# ygkflora folklorethursday plantlore botanical

Teasels are said to close up their burrs when rain is coming.

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2019-07-11

The Floralia was an ancient Roman festival in honour of the goddess Flora. Celebrated in lavish fashion from the end of April to the first of May, the festival included Ludi Florae, the "Games of Flora".

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2019-05-02

In the Middle Ages nutmeg was worn in pouches to ward off plague. Nathaniel Hodges (1629–1688) put a nutmeg in his mouth before treating plague victims & attributed it to his survival (Fleas dislike the smell of nutmeg so wearing it might have helped a tiny bit)

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2019-03-28

Originally a Ural fairy tale; reworked by Pavel Bazhov & published in 1938 in 'The Malachite Box' & later adapted as a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev - here we have one of the magical caves in 'The Stone Flower / Kamennyy tsvetok' (1946) dir. Aleksandr Ptushko.

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2019-03-27

Surely one of the most enduring of - the Christmas Tree. Here we have reanimated Russian insects getting festive around the tree with Santa - 'The Insects' Christmas / Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa' (1911) dir. Ladislas Starevich.

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2019-03-19

WOLFBANE
'Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright '
Faux ballad from THE WOLFMAN (1941)

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2019-03-18

'Wings' (2009), Aprilynne Pike: The first in a tetralogy, this YA novel sees 15 yr old Laurel discovering she is fae. Pike depicts faeries as being plants; their wings are blossoms.

Like many recent YA faery novels, ecological concerns are central to the plot.

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2019-03-11