Category: FAIRIES

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  THYME

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Thyme Lisa Karen Miller          The scent of thyme is one of the loveliest in nature:  fresh and sweet, but never cloying. Legend tells us this is because it was among the hay in the manger where the Christ Child was laid.  This imparted to it…

  October 21, 2023
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  MORNING GLORY

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Morning Glory Lisa Karen Miller                For early Christians, the Morning Glory embodied the human life cycle: the morning bud is youth; the full bloom at midday is adulthood; and the closing blossom in the evening is old age.           Ipomoea hederacea is the flower of…

  October 17, 2023
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  HAWTHORN

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Hawthorn Lisa Karen Miller           Glastonbury, England, January 6, 1535.  The hawthorn tree at St. John the Baptist church is blooming, in the depths of winter. Thomas Cromwell, that cunning advisor to Henry VIII, sends a messenger to investigate this miracle. Two blossoms are sent as…

  October 7, 2023
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  FUNGI

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Fungi Lisa Karen Miller          Two sentries stand guard over the colony’s entrance.  A foot soldier approaches.  Sensing he carries a contraband substance, they fall upon him, tear his head off, then throw it and his body into a mass grave. The sentries then make the…

  October 7, 2023
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  FOXGLOVE

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Foxglove Lisa Karen Miller           The Roman goddess Flora touched Hera on her breasts and belly with this flower to impregnate her with the god Mars. It has been associated with midwifery and women’s magic ever since.            In medieval gardens it was sacred to the…

  October 7, 2023
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  BLACKBERRY

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Blackberry Lisa Karen Miller           In England, Michaelmas (September 29th) is the day the devil does something unprintable on the blackberries. Thereafter they are not good to eat.            This was the day the archangel Michael kicked him out of heaven. He landed on one of…

  October 4, 2023