Personality of plants

PLANT MYTHOLOGY
Cyclamen are protections against witches. In
Germany and many other continental countries,
the St. John's Wort is their enemy and exposer.
The fairies have appropriated many flowers
for their especial use. Despite the disbelief of
latter days, to some people elfland still extends
around the globe, and defies all the laws of
chemistry and physics. It is still fairy midnight
trippings which form those mysterious circles
or depressions often to be noticed on the dewy
sward of early morning. When the peasant
girls of England go out into the meadows to
beautify their complexions with applications
of May dew, they always leave these mystic
circles severely alone, for fear of offending the
fays.
Midnight is the fairy magic hour. At the
trumpet call of the Harebell, they gallop to their
meeting-places mounted on blades of Grass
or on Cabbage leaves. Sometimes they assemble
to the tolling of the Wood-Sorrel or "Fairy
Bell". For more extended migrations, they
travel in Nuts. They usually dress in green
and provide themselves with mantles of Gos-
samer. The Irish ones use Fox-Glove blossoms
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