
can
never
be
hurt
by
any
poisonous
medicine,
by
any
wild
beast,
neither
yet
by
the
sun
itself."
The
far-famed
betony
was
long
credited
with
marvellous
medicinal
properties,
and
hence
the
old
saying
which
recommends
a
person
when
ill
"to
sell
his
coat
and
buy
betony."
A
species
of
thistle
was
once
believed
to
have
the
curious
virtue
of
driving
away
melancholy,
and
was
hence
termed
the
"melancholy
thistle."
According
to
Dioscorides,
"the
root
borne
about
one
doth
expel
melancholy
and
remove
all
diseases
connected
therewith,"
but
it
was
to
be
taken
in
wine.
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