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twelve pewter-plates must be taken. The wondrous seed, 
it is affirmed, will pass through eleven of the plates, and 
rest only upon the twelfth! Such an idea may now be 
smiled at; but the philosophers of a past age believed 
something very similar, and even taught that demons 
watched to convey away the Fern-seed as it fell, ere any one 
could possess themselves of it. To ‘ walk invisible' was 
said, and atone time believed, to result from possessing the 
Fern-seed.” 
