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The Folk-lore of Plants
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T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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An
Austrian
Märchen
tells
of
a
stately
fir,
in
which
there
sits
a
fairy
maiden
waited
on
by
dwarfs,
rewarding
the
innocent
and
plaguing
the
guilty;
and
there
is
the
German
song
of
the
maiden
in
the
pine,
whose
bark
the
boy
splits
with
a
gold
and
silver
horn.
Stories
again
are
circulated
in
Sweden,
among
the
peasantry,
of
persons
who
by
cutting
a
branch
from
a
habitation
tree
have
been
struck
with
death.
Such
a
tree
was
the
"klinta
tall"
in
Westmanland,
under
which
a
mermaid
was
said
to
dwell.
To
this
tree
might
occasionally
be
seen
snow-white
cattle
driven
up
from
the
neighbouring
lake
across
the
meadows.
Another
Swedish
legend
tells
us
how,
when
a
man
was
on
the
point
of
cutting
down
a
juniper
tree
in
a
wood,
a
voice
was
heard
from
the
ground,
saying,
"friend,
hew
me
not."
But
he
gave
another
stroke,
when
to
his
horror
blood
gushed
from
the
root[20].
Then
there
is
the
Danish
tradition[21]
relating
to
the
lonely
thorn,
occasionally
seen
in
a
field,
but
which
never
grows
larger.
Trees
of
this
kind
are
always
bewitched,
and
care
should
be
taken
not
to
approach
them
in
the
night
time,
"as
there
comes
a
fiery
wheel
forth
from
the
bush,
which,
if
a
person
cannot
escape
from,
will
destroy
him."
In
modern
Greece
certain
trees
have
their
"stichios,"
a
being
which
has
been
described
as
a
spectre,
a
wandering
soul,
a
vague
phantom,
sometimes
invisible,
at
others
assuming
the
most
widely
varied
forms.
It
is
further
added
that
when
a
tree
is
"stichimonious"
it
is
dangerous
for
a
man,
"to
sleep
beneath
its
shade,
and
the
woodcutters
employed
to
cut
it
down
will
lie
upon
the
ground
and
hide
themselves,
motionless,
and
holding
their
breath,
at
the
moment
when
it
is
about
to
fall,
dreading
lest
the
stichio
at
whose
life
the
blow
is
aimed
with
each
stroke
of
the
axe,
should
avenge
itself
at
the
precise
moment
when
it
is
dislodged."[22]
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