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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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On
the
other
hand,
certain
plants
have
been
credited
at
most
periods
with
hurtful
and
injurious
properties.
Thus,
there
is
a
popular
idea
that
during
the
flowering
of
the
bean
more
cases
of
lunacy
occur
than
at
any
other
season.
[17]
It
is
curious
to
find
the
apple--such
a
widespread
curative--regarded
as
a
bane,
an
illustration
of
which
is
given
by
Mr.
Conway.
[18]
In
Swabia
it
is
said
that
an
apple
plucked
from
a
graft
on
the
whitethorn
will,
if
eaten
by
a
pregnant
woman,
increase
her
pains.
On
the
Continent,
the
elder,
when
used
as
a
birch,
is
said
to
check
boys'
growth,
a
property
ascribed
to
the
knot-grass,
as
in
Beaumont
and
Fletcher's
"Coxcomb"
(Act
ii.
sc.
2):--
"We
want
a
boy
extremely
for
this
function,
Kept
under
for
a
year
with
milk
and
knot-grass."
The
cat-mint,
when
chewed,
created
quarrelsomeness,
a
property
said
by
the
Italians
to
belong
to
the
rampion.
Occasionally
much
attention
in
folk-medicine
has
been
paid
to
lucky
numbers;
a
remedy,
in
order
to
prove
efficacious,
having
to
be
performed
in
accordance
with
certain
numerical
rules.
In
Devonshire,
poultices
must
be
made
of
seven
different
kinds
of
herbs,
and
a
cure
for
thrush
is
this:--"Three
rushes
are
taken
from
any
running
stream,
passed
separately
through
the
mouth
of
the
infant,
and
then
thrown
back
into
the
water.
As
the
current
bears
them
away,
so,
it
is
believed,
will
the
thrush
leave
the
child."
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