The Folk-lore of Plants

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer · 1889 · 271 pages

The Folk-lore of Plants

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer17

23. See Dorman's "Primitive Superstitions," p. 288. 24. "The Tempest," act i. sc. 2. 25. Dorman's "Primitive Superstitions," p. 288. 26. Ibid., p. 295. 27. See chapter on Demonology. 28. See Keary's "Outlines of Primitive Belief," 1882, pp. 66-7. 29. Metam., viii. 714:-- "Frondere Philemona Baucis, Baucida conspexit senior frondere Philemon. ... 'Valeque, O conjux!' dixere simul, simul abdita texit Ora frutex." 30. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," i. 290, iii. 271. 31. Grimm's "Teut. Mythology," ii. 827. 32. Cox and Jones' "Popular Romances of the Middle Ages," 1880, p. 139 33. Smith's "Brazil," p. 586; "Primitive Superstitions," p. 293. 34. See Folkard's "Plant-lore, Legends, and Lyrics," p. 524. 35. See the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1875, p. 315. 36. According to another legend, forget-me-nots sprang up.

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