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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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Again,
our
English
nursery
fable
of
the
parsley-bed,
in
which
little
strangers
are
discovered,
is
perhaps,
"A
remnant
of
a
fuller
tradition,
like
that
of
the
woodpecker
among
the
Romans,
and
that
of
the
stork
among
our
Continental
kinsmen."[21]
Both
these
birds
having
had
a
mystic
celebrity,
the
former
as
the
fire-singing
bird
and
guardian
genius
of
children,
the
latter
as
the
baby-bringer.[22]
In
Saterland
it
is
said
"infants
are
fetched
out
of
the
cabbage,"
and
in
the
Walloon
part
of
Belgium
they
are
supposed
"to
make
their
appearance
in
the
parson's
garden."
Once
more,
a
hollow
tree
overhanging
a
pool
is
known
in
many
places,
both
in
North
and
South
Germany,
as
the
first
abode
of
unborn
infants,
variations
of
this
primitive
belief
being
found
in
different
localities.
Similar
stories
are
very
numerous,
and
under
various
forms
are
found
in
the
legendary
lore
and
folk-tales
of
most
countries.
Footnotes:
1.
See
Keary's
"Outlines
of
Primitive
Belief,"
1882,
pp.
62-3.
2.
See
Grimm's
"Teutonic
Mythology,"
1883,
ii.
796-800;
Quarterly
Review,
cxiv.
224;
Thorpe's
"Northern
Mythology,"
i.
154;
"Asgard
and
the
Gods,"
edited
by
W.
S.
W.
Anson,
1822,
pp.
26,
27.
3.
Fraser's
Magazine,
1870,
p.
597.
4.
"Northern
Mythology,"
i.
154-5.
5.
See
Max
Miller's
"Chips
from
a
German
Workshop."
6.
See
Keary's
"Outlines
of
Primitive
Belief,"
p.
64.
7.
Book
viii.
p.
314.
8.
"Outlines
of
Primitive
Belief,"
p.
63.
9.
Gifford.
10.
Kelly's
"Indo-European
Folk-lore,"
p.
143.
11.
Keary's
"Outlines
of
Primitive
Belief,"
p.
63;
Fiske,
"Myth
and
Myth
Makers,"
1873,
pp.
64-5.
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