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disliked plants, and is known as " Strangleweed," 

 " Hellbind," and " Devil's Guts." Its yellow, twin- 

 ing, leafless stems, with the little branches of light 

 blossoms, certainly have a very uncanny and sinister 

 appearance. 



The Puff-ball Fungus is rather appropriately 

 named the " Devil's Snuff-box," on account of the 

 dust or particles which they contain, these have 

 long borne an evil name; one could quite imagine 

 the prince of darkness putting it to such a use. 

 Gerarde says that: "It is very dangerous for the 

 eies, for it hath been often scene that divers have 

 been pore-blinde ever after when some small 

 quantity thereof hath beene blowne into their 

 eies." 



Garlic is somewhat fittingly described as " Devil's 

 Posy," and the Irish say of this plant that if the 

 leaves are boiled in water and this concoction used 

 as a bath it will cure sciatica and rheumatism. 

 Surely the patient would need a good airing after 

 such an ablution ! 



There is a very curious legend relating that 

 when Satan stepped out from the Garden of Eden 

 after the fall of man, garlic sprang up from the spot 

 where he placed his left foot, and onions from that 

 which his right foot touched. And it would seem 

 that there is something mysterious in the garlic, 

 that it should be so thoroughly acceptable, almost 

 indispensable, to many thousands, whilst to others 

 it is so horribly offensive as to be practically un- 

 bearable. 



According to some old writers, the garlic was 

 possessed of every virtue, so that it had the name 

 of "Poor Man's Treacle" (the word '* treacle" 



