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WITCHES OF OLD ENGLAND, INFLUENCE OF THEIR MAGIC PLANTS,
One of the features af bygone days that our countryside is fortunate to see no more is the wise woman," or witch, the maker of magic, says a home paper. Nowadays we have a sneaking affection for witches. We think of them as quaint old ladies who code about on low horse- power nero broomsticks, did amusing" rural conjuring tricks, and, at the end of their career, were sometimes burned at the stake. We do not realise what wicked old women they usually were and what an inenleulable amount of pain and sorrow they inflicted with their potions and spells and threats upon the rrédalous country-folk of Britain for a thousand
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Witches varied in the range and energy of their operations, but all had this in coummon, that they were not in the busi- ness for their health. The power which they held over the superstitions yökels was not exerted in the interests of moral right or wrong. Had it beed so exerted witches might have made an bonourable place in history for themselves in the ccaturies when so long as the villagers avoided giving offence to their Wendel over-lords" neither priest uor noble touk more than the most cursory interest in seeing that justice was done among them. But the incidence of the favours that they distributed and the curses that they laid upon the country-folk was entirely dependent oa cash transactious, ...
Certain plants were so extensively used by generation after generation of witches: in their mystic spells that they gained a well-established reputation for having magic properties. And along with them grew up the reputations of other plants which were held, to be antidotes to, or defenders from, the doings of witches.
Moonwort waS a witch's plant. It opened locks and unshod horses. It's round, dat, silvery fond showed that it was under the domination of the moon. Chaucer described it as one of the witches and night-hags' most potent charma. Trefoil and wood anemone, on the other hand, stared of witches, on account of their triple leaves typifying the Trinity. That is why shamrock, a form of trefoil; has its Trish reputation. wort wort" is old English for plant) put to dight ghosts and evil spirits. Jeremy Taylor in bis "Dissuasions from Popery discussing triests ways of dia- covering the presence of the devil, says: And specially St. John's wort, which therefore they call devil's flight." This was from the old pagan name Fuga demonium, which Pliny says it received front searing demon. Irish peasants still put their faith in it, picking banches on the eve of St. John's Day and bang- ing them over their front doors and beds to ward off bogies:
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Monkshood. or wolfshane, sacred to Hecate, has always been a witch's flower. It is highly poisonous, and it derived its second came from our Anglo-Saxon an cestors having dipped their arrows in it before firing at wolves, so that glancing shots still proved fatal, though the heast managed to get back into the dense forest undergrowth. The curled spike- tipped root of the plant, like a scorpion's tail, and the queet helmet shaped flower added to its reputation for aneanniness.
Vervain, or holy herb, with its unobtru sive spikes of pale lilac blossoms was already a magic plant in the distant daya of the sun worship of the ancient Fer. sinus, when their priests carried sprigs. of it when approaching the altar. So did the pagan priests of Greece and Rome, and the Druids. It was A protection against witchcraft and snake-hite, nad a beautifier. Women put sprigs of it in their bath in the old days, and smeared a decoction on their face to banish freckles.
Tp old England a sprig was hung in the house toward off evil spirits, and a couples. still chanted by country: children, declares that:
"Vervain nud di!!
Hinder witches of their will." Mountain ash, or rowan, was highly esteemed in its chief haunts, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man, for its power to ward off the evil eye. Withered sprigs of it were carried in the pocket for this purpose, and crosses of the wood were made to hang over doors and harns, from the eaves of farm-houses, and even around the necks of cattle on St. John's Eve.
Yew was the sacred of the Druids An uncanny influence clung to it, and it was supposed to enter into the mysterious "hell broths and other malevolent cum- pounds of witches. It was considered that the belated wayfurer risked sickness "and death if he was so rash as to sleep under it. Mistletoc, on the other hand, despite its intimate, associations with Druids, was held in good odour. All beal was its old English name. Its fantastic growth up, in the lofty tree-tops, its antlered branches and its greenish-white, shiny berries, like little moons, fed the Bres of superstition. It got a hame for exerting healing and protective pro- perties Priest called it Lignum Sanctoe Crucis (the Wood of the Holy Cross). Protective amulets were made of it and worn round the neck, to make it impos sible for a witch to put a spell on you, and later, to avert the plague.
Here and there, in your coming and going through the remoter parts of Britain, you will find some of these beliefs Atif lingering. An astonishing amount of foolish superstition pervaded the country even as recently as 50 years ago. But the coming. of compulsory school attend ance changed all this. The schools, at any rate, have bapished the evil old fears and cures," and led the people to put their faith in the clergy, the magistrates, and, the doctors, instead of in the bunkum of wicked and illiterate-old grannies.
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