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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1875. 
DANE’S-BLOOD. 
HIS name, which is the commonly received 
English equivalent for the Sambucus 
Ebulus of botanists, is the Зе чек ре of a 
numerous class of myths which find an echo in 
various parts of the world, and in uxorcm 
Indeed, a list of 
t upposed to 
originate from the blood shed either in battle or 
otherwise, would embrace a much larger number 
of spec ies than would at first be imagin 
may have anata A prompte 
that 75 of an early Christian writer 
which ma most be said to have become 
proverbial, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed 
of the Church ;” at any rate we find it in close 
connection with the very origin of Christianity 
itself. The red Rose is fabled by tradition to 
owe its crimson hue to the blood which fell 
upon it, while yet in its white condition, as it 
beneath the Cross on Calvary ; our 
Orchis is called in some parts of Cheshire 
Gethsemane, and the dark spots on its leaves 
were attributed by the pious, if unreasoning, 
HOME. of our ancestors to a similar sacred 
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origi 
like belief among the 
different creed—the “ Indian i Shot" plant, Canna 
indica, having its origin, as the Buddhists 
believe, in the blood of Buddha, which was 
shed from his foot when he cut it upon a sharp 
rock. 
Coming down to a somewhat later period in 
history we find the same strange superstition in 
full force—indeed, the most recent development 
of our own time. A recent 
VI gue 
г Cal “Re 
tra 
aa “held at: Tara i in 1843, he says, “ There 
is a plant which the gods of botany call Rumex 
Acetosella, but which is known to the simple as 
Sheep’ s Sorrel; itis a dwarf Sorrel, the leaves of 
plenty, the day of the monster meeting, m 
especially on and around the eu ab grave. 
ody) of 
woman ask him i 
why those red plants were ther 
at-her ignorance, he ене etn 
‘Isn’t it on account of the boys that were 
murdered i in 'e8, and buried in am grave ?—and 
i em red??? 
especially in pie with 
battles and battlefields that this Tagg has 
been d. Of this we have ed 
анааран іп the case of the Dance и, the 
ery name of which indicates its mystic origin ; 
and in of this plant it is no local 
tradition, confined to one or two places, but is 
found i p "widely separated districts. Both TT 
tiquity. The 
were wel known to Ray, who, speaking of 
Sambucus Ebulus, with which they are usually, 
although, as we shall see, not always connected, 
calls it Danewort—" Quia e Danovum occisorum 
sanguine orium Sabulaniur: » “The so-called 
dwarf Elder, or Danewort,” says Warsal, in his 
ie. | glomera 
í t ed 
memorials, either actually, Бу. Б 
traditionally. the former < 
| mentioned the covering of the. 
Danes and Norwegians in England, “is said 
to have germinated from the blood of the fallen 
Danes; it is therefore called Dane-blood or 
newort, and flourishes principally in the 
neighbourhood of Warwick, where it is said to 
have igi from and wig dyed with the blood 
e when Can 
regard to the occurrence of 
is believed that the dwarf Elder will grow only 
mentor 
veys this idea. Near Lower Wick, i 
tershire, there is a large patch of the plant, and 
the tradition there is that it commemorates the 
shedding of the “first blood.” spilt in the con- 
test between Charles I. and the Parliamentary 
army. The connection between the name and 
the popular tradition seems to establish the 
e 
Botanicum, yee a very 
of it. He says, “It is pr a it tooke the 
name Danew strong purging 
quality it hath, many times ы them tha 
use it into > fluxe, маре" then we say they are 
troubled with the Danes." The more generally 
received interpretation is, however, further sup- 
name for the plant, Wall- . 
wort, or, more jain Cs " Walewott, which has 
come down to us from Anglo-Saxon жес апа 
signifies Slaughter-wort, or Death-wort—wa/ 
being the Anglo-Saxon word p vigens or 
th. 
Yet another proof that the name Dane's- 
blood is really connected with the Northern 
invaders of former days, and not with any 
disease, is furnished by one of its local applica- 
tions, a and affords a instance of the way in 
WINCH 
may prove of s ervice. We have already re- 
ferred to Camden's mention of the Sambucus 
the Danes empor of the battle 
fought between Cnut a mund Ironsides, 
in 1016. Two other sins e these hills share 
in this locality, and, so far as we know, in this 
locality only, the name of Dane's-blood, which 
is in ә ipee confined to the dwarf Elder. 
Thes e Pasque-flower (Anemone Pulsa- 
tilla) ана ‘the е clustered Bell-flower (Campanula 
ta), to both corr at Me dr апа 
tradition attaches. h purple hue of the 
is also called Dane-flower. 
Flowering Plants of Great Pini says that 
some years ago, finding the Cam a largely 
scattered about these mounds, she d some 
cottagers its name, and was told that it was the 
Dane's-blood, and that it was so-called because 
it sprang up from the blood of the Danes ; and 
on subsequent enquiry she found this ‘plant 
generally known by that name in the neigh- 
bourhood iecit | 
Other battles have left -similar plant- 
field of Waterloo 
the y the great battle with a‘dense 
growth of crimson Poppies, a natural result. of 
eed, it be really the case that these 
were Ae д there after the battle. Even if so, 
