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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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"Such
rank
and
deadly
lustre
dwells,
As
in
those
hellish
fires
that
light
The
mandrake's
charnel
leaves
at
night."
But
these
mandrake
fables
are
mostly
of
foreign
extraction
and
of
very
ancient
date.
Dr.
Daubeny,
in
his
"Roman
Husbandry,"
has
given
a
curious
drawing
from
the
Vienna
MS.
of
Dioscorides
in
the
fifth
century,
representing
the
Goddess
of
Discovery
presenting
to
Dioscorides
the
root
of
the
mandrake
(of
thoroughly
human
shape),
which
she
has
just
pulled
up,
while
the
unfortunate
dog
which
had
been
employed
for
that
purpose
is
depicted
in
the
agonies
of
death.
Basil,
writes
Lord
Bacon
in
his
"Natural
History,"
if
exposed
too
much
to
the
sun,
changes
into
wild
thyme;
and
a
Bavarian
piece
of
folk-lore
tells
us
that
the
person
who,
during
an
eclipse
of
the
sun,
throws
an
offering
of
palm
with
crumbs
on
the
fire,
will
never
be
harmed
by
the
sun.
In
Hesse,
it
is
affirmed
that
with
knots
tied
in
willow
one
may
slay
a
distant
enemy;
and
according
to
a
belief
current
in
Iceland,
the
Caltha
palustris,
if
taken
with
certain
ceremonies
and
carried
about,
will
prevent
the
bearer
from
having
an
angry
word
spoken
to
him.
The
virtues
of
the
dittany
were
famous
as
far
back
as
Plutarch's
time,
and
Gerarde
speaks
of
its
marvellous
efficacy
in
drawing
forth
splinters
of
wood,
&c.,
and
in
the
healing
of
wounds,
especially
those
"made
with
envenomed
weapons,
arrows
shot
out
of
guns,
and
such
like."
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