Category: NEW YEAR’S
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PEA
THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Pea Lisa Karen Miller What do you eat on New Year’s Day? The answer to this question seems to divide Kentucky almost cleanly into its eastern and western halves. Around here, the answer from older folks is likely to be “black-eyed peas and hog…
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OATS
THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Oats Lisa Karen Miller “As for my interminable journey to the land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur [Scotland]… no Prime Minister made greater sacrifice than attempting to run the country six hundred miles north of civilization.” Benjamin Disraeli, Mrs. Brown Mr. Disraeli had the…
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BIRCH
THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Birch Lisa Karen Miller On May Day in Herefordshire and surrounding English counties, young birch trees dressed in red and white ribbons were propped against stable doors. They averted bad luck and protected horses from being “hag-ridden:” stolen by witches for midnight rides. Conversely,…
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