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CHAPTER IX. 

 PLANTS OF THE WITCHES.— The Herbs of Hecate, Circe, and Medea— Witch 

 Powder — Witches and Elders — Sylvan Haunts of Witches — Witches' Plant-steeds — Witches' 

 Soporifics — The Nightmare Flower— Plants used in Spells— Potions, Philtres, and Hell- 

 broths — The Hag Taper — Witch Ointment — The Witches' Bath — Foreign Witches and their 

 Plants — Plants used for Charms and Spells — Witches' Prescriptions — Herbs of Witchcraft — 

 Plants Antagonistic to Witches 91 



CHAPTER X. 

 MAGICAL PLANTS. — Plants producing Ecstasies and Visions — Soma — Laurel — The 

 Druids and Mistletoe — Prophetic Oaks — Dream Plants— Plants producing Love and 

 Sympathy— The Sorcerer's Violet — Plants used for Love Divination — Concordia — Dis- 

 cordia — The Calumny Destroyer — The Grief Charmer— The Sallow, Sacred Basil, Eugenia, 

 Onion, Bay, Juniper, Peony, Hypericum, Rowan, Elder, Thorn, Hazel, Holly — The Mystic 

 Fern-seed — Four-leaved Clover — The Mandrake, or Sorcerer's Root — The Metal Melter — 

 The Misleading Plant — Herb of Oblivion — Lotos Tree — King Solomon's Magical Herb 

 Baharas — The Nyctilopa and Spring wort — Plants influencing Thunder and Lightning — The 

 Selago, or Druid's Golden Herb — Gold-producuig Plants — Plants which disclose Treasures— 

 The Luck Flower— The Key-Flower — Sesame — The Herb that Opens — The Moonwort, or 

 Lunary — The Sferracavallo— Magic Wands and Divining Rods — Moses' Rod . . . 105 



CHAPTER XL 

 FABULOUS, WONDROUS, AND MIRACULOUS PLANTS.-Kuman Trees— 

 Man-bearing Trees — The Wak-Wak, or Tree bearing Human Heads — Chinese and Indian 

 Bird-bearing Tree — Duck-bearing Tree — The Barnacle, or Goose Tree — -The Serpent- 

 bearing Tree — The Oyster-bearing Tree — The Animal-bearing Tree — The Butterfly-bearing 

 Tree — The Vegetable Lamb — The Lamb-bearing Tree^Marvellous Trees and Plants — 

 Vegetable Monstrosities — Plants bearmg Inscriptions and Figures — Miraculous Plants — 

 The Tree of St. Thomas — The Withered Tree of the Sun — The Tree of Tiberias— Father 

 Garnet's Straw 116 



CHAPTER XII. 

 PLANTS CONNECTED WITH BIRDS AND ANIMALS.— Seed-sowing Birds- 

 Birds as Almanacks — The Cuckoo and the Cherry Tree — Augury by Cock and Barley — The 

 Nightingale and the Rose — The Robin and the Thorn— The Missel-Thrush and Mistletoe — 

 The Swallow and Celandine — The Hawk and Hawkweed — Life-giving Herb — The Wood- 

 pecker and the Peony — The Spring-wort and the Birds — Choughs and Olives — Herb of the 

 Blessed Virgin Mary — The Eyebright and Birds — Plants named after Birds and Animals . 136 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 THE DOCTRINE OF PLANT SIGNATURES.— Illustrations and Examples of the 

 Signatures and Characterisms of Plants — The Diseases Cured by Herbs — General Rules 

 of the System of Plant Signatures supposed to Reveal the Occult Powers and Virtues of 

 Vegetables — Plants Identified with the Various Portions of the Human Body — The Old 

 Herbals and Herbalists — Extraordinary Properties attributed to Herbs 154 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 PLANTS AND THE PLANETS.— When to Pluck Herbs-The Plants of Saturn, Jupiter, 

 Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon — Sun Flowers — The Influence of the Moon 

 on Plants — Times and Seasons to Sow and Plant — The Moon and Gardening Operations — 

 The Moon-Tree — Plants of the Moon-Goddesses — The Man in the Moon .... 164 



CHAPTER XV. 

 PLANT SYMBOLISM AND LANGUAGE.— Plant Emblems of the Ancients-The 

 Science of Plant Symbolism — Floral Symbols of the Scriptures — The Passion Flower, or 

 Flower of the Five Wounds — Medieval Plant Symbolism— Floral Emblems of Shakspeare — 

 The Language of Flowers^Floral Vocabulary of the Greeks and Romans— A Dictionary 

 of Flowers — Floral Divination 176 



CHAPTER XVI. 

 FUNERAL PLANTS.— The Ancient Death-Gods— The Elysian Fields— Death Trees- 

 Funereal Trees — Aloe, Yew, Cypress, Bay, Arbor-Vita;, Walnut, Mountain Ash, Tamarisk — 

 The Decorations of Tombs — Flowers at Funerals — Old English Burial Customs — Funeral 

 Pyres — Embalming — Mummies— Plants as Death Portents 189 



PART THE SECOND. 



AN ENCYCLOPiEDIA OF SIX HUNDRED PLANTS, ENGLISH AND 



FOREIGN, giving their Myths, Legends, Traditions, Folk-Lore, Symbolism, and History 205 



