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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
71
Footnotes:
1.
See
Tylor's
"Primitive
Culture,"
ii.
316.
2.
Thorpe's
"Northern
Mythology,"
iii.
193.
3.
"Plant-lore
Legends
and
Lyrics,"
p.
486.
4.
Mr.
Conway,
Fraser's
Magazine,
1870,
p.
593.
5.
Mr.
Conway,
Fraser's
Magazine,
1870,
p.
107.
6.
"Plant-lore
Legends
and
Lyrics,"
p.
411.
7.
Folkard's
"Plant-lore
Legends
and
Lyrics,"
p.
448.
8.
See
Friend's
"Flower-lore,"
i.
68.
9.
Thorpe's
"Northern
Mythology,"
ii.
104.
10.
"Mystic
Trees
and
Flowers,"
Fraser's
Magazine.
CHAPTER
VII.
PLANTS
IN
FAIRY-LORE.
Many
plants
have
gained
a
notoriety
from
their
connection
with
fairyland,
and
although
the
belief
in
this
romantic
source
of
superstition
has
almost
died
out,
yet
it
has
left
its
traces
in
the
numerous
legends
which
have
survived
amongst
us.
Thus
the
delicate
white
flowers
of
the
wood-sorrel
are
known
in
Wales
as
"fairy
bells,"
from
a
belief
once
current
that
these
tiny
beings
were
summoned
to
their
moonlight
revels
and
gambols
by
these
bells.
In
Ireland
they
were
supposed
to
ride
to
their
scenes
of
merrymaking
on
the
ragwort,
hence
known
as
the
"fairies'
horse."
Cabbage-stalks,
too,
served
them
for
steeds,
and
a
story
is
told
of
a
certain
farmer
who
resided
at
Dundaniel,
near
Cork,
and
was
considered
to
be
under
fairy
control.
For
a
long
time
he
suffered
from
"the
falling
sickness,"
owing
to
the
long
journeys
which
he
was
forced
to
make,
night
by
night,
with
the
fairy
folk
on
one
of
his
own
cabbage
stumps.
Sometimes
the
good
people
made
use
of
a
straw,
a
blade
of
grass,
or
a
fern,
a
further
illustration
of
which
is
furnished
by
"The
Witch
of
Fife:"
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White-out
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