10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPRINGWORT»
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springwort in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
springwort and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
306 Travexin, in the Vosges, witch as hare at, x. 318 Treason, old English
punishment of, v. 290 n.a Treasures guarded by demons, xi. 65 ; found by means
of fern-seed, xi. 65, 287 ; discovered by divining-rod, xi. 68 ; revealed by
springwort, xi.
Sir James George Frazer, 1920
2
Plant lore, legends and lyrics
In Swabia, they say that the hoopoe brings the Springwort, and lets it fall into
water or fire to destroy it : to obtain it, therefore, one must have in readiness a pan
of water, or kindle a fire ; the original notion having been that the bird must return
...
18), and is still (Grimm, “D. M.” 973 ; Kuhn, “ Herabkunft des F euers ") popularly
believed to be acquainled with a plant of great renown in art magic, called
springwort, which has the property of opening doors and locks by its application,
...
English dialect society, 1886
4
Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds
(1) The woodpecker as a lightning-bringer, and the springwort. The woodpecker
was (Pliny, " Hist. Animal." x. 18), and is still (Grimm, " D. M." iii. 973 ; Kuhn, "
Herabkunft des Feuers ") popularly believed to be acquainted with a plant of
great ...
5
The Folk Lore and Provincial Names of British Birds
973 ; Kuhn, "Herabkunft des Feuers") popularly believed to be •acquainted with a
plant of great renown in art magic, called springwort, which has the property of
opening doors and locks by its application, however hermetically sealed they
may ...
6
Flights of Fancy: Birds in Myth, Legend, and Superstition
In the case of the woodpecker, it was supposed to know of a magic herb,
otherwise undiscovered by mankind, called springwort. In Germany, people
formerly believed that if the entrance to a woodpecker's nest was blocked up, the
bird would ...
7
The Folk-lore of Plants
Analogous to the talismanic properties of the springwort are those of the famous
luck or key-flower of German folk-lore, by the discovery of which the fortunate
possessor effects an entrance into otherwise inaccessible fairy haunts, where ...
Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer, 1889
8
Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions ...
In German legend, "a shepherd, who was driving his flock over the Ilsenstein,
having stopped to rest,leaning onhis staff, the mountain suddenly opened,
fortherewasa springwort in his staff without hisknowing it, and the princess [Ilse]
stood ...
9
Giants, Fairies and Boggarts: In Northern England
Kelly says,—"The summer solstice is a favourite season for gathering plants of
the lightning tribe, and particularly the springwort and fern. It is believed in the
Oberpfalz that the springwort, or St. J ohn's-wort (johanniswurzel) as some call it,
can ...
10
Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: ...
Drinks and salves against pustule; springwort, red hove, waybroad, feverfuge,
abrotanon, maythe, pepper, wine. If it, the pustule, be on an ear, beat waybroad
and feverfuge and pepper, wring them into the ear. For a salve against a pustule,
...
Thomas Oswald Cockayne, 2012
