Category: DEATH

• DEATH HALLOWEEN

  YEW

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Yew Lisa Karen Miller           The long-lived yew, one of Ireland’s five magical trees, rivals the oak, hawthorn, elder, and rowan in mystical importance. To the Druids, it was an emblem of the soul’s immortality.           The link between yews and churchyards may derive from the…

  October 23, 2023
• DEATH

  VINCA

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Vinca Lisa Karen Miller           The doomed man is led to the gallows, his fate certain.  After he ascends the steps, his head is adorned with a crown.           The crown is made of intertwined vinca.           Well into the Middle Ages, criminals were hanged wearing…

  October 21, 2023
• DEATH GREEK MYTHOLOGY

  PARSLEY

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Parsley Lisa Karen Miller           Parsley was brought to Newfoundland before 1620 by British sea captain John Mason, and was grown by the Plymouth colonists in their first gardens. Its culinary and medicinal uses had been widely known for centuries. Unfortunately, this common and useful herb…

  October 18, 2023
• DEATH

  CYPRESS

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Cypress Lisa Karen Miller “Dark tree! Still sad when others’ grief is fled, The only constant mourner o’er the dead.” Lord Byron           Cyparissus, a youth of Ceos, Greece, took care of the sacred stag of the forest there.  He led him to new pastures and…

  October 5, 2023