The illustrations we have
given above show in how many ways plants have been in demand as popular
curatives. And although an immense amount of superstition has been
interwoven with folk-medicine, there is a certain amount of truth in the
many remedies which for centuries have been, with more or less success,
employed by the peasantry, both at home and abroad.
Footnotes:
1. See Tylor's "Primitive Culture," ii.
2. See Folkard's "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 164.
3. "Mystic Trees and Shrubs," p. 717.
4. Folkard's "Plant-lore," p. 379.
5. Hunt's "Popular Romances of the West of England," 1871, p. 415
6. Folkard's "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 216.
7. See Black's "Folk-medicine," 1883, p.195.
8. _Quarterly Review_, cxiv. 245.
9. "Sacred Trees and Flowers," _Quarterly Review_, cxiv. 244.
10. Folkard's "Plant Legends," 364.
11. _Fraser's Magazine_, 1870, p. 591.
12. "Mystic Trees and Plants;" _Fraser's Magazine_, 1870, p. 708.
13. "Reliquiae Antiquse," Wright and Halliwell, i. 195; _Quarterly Review_,
1863, cxiv. 241.
14. Coles, "The Art of Simpling," 1656.
15. Anne Pratt's "Flowering Plants of Great Britain," iv. 9.
16. Black's "Folk-medicine," p. 201.
17. Folkard's "Plant-Lore Legends and Lyrics," p.
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